natural gender
nounDefinition of natural gender
: the phenomena in a language that resemble grammatical gender but are not the use of the pronoun she in the sentence the girl may do as she likes is an instance of natural gender, since the choice of the pronoun she is not determined by the noun girl but by the actual sex of the person to whom the noun girl refers
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