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An instance of gender status is the collective ascription of a gender type to an individual by a community or themselves. The substance of the gender status is the communal commitment to the gender classification of the person in question according to the designated gender.

Instances of gender status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so-relating to the person in question, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act [e.g.: E17 Type Assignment] initiating this status.

Instances of gender status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative act of classification [E17 Type Assignment], or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of classificatory status may end either though a formal process, such as a new declarative act of classification, be officially declassified, or may simply fade out of use, be eliminated by fiat or be of unknown reason.

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