Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, April 26, 2025 Klingon word: HuQ'am Part of speech: noun Definition: self-identified gender Source: qep'a' 29 [2022] _______________________________________________ AFAIK not used in a sentence. (qep'a' 2022): "identity (this might different from the anatomical sex of a being, and refers to the gender that person identifies with)" (qep'a' 2022 REQUEST): "The category of classification that distinguishes {be'} and {loD} and potentially others; perhaps several terms, depending on what criteria the distinction is based on." SEE: ghaQpey' sex (biological) (n) (qep'a' 2022) (qep'a' 2022): biological [this means how a body is originally constructed; male, female, or whatever type of biological sex the species has] (non-canon explanation from qurgh in a private message to Lieven, 7/29/2022): {HuQ'am} is a noun that refers to gender as identity, while {ghaQpey'} is a noun that refers to sex from a biological point of view. Gender, in English, now refers to a what a person self identifies as, while sex refers to a person's unchosen biological status. A person might have female sex organs, but identify as male. That person's {ghaQpey'} would be female, while their {HuQ'am} would be male. Cf. https://klingon.wiki/En/Sexuality SEE ALS0: Segh race (type, sort, class) (n) Sar variety (n) mut species (n) ghantoH model, example, pattern (n) DI'on characteristic, trait (n) buv classification (n) -- Voragh