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In Miss You Already, we watch Collette’s Milly witness the physical defeminization of her body.

From Time • Nov. 10, 2015

Only linguistic arbitrary gender is here referred to; this has nothing to do with suffragettes or "defeminization."

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

Now, seeing that his defeminization has failed, let him compass the spiritual restoration of her who was physically separated from him, that the twain may become one perfect being, and reassume supreme dominion.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail