Gender of Connectors and Fasteners - Gender Changers

Gender Changers

Devices used for mating two connectors of the same gender have a wide variety of terms, including for example: "gender changer", "gender mender", "gender bender", "gender blender", "sex changer", and "homosexual adapter". A specific gender changer can be referred to by either the gender of its connectors, or the gender which it is designed to connect to, resulting in a thoroughly ambiguous terminology. Thus a "male gender changer" might have female connectors to mate two male ends, or male connectors to mate two female ends.

Gender changers
DA15 and DB25 D-subminiature gender changers
A female to female BNC connector
Pipe nipple male to male threaded pipe coupling

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