A gender changer is a passive hardware adapter consisting of either two male or two female connector faces wired straight through. It allows technicians to mate two cables that would otherwise be incompatible, such as joining two male DB9 cables to form a longer run.
Heard on the job
Hand me a female-to-female gender changer so I can hook this serial cable up to the test fixture.
Also heard as
- gender bender
Related terms
Connector
An electromechanical device used to join electrical terminations and create an electrical circuit.
D-sub
A family of electrical connectors featuring a distinctive D-shaped metal shield around multiple pins.
Female-to-male
Describing an adapter or cable that connects a receptacle to a plug.
Male-to-female
An adapter or cable configuration that connects a pinned plug to a hollow socket.