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Male or female? When you say (for example) "I'm going to the movies with a friend" how can you specify whether the friend is male or female?.

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If it had to be in one sentence, the usual way this would be done (in USA) is by saying "I am going to the movies with a guy I'm friends with." or "I am going to the movie with woman/girl I know." I think it would be more typical to use a pronoun in the next sentence to specify, however. "I am going to the movies with a friend. She wants to see the new James Bond film." "I am going to the movies with a friend. I am meeting him there at 8:30."
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There is no way to tell from just one sentence, unless you include their name at the end. Example: "I'm going to the movies with my friend, John (or Jessica)." I would not recommend using boyfriend/girlfriend since this almost always implies a romantic relationship, especially if men say it. Women will sometimes call their platonic female friends "girlfriends." Men never do.
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So in words without genre is imposible, isn't it? Another example may be: I have an appointment with my doctor you don't know whether the doctor is male or female, that's it?
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in this sentence you can't - but you can say the names or some girls / some boys for example to specify
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You just can't, at least using that phrase. Can use girl friend or boy friend. Thing is, if you specify gender, listener might be confused whether is a friend, or you half orange :)

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