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Creates spaces to accommodate sexual identity (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

engenders

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'creates' is the definition.
(engendering is a kind of creating)

'spaces to accommodate sexual identity' is the wordplay.
'spaces' becomes 'ens' (in printing, spaces as wide as a letter 'n').
'to accommodate' is an insertion indicator.
'sexual identity' becomes 'gender' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ens' placed around 'gender' is 'ENGENDERS'.

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(Other definitions for engenders that I've seen before include "Produces, causes" , "Brings forth, generates" , "Gives rise to, causes" , "Leads to" .)

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