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For example, initially he or she (6)

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female

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'she' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'for example initially he' is the wordplay.
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
'he' becomes 'male' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The initial letters of 'for example' is 'fe'.
'fe'+'male'='FEMALE'

'or' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for female that I've seen before include "Able to bear offspring" , "A gender" , "On the distaff side" , "Woman or girl" , "That's what she is" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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