Queen perhaps given male gender? (8)
'gender?' is the definition.
(I know that personal is a animacy)
'queen perhaps given male' is the wordplay.
'queen perhaps' becomes 'person' (queen is a kind of person).
'given' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'male' becomes 'Al' (shortened version of Alex or Alistair).
'person'+'al'='PERSONAL'
(Other definitions for personal that I've seen before include "Wounding" , "Relating to the individual" , "Of one's private life - nobody else's business" , "Belonging to an individual" , "Private - bodily" .)
'queen perhaps' is the definition.
(queen is a kind of chessman)
'given male gender?' is the wordplay.
'given' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'male' becomes 'man' (man is a kind of male).
'gender?' becomes 'chess' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'man' put after 'chess' is 'CHESSMAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chessman that I've seen before include "Eg, bishop, knight" , "queen, perhaps" , "Playing piece" , "Eg, bishop or rook" , "that's played on board" .)