Froedtert Hospital has been named a 2017 Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the country's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning/queer civil rights organization.
Indeed, the data presented here confirm that dude is an address term that is used mostly by young men to address other young men; however, its use has expanded so that it is now used as a general address term for a group (same or mixed gender), and by and to women.
Click here for an article by Duden (in German) that includes the following fun facts: 1  98.7% of German nouns have a single gender. Just under 1.3% can be used with two genders, and .02% can be used with all three genders. 2  Of the nouns with a unique gender, 46% are feminine, 34% masculine, and 20% neuter.