gender vs nonsexual

gender is a noun but nonsexual is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gender	Yes	No	No	No
nonsexual	No	Yes	No	No

gender (noun)	nonsexual (noun)
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

gender (adjective)	nonsexual (adjective)
	not having or involving sex