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{{Personal story
| quote = <translate> I discovered non-binary identities last year when I was 18. When I read the definition of "agender", it just clicked.</translate>
| name = <translate> Jay</translate>
| age = <translate> 19</translate>
| identity = <translate> Agender</translate>
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{{infobox identity
| flag = agender.png
| meaning = Black: absence of gender; grey: partial gender; green: gender that isn't related to male or female.
| related = [[Agenderfluid]] and [[Agenderflux]]
| umbrella = [[Nonbinary]]
| frequency = 23.8%
| gallery_link = Pride Gallery/Agender
}}

'''Agender''' (also called '''genderblank'''{{citation needed}}, '''genderfree''', '''genderless''', '''gendervoid'''{{citation needed}}, '''non-gendered,''' '''ungendered'''<ref name="Eyler">{{cite journal|last1=Eyler |first1=A.E.|last2=Wright |first2=K.|year=1997|url=https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm|title=Gender Identification and Sexual Orientation Among Genetic Females with Gender-Blended Self-Perception in Childhood and Adolescence.|journal=International Journal of Transgenderism|quote=An individual of any genetic sex may also regard him-herself as neither a woman nor a man, but a member of some other gender, as is common in non-Western cultures (and is becoming increasingly recognized in the West as well), or as an ungendered person, who does not or will not identify with any conventional gender.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718084440/https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>, or '''null gender'''{{citation needed}}) is an identity under the [[nonbinary]] and [[transgender]] [[umbrella terms]]. Agender individuals find that they have no [[gender identity]], although some define it more as having a gender identity that is neutral. (See [[gender neutral]] for a related identity.)

Agender Pride day is celebrated on the 19th of May.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Important LGBT Dates |author= |work=LGBTLifeWestchester.org |date= |access-date=11 November 2021 |url= https://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/important_lgbt_dates|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213102536/http://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/important_lgbt_dates|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Agender Pride Day |last=Ohene |first=Benjamin |work=Believe Out Loud |date= |access-date=11 November 2021 |url= https://www.believeoutloud.com/voices/article/agender-pride-day/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531145919/http://www.believeoutloud.com/voices/article/agender-pride-day/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

==History== 


A 1997 paper in ''International Journal of Transgenderism'' states that "An individual of any genetic [[sex]] may also regard him-herself as [...] an ungendered person, who does not or will not identify with any conventional gender."<ref name="Eyler" />

The 1998 book ''Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators'' lists "ungendered" as a label used by some transgender people.<ref>{{cite book|title=Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators|year=1998|editor=Sanlo, Ronni|page=37|quote=Transgender persons are those who are not comfortable living within the confines of the social stereotype of gender as applied to themselves. Labels used include cross-dresser, drag king, drag queen, intersexed, transsexual, butch, femme, ungendered, androgynous, and more. The labels are many and changing, and they are not always accepted by the people to whom they are applied.|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Working_with_Lesbian_Gay_Bisexual_and_Tr/vD2dAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719014750/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Working_with_Lesbian_Gay_Bisexual_and_Tr/vD2dAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0|archive-date=19 July 2023|access-date=4 October 2021|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>


A 2000 post on Usenet described the Christian God as agender. In 2005, another Usenet user wrote that "cultures can have [[transgender]], agender, and [[hypergender]] individuals."<ref name="them2018">{{Cite web |title=What Does It Mean to Be Agender? |work=them. |date=7 August 2018 |access-date=13 June 2020 |url= https://www.them.us/story/inqueery-agender |quote=sj Miller |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603030020/https://www.them.us/story/inqueery-agender |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

Linguistic research by Zimman and Hayworth suggests that "agender" was part of the discourse in gender-related [[Livejournal]] communities in the early-to-late 2000s. While the term appeared less often in discussions by members of "ftm" and "genderqueer" than the terms "genderqueer" or "genderfuck", it did become slightly more popular in both communities in the late '00s.<ref>Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "How we got here: Short-scale change in identity labels for trans, cis, and non-binary people in the 2000s". 2020. Proc Ling Soc Amer 5(1). 499–513. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4728</nowiki></ref><ref>Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "Lexical Change as Sociopolitical Change in Trans and Cis Identity Labels: New Methods for the Corpus Analysis of Internet Data". ''Selected Papers from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 47)''. January 15 2020. <nowiki>https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/45253</nowiki></ref>


"Non-gendered", "genderless", and "agender" were mentioned in a list of valid nonbinary identities in the 2013 text ''Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide''.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=9781446293133|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide|last1=Richards|first1=Christina|last2=Barker|first2=Meg|year=2013|publisher=SAGE Publications}}</ref>


Salem X (also known as "Ska" or as their Tumblr user name "transrants") created the agender flag in 2014, sharing the design on Feb 18th.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://majesticmess.com/encyclopedia/agender-flag/ |title=Agender Flag – Majestic Mess Designs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612222135/https://majesticmess.com/encyclopedia/agender-flag/ |archive-date=12 June 2022 |date= |website=Majestic Mess |access-date=24 March 2023}}
</ref> In reference to the colors chosen, they said "The black and white stripes represent an absence of gender, the gray represents semi-genderlessness, and the central green stripe represents nonbinary genders." In 2014, they also created the demiboy, demigirl and deminonbinary flags.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://majesticmess.com/2018/12/16/interview-creator-of-the-agender-flag/ |title=Interview: Creator of the Agender Flag – Majestic Mess Designs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228183501/https://majesticmess.com/2018/12/16/interview-creator-of-the-agender-flag/ |archive-date=28 February 2022 |date= |website=Majestic Mess |access-date=24 March 2023}}
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In 2014, agender was one of the 56 genders made [[Gender and social media sites|available on Facebook]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Shapira|first=Eve|title=Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age}}</ref>


In 2015, Dictionary.com added an entry for "agender,"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.dictionary.com/2015-new-words/ |title=New words added to Dictionary.com |date=May 6, 2015 |website=Dictionary.com |access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518081412/http://blog.dictionary.com/2015-new-words/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}
</ref> which it defined as "a person who does not have a specific gender identity or recognizable gender expression."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agender?s=t |title=Agender |date= |website=Dictionary.com |access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003223452/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agender?s=t |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}
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On March 10 2017, a resident of Portland, Oregon, USA requested in court to be legally agender, and the request was approved.<ref name="Ohara">{{Cite web |title=Judge grants Oregon resident the right to be genderless |last=O'Hara |first=Mary Emily |work=NBC News |date=23 March 2017 |access-date=1 June 2020 |url= https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/judge-grants-oregon-resident-right-be-genderless-n736971|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412055211/https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/judge-grants-oregon-resident-right-be-genderless-n736971 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>


A 2018 survey of "Attitudes to Gender", ran by the Britain-based "Future of Legal Gender" project, asked people if they agree or disagree with the statement "More people will identify as agender (not having a gender) in the future." 32.4% selected "agree" and 13.7% selected "strongly agree". 20.6% selected "neither agree nor disagree" and 19.7% "don't know", compared to a mere 6.6% "disagree" and 7% "strongly disagree". (71% of nonbinary respondents agreed or strongly agreed.)<ref name="FLG">{{Cite web |title=Survey Findings |author= |work=The Future of Legal Gender |date= |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/gender-in-everyday-life/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206213559/https://futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/gender-in-everyday-life/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

==Agender as gender identity or lack of gender identity== 


Some agender people feel that they have no gender identity, while others feel that agender is itself a gender identity. This can be similar to or overlap with the experience of being [[gender neutral]] or having a neutral gender identity.


As some agender people have no gender identity, it is important to not talk about nonbinary or transgender people's experiences ''only'' in the sense of gender identity.

==Difference between genderless and neutrois== 


There is little agreement about the difference between terms such as agender, genderless, non-gender, gender neutral, and [[neutrois]]. These terms are often used interchangeably, or defined differently by individual writers in ways that don't necessarily match the self-definitions of others using those terms.{{citation needed}}


It is often said that non-gender or genderlessness is the experience of having ''no'' gender identity at all, whereas gender neutral or neutrois is the experience of ''having'' a gender identity, a gender identity which is not male or female, but neutral.{{citation needed}} However, these statements don't match the experiences of everyone who has taken up these identities as their own. This is a result of a disagreement between word definitions that are ''prescriptivist'' (telling everyone how they ''should'' use a word, and saying that many people use it wrong) and ''descriptivist'' (describing how people have actually been ''using'' a word, without telling them to change).

===Non-gendered as an umbrella term=== 


Some activists, such as [[Christie Elan-Cane]], use '''non-gendered''' to mean all gender outside of the [[gender binary]].{{citation needed}} This use comes from several years before the term '''nonbinary''', but is seen as problematic because it gives the idea that nonbinary gender identities don't exist, or that all nonbinary people are genderless.{{citation needed}} Nonetheless this usage is in some official organisations' documents and resources as the term to cover all nonbinary people. This is most common in the United Kingdom, for example throughout the 2011 [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transgender-action-plan UK Government Transgender Action Plan].

==List of kinds of agender identities== 


It can be difficult to describe and name a gender identity that involves a lack of inner gender identity. In order to do so, some people see the need to make new names for that gender identity, or to distinguish between different but similar genderless identities. A list of these names, in alphabetical order:


'''anongender.''' "A gender that is unknown to you and others".{{citation needed}}


'''apogender.''' Coined by queerspike. "Greek prefix apo, meaning away from, separate, at the farthest point; a subset of agender in which you feel not only genderless but entirely removed from the concept of gender."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95723127519/genders-coined-by-queerspike|title=genders coined by queerspike|date=25 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122171707/https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95723127519/genders-coined-by-queerspike|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>


'''agenderfluid.''' Coined by pleurocarpus. Basically agender, but also [[genderfluid]]. Synonym cancegender.{{citation needed}}


'''[[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#agenderflux|agenderflux]].''' Coined by perfectlybrokenbones. "Where you identify as agender but have fluctuations where you feel feminine or masculine but not male or female. ".{{citation needed}}

'''[[agenderfluix]].''' A cross between agenderfluid and agenderflux; "a gender identity that is predominantly agender, but is fluid in nature and fluctuates in intensity over time." May also be called gxnderfluix, agxnderfluix, afluidflux, or flxidflux.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Agenderfluix| work=Gender Wiki |title=Agenderfluix|access-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920141003/https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Agenderfluix|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>


'''cancegender.''' coined by prideful-concerto. "An individual is agender as their “base” gender but experiences fluid/fluxing gender feelings in tandem with their emotions. These gender feelings may confuse or upset the individual and cause their emotional state to go haywire, which causes more gender changes."{{citation needed}} Synonym agenderfluid.

'''genderabyss.''' When the person tries to picture their gender all they see is a deep abyss of darkness.

'''genderblank.''' As described by Damloz: Having no gender.{{citation needed}} Also, as described by anonymous: "a gender so indescribable that the only thought one gets when trying to describe it is a blank space"{{citation needed}}


'''[[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#gender-free|genderfree]].''' As described by polyamaesthetic, "someone whose gender is not present; someone who feels their gender is insignificant or irrelevant; someone whose gender is kind of ambiguous, but definitely queer; someone whose gender feels blurry, cloudy, whimsical, and free"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://polyamaesthetic.tumblr.com/post/183876471860/genderfree-flowers-genderfree-someone-whose|title=genderfree + flowers|website=Tumblr|date=1 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102190959/https://polyamaesthetic.tumblr.com/post/183876471860/genderfree-flowers-genderfree-someone-whose|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Caution: sometimes used by [[Cissexism#Transgender-exclusionary_feminists|trangender-exclusionary feminists]] to identify themself as someone who rejects the concept of [[gender identity]].<ref name="medi_CanY">{{Cite web |title=Can You Actually Be #Genderfree? |last=Williams |first=Rachel Anne |work=Medium |date=25 April 2019 |access-date=4 April 2020 |url= https://medium.com/@transphilosophr/can-you-actually-be-genderfree-b38fe95a0cd7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107230018/https://medium.com/@transphilosophr/can-you-actually-be-genderfree-b38fe95a0cd7 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://terflies.tumblr.com/post/184414453101/heads-upgenderfree-is-the-new-gender-critical|title=Queerios on Tumblr|website=Tumblr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805011726/https://terflies.tumblr.com/post/184414453101/heads-upgenderfree-is-the-new-gender-critical|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>


'''gendernull.''' As described by Baaphomett, "A gender like gendervoid but without the void."{{citation needed}}


'''gendervoid.''' As described by Baaphomett, "A gender consisting of the void (also/originally used to mean the same thing as genderless)."<ref name="Masterpost">{{cite web|title=masterpost of genders coined by baaphomett|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719014900/https://www.tumblr.com/login_required/mogai-archive|author=mogai-archive|url=http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett|archive-date=19 July 2023|access-date=22 February 2017|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>


'''librafluid.''' Coined by otterlyradical and pride-flags-for-us. "Mostly agender, but has a strong connection that fluctuates between masculinity, femininity and/or androgyny."{{citation needed}} See also [[libragender]].


'''[[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#null gender|null gender]].''' Coined by dieselwolfe. "Undefinable, intangible, the uncreation of gender. Its taking everything everyone throws at you, saying male, female, pick one, pick this, pick that, and taking it in, only to expel it, poisonous crystals erupting from your skin, armor against those who don’t listen. A 'I don’t want a label because labels don’t fit but they help shut people up sometimes, so here have a label' gender label. A fall-back plan, a red herring to give people who can’t conceptualize the absence, void, nullification of gender. It is, and is not. All and none. Nonexistant but present."{{citation needed}}


'''oneirogender.''' Coined by anonymous. "Being agender, but having recurring fantasies or dreams of being a certain gender without the actual dysphoria or desire to actually be that gender day-to-day. e.g. oneiroboy, oneirogirl, oneirononbinary, etc."{{citation needed}}

'''polyagender.''' Someone who experiences multiple types of agender-spectrum identities; for example they could be a combination of agender, null gender, and gendervoid.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.deviantart.com/silencethefox/art/Polyagender-Stamp-736330258|title=Polyagender stamp by SilenceTheFox|website=DeviantArt|date=20 March 2018|access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121230011/https://www.deviantart.com/silencethefox/art/Polyagender-Stamp-736330258|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://nonbinaryresource.tumblr.com/post/154766502356/confused-agender-anon-from-a-while-ago-i-have|title=nonbinary resource|website=Tumblr|access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125192327/https://nonbinaryresource.tumblr.com/post/154766502356/confused-agender-anon-from-a-while-ago-i-have|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

==Notable people==
[[File:Angel Haze live at Øyafestivalen 2013.jpg|thumb|200px|<translate> Angel Haze live at Øyafestivalen 2013.</translate>]]
[[File:Andrej.jpg|thumb|200px|<translate> [[Andre J.]] at Dick's Bar in the East Village, March 2007</translate>]]
[[File:Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Becoming Interplanetary.jpg|thumb|200px|<translate> [[Chanda Prescod-Weinstein]] at Becoming Interplanetary talk at the Library of Congress, 2018</translate>]]

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''See main article: [[Notable nonbinary people]]''


There are many more [[notable nonbinary people|notable people who have a gender identity outside of the binary]]. The following are only some of those notable people who specifically use the words "agender," "genderblank," "genderfree," "genderless," "gendervoid," "non-gendered," or "null gender" for themselves.


* Actor [[Ellie Desautels]] describes themself as [[nonbinary]], [[transmasculine]]<ref name="Barasch">{{Cite web |title=Rise’s Ellie Desautels Talks Playing a Transgender Teen on Network TV |last=Barasch |first=Alex |work=Slate Magazine |date=12 March 2018 |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/an-interview-with-trans-actor-ellie-desautels-star-of-nbcs-rise.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601192125/https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/an-interview-with-trans-actor-ellie-desautels-star-of-nbcs-rise.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>, [[genderqueer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/ohyouknowellie/|title=Ellie Desautels profile|website=Instagram|access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512085239/https://www.instagram.com/ohyouknowellie/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>, and [[agenderflux]].<ref name="dundore">{{Cite web |title=Ellie & Wren |author=Brent Dundore |work=They Them Project |date=17 August 2018 |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://dundorephoto.com/ellie-wren/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612015330/https://dundorephoto.com/ellie-wren/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* [[Christie Elan-Cane]] is a non-gendered activist based in the UK, "fighting for legal and social recognition outside the societal gender system".<ref name="LJprofile">{{cite web|url=http://elancane.livejournal.com/profile|title=elancane - Profile|website=LiveJournal|access-date=24 March 2022|quote= My core identity is neither male nor female |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522015923/https://elancane.livejournal.com/profile|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[Tyler Ford]] (b. 1990) is an American writer and public speaker of mixed black and white Jewish ethnicity. Ford appeared as the first transgender contestant on ''The Glee Project'' in 2012. They are agender.<ref name="Childress">{{Cite web |title=“I Like to Exist as a Person”: What It Means to Live Beyond Gender |last=Childress |first=Sarah |work=FRONTLINE |date=30 June 2015 |access-date=28 April 2020 |url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/i-like-to-exist-as-a-person-what-it-means-to-live-beyond-gender/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521053235/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/i-like-to-exist-as-a-person-what-it-means-to-live-beyond-gender/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* [[Public Universal Friend]] (1752 - 1819), an evangelist who preached against slavery in the early United States. The Friend was genderless and asked to be called by [[English neutral pronouns#No pronouns|no pronouns at all]].<ref name="Lamphier-Welch-331">{{cite book |last1=Lamphier |first1=Peg A. |last2=Welch |first2=Rosanne |date=2017 |title=Women in American History |page=331}}</ref><ref name="Brekus-85">{{cite book |last1=Brekus |first1=Catherine A. |date=2000 |title=Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 |page=85}}</ref><ref name="Juster-MacFarlane-27-28 Brekus-85 etc">{{cite book |last1=Juster |first1=Susan |last2=MacFarlane |first2=Lisa |date=2018 |title=A Mighty Baptism |page=27-28}}</ref>
* [[Angel Haze|Raeen Roes (Angel Haze)]] (b. 1991), a well known agender rapper. They have been nominated for awards with MTV, O Music Awards, BET Awards, and GLAAD Music Awards. They announced on Twitter that they were agender.{{citation needed}}
* [[Andre J.]] (b. 1979) is an American party promoter who is a presence in the New York City fashion scene. They have been featured in photo spreads in French Vogue and V magazine. They are genderless<ref name="alphakitty">{{Cite web |title=Andre J is glam, genderless &....an Alpha Kitty |author=AlphaKitty |work=YouTube |date=29 November 2007 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpSU9p8czg8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704175411/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpSU9p8czg8 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218202334/http://thebeautybean.com/site/real-beauty/andre-j-on-real-beauty/|archive-date=February 18, 2011|last=Wolfer|first=Alexis|title=Andre J. : On Real Beauty|url=http://thebeautybean.com/site/real-beauty/andre-j-on-real-beauty/}}</ref> and agender.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/andrejworldwide/ Instagram bio], retrieved 17 May 2020</ref>
* [[Amita Kuttner]], PhD., is an astrophysicist who is in the race for leader of Canada's Green Party.<ref name="Parsons">{{Cite web |title=This astrophysicist could become the first non-binary person to lead a major political party in Canada |last=Parsons |first=Vic |work=PinkNews |date=10 March 2020 |access-date=18 May 2020 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/10/amita-kuttner-green-party-non-binary-astrophysicist-leadership-race-canada/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819170327/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/10/amita-kuttner-green-party-non-binary-astrophysicist-leadership-race-canada/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>. They call themself nonbinary, genderfluid, and agender.<ref name="Identity">{{Cite web |title=Identity in Politics|author=Kuttner, Amita |work=amitakuttner.ca |date=2019 |access-date=18 May 2020 |url= https://amitakuttner.ca/news/identity-in-politics/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926002548/https://amitakuttner.ca/news/identity-in-politics/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* [[Juno Mitchell]] is an American model. They walked alongside [[Miley Cyrus]] in the 2020 Marc Jacobs New York Fashion Week show.<ref name="Lankston">{{Cite web |title=EXCLUSIVE: Genderless trans model who strutted the Marc Jacobs runway with Miley Cyrus opens up about their 'refreshing' heart-to-heart with the singer - while urging the industry to be more accepting of non-binary people |last=Lankston |first=Charlie |work=Daily Mail |date=2 March 2020 |access-date=1 June 2020 |url= https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8046939/Genderless-Marc-Jacobs-model-opens-doing-runway-Miley-Cyrus.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520183527/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8046939/Genderless-Marc-Jacobs-model-opens-doing-runway-Miley-Cyrus.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Their Instagram profile says they are agender.<ref name="igbio">{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/juno_mitchell/|title=Juno Mitchell profile|website=Instagram|access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130235822/https://www.instagram.com/juno_mitchell/|archive-date=30 November 2023|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref><ref name="jinkxmonsoon">{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/jinkx.monsoon/posts/818079764894630|title=Jinkx Monsoon on Facebook|website=Facebook|access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404014749/https://www.facebook.com/jinkx.monsoon/posts/818079764894630|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[Chanda Prescod-Weinstein]] (b. 1982) is a cosmologist and science writer based at the University of New Hampshire. She was a founding member of the American Astronomical Society's [https://aas.org/comms/sgma Committee for Sexual Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy]. In an interview, she described herself as a femme agender cis-sex woman.<ref name="McNeill">{{Cite web |title=Bonus: Talking Feminist Astrophysics with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein — Lady Science |author=McNeill, Leila |work=Lady Science |date=9 May 2019 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.ladyscience.com/podcast/talking-feminist-astrophysics-chanda-prescod-weinstein|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606180009/https://www.ladyscience.com/podcast/talking-feminist-astrophysics-chanda-prescod-weinstein |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* [[DeAnne Smith]] is an award-winning Canadian-American comedian, writer and columnist. Smith is agender and [[transmasculine]].<ref name="smith2017">{{Cite web |title=DeAnne Smith - Comedy Up Late 2017 (S5, E2) |author=TheMelbComedyFest |work=YouTube |date=14 May 2017 |access-date=1 June 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1iWAqNoSEw|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524024955/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1iWAqNoSEw |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* [[Bogi Takács]] is a Jewish poet, writer, psycholinguist, editor, and translator who has written Torah-inspired work. They won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction. Their Twitter bio says they are agender.<ref name="BT-tweet">{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/bogiperson|title=@bogiperson profile|website=Twitter|access-date=24 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510111247/http://www.twitter.com/bogiperson|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[Eris Young]] is a multi-genre writer known for their debut book ''They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary & Genderqueer Identities'', published in fall 2019.<ref name="ampersand">{{Cite web |title=On Writing and Growing: A Q&A with Eris Young |author= |work=The Ampersand Project |date= |access-date=26 June 2020 |url= https://theampersandproject.com/qa-eris-young/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125232720/https://theampersandproject.com/qa-eris-young/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Inglis">{{Cite web |title=Eris Young on They/Them/Their: 'It's like a primer guide to being a non-binary person' |last=Inglis |first=Becca |work=The List |date=10 September 2019 |access-date=26 June 2020 |url= https://www.list.co.uk/article/111416-eris-young-on-they-them-their-its-like-a-primer-guide-to-being-a-non-binary-person/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119230314/https://www.list.co.uk/article/111416-eris-young-on-they-them-their-its-like-a-primer-guide-to-being-a-non-binary-person/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> They are agender and genderqueer.<ref>{{cite tweet|title=I identify sometimes or partly as agender but also partly or sometimes as genderqueer!|user= Young_E_H|number =1226903204291600388|date=10 February 2020}}</ref>
* Jesse "Plumbella" McNamara, a youtuber and twitch streamer known as one of the main heads of the Sims community, came out as agender (along with being asexual and heteroromantic) in a livestream on March 29th, 2021 and in various tweets. {{citation needed}}
* Artist Dane Pop Frippery identifies as Agender as of 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://danepopfrippery.com/ |title=Archive copy |access-date=2024-05-31 |archive-date=2024-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529145921/https://danepopfrippery.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She uses she/her for pronouns.


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== Agender characters in fiction == 


''See main article: [[Nonbinary gender in fiction#Nonbinary genders in fiction|Nonbinary gender in fiction]]''


There are many more [[Nonbinary gender in fiction#Nonbinary genders in fiction|nonbinary characters in fiction who have a gender identity outside of the binary]]. The following are only some of those characters who are specifically called by the words "agender," "genderblank," "genderfree," "genderless," "gendervoid," "non-gendered," "null gender," or not having a gender, either in their canon, or by their creators.


* “Ashiok” from the popular card game Magic: The Gathering is explicitly referred to as being nongendered. Though some depictions of the character include “he” as a pronoun, a lead designer from the company that makes the game has insisted on numerous occasions that the character is explicitly nongendered.<ref name=dougbeyertaggedashiok>{{cite web |url=http://dougbeyermtg.tumblr.com/tagged/ashiok |title=A Voice for Vorthos – Posts tagged with “Ashiok” |website=Doug Beyer’s Blog – A Voice for Vorthos |access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111233530/https://dougbeyermtg.tumblr.com/tagged/ashiok |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Even going so far as to write stories which avoid referring to Ashiok using gendered pronouns at all.<ref name=dougbeyerashiokstories>{{cite web |url=http://dougbeyermtg.tumblr.com/post/85018556969/ok-so-when-are-we-going-to-learn-more-about-the |title=A Voice for Vorthos – Ok so when are we going to learn more about the specifics about Ashiok? Ashiok is not in the first novel at all and nothing is depicted in the cards. |website=Doug Beyer’s Blog – A Voice for Vorthos |access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902202741/http://dougbeyermtg.tumblr.com/post/85018556969/ok-so-when-are-we-going-to-learn-more-about-the |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}
</ref> Ashiok's card can be found [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=373500 here.]
* Roswell, in the podcast ''The Adventure Zone'', is an Earth Elemental made of living clay in a suit of armor, who talks via a small bird. Roswell is agender and uses they/them pronouns.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theadventurezone.wikia.com/wiki/Roswell|website=The Adventure Zone Wiki|title=Roswell|access-date=24 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111202457/http://theadventurezone.wikia.com/wiki/Roswell|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
*''[http://chaoslife.findchaos.com Chaos Life] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230703191223/https://chaoslife.findchaos.com/ Archived] on 17 July 2023'' by A. Stiffler and K. Copeland - A light-hearted, semi-autobiographical webcomic about the everyday idiosyncrasies of an agender person, their female partner, and their cats.
*''[http://tapastic.com/series/6ses 6ses] [https://web.archive.org/web/20201029193422/http://tapastic.com/series/6ses Archived] on 17 July 2023'' by Kagome is a comic that features an agender protagonist.
* *''[http://tapastic.com/series/Eri Eri the Cyborg] [https://web.archive.org/web/20201031141625/http://tapastic.com/series/Eri Archived] on 17 July 2023''{{dead link}} by Ren is a comic that features an agender protagonist.
* Biaggio, in the movie "The Kings of Summer," asserts that they don't see themself as "having a gender."
* In the video game ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nights_into_Dreams... NiGHTS into Dreams] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230530112453/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nights_into_Dreams... Archived] on 17 July 2023'' the character "NiGHTS is neutral, and therefore has no gender. The impressions of the character with regards to gender are totally up to the player" according to Takashi Iizuka, the lead designer of the game.<ref>{{cite web |last= Taylor |first= Mike |date= 5 December 2007 |title= Interview: Takashi Iizuka Talks NiGHTS |website= Nintendo Life |url= http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2007/12/interview_takashi_iizuka_talks_nights |access-date= 24 March 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230606075440/http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2007/12/interview_takashi_iizuka_talks_nights |archive-date= 17 July 2023 }}</ref>
*''Bone Dance'' by Emma Bull. Character: the protagonist, Sparrow, is canonically described as "sexless" and "genderless." The exact details of their identity [https://web.archive.org/web/20160701082646/http://practicalandrogyny.com/raq/bonedanc.shtml are a matter of debate (spoilers)].
*The entire race of [https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Chronicoms Chronicoms] from Marvel's ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' are vehemently agender, though they are a race of extraterrestrial androids. They use gendered pronouns based on their current form.
*The vessels from Hollow Knight. The vessels are part void, and may thus be gendervoid. Their sibling Hornet is known as “the gendered child”.
* In the indie romance visual novel ''My Cup of Coffee: Earl Grey Forever After'', the protagonist can be male, female, or "[[gender free]]". The player can make all other characters genderfree as well, which results in the game using [[gender neutral language]], [[English_neutral_pronouns#Ne_.28nem.29|ne/nem/nir]] pronouns, and the [[Mx]] title.
* In the ''Roblox'' game ''Phighting!'', all characters are [https://x.com/Soda_Stuff/status/1695214286883168664 confirmed to be agender.]

== Research ==
The informal [[Gender Census]] survey, which asks respondents "How do you describe your gender?" (among other questions), has included a checkbox option for "agender" since its first year (2013).<ref>https://gendercensus.com/results/2013-worldwide/</ref> Of around 2,000 respondents in 2013, 22% selected the "agender" checkbox.<ref>https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2013-worldwide/</ref> In 2024, 11,254 respondents (23.1%) selected this checkbox.<ref>Gender Census 2024 Unprocessed Results.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EJXhTOLDdgsv8hQcBc9gStKV-BrInUdF8ZtuObp9x38/edit?gid=779426998#gid=779426998</ref>

A 2019 study investigated the types of microaggressions that agender and gender non-conforming people experience in romantic relationships, drawing upon responses from 200 self-identified gender non-conforming people and 190 agender people.<ref>Pulice-Farrow, L., McNary, S. B., & Galupo, M. P. (2019). ''“Bigender is just a Tumblr thing”: microaggressions in the romantic relationships of gender non-conforming and agender transgender individuals. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 1–20.'' doi:10.1080/14681994.2018.1533245</ref> The survey gave respondents only four options (transmasculine, transfeminine, gender non-conforming, agender) and the demographic information included alongside quotes reveals that participants often described themselves with different words when give a chance (including [[genderqueer]], [[Nonbinary|non-binary]], and [[maverique]]), making it difficult to tell how many people who selected the agender category described themselves as agender outside the constraints of the survey. Therefore, it may be more accurate to frame the study as about microaggressions experienced by people who identify with a range of non-binary identities, including some agender people.

A chapter of the 2022 ''Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption'' examined how agender people develop and express agender identity on the Internet, arguing Internet spaces enable greater self-expression than offline spaces.<ref>Ketola, M., Selander, S., & Ruvio, A. (2022). "Identity expressions of agender individuals in a digital world". In Llamas, R., & Belk, R. (Eds.),The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption (2nd ed.). Routledge. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317524</nowiki></ref>

== See also == 

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*[[Gender Neutral]]
*[[Neutrois]]
*[[List of nonbinary identities]]
*[[Nonbinary celebrities]]

===External links=== 


*[http://neutrois.tumblr.com/post/8229655572/hi-there-maddox-im-writing-up-a-post-about-the Neutrois Nonsense: On the difference between agender, genderless and neutrois]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190831184352/http://jmcottle.com/by-the-end-of-this-post-gender-may-not-look-like-a-real-word-anymore/ A Fine Line: J.M. Cottle talks about Genderless identity]
*[http://chroanagram.zxq.net/blog/?p=218 Chroanagram: Gender neutral=Genderless?]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014042115/http://genderqueerid.com/gq-terms Genderqueer Identities: Genderqueer identities and terms list]
*[http://nonbinary.tumblr.com/post/12685362184/when-activists-dont-represent-christie-elan-cane-and Nonbinary Tumblr: When activists don't represent, Christie Elan-Cane and Gender Identity]
*[http://hellyeahagender.tumblr.com/ Hell Yeah, Agender!] (blog)
*[http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Agender Agender on Gender Wiki]

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'''Pronouns''' are a part of language used to refer to someone or something without using proper nouns. In standard English, some singular third-person pronouns are "[[Pronouns#He|he]]" and "[[Pronouns#She|she]]," which are usually seen as ''gender-specific pronouns'', referring to a man and a woman, respectively. A ''gender-neutral pronoun'' or ''gender-inclusive pronoun'' is one that gives no implications about gender, and could be used for someone of any gender. Some languages only have gender-neutral pronouns, whereas other languages have difficulty establishing any that aren't gender-specific. People with [[nonbinary]] gender identities often choose new third-person pronouns for themselves as part of their [[transition]]. They often choose gender-neutral pronouns so that others won't see them as female or male.

==Use for nonbinary people==

Although many gender-neutral pronouns were created to speak of no specific person, some nonbinary people adopt these pronouns for themselves. They ask that other people call them only by one particular set of gender-neutral pronouns. This can be a part of a nonbinary person's social [[transition]].
===Examples of specific nonbinary people's pronouns===

Some nonbinary people ask to be called by gender-neutral pronouns. Other nonbinary people ask to be called by "he" or "she" pronouns, some of whom see that as a gender-neutral use of those words. The use of binary pronouns doesn't necessarily mean that someone has a binary gender identity. Some nonbinary people have more than one set of pronouns that they are okay with people using for them.

'''He.''' Some specific nonbinary people who ask to be called by "[[he/him]]" pronouns include writer [[Richard O'Brien]].

'''She.''' Nonbinary people who ask people to use "[[she/her]]" pronouns for them include public speaker [[Olave Basabose]], internet personality [[Left at London]], musician [[JD Samson]], activist [[Kate Bornstein]] (who also goes by "they")<ref>{{cite tweet|author=[[Kate Bornstein]]|title=Thanks for asking, @msmacb. I like they/them. She/her are also okay—makes me smile. xox|date=2016-01-26|user=katebornstein|number=692135982716575745}}</ref> and comedian [[Eddie Izzard]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/21/eddie-izzard-to-use-female-pronouns-she-and-her|title=Eddie Izzard to use the pronouns 'she' and 'her'|date=2020-12-21|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2021-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603050016/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/21/eddie-izzard-to-use-female-pronouns-she-and-her|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>.

'''They.''' Some nonbinary people ask to be called by "singular they" pronouns, including comedian [[Jes Tom]], writer [[Ivan E. Coyote]], actor [[Jiz Lee]], writer [[R.B. Lemberg]], singer-songwriter [[Rae Spoon]], performance poet Kae Tempest<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/06/kate-tempest-announces-they-are-non-binary-changes-name-to-kae|title=Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary, changes name to Kae|date=2020-08-06|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2021-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308000105/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/06/kate-tempest-announces-they-are-non-binary-changes-name-to-kae|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> and musician [[Stevie Knipe]].

'''Other pronouns.''' Nonbinary people who go by other pronouns include singer Mx [[Justin Vivian Bond]], who goes by [[Pronouns#V|v]] pronouns. "[[Pronouns#Ze|Ze]], hir" pronouns are the preferred pronouns of revolutionary communist [[Leslie Feinberg]] (who also went by she)<ref>Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Transgender Pioneer and Stone Butch Blues Author Leslie Feinberg Has Died." ''Advocate.'' November 17, 2014. http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2014/11/17/transgender-pioneer-leslie-feinberg-stone-butch-blues-has-died [https://web.archive.org/web/20230614162544/https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2014/11/17/transgender-pioneer-leslie-feinberg-stone-butch-blues-has-died Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>.

'''Any pronouns.''' Some nonbinary people have no specific pronoun they want used; they are okay with any and all pronouns. For example, the model [[Rain Dove]], voice actor [[Casey Mongillo]], and makeup artist [[Justin Saint]].

'''No pronouns.''' Some nonbinary people wish that no third-person pronouns be used, preferring their name or another descriptor be used in place of pronouns. For example, the evangelist [[Public Universal Friend]] and the software developer [[Lianna Newman]].

===Surveys===

There have been a few surveys on gender-neutral pronouns and pronoun preferences.

*[http://anlamasanda.tumblr.com/post/15140114246 This survey by anlamasanda on Tumblr] ran for many months. The results were published at the start of 2012, and showed that of the 800+ people responding, '''singular "they"''' was the most popular pronoun at '''62%'''. [http://anlamasanda.tumblr.com/psurvey Commentary.]
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiVvhUyACboSdG56TmczMmtGbFJCOVg1dTdUVFp1enc#gid=1 This survey by Lottelodge (now cassolotl) on Tumblr] ran for two months. The results were published in July 2013, and showed that of over 2,000 respondents '''singular "they"''' was the most popular pronoun at '''63%'''. [http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/54769253277 Commentary.] This rose to 74% in 2015,<ref name="CassolotlNBGQ2015">[http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/111585517125 Nonbinary Stats 2015 (Worldwide) - the results], published 20 Feb 2015 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519033700/https://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/111585517125 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and 77% in 2016.<ref name="CassolotlNBGQ2016">[http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/137953257500 NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results], published 20 Feb 2015 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519033835/http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/137953257500 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
*[https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results Nonbinary Stats Survey of 2016] ran in January for 8 days, and published its results in March. The most popular pronoun was "they," at 77.5%, followed by she, he, "mix it up," and a preference to not have others pronouns for one at all. The survey recorded 123 different pronoun sets in use among 3055 nonbinary people, of which, 90 pronouns were entered only once.

==How to change your pronouns==

If you are [[nonbinary]] and want to change your pronouns, this is a purely social part of your [[transition]], rather than one using paperwork. First, you should put some thought into choosing pronouns that feel satisfactory to you. Research and experiment to find out what feels right. Next, you need to tell other people. As a part of social transition, you need cooperation from other people in order to be called by the pronouns you want, so it's important to keep your composure as well as stay firm. You can help remind people of your pronouns by wearing them on a badge or writing them in your social media profile.

===Choosing your pronouns===
First, form your opinions on what you want from your new pronouns. Next, list your favorite pronouns, and compare them to your opinions so that you can list their pros and cons. Meanwhile, test your favorite pronouns out loud and in writing, to see how they feel to you in action. You might want to think about why exactly you do not like your "original" pronoun.

====Form opinions====
You can use several criteria to help rank and decide between different pronouns. See [[Pronouns criteria]] for a whole list.

====Compare them====

Next, after you decide what criteria you want for your pronouns, browse a list of pronouns. You can find such a list for the English language at [[ English neutral pronouns]] on this wiki. Other lists are available at [[Talk:English neutral pronouns]], [[Nounself pronouns]], [[wiktionary:Appendix:List of protologisms/third person singular gender neutral pronouns|on Wiktionary]], on [https://pronoun-provider.tumblr.com/pronouns Pronoun-Provider.tumblr.com], or in [http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/ Failedslacker's Pronoun Dressing Room]. Write down a list of the ones you like. Put them in a table, with columns for what you see as the good and bad traits of those pronouns. After you finish assessing them all, write down your concluding opinion about each in the last column. Here is a small example of such a table.
{| class="wikitable"
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!Pronoun
!Pros
!Cons

!Conclusion

|-
|ve, verself
|Used in a book I like
|Doesn't sound right to me

|Maybe no
|-
|E, Emself
|Common, easy to say
|Too short?

|Maybe yes
|}

You can use the above table as your template. Create your own table in a word processor, or draw it by hand in your journal. Although the above table only compares two sets of pronouns, you can add rows for as many pronouns that interest you. You don't need to form your conclusions on all pronouns in one sitting. Perhaps over the course of a few days, take your time to form your opinions on each pronoun set, and return periodically to add more notes to your pronoun table.

====Test them====

At the same time as you work on the above table of pros and cons, test the pronouns that you might like. Try them in several ways: in writing, out loud, and in reference to you. If you have friends who understand, test out having them call you by these pronouns for a little while. You can help your friends with this by wearing a pronoun badge (see below). You can also test how your pronouns look in writing by using web-sites that put them into a text. Such sites include [https://genderev.com/pronouns/ Genderev's Pronoun Try-On], [https://chocolate-pancake.github.io/pronounsandnamestester/ Pronouns And Names Tester], [http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/ Failedslacker's Pronoun Dressing Room], [https://web.archive.org/web/20190407041806/http://www.pronoun.is/ Pronoun Island] and [http://www.practicewithpronouns.com/ PracticeWithPronouns.com]. You may find that you feel differently about the pronouns when they are in action, and when they are in reference to you.

===Announcing your change of pronouns===

When you have settled on your chosen set of pronouns, you need to tell people, so they can start using them for you. Announce it to them by a handwritten letter, e-mail, or blog post. Keep your message polite, and say "please" and "thank you." In order to be complete, and to address the first questions the reader might ask, your announcement should include these parts:

*Opening: Assuming that you have already [[come out]] to these people as nonbinary, your announcement message should open with a reminder of that, as part of the explanation for why you want to change your pronouns.
*List all the grammatical forms of your new pronouns.
*Show people how to use these pronouns by giving an example of them in use in a sentence or several.
*You might tell how to pronounce the pronouns.
*Briefly say why you chose these pronouns rather than others.
*If you use two sets of pronouns, explain which set is more appropriate, under what conditions.
*Conclusion: Request that people use these pronouns for you.

Based on the above, here is a [[template letters|sample letter]] of a fictional person announcing their pronoun change. You can use it as a template for writing your own.

<blockquote>
Dear Stuart,

As you know, I have a nonbinary gender identity, meaning that I don't think of myself as a woman or a man. I'm transitioning to a gender expression that feels more like the real me. Since being called "he" or "she" doesn't feel right to me, I have decided to change my pronouns to singular they (they, them, their, theirs, themself). For an example of these pronouns in a couple sentences: "They are Morgan, that's them. They will read their book by themself". I like these singular gender-neutral pronouns the best because they were used by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and other great writers. They have been a part of English for a long time. From now on, please call me by "they" pronouns, instead of "he" or "she".

Thank you,<br/>
Mx Morgan Doe
</blockquote>

You can also use the above sample letter as a template for writing an e-mail, just by leaving out the signature. Use it as a template for a blog post by leaving out the salutation.

===Pronoun badges===
To help other people remember which pronouns you want to be called by, you can wear a badge, jewelry, accessory, or piece of clothing with your pronouns written on it. Learn more at [[Pronoun badges]].

==Pronoun etiquette==

Many [[gender binary|binary]] and [[nonbinary]] [[transgender]] folk experience [[gender dysphoria]] when people refer to them using the wrong pronouns. For those who don't [[Practical_resources#Presentation|pass]] as well as they'd like, being called by the wrong gender (''misgendered'') with the wrong pronouns is a common problem with a lot of work involved. An individual, upon being misgendered, is forced to either do the [[coming out]] spiel or grin and bear it, making the coming out later more awkward. If someone corrects you on their pronouns, the best way you can help is to start using their preferred pronouns right away without argument.

If your pronouns are unusual, or aren't what people think of as matching your gender expression, you may have to get used to reminding people to use them, and explaining them to people a lot. Learn people's common questions and objections to your pronouns, and rehearse your responses to them, so that you can keep your composure.

A person can have more than one set of pronouns that they want people to use for them. For example, suppose that your favorite set of pronouns might be "ze, hir." However, you don't want these to make an accessibility problem for people who have trouble with English, or maybe there are some situations where you don't feel safe using them, or don't feel up to the challenge of getting people to use them. In that case, you have decided to let people also call you by a second set of pronouns (''auxiliary pronouns'') that you like almost but not quite as much: "she, her."
Many nonbinary people may also use two or more pronouns with equal preference, which may look like allowing others to decide which of their pronouns to use, using different pronouns in different situations, or alternating pronouns equally.
For another example, some genderfluid people feel comfortable or uncomfortable with certain pronouns depending on the current state of their gender identity. As a result, they alternate pronouns depending on their current identity, and ask to be called by different pronouns at different times.

Unusual pronouns can make trouble for people who speak English as a second language, or who have disabilities that make it harder for them to speak and understand English. Unusual pronouns are difficult to understand for people who lipread.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pronouns |work=Footnotes |date=15 July 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414130833/http://footnotes.jinkies.org.uk/pronouns.html |url=http://footnotes.jinkies.org.uk/pronouns.html |archive-date=14 April 2009 |access-date=29 July 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> If you or another person have difficulty using unusual pronouns for these reasons, then it is acceptable and appropriate to ask a person if they have another set of pronouns that you can use in that case.<ref>otherkinlogic, vulpinekin, and roborenard. "Nounself pronouns and how to use them." http://otherkinlogic.tumblr.com/post/92382457520 {{dead link}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20200929160755/https://otherkinlogic.tumblr.com/post/92382457520 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

==Arabic neutral pronouns==

Gender-neutral pronouns in Modern Standard Arabic (اللغة العربية) include:

هما means "they, originally dual, can work as a neutral singular third person."<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns">{{Cite web|url=https://whatdoesenbymean.tumblr.com/post/98205665479/multilingual-pronouns-list|title=multilingual pronouns list|website=Ask a nonbinary person|access-date=2021-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516153213/https://whatdoesenbymean.tumblr.com/post/98205665479/multilingual-pronouns-list|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

انتما means "second person dual."<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

==Bulgarian neutral pronouns==

Gender-neutral pronouns in Bulgarian language (български език) include:

те/тях/техен/им "generally used for a group of people, could be used as singular as in 'they'"<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

то/него/негово/му "means 'it', informal"<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

==Chinese neutral pronouns==

Gender-neutral pronouns in Mandarin Chinese (普通话) include:

'''tā/ta1''' is the standard pronoun for people, which when pronounced aloud is gender-neutral. Before the language was influenced by Europeans, "他" was the proper way of rendering "tā" (regardless of gender); with the radical "亻" (a variant of "人") meaning "person" and "也" meaning "other" (i.e. "another person, neither me nor you"). Under European influence, the character "她" was invented, to mean "she" ("女"=female + "也"=other). Therefore, "他" more and more acquired the gender-specific meaning "he", with the consequence that nowadays neither "他" nor "她" are perceived as gender-neutral. Another written form of tā is "它" meaning "it," but this can be derogatory, so only use it for a person with their permission. Similarly, tā 牠 is a pronoun "used for non-human animals", <ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /> and tā 祂 is usually used for gods.

As the logical gender-neutral character is "他" ("亻" meaning "person"), one solution would be to use a character composed of "男"("male") and "也" to mean "he", which would make it evident that "他" used in the same text can only be meant in a gender-neutral way. However, as Unicode does not provide "男"+"也" as a single character, this is currently only possible in handwriting.

Some people simply write "TA" with Latin letters ("TA是我的朋友。"). The same can be done in Bopomofo ("ㄊㄚ是我的朋友。").

Gender-neutral pronouns in Cantonese (廣東話) include:

'''keúih/keoi5 佢''' meaning "them/him/her/it"

Ancient Chinese texts use more pronouns that are not gender specific to refer to other people, for example '''bǐ/bi3 彼''' , '''qí/qi2 其''' , and '''zhī/zhi1 之'''. Among the less used are the pronouns '''qú/qu2 渠''' and '''jué/jue2 厥''', which are not gender specific either. Despite the word 她 being reappropriated as a feminine pronoun by Liu Bannong in his poems, Ancient Chinese people also used a pronoun that is feminine called '''yī/yi1 伊''', exemplified in Lu Xun's works. However, some Ancient Chinese scholars argue that due to the difference of modern and ancient Chinese grammar, the use of these words as pronouns might not be the same as contemporary pronouns.

Gender-neutral ways of referring to others in Chinese language (中文) include:

'''na4ge4ren2 (traditional: 那個人) (simplified: 那个人)''' means "that person."<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''zhe4ge4ren2 (traditional: 這個人) (simplified: 这个人)''' means "this person."<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

==Czech neutral pronouns==

Gender-neutral pronouns in Czech language (čeština) include:

'''onikání''', "which was used in the past as gender-neutral pronoun when refering to someone of lesser status. it’s oni/je/jejich/se they/them/their/themself and the use is: Oni jsou moc milým člověkem. - They are a very nice person."<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />
==Danish neutral pronouns==

Gender-neutral pronouns in Danish language (dansk) include:

'''de, dem, deres'''<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''hen, hen, hens'''<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /> (neopronoun - the variants hæn and høn have also been proposed.)<ref>https://sproget.dk/raad-og-regler/artikler-mv/svarbase/SV00016738 [https://web.archive.org/web/20220929211652/https://sproget.dk/raad-og-regler/artikler-mv/svarbase/SV00016738 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> <ref>https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/han-hun-eller-hoen/13013a26-ec3f-4c10-9833-d80a0fd6ea7e [https://web.archive.org/web/20211023120648/https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/han-hun-eller-hoen/13013a26-ec3f-4c10-9833-d80a0fd6ea7e Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

==Dutch neutral pronouns==

Gender-neutral pronouns in Dutch language (Nederlands) include:

'''hen, hen, hun''' <ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.transgendernetwerk.nl/non-binair-voornaamwoord-uitslag/|title=Zo maak je na toiletten ook taal genderneutraal|date=2016-06-10|website=Transgender Netwerk Nederland|language=nl|access-date=2020-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520060910/https://www.transgendernetwerk.nl/non-binair-voornaamwoord-uitslag/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

'''die, hen, hun''' <ref name=":2" />

'''die, die, diens''' <ref>“[https://web.archive.org/web/20231201021908/https://tekstbureaulindaschlief.nl/hoe-gebruik-je-non-binaire-voornaamwoorden/ Hoe gebruik je de non-binaire voornaamwoorden hen/hun en die/diens]” Tekst Bureau Linda Schlief. 2023-02-22. Archived from the [https://tekstbureaulindaschlief.nl/hoe-gebruik-je-non-binaire-voornaamwoorden/ original] on 20 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-06-20</ref>

'''ze, hun, ze''' "note: literal translation of they, but ze is often used as 'she'"<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''zij, hen, hun'''<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

‘’’Die, hen, hun’’’is also often used with die being a translation of who or another way of using a Dutch version of they.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

Dutch has three grammatical genders, masculine, feminine and neuter, but most forms are identical for masculine and feminine (while often opposed to neuter). This makes avoidance strategies attractive. E.g. while the third person singular personal pronoun is differentiated between feminine ("zij") and masculine ("hij"), the demonstrative pronoun is identical for these two genders ("'''die'''") and can often be used instead.

In 2016 Transgender Netwerk Nederland held a poll, in which '''hen, hen, hun''' or '''die, hen, hun''' were chosen as gender neutral pronouns.<ref name=":2" />
==English neutral pronouns==

''See also: [[gender neutral language#English|gender neutral language - English]], and [[glossary of English gender and sex terminology]]''

This section has its own page: [[English neutral pronouns]].

==Esperanto neutral pronouns==

Normally, Esperanto doesn't have any singular gender-neutral personal pronouns, only female or male. Some proposed grammatical reforms suggest adding a neutral pronoun. None of the proposals are recognized by the Akademio de Esperanto (Academy of Esperanto), an official body that aims to provide guidance to Esperanto users. While the Akademio takes a conservative approach to Esperanto usage, they have been known to adopt neologisms as their sustained use becomes widespread. For more information about this issue, see Wikipedia's article [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_reform_in_Esperanto gender reform in Esperanto].

Some proposed gender-neutral pronouns in non-standard Esperanto include:

'''gi'''. "A popular proposal because it is iconic: in writing, it resembles ''ĝi'' ('it'), which it also resembles in meaning, and it is similar to the occasionally epicene prefix ''ge-''. This makes it readily recognizable. Also along these lines is the use of the epicene prefix itself, ''geli''."<ref name="esperanto wikipedia">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_reform_in_Esperanto Wikipedia page on gender reform in Esperanto] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230530050443/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_reform_in_Esperanto Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''ĝi (gxi)'''. "Ĝiist Esperanto," or "ĝiismo," is a grammatical reform similar to "riism" (see ''ri'' below) that proposes using the existing pronoun ''ĝi'' ('it') as a gender-neutral pronoun when referring to a person whose gender is "unknown or unimportant" to the context, in addition to its traditional sense of referring to animals and objects. Among "ĝiists," ''ri'' is used exclusively in reference to nonbinary people.<ref name="seksneuxtrala">[https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seksne%C5%ADtrala_homa_triapersona_pronomo Esperanto Wikipedia page on gender-neutral pronouns] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230530160607/https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seksne%C5%ADtrala_homa_triapersona_pronomo Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> However, some argue that use of ''ĝi'' in reference to people is objectifying, and for this reason the popular reference ''Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko'' advises against it.<ref name="pmeg">Wennergren, Bertilo. "[https://bertilow.com/pmeg/gramatiko/pronomoj/tria.html Tria persono]". ''[https://bertilow.com/pmeg/index.html Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko 2022].'' Accessed 2022-08-29.</ref>

'''hi/li'''. In orthodox Esperanto, ''li'' is gendered masculine ('he') when a person's gender is known, and used as the epicene singular pronoun when a person's gender is unidentified or hypothetical. "Hiist Esperanto," or "hiismo," proposes ''hi'' as a new masculine singular pronoun "so that the gendered pronouns ''hi'' and ''ŝi'' both derive from English" while retaining ''li'' only in gender-neutral contexts.<ref name="hiismo">[https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiismo Esperanto Wikipedia page on hiismo] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230522220723/https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiismo Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''oni'''. In orthodox Esperanto, ''oni'' is the gender-neutral indefinite/impersonal pronoun, similar to the English pronoun ''one.'' Some propose extending its use as a definite pronoun to refer to a known person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant, and/or as a personal pronoun.<ref name="seksneuxtrala"></ref>

'''ri'''. "Riist Esperanto," or "riismo," is a grammatical reform to Esperanto that makes the language more gender-neutral in several ways. One of these changes is to replace the gendered pronouns entirely with the neutral pronoun ''ri''. This was popular for some time for the Esperanto community on the Internet in the 1990s.<ref name="esperanto wikipedia"></ref> ''Ri'' is currently favoured as a personal pronoun by nonbinary Esperantists, and is sometimes used in cases when the gender of a person is unknown or not relevant to the context.<ref name="enjoy esperanto">Owen, Tim. ''Enjoy Esperanto.'' London (2022): Teach Yourself.</ref> The widely used ''Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko'' (''Complete Handbook of Esperanto Grammar'') no longer advises against the usage of ''ri,'' stating that, while "not everyone is familiar with" ''riismo,'' it "is, however, sufficiently widespread, especially among youth, that many who themselves do not use ''ri'' or ''ria'' [the possessive form] do understand the new words."<ref name="pmeg"></ref> An entry for ''ri'' does appear in the widely used ''Reta Vortaro'',<ref name="revo">[https://www.reta-vortaro.de/revo/dlg/index-2f.html#ri.0 ''Reta Vortaro'' entry for "ri."] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230301051159/https://www.reta-vortaro.de/revo/dlg/index-2f.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and the English-language textbook ''Enjoy Esperanto'' includes a chapter on inclusive language, including discussion of riismo and nonbinary Esperantists.<ref name="enjoy esperanto"></ref>

'''ŝli (sxli)'''. "Instantly recognizable to most Esperantists ... This is just the reading pronunciation of the abbreviation ''ŝ/li'', the equivalent of English "s/he", and is not infrequently seen in informal writing."<ref name="esperanto wikipedia"></ref>

'''tiu/ties'''. In Esperanto, ''tiu'' and ''ties'' mean 'that person' and 'that person's' respectively. They can be used as a grammatically orthodox workaround for avoiding use of gendered pronouns, but can come off as awkward and overly indirect.<ref name="seksneuxtrala"></ref>

==Estonian neutral pronouns==

Estonian has no grammatical gender. There are no pronouns to specifically mean "she" or "he". Only the genderless pronoun ''tema/ta'' is used.

'''tema, teda, tema'''. Long form, primarily used with stressed syllables.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''ta, teda, ta'''. Short form, primarily used with unstressed syllables.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

==Finnish neutral pronouns==

The Finnish language (suomen kieli) doesn't have grammatical gender. There are no pronouns that specifically mean "she" or "he". Everyone is called by the genderless pronoun ''hän''.

'''hän, hänen'''. Formal.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''se, sen'''. Means "it." Informal but used a lot in colloquial speech and slang.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

==French neutral pronouns==

In French, talking about one's self or another person in a gender-neutral way requires using created pronouns since the language only have two genders (feminine and masculine). These pronouns are not used officially, but are more and more used in gender-inclusive texts and spaces, along with gender-inclusive grammar rules for adjectives. That said, these and others have been well-documented in rapidly growing literature on this topic.<ref>Knisely, K. A. (2020). Le français non-binaire: linguistic forms used by non-binary speakers of French. ''Foreign Language Annals'', ''53''(4), 850-876.</ref>

'''ile'''. A mix of the French words "il" ("he") and "elle" ("she"). Some nonbinary people in France go by this pronoun. In 2015, an [[intersex]] adult in Tours won the right to change their birth certificate to say "gender neutral". The news mentioned that this person went by "ile" pronouns.<ref name="McCormick">{{Cite web |title=France legally recognises person as ‘gender neutral’ for the first time |author=McCormick, Joseph |work=PinkNews |date=15 October 2015 |access-date=21 February 2021 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/10/15/france-legally-recognises-person-as-gender-neutral-for-the-first-time/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819192128/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/10/15/france-legally-recognises-person-as-gender-neutral-for-the-first-time/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

'''iel, iels'''. A mix between "il" ("he") and "elle" ("she") that can be easily said out loud;<ref name="atelier queer 1" /> "li" is proposed as singular direct object form (the plural object forms and the indirect object forms are neutral anyhow). Iel is often used as a translation of english "they" both for nonbinary people and to refer as someone without referring to their gender. This is the most popular neutral pronoun.

'''ille, illes''' A mix between "il" ("he") and "elle" ("she") that can be used in a written text but that can not be easily said out loud.<ref name="atelier queer 1">Alice Coutant, Luca Greco, Noémie Marignier. [http://www.slideshare.net/noemiemarignier/queer-week "Le chantier linguistique : éléments pour une grammaire non-binaire".] Atelier Queer Week 6 mars 2015. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221208124336/http://www.slideshare.net/noemiemarignier/queer-week Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''yel'''. A mix between "il" ("he") and "elle" ("she") that can be easily said out loud (for object forms, see "iel, iels").<ref name="atelier queer 1"></ref>

'''el, els'''. A mix between "il" ("he") and "elle" ("she") but that can't be used out loud since it would sound exactly like the feminine pronoun "elle".<ref name="atelier queer 1"></ref>

'''yol'''. <ref name="atelier queer 1"></ref>

'''ol, ols'''. <ref name="atelier queer 1"></ref>

'''ul, uls'''. <ref name="atelier queer 1"></ref>

'''oulle, oulles''' Based on "ou" and ille/elle (Source unknown, unfortunately)

'''æl, æls'''.

'''ael, aels.'''

==German neutral pronouns==

People have proposed and are using these neutral pronouns in the German language (Deutsch):

===Solutions without neopronouns===
'''er*'''.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /> he*.

'''er + feminine noun endings.'''<ref name=":0">Pronomen. ''Nichtbinär-Wiki.'' Accessed August 15, 2017. [https://nibi.space/pronomen#Vorname] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230626192859/https://nibi.space/pronomen Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''es'''. This means "it," and isn't usually used for people. Only use this pronoun for people who ask to be called by it. Some nonbinary people do reclaim it for themselves.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /><ref name="ttsg-german">{{cite web|title=Are there any gender neutral pronouns in German too?|work=Transgender teen survival guide (blog)|url=http://transgenderteensurvivalguide.tumblr.com/post/109131545635/are-there-any-gender-neutral-pronouns-in-german|date=25 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827194548/https://transgenderteensurvivalguide.tumblr.com/post/109131545635/are-there-any-gender-neutral-pronouns-in-german|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

'''sie'''. When this pronoun is used for a single person, it usually means "she." However, it also means "plural they," so some people use it as a neutral pronoun.<ref name="ttsg-german" />

'''sie*'''.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /> she*.

'''sie + masculine noun endings.'''<ref name=":0" />

'''Using only the name instead of a pronoun.'''<ref name=":0" />

'''Alternating between he and she.'''

===Neopronouns===
[[File:Pronouns beyond gender.png|thumb|Example usage of "dey" pronoun.]]
'''A.'''<ref name="hirn_DieS">{{Cite web |title=Die Sache mit den Pronomen. |trans-title= |author= |work=Ashducation |date=3 January 2016 |access-date=21 February 2021 |url= https://hirngefickt.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/die-sache-mit-den-pronomen-2/ |language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331104850/https://hirngefickt.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/die-sache-mit-den-pronomen-2/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> First mention by a person whose name starts with A.

'''as.'''<ref name=":0" /> Based on ''es'' (it), vowel changed to mark difference between things and people.

'''dey.'''<ref>Anonymous ask on ''Nonbinary Trans Germany: Trans in Deutschland''. August 10, 2016. http://nonbinarytransgermany.tumblr.com/post/148742824641/ein-befreundeter-mensch-von-mir-hat-sich-mal [https://web.archive.org/web/20230331104855/https://nonbinarytransgermany.tumblr.com/post/148742824641/ein-befreundeter-mensch-von-mir-hat-sich-mal Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Based on they, changed to be more easily pronounceable in German.

'''dier/dies/diem/dien'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.annaheger.de/pronomen33/|title=Version 3.3 : xier Pronomen ohne Geschlecht|author=Illi Anna Heger|language=de-DE|access-date=2021-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602091309/https://www.annaheger.de/pronomen33/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Relative pronoun set based on ''dier'' (pronounced [di:ɐ̯]), an alternative to ''die'' and ''der''.

'''em'''.

'''er_sie'''<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />''', sie_r, ersie, er:sie, er*sie.'''<ref name=":0" /> From ''er'' (he) and ''sie'' (she).

'''hän/sires/sim/sin'''.<ref name="high_Glos">{{Cite web |title=Glossar |trans-title= |author= |work=High on Clichés |date=11 December 2011 |access-date=21 February 2021 |url= https://highoncliches.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/glossar/ |language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531034450/https://highoncliches.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/glossar/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> used as a replacement for ''er/sie''

'''hen.'''<ref name=":0" /> borrowed from Swedish/Norwegian<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201125190700/https://leafmiilk.tumblr.com/about</ref>

'''iks.'''<ref name=":0" /> Version of ''x''.

'''k.'''<ref>Comment by Pennyroyal Tea on a post by Ash B. 3 January 2016 https://www.facebook.com/hirngefickt/posts/1689898591228038?comment_id=1689923207892243&comment_tracking={%22tn%22%3A%22R4%22} [https://web.archive.org/web/20180902184356/https://www.facebook.com/hirngefickt/posts/1689898591228038?comment_id=1689923207892243&comment_tracking={%22tn%22%3A%22R4%22} Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> inplace of she/he said you say k said ''"k hat gesagt"''

'''nim/nimser/nim/nin'''.<ref>Cabala de Sylvain & Carsten Balzer, "Die SYLVAIN-Konventionen – Versuch einer „geschlechtergerechten“
Grammatik-Transformation der deutschen Sprache." ''Liminalis''. https://web.archive.org/web/20170724231026/http://www.liminalis.de/2008_02/Liminalis-2008-Sylvain-Balzer.pdf</ref>

'''per'''.<ref>"Namensgebung? Pronomen? Nicht-binärer Name!" ''nibiTrans*ich'' (blog). http://nibitransich.blogspot.de/2015/06/namensgebung-non-binarer-name.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20230331104850/http://nibitransich.blogspot.de/2015/06/namensgebung-non-binarer-name.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> used the same as ''er/sie''

'''sh'he/hi'er''' Gendered neopronoun that is both masculine and feminine and derived from contractions of ''she/her'' and ''he/him'' as a gendered alternative to explicitly gender neutral and nongendered neopronouns for [[multigender]] people <ref>{{cite tweet|user=MayGriffin64 |number=1340798222617468928|title=I've kinda made my own neopronoun because none of the others really work for me. They're sh'he/hi'er and contractions of she and he and him and her. So this pronoun is explicitly gendered male and female and I do not consider it gender neutral.|date= 20 December 2020}}</ref>

'''sier/sieser/siem/sien''' with possessive pronouns based on root "sies".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.annaheger.de/pronomen21/|title=Version 2.1 : sier Pronomen ohne Geschlecht|author=Illi Anna Heger|language=de-DE|access-date=2021-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604175624/https://www.annaheger.de/pronomen21/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

'''sif/sis/sim/sin''' with possessive pronouns based on root "sir".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.annaheger.de/pronomen10/|title=Version 1.0 : sif Pronomen ohne Geschlecht|author=Illi Anna Heger|language=de-DE|access-date=2021-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604162417/https://www.annaheger.de/pronomen10/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

'''they.'''<ref>Geschlechtsneutrale Sprache | Gender-neutral language. ''Nonbinary Trans Germany: Trans in Deutschland.'' http://nonbinarytransgermany.tumblr.com/language [https://web.archive.org/web/20230623035307/https://nonbinarytransgermany.tumblr.com/language Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Used just like in English.

'''x'''.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /> Has been criticised for being racist when used by white people.<ref>"Warum das x-Pronomen mir Bauchschmerzen bereitet" ''Tea-Riffic'' (blog). [http://teariffic.de/2015/02/18/warum-das-x-pronomen-mir-bauchschmerzen-bereitet/] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230331104851/http://teariffic.de/2015/02/18/warum-das-x-pronomen-mir-bauchschmerzen-bereitet/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''xier/xieser/xiem/xien'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.annaheger.de/pronomen33/|title=Version 3.3 : xier Pronomen ohne Geschlecht|author=Illi Anna Heger|language=de-DE|access-date=2021-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602091309/https://www.annaheger.de/pronomen33/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Pronoun set based on ''xier'' (pronounced [ksi:ɐ̯]), an alternative to ''er'' and ''sie'' developed by Illi Anna Heger. And '''xies''' can be used as the base to matching possessive pronouns, that are declensed with endings you would use for ''sein'' and ''ihr'', '''xiese/xieses/xiesem/xiesen/xieser.''' <ref>https://www.annaheger.de/pronouns/</ref>

'''z, zet.'''<ref>@pandanouk. September 5, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160906155158/https://twitter.com/pandanouk/status/772895165551874049</ref> replacement for er/sie

For examples of how to use many of these, go [https://nibi.space/pronomen here].

== Hebrew Neutral Pronouns ==
Hebrew has masculine/feminine gender distinction in both singular and plural second- and third-person pronouns, so there's no option for a genderless third-person plural pronoun (like in English) or second-person pronoun (like in Arabic). For this reason, '''הֵם‎''' ''hem,'' traditionally the masculine third-person plural pronoun, is used as a singular third-person pronoun by many nonbinary Hebrew speakers.

The choice of this pronoun may be due to the somewhat neutral nature of the third-person plural masculine, which is used with mixed-gender groups. Some may choose the third-person plural because it is closest to the English ''they''.<ref>Bryant, Andrea R. (2021). ''Beyond they/them: a typology of nonbinary pronoun and agreement innovation'' (Bachelor's thesis). Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1epd7v5NMvAeRcL3_RakfuQZgE84C3eAN/view?usp=sharing [https://web.archive.org/web/20230521191606/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1epd7v5NMvAeRcL3_RakfuQZgE84C3eAN/view?usp=sharing Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

Some Hebrew speakers who are nonbinary may choose to use the masculine and feminine pronouns interchangeably.<ref name="Lipson">{{Cite web |title=How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary |last=Lipson |first=By Molly |work=New York Times |date=1 September 2021 |access-date=1 September 2021 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/crosswords/gender-language-nonbinary.html |quote=Mx. Janner-Klausner, who teaches in Jerusalem, asks their students to refer to them using male and female pronouns interchangeably.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219210609/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/crosswords/gender-language-nonbinary.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

==Icelandic neutral pronouns==

Icelandic has three grammatical genders, feminine, masculine and neuter. In the plural, it is colloquial to use the neuter for a mixed-gender group of people or for people of unknown gender.

For the singular, the third-person pronoun "hán" has been proposed, (genitive "háns", dative "háni", accusative "hán").<ref>Hann, hún og það... eða hvað? https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/24447/1/Selma%20Sverris.pdf [https://web.archive.org/web/20220717210404/https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/24447/1/Selma%20Sverris.pdf Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

''See also the page [[Gender neutral language in Icelandic]].''

== Italian neutral pronouns==

Italian is a very binary language, with two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine. In writing, signs like * or @ or the letter x are sometimes used where the feminine has "a" and the masculine has "o", although no specific pronunciation is linked to them. Some people use "u" when speaking in these cases, others the dialectal ending "ə" (as there is no standard spelling linked to this sound, "@" might sometimes be used to represent this pronunciation). This applies to a lot of words, such as nouns, adjectives and to a lesser degree articles. There seems to be no clear solution for plural forms.<ref>http://pasionaria.it/genere-non-binario-tutte-le-risposte-alle-tue-domande/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230530184459/https://pasionaria.it/genere-non-binario-tutte-le-risposte-alle-tue-domande/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> <ref>https://nonbinary.noblogs.org/sample-page/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20180902184440/https://nonbinary.noblogs.org/sample-page/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

This usage can be applied to some third person pronouns, e.g. the object forms "lo" and "la" may in this way be replaced by "lu" or "l@". The subject forms "egli" and "ella" are already less evident, but "elu"/"el@" is thinkable. The other subject forms “lui” and “lei” can be replaced by “lxi” or ”l*i”.The third person plural "loro" is gender-neutral and can be used as subject and as direct object (It is sometimes proposed to use this as singular as well, a translation of the English singular they). However, there is as yet no full table of proposed neo-pronouns.

== Interlingua neutral pronouns ==
Illo (nominative) and lo (accusative) have been approved as gender neutral pronouns by the International Auxiliary Language Association.

== Polish neutral pronouns ==

''See the page [[Gender neutral language in Polish]].''

==Portuguese neutral pronouns==

''See also: [[Gender neutral language in Portuguese]] and [[glossary of Portuguese gender and sex terminology]]''.

The Portuguese language (português) doesn't normally have neutral pronouns and indicates gender by letters in pronouns, ''el'''a''' (she)'' and ''el'''e''' (he)''. However, people have created some new, neutral pronouns, which are used in some groups. These include:

'''ile, dile, nile.''' This was the first gender neutral pronoun created for Portuguese.[46] [47] [48]

'''el@, del@, nel@'''. This uses an @ (at symbol) to show ambiguity of the letter. This only works in writing.

'''elx, delx, nelx'''. This uses an x to show ambiguity of the letter.<ref name=":1">[https://orientando.org/listas/tipos-de-linguagem/]''Orientando, um espaço de aprendizagem.'' Tipos de linguagem. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230606023545/https://orientando.org/listas/tipos-de-linguagem/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''elu, delu, nelu.''' This uses an u to show ambiguity of the letter. It's the second most recommended to be used to include visually disabled people. This pronoun has some variations in its writing and pronunciation: '''''êlu, dêlu, nêlu; élu, délu, nélu.'''''<ref name=":1" />

'''el, del, nel.''' This isn't gender specific as it doesn't indicate any gender by the absence of a gendered letter.<ref name=":1" />

'''éli, déli, néli.''' This has a similar pronunciation as the male pronoun ''ele'', but shows ambiguity by the use of '''''i'''''. And as the above, it also has variations: '''''eli, deli, neli.'''''<ref name=":1" />

'''''íli, díli, níli.''''' This shows ambiguity by the letter ''i.'' Some variations can be found: '''''ílu, dílu, nílu; ílo, dílo, nílo; ile, dile, nile; ilo, dilo, nilo.'''''<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=UM GUIA PARA PROMOVER A LINGUAGEM INCLUSIVA EM PORTUGUÊS {{!}} diversitybbox|url=https://diversitybbox.com/pt/um-guia-para-promover-a-linguagem-inclusiva-em-portugues/|access-date=2020-11-28|language=pt-BR|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704235400/https://diversitybbox.com/pt/um-guia-para-promover-a-linguagem-inclusiva-em-portugues|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

'''''ély, dély, nély.''''' As the pronoun '''''éli, déli''''', its pronunciation is very simillar to ''ele.'' Some variations are: '''''ely, dely, nely; élw, délw, nélw'''''.<ref name=":1" />

'''''els, dels, nels.''''' This shows ambiguity by the usage of ''s'' instead of a gendered letter.<ref name=":1" />

'''''el', del', nel'.''''' Demonstrates neutrality by the usage of ''<nowiki/>'.''<ref name=":1" />

'''''eld, deld, neld.''''' This show ambiguity by the usage of ''d.''<ref name=":1" />

'''''yn, dyn, nyn.''''' This pronoun is very different and doesn't follow the structure of '''''"el_, del_, nel_".'''''<ref name=":1" />

'''éle, déle, néle'''. This pronoun follows the Spanish ''elle'' pattern, drawing a line between é from ''éla'' and -e from ''ele''.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Linguagem neutra de gêneros gramaticais|url=https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linguagem_neutra_de_g%C3%AAneros_gramaticais&oldid=59774204|journal=Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre|date=2020-11-11|language=pt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508022220/https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linguagem_neutra_de_g%C3%AAneros_gramaticais&oldid=59774204|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

'''elae, delae, nelae.''' This combines ''ela'' with ''ele''.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Sistema elu|url=https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sistema_elu&oldid=59363650|journal=Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre|date=2020-09-16|language=pt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508021903/https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sistema_elu&oldid=59363650|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Em defesa de uma multiplicidade de pronomes|url=https://medium.com/@ttextos/em-defesa-de-uma-multiplicidade-de-pronomes-ff226184e99a|website=Medium|date=2018-02-19|access-date=2020-11-28|language=en|last=T|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615123627/https://medium.com/@ttextos/em-defesa-de-uma-multiplicidade-de-pronomes-ff226184e99a|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

'''êla, dêla, nêla.''' This combines ''ele'' (êle) with ''ela''.<ref>Carvalho, Danniel. (2021). [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350671835_Sobre_genero_e_a_invencao_de_um_pronome_nao-binario Sobre gênero e a invenção de um pronome não-binário]. ''researchgate.net'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20221224180116/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350671835_Sobre_genero_e_a_invencao_de_um_pronome_nao-binario Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

== Russian neutral pronouns ==
The Russian language (русский язык) has three singular third person pronouns: masculine "он" (''on''), feminine "она" (''ona''), and neuter "оно" (''ono''). The highly gendered nature of the language makes it difficult for nonbinary speakers to describe themselves, and some reject pronouns and gendered verbs altogether.

'''Alternating pronouns -''' Some nonbinary Russian speakers alternate between ''on'' and ''ona''.

'''Ono (оно) -''' The use of ''ono'' as a gender neutral pronoun is controversial even within the nonbinary community, as some people consider it to be dehumanizing. It traditionally means 'it' and in general Russian's neuter grammatical gender refers mostly to inanimate/nonhuman things or young children. In the other 5 grammatical cases ''ono'' also looks the same as the masculine pronoun. However, some nonbinary speakers reclaim the word.<ref>[https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2018/08/24/lost-for-words-non-binary-russians-fight-the-limits-of-their-language-a62650 Lost for Words: Non-Binary Russians Fight The Limits of Their Language] ''Moscow Times'', 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2023.</ref>

'''On(a), on_a (он[а], он_а) -''' Combining ''on'' and ''ona'' using parenthesis or a 'gender gap' (underscore) can be done as well. This is considered an option mostly for writing, but some people use it orally as well by putting a pause between the masculine and the feminine.<ref>[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11185-021-09241-6 Prospects and challenges of gender neutralization in Russian] ''Russian Linguistics'' 45. 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2023.</ref>

'''Ony (они) -''' The traditional third person plural pronoun. Some people use this to refer to a singular nonbinary person, like ''they'' in English, although this can get difficult when referring to oneself due to the highly gendered nature of Russian verbs and adjectives.

'''Oh (ох/ех) -''' A neopronoun that does not follow the same format as ''on''/''ona''/''ono''.

'''Onzh (онж/егж) -''' Another neopronoun that follows the same format as ''on'' or ''ono'' but with the letter zhe (ж).

'''One (оне/нех) -''' A neopronoun. It uses the ending '''-ле''' in verb conjugation.<ref>'''[https://ru.pronouns.page/%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5 <nowiki>оне/нех/[-ле] Неоместоимения</nowiki>]''' Pronouns-page. Accessed 22 July 2023.</ref>

==Slovak neutral pronouns==

The Slovak language (Slovenčina) has three pronouns for singular third person, "on" being masculine and used for men, "ona" as the feminine equivalent used for women and the neutral "ono". However the pronoun '''ono''' isn't considered the preferred option of many Slovak nonbinary people due to ono being mainly used to describe objects or young kids. '''Ono''' could be compared to English's pronoun "it".

'''Ono''' - A neutral pronoun used to describe objects, could be translated to English's "it". Recently it's becoming reclaimed.

'''Oni''' - An ancient pronoun which had almost become extinct, a plural pronoun. Similar to English's "they".

'''One''' - A neopronoun, it takes the structure of on, ona, ono and extracts the base on_ and adds a different letter. One (or Oné) can be found in some dialects of Slovak as a synonym to ono.

==Spanish neutral pronouns==

''See also: [[Gender neutral language#Spanish|gender neutral language - Spanish]] and [[glossary of Spanish gender and sex terminology]]''.

The Spanish language (español) doesn't normally have neutral pronouns. However, people have created some new, neutral pronouns, which are used in some groups that are responsive and allies to LGBT, feminist, and social justice issues. Most of these neutral pronouns work by taking the feminine pronoun, ''ella'', and the standard abstract neuter pronoun ''ello'' (which can't be used for people), and substituting a different letter or symbol for the masculine "o" or feminine "a" ending. This approach of substituting a letter is shared by creating other parts of gender neutral language in Spanish, such as neutral-gender endings for adjectives. See [[Gender neutral language#Spanish|gender neutral language - Spanish]] for information about that. These new, neutral pronouns include:

'''ele'''. A neutral pronoun that is a mix of the masculine pronoun ''él'' ("he") and a proposed gender-neutral ending letter, -e. This is less common. The plural would be '''elles'''.<ref name="tawnyflower spanish">Phoenix Tawnyflower. "Nonbinary Spanish." May 24, 2014. ''Reflections of a Queer Artist'' (personal blog). http://phoenixtawnyflower.blogspot.com/2014/05/nonbinary-spanish.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20220924210924/https://phoenixtawnyflower.blogspot.com/2014/05/nonbinary-spanish.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''ell_'''. A neutral pronoun that can't be said out loud. This is less common. The _ (underscore) means that the "a" or "o" is left out.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''ell*'''. A neutral pronoun that can't be said out loud. This is less common. The * (asterisk) means that the "a" or "o" is left out. Compare the [[Pronouns#*E|splat *e pronouns]] in English, which work by the same idea.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''ellæ'''. A neutral pronoun. This is less common.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''ell@'''. A neutral pronoun that can't be said out loud, or else is pronounced like "ellao". This is non-standard, but one of the most common of these. The @ (at symbol) is meant to be seen as a mix between an "a" and an "o".<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''elle'''. A neutral pronoun that can be easily said out loud. This is non-standard, but one of the most common of these.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /> It's used by nonbinary people in Chile.<ref>http://linguaphiles.livejournal.com/5990300.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20230605124148/http://linguaphiles.livejournal.com/5990300.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''elli'''. A neutral pronoun that can be said out loud. It's uncommonly used.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''ellu'''. A neutral pronoun that can be said out loud. It's uncommonly used.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''ello'''. A neutral pronoun that can be easily said out loud. It's uncommonly used<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /> and it's considered rude, since it's the pronoun used for things (similar to English 'it').

'''ellx'''. A neutral pronoun that can't be said out loud. This non-standard, but one of the more common of these. <ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''ol'''. A neutral pronoun. Non-standard and uncommon. The plural would be '''olles'''. This would go with the non-standard definite article that is also ''ol''.<ref name="tawnyflower spanish"></ref>

==Swedish neutral pronouns==
[[File:Hen - Swedish pronoun.jpg|thumb|Visual illustration of the two gendered personal pronouns in Swedish, ''hon'' ("she") and ''han'' ("he"), alongside the gender-neutral ''hen''.]]

In 2014, the Swedish language (Svenska) officially added a new gender-neutral pronoun, ''hen'', which is popular among Swedish-speaking nonbinary people.

'''de, dem (dom), deras'''.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" />

'''den, den, dens (dess)'''. Means 'it'. This isn't usually used for humans.<ref name="rabbitglitter ML pronouns" /> Traditionally, the word ''den'' has been used as a gender neutral pronoun and remains widely used today. However, depending on the context, the word ''den'' can also mean "it," leaving it unsatisfactory as a gender neutral pronoun for many who do not wish to be seen as like an inanimate object.

'''hen, hen (henom), hens (henoms)'''. This neutral pronoun was first proposed in 1966. Since the 1960s, the person pronoun ''hen'' has become increasingly popular. It was proposed independently in 1994, based on the Finnish neutral pronoun ''hän''. It came to be used in magazines and books during the 2000s and 2010s. In 2014, it was officially added to the language. In 2015, it will be added for the first time to ''Svenska Akademiens Ordlista'' (the Swedish equivalent to France's ''Dictionnaire de l'Académie française''). It usage, however, remains somewhat controversial and is vigorously opposed by some. ''Hen'' is used for people whose gender is not known, as well as for nonbinary people who ask to be called by this pronoun. It's not meant to replace the gendered pronouns ''hon'' ("she") and ''han'' ("he"), but to exist together with them. For more information, see the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_%28pronoun%29 Wikipedia entry on hen].

Standard gender neutral / third gender personal pronoun: ''hen''

Possessive form of hen: ''hens''

Object form of hen: ''henom''. The object form of hen is sometimes just ''hen''. It is very individual.

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==West Frisian neutral pronouns==
Some neutral pronouns in West Frisian language (Frysk) include:

'''je, jin, jins'''.<ref>http://www.erfgoed-fundaasje.nl/de-stichtingen-frysk-en-frij-en-erfgoed-fundaasje-opereare-genderneutraal/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20211019154108/https://www.erfgoed-fundaasje.nl/de-stichtingen-frysk-en-frij-en-erfgoed-fundaasje-opereare-genderneutraal/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> These pronouns do exist as indefinite pronouns, though their use for referring to a specific person isn't very common.

== Yiddish neutral pronouns ==
Gender-neutral pronouns in Yiddish language (ייִדיש) include:

'''zey, zeyer, zeyere (זיי, זייער, זייערע) -''' The third person plural pronoun, which many nonbinary Yiddishists use as singular. It is conjugated as plural while the name of the person followed by a verb stays singular, likely due to the influence of English on the language.

=== '''Neopronouns''' ===
'''fey, fer, feyer (פֿיי, פֿער, פֿייער) -''' Also spelled '''fey, feyer, feyere (פֿיי, פֿֿייער, פֿייערע)'''. Basically equivalent to English fae/faer/faers.<ref>https://ingeveb.org/pedagogy/queer-family-tree Bach, Alona, Rebecca Araten, Ethan Nosanow Levin, and Carolyn Beard. “''Undzer Mishpokhe'': A Queer Yiddish Curriculum Supplement.” In geveb (April 2022): Accessed Jul 21, 2023.</ref> Some people do not use them because they have the same first three letters as the f-slur in Yiddish.

'''ez, zim, zir (עז, זים, זיר) -''' Neopronouns with no English equivalent. They are based off of all three singular third person pronouns: ''er (ער)'', ''zi (זי)'', and ''es (עס)''.

'''zi.er, zi_er, zier (זי.ער, זי—ער, זיער) -''' Combinations of he ''(er - ער)'' and she ''(zi - זי)''.

==See also==

*[[Gender neutral language]]

==External Links==
{{Tumblr post|https://nonbinarywiki.tumblr.com/post/189725910560/pronouns-dont-equal-gender}}

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190405190216/http://web.mit.edu/trans/GenderNeutralPronouns.pdf MIT's Ally Toolkit: Gender Neutral Pronoun Usage (PDF)]
*[http://writing.umn.edu/sws/quickhelp/grammar/nonbinary.html University of Minnesota's guide to Nonbinary gender pronouns]
*[http://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/ Gender Neutal Pronoun Blog] has a good list of pronouns, both traditional and invented.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100324132646/http://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/ Gender Neutral Pronoun FAQ]. This was the biggest resource on gender-neutral pronouns. Tells much about history. Includes a comprehensive list of pronouns. No longer updated.
*[http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/ Failedslacker's Pronoun Dressing Room]. Choose a set of pronouns, and this page will show you how those pronouns look in action, by automatically putting them into sample texts from literature. Use this tool to test pronouns that you like, to see how they look in use.
*[http://www.practicewithpronouns.com/ Practice With Pronouns]. A game that lets you practice putting pronouns into different parts of sample sentences, so that you can get used to the grammar.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190124010616/http://pronoun.is/ Pronoun Island]. Anyone can put in any pronouns they can imagine, and it makes a page that shows how to use them in a sentence, which a person can link to in order to show these particular usage examples to other people.
*[https://pronouny.xyz/ Pronouny]. Website where you can create an account to share your pronouns.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20201005220311/https://anagnori.tumblr.com/post/75752291700/a-non-binary-persons-guide-to-invented-pronouns A Non-Binary Person's Guide to Invented Pronouns]

==References==
<references />46. Manifesto Ile para uma comunicação radicalemnte inclusiva

https://diversitybbox.com/pt/manifesto-ile-para-uma-comunicacao-radicalmente-inclusiva/

47. Guia Linguagem Inclusiva HBO e [DIVERSITY BBOX]

<nowiki>https://pji.portaldosjornalistas.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/GuiaTodxsNos.pdf</nowiki>

48. How Neutral Pronouns in Portuguese Began - Entenda o gênero não binário e a importância de usar pronomes neutros

<nowiki>https://vogue.globo.com/atualidades/noticia/2021/06/entenda-o-genero-nao-binario-e-importancia-de-usar-pronomes-neutros.html</nowiki>
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| umbrella = [[Transgender]]
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'''Genderqueer''', also called '''GenderQueer''' or '''gender queer''', is an umbrella term that refers both to non-normative [[Gender Identity|gender identity]] and [[Gender Expression|gender expression]]. The label may also be used by individuals wishing to identify as holding queer or non-normative gender without being any more specific about the nature of their gender.


As an umbrella term, Genderqueer has a similar scope to [[nonbinary]], with many nonbinary-identifying individuals also considering themselves genderqueer. However, the terms have different historical scopes and connotations. The word genderqueer was used at least ten years before nonbinary.

Genderqueer Visibility Day is observed annually on April 25th.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/westtnlgbtq/posts/april-25th-is-genderqueer-visibility-day-this-is-an-umbrella-term-so-however-you/548419837471298/|title=April 25th is Genderqueer Visibility Day! This is an umbrella term, so however you identify, we hope you have a great day! |author=West Tennessee LGBTQ+ Support |date=25 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/ask_educator/p/Crd5TgzB_Ca/ |title=Today is Genderqueer Visibility Day! |author=Jess (@ask_educator) |date=25 April 2023}}</ref>

==History== 


Genderqueer was coined in the 1990s as 'Gender Queer,' and was for a time written as 'GenderQueer' before becoming a single word. The original meaning was literally queer gender, including anyone who felt the way they experienced or expressed gender was queer. The term carries the non-normative and anti-assimilationist connotations of the [[Queer Movement]] and applies these to gender rather than sexuality.


A 1990 book titled "The Welcoming Congregation Handbook" defined "Gender Queer" as "A person whose understanding of her/hir/his gender identification transcends society's polarized gender system".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Welcoming Congregation Handbook |page=120 |publisher=Unitarian Universalist Association |date=1990 |last=Alexander |first=Scott W. |edition=2nd}}</ref>


Another early usage of the term was by [[Riki Anne Wilchins]] in the Spring 1995 newsletter of [[Transexual Menace]]:


{{quote|...this is not just one more civil rights struggle for one more narrowly-defined minority. It's about all of us who are genderqueer: diesel [[dyke]]s and [[stone butch]]es, leatherqueens and radical fairies, nelly fags, [[Crossdressing|crossdressers]], [[intersex]]ed, [[transsexual]]s, [[transvestite]]s, [[transgender]]ed, transgressively gendered, and those of us whose gender expressions are so complex they haven’t even been named yet.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Answering Gender Questions: Coining Genderqueer, Queer Fluidity, Gender-Normative |author= |work=GENDERQUEER AND NON-BINARY IDENTITIES |date=11 August 2011 |access-date=24 January 2022 |url= https://genderqueerid.com/post/8813994851/answering-gender-questions-coining-genderqueer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525021313/https://genderqueerid.com/post/8813994851/answering-gender-questions-coining-genderqueer |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>}}


[http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2003/10/19/riki-wilchins-on-the-tg-spectrum/ Riki Wilchins' essay] from the 2002 anthology ''[[Books|GenderQueer]]'' describes how the original 'Gender Queers' adopted the label because the intended-to-be-inclusive umbrella term [[transgender]] had begun to be most strongly associated with [[transsexual]], [[gender binary]] identified and medically [[transition]]ing people, pushing out those who did not fit this dominant [[transgender narrative]].


By 1999/2000, online communities such as the [[Sphere mailing list]] were using the term genderqueer as an umbrella to unite a number of [[nonbinary]] gender identities and identifications that are now thought of as under the nonbinary umbrella. Over the next decade, genderqueer developed as a standalone identity with particular (sub)cultural expectations and connotations, while the tendency to identify particular experiences under its umbrella seemed to diminish. However both uses are still visible in different online and in person communities.

==Difference between Genderqueer and Nonbinary== 


Genderqueer means non-normative or ''queer'' gender while [[nonbinary]] means gender that falls outside the [[gender binary]] model. Both of these terms are extremely similar in scope, however in practice their connotations are significantly different.


Genderqueer comes with the anti-assimilationist political connotations of [[queer]], a reclaimed slur word that has strong associations within and without the LGBT community as well as a countercultural sexuality movement that sets itself apart from the mainstream [[LGBT]] community. (Note that the word "queer" is still actively used as a pejorative and hate speech in many regions.) As such genderqueer implies a similar counterculture, setting itself apart from mainstream nonbinary and [[transgender]] discourse. Many genderqueer people also consider themselves to be queer and there is a strong trend of rejecting the gender binary and normative [[gender roles]] within the Queer Movement as a whole.


By contrast, nonbinary is more politically neutral in its connotations. Nonbinary was coined as a descriptive term, originally simply 'nonbinary gender', used to describe the range of experiences that fall outside of the binary gender model. There is no countercultural discourse connotation, nor is there a connotation of association with the wider Queer Movement. Nonbinary is intended to simply cover the widest range of identities and experiences without intending to describe their political or cultural philosophies and affiliations.

===Observed differences between people who hold each identity=== 


While genderqueer and nonbinary are theoretically extremely similar in their scope as umbrella terms, in practice genderqueer slants more towards those who identify as queering gender while nonbinary tends to attract those who hold specific [[trans*]] or [[transgender]] identities that fall outside of the gender binary.


Genderqueer-identified people seem to be more likely to hold [[binary gender]] identities (eg, 'Genderqueer Woman') while considering their [[gender expression]] or [[gender performance]] to be queer or non-normative, while nonbinary-identified people are more likely to consider their [[gender identity]] (or lack of gender identity) to fall outside of the binary.{{citation needed}} Genderqueer-identified people seem to be more likely to consider themselves to be queer or a member of the queer community.


Nonbinary-identified people generally seem more comfortable with considering themselves transgender and more likely to use the language of [[gender dysphoria]]. The adoption of the term 'nonbinary' by parts of the genderqueer community may reflect a trend of adopting the language of the transgender rights movement in order to make use of and expand on the legal protections now afforded to transgender people in some localities. Nonbinary-identified people may be more likely to be seeking access to transgender medical care or legal recognition (aka [[transition]]).


Some nonbinary people reject the term genderqueer as an umbrella term because they are offended to be associated with queer sexuality, or still see queer as an offensive word.


Despite these trends and connotations, both terms are used by some members of each group and so may be considered as wide inclusive umbrella terms. Some genderqueer-identified people have sought 'transition', some nonbinary-identified people hold binary gender identities and consider themselves to be nonbinary by gender expression, and it is currently common for nonbinary-identified individuals to also identify as genderqueer (especially as this term predates nonbinary by at least a decade).{{citation needed}}

==Is Genderqueer Transgender?== 


There is controversy within the genderqueer community over whether genderqueer people fall under the [[transgender]] umbrella. Despite the work of [[Leslie Feinberg]] in the 1990s to coin transgender as a wide and inclusive umbrella term covering all forms of ''transgressive gender'', the term genderqueer developed out of a frustration with the association between transgender and [[Transsexual|transsexualism]], [[gender dysphoria]] and the dominant [[transgender narrative]].{{citation needed}}


It is common for genderqueer-identified people to consider trans and [[transgender]] to be synonymous with [[transition]] and so to claim genderqueer as a non-transgender identity. This is especially true with people who are genderqueer by gender expression only, but also applies to some genderqueer people who are comfortable with their body and see transgender as synonymous with bodily gender dysphoria.{{citation needed}}
As such, it is important when talking about genderqueer and nonbinary people to recognise that not all people who hold these identities consider themselves to fall under the transgender umbrella.

==Notable people== 
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Some notable people who specifically describe themselves with the label "genderqueer" include:
* musician [[JD Samson]]
* model [[Rain Dove]]
* drag performer [[Violet Chachki]]
* internet personality [[Jeffrey Marsh]]


For more, see this wiki's [[:Category:Genderqueer people|genderqueer people category]].

==Genderqueer characters in fiction== 
There are many more [[Nonbinary gender in fiction|characters in fiction who have a gender identity outside of the binary]]. The following are only some of those characters who are specifically called by the word genderqueer, either in their canon, or by their creators.


*In [[Rhiannon Collett]]'s play ''Wasp'', the protagonist Wasp is genderqueer.<ref name="mqli_Wasp">{{Cite web |title=Wasp |author= |work=Marquis Literary |date= |access-date=9 May 2020 |url= http://mqlit.ca/plays/wasp/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505034647/http://mqlit.ca/plays/wasp/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
* In Ann Roberts' young adult book ''In The Silences'', the protagonist Kaz describes themself as nonbinary and genderqueer.<ref>{{cite book|title=In the Silences|year=2019|last=Roberts|first=Ann|publisher=Bella Books|ISBN=9781642471267}}</ref>
* Creators of the webcomic ''Mahou Shonen FIGHT!'' have "confirmed that Raji and Raji's fiancé both identify as gender queer and non-conforming".<ref>Hatfield, N. K. (2015). TRANSforming Spaces: Transgender Webcomics as a Model for Transgender Empowerment and Representation within Library and Archive Spaces. Queer Cats Journal of LGBTQ Studies, 1(1). Page 64. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3g15q00g</ref>
* ''Whirlwind'', by Reese Morrison, is a collection of interconnected short romance/sex stories. One of the main characters, Carla, describes himself as genderqueer and [[masculine-of-center]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Whirlwind |last=Morrison |first=Reese|year=2020|edition=Kindle}}</ref>

==See also== 
*[[Nonbinary gender]]
*[[Gender nonconformity]]
*[[Gender variant]]
*[[Genderqueer flag]]
*[[Intergender]]
*[[Androgyne]]

==External links== 


*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer Wikipedia's Genderqueer article]
*[http://genderqueerid.com Genderqueer Identities]
*[http://genderqueerid.com/post/11617933299/the-non-binary-vs-genderqueer-quandary Genderqueer Identities: The Non-binary vs Genderqueer Quandary]
*[http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2003/10/19/riki-wilchins-on-the-tg-spectrum/ Riki Wilchin's essay on the origins of Genderqueer from the 2002 anthology GenderQueer]
*[https://www.autostraddle.com/genderqueer/ A Gender by Any Other Name: What Does the Term Genderqueer Mean to Us in 2021?]

==Further reading== 
* Nestle, Joan, Clare Howell, and Riki A. Wilchins. ''GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary''. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2002. Print.
* Sycamore, Mattilda B. ''Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity''. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006. Print.
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Maverique

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{{infobox identity
| flag = maverique.png
| meaning = Yellow: non-binary gender; White: autonomy, independence; Orange: inner conviction, maverick.
| related = [[Aporagender]] and [[Aliagender]]
| umbrella = [[Nonbinary]]
| frequency = 0.3%
| gallery_link = Pride Gallery/Maverique
}}
'''Maverique''' is a [[gender identity]] that falls under the [[nonbinary]] umbrella term. It is defined as an identity that is not the absence of gender, or an apathy towards gender, but a present feeling of gender. This feeling of gender is completely independent from male, female, neutral, or anything derived from any of them.<ref name=":0">http://maveriques.tumblr.com/faq [https://web.archive.org/web/20230606043925/https://maveriques.tumblr.com/faq Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> However, maveriques can be [[multigender]] with their other genders being related to maleness, femaleness, or neutrality.

Maverique individuals may also identify under the [[nonbinary]] or [[transgender]] umbrella terms. However, maverique itself is a specific identity not an umbrella term.<ref name=":0" />

== Pronunciation ==
Maverique can be pronounced multiple ways:<ref name=":0" />
{| class="wikitable"
!IPA '''transcription'''
!Simple transcription
|-
|/mævˈɹik/
|mav-REEK
|-
|/ˌmæv.əˈɹik/
|mav-uh-REEK
|}

== Usage ==
In a 2017 survey of 9,932 nonbinary participants, maverique was entered as an identity word by 0.6% of participants.<ref>''[http://nonbinarystats.tumblr.com/post/160656902130/nbgq-survey-2017-the-worldwide-results NB/GQ Survey 2017 - the worldwide results]'', Nonbinary Stats blog, May 2017. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230419150824/http://nonbinarystats.tumblr.com/post/160656902130/nbgq-survey-2017-the-worldwide-results Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

=== Grammatical usage ===
The word "maverique" can be used as either a noun or adjective. For example:
* [noun] The maverique is sitting over there.
* [adjective] The maverique person is sitting over there.

== Etymology ==
The term "maverique" was coined in 2014 by Vesper H. as a word to describe their own gender.<ref name=":0" /> It is a combination of the English word "maverick" and French suffix "ique".

"Maverick" was chosen due to its association with the unorthodox, referencing the fact that maverique as a gender is unorthodox even in regards to many nonbinary genders; due to it being unrelated to the gender binary.<ref name=":1">http://maveriques.tumblr.com/post/136474788751/i-know-im-late-to-the-whole-maverique-discussion [https://web.archive.org/web/20230606042839/http://maveriques.tumblr.com/post/136474788751/i-know-im-late-to-the-whole-maverique-discussion Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> While the word maverick implies a conscious, rebellious unorthodoxy, being maverique itself is not a conscious choice of the maverique person, nor is it a stance against the gender binary. The suffix "-ique" means "similar to" but not identical, indicating that while unorthodox ''like'' maverick, maverique is ''different'' in that it is not a conscious stance but an inherent feature of the person. This indicates that a maverique's gender is not unorthodox by choice, nor any sort of political stance. A maverique's gender is maverick-like, but the maverique is not a maverick on the basis of their gender.<ref name=":1" />

The word maverick also has connotations of independence from surroundings<ref>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/maverick [https://web.archive.org/web/20221124143309/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/maverick Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, referencing the fact that maveriques are independent from the gender binary.

== Identity overlap ==
A person can be solely maverique, in the same way a person can be solely a man, or solely a woman. Alternatively, someone can be both maverique and another gender (or lack of gender if for example they are genderfluid between maverique and [[agender]]). A [[genderfluid]] person may have maverique as one of their genders. A multigender person may have maverique as one of their genders. A person could be a [[Demigender|demi]]-maverique if they only partially identify with being maverique.

== Differences from similar genders ==
'''Third gender'''

Unlike [[third gender]], anyone of any race or ethnic background can use maverique to describe themself if they feel like it fits.<ref name=":0" /> In addition, the term "third gender" is often used to lump together many different gender experiences from a wide variety of cultures that are considered not to fit into the Western concept of male or female, whereas "maverique" describes a singular gender.

'''Aporagender'''

Both maverique and [[aporagender]] were coined at similar times and have some overlap, however aporagender is an umbrella term while maverique is not.<ref name=":0" /> Additionally, aporagender can describe a gender neutral identity<ref>http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Aporagender [https://web.archive.org/web/20230525010004/http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Aporagender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, whereas maverique is distinct from neutrality.

==References==
{{Pride flags|category=Maverique pride flags|image=Maverique}}
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Transmasculine

2024-07-12T08:54:31Z

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[[File:Trans-man.png|thumb|The most commonly used transmasculine pride flag. Alternative flags can be seen at [[:Category:Transmasculine pride flags]].]]
'''Transmasculine''', sometimes abbreviated to '''transmasc''', is an [[umbrella term]] that describes a transgender person (generally, but not exclusively, one who was assigned [[Sexes#Assigned_female_at_birth|female at birth]]), and whose gender is masculine and/or who express themselves in a masculine way. <ref>[[Ash Hardell|Hardell, Ash]]. The ABC's of LGBT+. p.98.</ref><ref name="trans bodies 620">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 620.</ref> Transmasculine people feel a connection with masculinity, but do not always identify as a man. Transmasculine people don't always need to be referred to as "he/him" or as a man. Some transmasculine people use "they/them", "he/they", and sometimes even "she/her" pronouns.

Transmasculine people may include, but are not limited to:
*Binary [[man#transgender men|trans men]]
*[[Man#Nonbinary_men|Nonbinary men]]
*[[Demigender#Demiboy|Demiboys]]
*[[Multigender]] people
*[[Genderfluid]] people who identify as masculine more often than other genders.
*[[Nonbinary]] people, as long as they identify with masculinity.

[[Transfeminine]] is the feminine equivalent of transmasculine.

The most common transmasculine flag has pink stripes on the top and bottom, and a symmetrical gradient of blue stripes in the middle. See [[:Category:Transmasculine pride flags]] for other proposed transmasculine flags.

==History==
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''We would appreciate information about when transmasculine was coined, or sources showing its earliest known usage.''

The DC Area Transmasculine Society, or DCATS, is a trans-led nonprofit organization that was founded in 2000 as a monthly support group and has since started offering a variety of services, like a binder exchange program.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dcats.org/aboutus |title=Our Story |website=DCATS |access-date=4 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305032550/https://www.dcats.org/aboutus |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dcats.org/binderexchange |title=Binder Exchange |website=DCATS |access-date=5 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305032550/https://www.dcats.org/binderexchange |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> This organization doesn't take credit for coining the word "transmasculine," suggesting it was around before the year 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.healthline.com/health/transmasculine#origin |title=What Does It Mean to Be Transmasculine? |website=Healthline |date=13 January 2021 |access-date=4 June 2021 |quote=DCATS doesn’t take credit for coining the word, which suggests the term is older than the organization.|last=Brito|first=Janet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520013922/https://www.healthline.com/health/transmasculine |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

In 2010, on an essay written on his blog [https://sleighthompson.wordpress.com/ Rants and Ramblings], titled ''What’s in a Word?: Crafting Transmasculine'', S. Leigh Thompson, who was president of the TransMasculine Community Network, presents the result of his work with organizers and advocates to craft a definition for the term "transmasculine." The definition suggested by Leigh was "any person who was assigned female at birth but feels that is an incomplete or incorrect description of their gender." He mentions, at the end of this blog post, that the first version of the essay had been published in 2006.<ref>Thompson, S. Leigh (24 November 2010). "[https://sleighthompson.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/whats-in-a-word-crafting-transmasculine/ What’s in a Word?: Crafting Transmasculine]". ''Rants and Ramblings.'' Retrieved 4 June 2021. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221031194401/https://sleighthompson.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/whats-in-a-word-crafting-transmasculine/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

An entry for the word was added to [https://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary] by user Nico7623 on September 12th, 2013.<ref>@Nico7623 (12 September 2013). [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transmasculine transmasculine] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230621101421/https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transmasculine Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

"Transmasculine" was one of the identities that became available in the [[Gender and social media sites|gender selection on Facebook]] in 2014.<ref>"[http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/13/facebook_custom_gender_options_here_are_all_56_custom_options.html Facebook custom gender options: Here are all 56 custom options.]", ''Slate''. February 13th, 2014. Accessed April 10th, 2017. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230530182139/https://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/13/facebook_custom_gender_options_here_are_all_56_custom_options.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

==Notable people==

{{main|notable nonbinary people}}

Notable people who consider their identity to be outside the Western [[gender binary]], and who describe themselves as transmasculine include:

* American musician [[Anjimile]], who identifies as a [[nonbinary]] transmasc [[queer]] [[boi]].<ref name="anjimile">{{cite tweet|user=anjimilemusic|number=1100129113480880128|title=thank u thank u :) however I am not a girl, I'm a non-binary transmasc queer boi who uses they/them and he/him pronouns 🤘🏾|date=Feb 25, 2019}}</ref>
* Chinese-American autistic disability rights activist [[Lydia X. Z. Brown]] (b. 1993) is [[genderqueer]], [[nonbinary]], [[gendervague]]<ref name="Brown">{{Cite web |title=Gendervague: At the Intersection of Autistic and Trans Experiences |last=Brown |first=Lydia X. Z. |work=The Asperger / Autism Network (AANE) |date=22 June 2016 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.aane.org/gendervague-intersection-autistic-trans-experiences/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623035102/https://www.aane.org/gendervague-intersection-autistic-trans-experiences/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> and transmasculine.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=autistichoya|author=Lydia X. Z. Brown|number=1270824027473485829|title=I'm horrified+enraged that JK Rowling isn't just openly a TERF now, but using autistic people as pawns. I'm autistic. I'm openly nonbinary and transmasculine. I was not brainwashed or manipulated into being trans. That's just rank, disgusting ableism on top of anti-trans hate.|date=10 June 2020}}</ref>
* Actor [[Ellie Desautels]] describes themself as [[nonbinary]], transmasculine<ref name="Barasch">{{Cite web |title=Rise’s Ellie Desautels Talks Playing a Transgender Teen on Network TV |last=Barasch |first=Alex |work=Slate Magazine |date=12 March 2018 |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/an-interview-with-trans-actor-ellie-desautels-star-of-nbcs-rise.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601192125/https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/an-interview-with-trans-actor-ellie-desautels-star-of-nbcs-rise.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>, [[genderqueer]]<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/ohyouknowellie/ Instagram bio] [https://web.archive.org/web/20210512085239/https://www.instagram.com/ohyouknowellie/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, and [[agenderflux]].<ref name="dundore">{{Cite web |title=Ellie & Wren |author=Brent Dundore |work=They Them Project |date=17 August 2018 |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://dundorephoto.com/ellie-wren/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612015330/https://dundorephoto.com/ellie-wren/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* Writer and activist [[Cyrus Grace Dunham]], a transmasculine nonbinary [[lesbian]].<ref name="advo_Writ">{{Cite web |title=Writer Cyrus Grace Dunham Shows How Messy Gender Can Be |last=Masters |first=Jeffrey |work=advocate.com |date=15 October 2019 |access-date=14 April 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/10/15/writer-cyrus-grace-dunham-shows-how-messy-gender-can-be|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207094850/https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/10/15/writer-cyrus-grace-dunham-shows-how-messy-gender-can-be |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* American comedian, writer, and nurse [[Kelli Dunham]] describes herself<ref name="story">{{Cite web |title=THE STORY |author= |work=kellidunham.com |date= |access-date=24 July 2020 |url= http://www.kellidunham.com/the-story/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314231523/https://www.kellidunham.com/the-story/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> as a [[genderqueer]] [[woman]]<ref name="Wood">{{Cite web |title=Q&A: Comedian Kelli Dunham on Storytelling as a Radical, Transformative Act |last=Wood |first=Erin |work=Ms. Magazine |date=15 May 2017 |access-date=3 June 2020 |url= https://msmagazine.com/2017/05/15/qa-comedian-kelli-dunham-storytelling-radicaltransformative-act/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612184627/https://msmagazine.com/2017/05/15/qa-comedian-kelli-dunham-storytelling-radicaltransformative-act/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>/[[nonbinary]] transmasc [[butch]].<ref name="Guerrero">{{Cite web |title=Genderqueer Comic Kelli Dunham On Getting (Thee) Away From a Nunnery |last=Guerrero |first=Desirée |work=The Advocate |date=21 April 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2020/4/21/genderqueer-comic-kelli-dunham-getting-thee-away-nunnery|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103074504/https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2020/4/21/genderqueer-comic-kelli-dunham-getting-thee-away-nunnery |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* Writer, educator, and therapist [[Alex Iantaffi]].<ref name="DTA">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Alex Iantaffi |author=Jenkins, Andrea |work=Digital Transgender Archive |date=2015 |access-date=26 May 2020 |url= https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/3j3332502|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612015329/https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/3j3332502 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* English singer, songwriter, actor, and graphic novelist [[Ciarán Strange]] (b. 2003) describes himself/themself<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/ciaranstrange/ Instagram bio], retrieved 17 May 2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20220331223438/https://www.instagram.com/CiaranStrange/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> as [[enby]], [[trans]],<ref>{{cite tweet|user=CiaranStrange|number=1218598634801061894|date=18 January 2020|title=O HEY! :D how's it going? I'll do my best to be brief! [Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat] So I identify as both enby and trans*, not that one has to. Transgender is a sort of umbrella term that many choose to identify as, but not all. Transgender simply means you aren't [Hundred points symbol] the same as your birth certificate. >}}</ref> and transmasc.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWHBy3j3qk/ Instagram post], 12 June 2020</ref>
*Singer/ songwriter and social media influencer [[Addison Grace]] identifies as a transmasc nonbinary person and uses they/he pronouns{{citation needed}}
* Animator and Cartoonist: [[ND Stevenson]]{{citation needed}}

==Transmasculine nonbinary characters in fiction==

There are many more [[Nonbinary gender in fiction#Nonbinary genders in fiction|nonbinary/genderqueer characters in fiction]]. The following are only some of those characters who are specifically called "transmasculine"/"transmasc", either in the canon, or by their creators.

* One of the main characters in the romance novel ''Saving Throw'', by Alex Silver, is "Rene, a non-binary trans masc ex-hockey player turned coach."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saving Throw |author= |work=QueeRomance Ink |date= |access-date=19 June 2021 |url= https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/saving-throw/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207225954/https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/saving-throw/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Identities]]

Woman

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Anyone with a female [[gender identity]] is female: she is a [[woman]] or girl. Women are a very diverse group, and many assumptions about the definitive characteristics of womanhood are not held in common by all women. Having the ability or desire to give birth is not what makes someone a woman, because many women and girls can't or don't want to do that, due to health conditions, age, or personal choice. Looking like a woman in other people's judgment does not make someone a woman, because others can misjudge that, and there are women who look masculine, and other people who look feminine, whether by choice or by nature. Only identifying as a woman makes someone a woman. Any woman's womanhood is valid no matter what kind of body parts she has, or what gender she was [[assigned gender at birth|assigned at birth]]. Cisgender women, transgender women, and [[intersex]] women are equally women. Because gender isn't the same thing as [[sexual orientation]], women are still women whether they feel sexual attraction to men (heterosexual), or to women ([[lesbian]]), or to people of any gender ([[bisexual]] or [[pansexual]]), or none ([[asexual]]).

In the Western colonialist [[gender binary]] system, "woman" is considered to be one of the only two genders that exist, one of the [[binary gender]]s. For all of written history, cultures all over the world have acknowledged people who were gender-variant or who transitioned to a different gender role than the one assigned to them at birth. Ancient cultures that thought of there being a specific number of genders did not always say there were just two. In ancient Egyptian writings, [[Gender-variant identities worldwide#Sekhet|woman was one of three genders]], and in classical Jewish literature, [[Gender-variant identities worldwide#The six genders in classical Judaism|woman was one of six genders]]. The gender binary is an artificial and relatively new concept to humanity. Gender is not inherently binary. Therefore, "woman" is not inherently a binary gender. Rather, "woman" is one of many genders that people have. Throughout [[history of nonbinary gender|the history of the world]], there have been many people who do not identify with being only female or male, who are therefore [[nonbinary]]. There are also people who identify partly as a woman, and yet do not feel they completely fit into that category, so they call themselves nonbinary women. Although the gender binary system is coercive and limiting, "woman" is a valid identity. Womanhood can be better understood as an identity in its own right, rather than as an opposite pole in a binary system.<ref name="labelle">Sophie Labelle. ''Assigned Male'' (political comic). February 6, 2019. https://assignedmale.tumblr.com/post/182605182667</ref>

== Etymology and terminology ==
The spelling of "woman" in English has progressed over the past millennium from ''wīfmann''<ref>"wīfmann": Bosworth & Toller, ''Anglo-Saxon Dictionary'' (Oxford, 1898–1921) p. 1219. The spelling "wifman" also occurs: C.T. Onions, ''Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology'' (Oxford, 1966) p. 1011</ref> to ''wīmmann'' to ''wumman'', and finally, the modern spelling ''woman''.<ref>''Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition'', entry for "woman".</ref> In Old English, ''wīfmann'' meant "female human", whereas ''wēr'' meant "male human". ''Mann'' or ''monn'' had a gender-neutral meaning of "human", corresponding to Modern English "person" or "someone"; however, subsequent to the Norman Conquest, ''man'' began to be used more in reference to "male human", and by the late 13th century had begun to eclipse usage of the older term ''wēr''.<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=man man] – definition Dictionary.reference.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20230429194843/http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=MAN Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> The medial labial consonants f and m in ''wīfmann'' coalesced into the modern form "woman", while the initial element ''wīf'', which meant "female", underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife").

It is a popular misconception that the term "woman" is etymologically connected to "womb".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stanton|first1=Elizabeth Cady|title=The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective|date=2002|pages=21–22|publisher=Dover Publications|location=Mineola, New York|isbn=978-0486424910|url=https://books.google.com/?id=hiTpfBGwNR0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780486424910#v=onepage&q=womb-man&f=false|chapter=The Book of Genesis, Chapter II|quote=Next comes the naming of the mother of the race. "She shall be called Woman," in the ancient form of the word Womb-man. She was man and more than man because of her maternity.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308210511/https://books.google.com/?id=hiTpfBGwNR0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780486424910|archive-date=17 July 2023}} (Originally published in two volumes, 1895 and 1898, by The European Publishing Company.)</ref> "Womb" derives from the Old English word ''wamb'' meaning "belly, bowels, heart, uterus"<ref name=OED>{{cite web|title=womb (n.)|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/womb|website=Online Etymology Dictionary|accessdate=29 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525155450/https://www.etymonline.com/word/womb|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> (modern German retains the colloquial term "wamme" from Old High German ''wamba'' for "belly, paunch, lap").<ref name=Starostin>{{cite web|author=S. Starostin|url=http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/ie/germet&text_number=%20562|title=Germanic etymology|website=The Tower of Babel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409081415/https://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/ie/germet&text_number=%20562|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name=Kluge>{{cite book|last1=Kluge|first1=Friedrich|title=An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language|date=1891|page=384 |publisher=George Bell & Sons|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/etymologicaldict |archiveurl=https://archive.org/details/etymologicaldict00kluguoft/page/384|archivedate=November 1, 2007|quote=Translated by John Francis Davis, D.Litl, M.A.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308090115/https://archive.org/details/etymologicaldict|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

The word ''girl'' originally meant "young person of either sex" in English;<ref>Used in Middle English from c. 1300, meaning 'a child of either sex, a young person'. Its derivation is uncertain, perhaps from an Old English word which has not survived: another theory is that it developed from Old English 'gyrela', meaning 'dress, apparel': or was a diminutive form of a borrowing from another West Germanic Language. (Middle Low German has Gör, Göre, meaning 'girl or small child'.) "girl, n.". OED Online. September 2013. Oxford University Press. 13 September 2013</ref> it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that it came to mean specifically a ''female'' child.<ref>By late 14th century a distinction was arising between female children, often called 'gay girls' – and male, or 'knave girls' -: a1375 William of Palerne (1867) l. 816 ' Whan þe gaye gerles were in-to þe gardin come, Faire floures þei founde.' ('When the gay girls came into the garden, Fair flowers they found.') By the 16th century, the unsupported word had begun to mean specifically a female: 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. D, 'The boy thy husbande, and thou the gyrle his wyfe.' The usage meaning 'child of either sex' survived much longer in Irish English. "girl, n.". OED Online. September 2013. Oxford University Press. 13 September 2013</ref> The term ''girl'' is sometimes used colloquially to refer to a young or unmarried woman; however, during the early 1970s, feminists challenged such use because the use of the word to refer to a fully grown woman may cause offence. In particular, previously common terms such as ''office girl'' are no longer widely used. Conversely, in certain cultures which link family honor with female virginity, the word ''girl'' (or its equivalent in other languages) is still used to refer to a never-married woman; in this sense it is used in a fashion roughly analogous to the more-or-less obsolete English ''maid'' or ''maiden''.

There are various words used to refer to the quality of being a woman. The term "womanhood" merely means the state of being a woman. "[[Femininity]]" is used to refer to a set of typical female qualities associated with a certain attitude to [[gender role]]s; "womanliness" is like "femininity", but is usually associated with a different view of gender roles. "Distaff" is an archaic adjective derived from women's conventional role as a spinner, now used only as a deliberate archaism.

== Symbol ==

[[File:Venus symbol.svg|thumb|200px|The Venus symbol or female [[gender symbols|gender symbol]].]]

The glyph (♀) for the planet and Roman goddess Venus, or Aphrodite in Greek, is the symbol used in biology, geneaology, and some [[Public restrooms|restroom signs]] for female.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Fadu|editor1-first=Jose A.|title=Encyclopedia of Theory & Practice in Psychotherapy & Counseling|date=2014|publisher=LuLu Press|page=337|isbn=978-1312078369}}</ref><ref name=Stearn1962>{{cite journal|author=Stearn, William T.|title=The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols of Biology|url=https://iapt-taxon.org/historic/Congress/IBC_1964/male_fem.pdf|journal=[[Taxon (journal)|Taxon]]|date=May 1962|volume=11|issue=4|pages=109–113|doi=10.2307/1217734|issn=0040-0262|accessdate=19 July 2019|jstor=1217734|author-link=William T. Stearn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527105139/https://iapt-taxon.org/historic/Congress/IBC_1964/male_fem.pdf|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name=Schott2005>{{cite journal|last1=Schott|first1=GD|title=Sex symbols ancient and modern: their origins and iconography on the pedigree|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/331/7531/1509.full.pdf|journal=[[The BMJ]]|date=December 2005|volume=331|issue=7531|pages=1509–10|doi=10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1509|pmid=16373733|pmc=1322246|issn=0959-8138|accessdate=19 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619113602/https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/331/7531/1509.full.pdf|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> In ancient alchemy, the Venus symbol stood for copper, and was associated with femininity.<ref name=Schott2005 />

This comes from a set of symbols that were first used to denote the effective sex of plants (i.e. sex of individual in a given crossbreed, since most plants are hermaphroditic) by naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1751.<ref name= Stearn>{{cite journal|last=Stearn|first=William T.|s2cid=87030547|title=The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols of Biology|journal=Taxon|date=May 1962 |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=109–113 |jstor=1217734 |doi=10.2307/1217734 |quote= The origin of these symbols has long been of interest to scholars. Probably none now accepts the interpretation of Scaliger that {{char|♂}} represents the shield and spear of Mars and {{char|♀}} Venus's looking glass.}}</ref> The male and female symbols are still used in scientific publications to indicate the sex of an individual, for example of a patient.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Zhigang |first=Zhigang |date=25 September 2009 |title=A HIV-1 heterosexual transmission chain in Guangzhou, China: a molecular epidemiological study |journal=Virology Journal |publisher=BioMed Central |volume=6 |issue=148 |pages=Figure 1 |doi=10.1186/1743-422X-6-148 |pmid=19778458 |pmc=2761389 |quote=(Mars male gender symbol) indicates male; (female Venus gender symbol) indicates female|display-authors=etal}}</ref> Joseph Justus Scaliger speculated that the male symbol is associated with the Mars, god of war because it resembles a shield and spear; and that the female symbol is associated with Venus, goddess of beauty because it resembles a bronze mirror with a handle.<ref>{{Citation|last=Taylor|first=Robert B.|chapter=Now and Future Tales|date=2016 |pages=293–310 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-29053-9 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-29055-3_12 |title=White Coat Tales}}</ref> Later scholars dismiss this as fanciful,<ref name=Stearn />The visual equivalent of a backronym, preferring "the conclusion of the French classical scholar Claude de Saumaise (Salmasius, 1588-1683) that these symbols [...] are derived from contractions in Greek script of the Greek names of the planets".<ref name=Stearn />''Thouros'' (Mars) was abbreviated as θρ, and ''Phosphoros'' (Venus) by Φ, in handwriting.<ref>H W Renkema, ''Oorsprong, beteekenis en toepassing van de in de botanie gebuikelijke teekens ter aanduiding van het geslacht en den levensduur'', in: Jeswiet J, ed., ''Gedenkboek J Valckenier Suringar. Wageningen: Nederlandsche Dendrologische Vereeniging'', 1942: 96-108.</ref><ref name=Stearn />

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== Cisgender women ==
Cisgender women are women who were assigned female at birth (or were born with certain [[intersex]] conditions), and who have a female gender identity. [[Cisgender]] (from Latin ''cis'' "same side of" + "gender", this word was "coined in 1995 by a transsexual man named Carl Buijs"<ref>Julia Serano, "Whipping Girl FAQ on cissexual, cisgender, and cis privilege." 2009-05-14. [http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2011/08/whipping-girl-faq-on-cissexual.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230226032644/http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2011/08/whipping-girl-faq-on-cissexual.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>) means "not transgender," as they don't [[transition]] to female from some other gender.

A few of the physical characteristics of a cisgender woman often include:
* A uterus, ovaries, and vagina, unless if she was born without one or another of them (agenesis), or had them taken out (hysterectomy, oophorectomy, or vaginectomy, respectively) to treat or prevent disease
* The ability to give birth, unless if sterile, or without some of the anatomy listed above, or past childbearing years
* Breasts (a secondary sexual characteristic), unless if they never developed, or they had them removed (mastectomy) to treat or prevent breast cancer
* Has a hormone balance with estrogen higher than testosterone, and the presence of progesterone
* Chromosomes that are XX (textbook example), XY (androgen insensitivity syndrome), XXX (triple X syndrome), XXXX, X (Turner syndrome), or others. People rarely take a test to find out what these are, unless they think it might explain another physical challenge.
It is possible for a cisgender woman to have a body with few of the above physical characteristics that are usually used to describe a typical cisgender female body. For example, cisgender women who have had hysterectomies and mastectomies to survive cancer are nonetheless real women, as much as they ever were. Furthermore, having the above characteristics does not make someone a cisgender woman. For example, some people who were assigned female at birth but identify as a different gender have these characteristics. Some people with intersex conditions have these physical characteristics, but don't consider themselves cisgender women. Some do.

The ability to give birth creates a physical vulnerability that is exploited by [[patriarchy]]. Patriarchy began as a system based around the control of the part of the population who generally can give birth, by the part that generally can't. Women and people who can give birth are not completely synonymous groups. (There are infertile women, fertile trans men, and so on.) Still, these two groups have the most overlap. Patriarchy means that, as a group, men control women. They exert this control in every part of society, through the systems that are built into that society. Some of the many forms of how patriarchy controls, oppresses, and abuses women include:
* Violence. Patriarchy tells women that they need a man close to them at all times, if for no other reason than to protect them from violence from other men. However, domestic violence is a very common cause of women's deaths.
* The idea of rape as normal (rape culture). Rape culture includes the idea that women are the ones who should take responsibility for preventing themselves from being raped (victim blaming), and defending rapists as not responsible for their actions, without educating men to not rape. Rape is specifically a significant part of the oppression of cisgender women due to the risk of unwanted pregnancy. Much of patriarchy is based around this.
* The idea of women as being less human (dehumanization). Dehumanization of women means that society assumes that women's minds are more like animals' minds (sometimes said in ways that seem positive, like "intuitive" or "closer to nature"), and are thought to be less able to do what men's can do, and therefore won't let women have educations, work most kinds of jobs, or drive. Without these things, it's difficult for women to free themselves from oppression.
* Ownership of women. Patriarchy often makes cisgender women have the legal status not of people, but of possessions (chattel) owned by men (their husbands or fathers). As chattel, women have no say in what happens to their bodies, can legally own no possessions, and can't vote.
All of these things oppress women. The system of patriarchy maintains itself by making it difficult for women to get the power to challenge or escape the oppression.

[[Feminism]] is [[activism]] against patriarchy, and it begins with activism to give women the legal status of people. The outward signs of that legal status are the right to choose what happens to their own bodies (legal access to birth control), the right to own property, the right to vote (suffrage), and the right to work. These can only be done by those who are legally recognized as persons. Feminism is a movement that can make equal rights for people of all genders by liberating them all from patriarchy, but feminism has its main focus on fulfilling the needs of cisgender women, because patriarchy has its main focus on oppressing them.

== Transgender women ==

Transgender women are women who were assigned male at birth (or had certain intersex conditions), and who have a female gender identity. Like any women, they usually use [[Pronouns#She|"she" pronouns]], and their sexual orientation can be lesbian, heterosexual, or otherwise. This is the male-to-female transgender spectrum. Older psychological and medical writings wrongly call trans women "male transsexuals" or "male transvestites", and call them by unwanted "he" pronouns. Trans women are women, not feminine men or [[sexual orientation|gay]] men.

Many transgender women [[transition]] to address [[gender dysphoria]], and some also consider themselves to be transsexual women. Any transgender person's transition path is very individual. Common features in a transgender woman's transition path include [[hormone therapy]] to create a balance with estrogen higher than testosterone, and a wide variety of kinds of [[surgery]] to choose from.

Patriarchy oppresses and devalues all forms of womanhood and femininity, not only of cisgender women, but also of trans women, called [[transmisogyny]]. Julia Serano coined this word for her trans-feminist book, ''Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity'' (2007). Patriarchy sees trans women as a threat that could undermine its power and rigidity. One feature of a trans-misogynistic culture is that by far, the most kinds of hate speech and slurs used against trans people are those used specifically against trans women. Violence against and murder of trans people also, by far, most commonly targets trans women, especially trans women of colour. The [[Transgender Day of Remembrance]] gives a memorial to the many trans people who are murdered each year around the world. These are nearly all trans women of colour.

In the transgender community, "[[gatekeeper]]" is slang for the system of health providers that decide whether to allow a transgender person to get gender-validating health care.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trans, Genderqueer, and Queer Terms Glossary |archive-date= 10 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210021940/https://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/Trans_and_queer_glossary.pdf| url= http://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/Trans_and_queer_glossary.pdf}}</ref> Medical gatekeepers, as well as the serious risks of living in trans-misogynistic culture, both put pressure on trans women to conform to society's behavioral and physical ideals for feminine cisgender women. One form of this pressure is that gatekeepers told trans women not to interact with other trans women outside of gender centers, saying that this would invalidate their womanhood. Keeping trans women isolated from one another in this way made it so that trans women couldn't organize among themselves to do activism for their own rights.<ref name="MiseryPimps">{{Cite web |title=The Misery Pimps: The People Who Impede Trans Liberation |author=fakecisgirl |work=fake cis girl |date=7 October 2013 |access-date=31 May 2021 |url= https://fakecisgirl.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/the-misery-pimps-the-people-who-impede-trans-liberation/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213084017/https://fakecisgirl.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/the-misery-pimps-the-people-who-impede-trans-liberation/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

Some cultures that recognize(d) male-to-female spectrum gender roles include the Ethiopian Maale people ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#ashtime|Ashtime]]), the Madagascaran Sakalava ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#sekrata|Sekrata]]), the Lakota ([[gender-variant identities worldwide##winkte|Winkte]]), the Navajo ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Nadleehi and Dilbaa|Nadleehi]]), the Zapotec ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Muxe|Muxe]]), many south Asian countries ([[Hijra]]), Oman ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Xanith|Xanith]]), Nepal ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Metis|Metis]]), Turkey ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Köçek|Köçek]]), Italy ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Femminello|Femminello]]) Myanmar ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Acault|Acault]]), Samoa ([[Fa'afafine]]), Maori ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Whakawahine and Wakatane|Whakawahine]]), much of ancient Europe ([[gender-variant identities worldwide#Gallae|Gallae]]), and [[gender-variant identities worldwide|many others]]. Historically, these male-to-female spectrum roles have been made of some people who were analogous to modern, Western ideas of trans women, as well as some people who are not so analogous to that, such as feminine gay men, or nonbinary people who were AMAB.

== Nonbinary women ==
Some people identify as nonbinary and as a binary gender such as woman. They may see themselves as almost but not quite fitting into the category of womanhood, feel an association with being a woman or femininity, or not mind being seen as women. Depending on how the individual defines their identity, they may consider themself to be nonbinary women if they also consider themself to be partly female ([[demigirl]]), [[femme]], a gender nonconforming queer masculine woman ([[butch]]), someone who only wants to be in the active role of sex without being touched (stone), androgynous, having a gender identity that often changes ([[genderfluid]]), having more than one gender ([[bigender]]), having a form of womanhood that is itself queer ([[genderqueer]]), or other kinds of identities.

In the 2019 Gender Census, 1,416 of the respondents (12.6%) identified as a woman or girl, even as many of them also identified as nonbinary.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">"Gender Census 2019 - the worldwide TL;DR." ''Gender Census.'' March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2020. https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr</ref>

=== Notable nonbinary women ===

[[File:Rebecca Sugar Peabody Awards.jpg|thumb|[[Rebecca Sugar]], a writer and animation artist who is a nonbinary woman, at the Peabody Awards in 2019.]]
[[File:Shakina_Nayfack.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Shakina Nayfack]], a [[gender nonconforming]] nonbinary trans woman.]]

Some notable people who identify as nonbinary who also use female, girl, or woman in the description of their gender identity include:

* Musician and performance artist [[Arca]] ([[she/her]] and [[it/its]],<ref name="Fallon">{{Cite web |title=Arca Is the Artist of the Decade |last=Fallon |first=Patric |work=Vice |date=8 November 2019 |access-date=30 June 2020 |url= https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj9k4/arca-is-the-artist-of-the-decade|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329092248/http://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj9k4/arca-is-the-artist-of-the-decade |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> b. 1989) - nonbinary trans woman<ref name="Moen">{{Cite web |title=Arca: Embracing the Flux |last=Moen |first=Matt |work=PAPER |date=7 April 2020 |access-date=30 June 2020 |url= https://www.papermag.com/arca-transformation-2645630264.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216160852/https://www.papermag.com/arca-transformation-2645630264.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Romance author [[Chelsea M. Cameron]] ([[she/her]] and [[they/them]]<ref>https://twitter.com/chel_c_cam [https://web.archive.org/web/20230522012959/https://twitter.com/chel_c_cam Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/chelccam/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230329205043/https://www.instagram.com/chelccam/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>) - demigirl<ref>{{cite tweet|author=Chelsea M. Cameron|user=chel_c_cam|number=862141410627256320|title=I've been: bisexual, gay, queer, queer/bisexual. I'm also still not super sure about my gender, but for now demigirl is how I identify.|date=May 9, 2017}}</ref>

* Playwright and rap artist [[Despoina]] ([[they/them]] or [[she/her]]<ref name="whrb">{{Cite web |title=TBT on Fighting Cyberbullies and Taking Back Black Music |author= |work=WHRB 95.3FM |date=June 11, 2021 |access-date=August 4, 2021 |url= https://www.whrb.org/archive/tbt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204141545/https://www.whrb.org/archive/tbt |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>) - nonbinary trans woman<ref name="Gorelick">{{Cite web |title=WTBU Organizes Virtual Benefit Concert for Massachusetts Bail Fund |last=Gorelick |first=Rusty |work=Boston University |date=August 7, 2020 |access-date=August 4, 2021 |url=https://www-test.bu.edu/articles/2020/wtbu-organizes-virtual-benefit-concert-for-massachusetts-bail-fund/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721142812/https://www-test.bu.edu/articles/2020/wtbu-organizes-virtual-benefit-concert-for-massachusetts-bail-fund/ |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

* American comedian, writer, and nurse [[Kelli Dunham]] describes herself<ref name="story">{{Cite web |title=THE STORY |author= |work=kellidunham.com |date= |access-date=24 July 2020 |url= http://www.kellidunham.com/the-story/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314231523/https://www.kellidunham.com/the-story/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> as a [[genderqueer]] woman<ref name="Wood">{{Cite web |title=Q&A: Comedian Kelli Dunham on Storytelling as a Radical, Transformative Act |last=Wood |first=Erin |work=Ms. Magazine |date=15 May 2017 |access-date=3 June 2020 |url= https://msmagazine.com/2017/05/15/qa-comedian-kelli-dunham-storytelling-radicaltransformative-act/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612184627/https://msmagazine.com/2017/05/15/qa-comedian-kelli-dunham-storytelling-radicaltransformative-act/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>/[[nonbinary]] [[transmasc]] [[butch]].<ref name="Guerrero">{{Cite web |title=Genderqueer Comic Kelli Dunham On Getting (Thee) Away From a Nunnery |last=Guerrero |first=Desirée |work=The Advocate |date=21 April 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2020/4/21/genderqueer-comic-kelli-dunham-getting-thee-away-nunnery|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103074504/https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2020/4/21/genderqueer-comic-kelli-dunham-getting-thee-away-nunnery |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Visual artist and musician [[Florian-Ayala Fauna]] ([[she/her]]<ref name="Fauna_About">{{Cite web |title=About |author=Florian-Ayala Fauna |work=florian-93.com |date= |access-date=14 November 2020 |url= https://www.florian-93.com/about|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322090336/https://www.florian-93.com/about |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>) - [[androgyne]], partially woman<ref name="Faunatweet">{{cite tweet|user=bloodfawn93|number=963276096430108672|last=Fauna|first=Florian-Ayala|title=Hey I'm Florian - I'm a visual artist, musician, writer, and occult practitioner of a Thelemic/Crowley based nature. #VisibleWomen (woman part is partially true tho, more androgyne and proud to be intersex :3 ) http://florian-93.com https://uncertain.bandcamp.com|date=February 12, 2018}}</ref>

* Singer-songwriter and comedian [[Left at London]] ([[she/her]],<ref>{{cite tweet|user=LeftAtLondon|number=1160275504760360960|date=August 10, 2019|title=IM NON-BINARY. BUT STILL REFER TO ME AS SHE/HER. (UNLESS U REFER TO EVERYBODY AS THEY/THEM. THEN IM FINE WITH THEY THEM PRONOUNS.) LOVE YOU GUYS}}</ref> b. 1996) - nonbinary trans woman<ref>{{cite tweet|user=LeftAtLondon|number=1160277010813349888|date=August 10, 2019|title=Nonbinary trans woman to be specific}}</ref>

* Actor and activist [[Shakina Nayfack]] ([[she/her]], b. 1980) - nonbinary and [[gender non-conforming]] trans woman<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CPVsM3qjzFr/ |title= Instagram post from @shakeenz|date=May 26, 2021|quote= I'm not "coming out" as non-binary, I'm choosing now to claim non-binary as part of my identity because, as a gender non-conforming trans woman, I feel responsible to include myself in the discourse which—unintentionally or not—has a tendency to assign meaning to my identity without my consent otherwise. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515054203/https://www.instagram.com/p/CPVsM3qjzFr/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* Cosmologist and science writer [[Chanda Prescod-Weinstein]] ([[she/her]],<ref>[http://www.cprescodweinstein.com/ Website bio], retrieved May 17, 2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230308102557/http://www.cprescodweinstein.com/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> b. 1982) - [[agender]] woman<ref>[https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/ Twitter bio], retrieved May 17, 2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230716190349/https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* Musician [[King Princess]] ([[she/her]],<ref name="Menuez">{{Cite web |title=King Princess |last=Menuez |first=Bobbi |work=theingenuemagazine.com |date= |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://theingenuemagazine.com/king-princess/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911191450/https://theingenuemagazine.com/king-princess/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> b. 1998) - [[genderqueer]] person and [[gay]] woman<ref name="Menuez"/>

* Model, actor, and TV presenter [[Ruby Rose]] ([[she/her]],<ref name="Kellaway">{{Cite web |title=WATCH: Australian Model Ruby Rose Comes Out as Gender Fluid |last=Kellaway |first=Mitch |work=The Advocate |date=31 July 2014 |access-date=27 May 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/07/31/watch-australian-model-ruby-rose-comes-out-gender-fluid|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529090300/https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/07/31/watch-australian-model-ruby-rose-comes-out-gender-fluid |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> b. 1986) - [[genderfluid]] woman<ref name="Gomez">{{Cite web |title=Gender-fluid Ruby Rose opens up about the backlash she's received for identifying as a lesbian |trans-title= |last=Gomez |first=Patrick |work=Entertainment Weekly |date=5 June 2019 |access-date=27 May 2020 |url= https://ew.com/celebrity/paul-lynde-life-legacy/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308224934/https://ew.com/celebrity/paul-lynde-life-legacy/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Science fiction author [[Rivers Solomon]] ([[they/them]]) - nonbinary/agender woman<ref>https://www.riverssolomon.com/hireme [https://web.archive.org/web/20211207101508/https://www.riverssolomon.com/hireme Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* Activist and actor [[Ianne Fields Stewart]] ([[she/her]], [[they/them]]) - [[transfeminine]] nonbinary woman<ref name="SwiftMar2020">{{Cite web |title=Meet Ianne Fields Stewart: The Activist and Actress Who Is Combatting Food Insecurity In The Black Transgender Community |author=Swift, Jaimee A. |work=Black Women Radicals |date=March 2, 2020 |access-date=November 3, 2020 |url= https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/meet-ianne-fields-stewart-the-activist-and-actress-who-is-combating-food-insecurity-in-the-black-transgender-community|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128162056/https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/meet-ianne-fields-stewart-the-activist-and-actress-who-is-combating-food-insecurity-in-the-black-transgender-community |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="MastersAug2020">{{Cite web |title=This Activist Ensures Black Trans People Don't Go Hungry |last=Masters |first=Jeffrey |work=The Advocate |date=August 4, 2020 |access-date=November 3, 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/7/31/ianne-fields-stewart-okra-project-trans |quote=I am a Black, queer, nonbinary, lesbian woman. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529144011/https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/7/31/ianne-fields-stewart-okra-project-trans |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Writer and animation artist [[Rebecca Sugar]] ([[English neutral pronouns#She|she/her]] or [[singular they|they/them]],<ref>https://twitter.com/rebeccasugar?lang=en [https://web.archive.org/web/20230505073105/https://twitter.com/rebeccasugar?lang=en Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> b. 1987) - nonbinary woman<ref name="fink">{{Cite web |title=The Mind Behind America’s Most Empathetic Cartoon |last1=Fink |first1=Kathryn |first2=Paige |last2=Osburn |work=1A |date=9 July 2018 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://the1a.org/segments/2018-07-09-the-mind-behind-americas-most-empathetic-cartoon/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022123837/https://the1a.org/segments/2018-07-09-the-mind-behind-americas-most-empathetic-cartoon/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="PulliamMoore">{{Cite web |title=Steven Universe's Rebecca Sugar on How She Expresses Her Identity Through the Non-binary Crystal Gems |last=Pulliam-Moore |first=Charles |work=io9 |date=16 July 2018 |access-date=15 April 2020 |url= https://io9.gizmodo.com/steven-universes-rebecca-sugar-on-how-she-expresses-her-1827624015?IR=T |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601170515/https://io9.gizmodo.com/steven-universes-rebecca-sugar-on-how-she-expresses-her-1827624015?IR=T |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Actor and drag performer [[Kate Rose Wilburn]] ([[they/them]]<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/katerosewilburn/ Instagram bio], retrieved 18 June 2020</ref>) - nonbinary transgender woman<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CBFCyEIgPFJ/ Instagram post], 5 June 2020</ref>

* Musician and TV writer [[Our Lady J]] ([[she/her]]<ref name="INTO">{{Cite web |title=Our Lady J on Gender, Discrimination, & Hollywood Starting to "Get It Right" |author= |work=INTO |date=20 September 2017 |access-date=5 September 2020 |url= https://www.intomore.com/culture/our-lady-j-on-gender-discrimination-hollywood-starting-to-get-it-right/d82839748e024a3c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318081251/https://intomore.com/culture/our-lady-j-on-gender-discrimination-hollywood-starting-to-get-it-right/d82839748e024a3c |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>, b. 1978) - [[GNC]] [[genderfluid]] [[trans woman]]<ref name="INTO" />/ woman-aligned nonbinary person<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309001552if_/https://twitter.com/ourladyj/status/1236807149642297345|url=https://twitter.com/ourladyj/status/1236807149642297345|title=Twitter thread by @ourladyj|date=March 8, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Transfeminine]]
*[[Gender binary]]
*[[Binary gender]]
*[[List of nonbinary identities]]
*[[Glossary of English gender and sex terminology]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Identities]]

Intergender

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{{uncommon identity}}
{{infobox identity
| flag = intergender.png
| related = [[Bigender]], [[Androgyne]], [[Ipsogender]], and [[Amalgagender]]
| umbrella = [[Nonbinary]]
| frequency = 0.1%
| gallery_link = Pride Gallery/Intergender
}}
[[Intergender]] is a [[gender identity]] under the [[nonbinary]] and [[transgender]] [[umbrella terms]]. Intergender people have a gender identity that is in the middle between the [[binary gender]]s of female and male, and may be a mix of both. The word "intergender" has been independently coined by different people at different times, and the meaning has been the same, as above. At least one person claiming to be intergender and intersex independently has argued that "intergender" should only by used by people who are intersex, and that intergender is an identity only for intersex people.<ref name="Aeshling_Mogai">Aeshling. "Intergender." ''Mogai-Archive.'' 2014. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender {{dead link}}</ref> However, the identity label had already been in use for at least sixteen years as something that was open to people of any birth sex.<ref name="Matthews_Intergendered">Donna Lynn Matthews, “What is intergendered?” 1998-10. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20230607030918/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name="Matthews_Genderqueer">Donna Lynn Matthews, “Being genderqueer – What it means for me.” 2006-10. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/genderqueer.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20230321220818/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/genderqueer.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

==History==

During the 1990s, usenet newsgroups were informal public discussion groups on the Internet that were oriented around topics of interest, such as hobbies, fandoms, and LGBT issues. Starting sometime before 1998, people who identified as intergender created a discussion group in the alt.support.intergendered newsgroup, which was created by an intergender and non-intersex person named Donna Lynn Matthews.<ref name="Matthews_Genderqueer"/> The [http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_charter.html charter (last updated in 1998) for that newsgroup] explains its purpose, and what intergendered means:

<blockquote>
"The intent of this newsgroup is to provide a supportive, informative and friendly environment for intergendered individuals. Intergendered individuals do not gender themselves as 'men' or 'women', but somewhere inbetween, as a mix of both masculine and feminine qualities. Others gender themselves as neither 'men' nor 'women' ([[agender|agendered or non-gendered]]), thus placing themselves 'outside' of the gender 'spectrum' completely. Given this, intergendered individuals tend to present (to varying degrees) in a non-descript or ambiguous manner by means of androgyny, partial crossdressing [sic], genderbending, and part-time cross-gender living, to name a few. Intergendered should not be confused with intersexed, as the two are quite different. It is not the intent of this to be an intersexed support forum. This newsgroup is open to anyone (intersexed individuals included), provided that posted articles are on topic and of relevance to intergendered individuals."<ref name="newsgroup_charter">{{cite web |title=CHARTER: alt.support.intergendered |url=http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_charter.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321220847/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_charter.html|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
</blockquote>

From the above description, at the time, "intergender" was posed as an umbrella term in the 1990s, similar to how "nonbinary" came to be widely known as an umbrella term in the 2010s. Intergender included a variety of gender identities (even genderlessness) and gender expressions that didn't fit into the binary. It was an identity label that any person can use, even if they are not [[intersex]].<ref name="Matthews_Intergendered" />

Some participants of that newsgroup used gender-neutral [[pronouns]].<ref>"GNP FAQ." [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202924/http:/aetherlumina.com/gnp/listing.html]</ref> There were enough people who identified as intergender that there was an intergender webring. A webring was something that any site with something in common with its theme could choose to join, so users could browse a list of sites on the same subject matter. Webrings were important for finding sites about any particular kind of content before the advent of large search engines like Google. This means that on the intergender webring, there was a list of personal websites by many different intergender people, similar to blogs.<ref>"Welcome to the Intergendered Webring." ''Donna's Hideout.'' c. 1998. http://donnas-hideout.org/igring.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20211027191151/http://donnas-hideout.org/igring.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

In 1998, Matthews described intergender as "a gendered state ''between'' the polar endpoints of man and woman. […] I'm both and neither at the same time. […] As we do not gender ourselves along the either/or lines of the binary gender system, we often choose not to present along these lines. […] We are not really interested in ''passing'' as women or men. We want nothing more than to be able to simply be who we are without having choose between two extremes."<ref name="Matthews_Intergendered" />

In 2000, a non-intersex and intergender person named [http://cydathria.com/ms_donna//interdressing.html Deird Duncan coined the word "interdressing,"] meaning intergender [[gender expression]] in clothing, possibly without any intention to be seen as any particular gender.<ref>Deird Duncan, “Interdressing.” 2000-04-10. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/interdressing.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20211029113308/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/interdressing.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

In a 2010 encyclopedia, intergender is listed as a type of "[[androgyne]]" gender: "Androgyne identities include [[pangender]], [[bigender]], [[ambigender]], nongendered, [[agender]], [[gender fluid]], or [[intergender]]."<ref>''Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies'', page 894, SAGE Publications, 2010.</ref>

In 2014, one intersex intergender person named Aeshling (Tumblr usernames quietlyloud-intersex, indonintersex) independently coined the word "intergender," with the rule that this word is for the use of intersex people only. Otherwise, the word's meaning is the same as it had been when it had been coined and used by non-intersex transgender people. Aeshling's definition of it is "A gender that is between and among male and female."<ref name="Aeshling_Mogai" /> Aeshling's post didn't show awareness that the word had already been in use for people of any birth sex for at least sixteen years.

Some non-intersex people interested in calling themselves "intergender" may choose to defer to intersex people by using a different label with a similar meaning instead, such as [[bigender]] or [[androgyne]], which are open to people of any birth sex. On the other hand, non-intersex people may be no less entitled to calling themselves intergender, because the label "intergender" was open to people of any birth sex for many years longer. There is also the matter that some nonbinary people who were born non-intersex describe their [[transition]] as the intention to make their body more intersex, and call themselves female-to-intersex or male-to-intersex [[transsexual]]s, which goes back to at least 1996.<ref name="Carter_Angels">{{cite web|first=Raphael|last=Carter|title=The Angel's Dictionary|date=14 July 1996|url=http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/angels.shtml|archive-date=8 March 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308185631/http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/angels.shtml|access-date=4 December 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Some intersex people have argued that it is appropriative for non-intersex people to say that they want to become intersex or intersex-like, given that intersex people face unique types of social oppression.
<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/139720-transitioning-to-intersex/ |title= Transitioning to... intersex? |website= AVEN Forum Archive |access-date= 19 May 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211029104959/https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/139720-transitioning-to-intersex/ |archive-date= 17 July 2023 }}</ref> Either way, the old definition and Aeshling's definition agree that "intergender" means a gender identity between female and male, one which may be a mix of both.

==Gender expression==

Some intergender people see it as solely a matter of gender identity, and therefore require no particular kind of gender expression. They may even be satisfied with an appearance that fits within the gender binary, even though their gender identity does not. Other intergender people seek the aesthetic of [[androgyny]]. They may express their intergender identity through their personality or activities such as [[crossdressing]] or "interdressing" (see above), though this doesn't necessarily have the intention of being seen as any particular gender. Some intergender people have or wish to [[transition]] to a body that has traits 'in between' female and male, or which is more like an intersex body. There are dyadic people who call themselves female-to-intersex or male-to-intersex transsexuals.<ref name="Carter_Angels" />

== Notable intergender people ==

''See main article: [[Notable nonbinary people]]''

There are many more [[notable nonbinary people|notable people who have a gender identity outside of the binary]]. The following are only some of those notable people who specifically use the word "intergender" for themselves.

''Please help expand this section.''

== Intergender characters in fiction ==

''See main article: [[Nonbinary gender in fiction#Nonbinary genders in fiction|Nonbinary gender in fiction]]''

There are many more [[Nonbinary gender in fiction#Nonbinary genders in fiction|nonbinary characters in fiction who have a gender identity outside of the binary]]. The following are only some of those characters who are specifically called by the word "intergender," either in their canon, or by their creators.

''Please help expand this section.''

==See also==
{{Pride flags|category=Intersex and intergender pride flags|image=Intergender}}
*[[Androgyne]]
*[[Amalgagender]]
*[[Bigender]]
*[[InterNon]]
*[[Intersex]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Nonbinary identities]]

Maverique

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{{infobox identity
| flag = maverique.png
| meaning = Yellow: non-binary gender; White: autonomy, independence; Orange: inner conviction, maverick.
| related = [[Aporagender]] and [[Aliagender]]
| umbrella = [[Nonbinary]]
| frequency = 0.3%
| gallery_link = Pride Gallery/Maverique
}}
'''Maverique''' is a [[gender identity]] that falls under the [[nonbinary]] umbrella term. It is defined as an identity that is not the absence of gender, or an apathy towards gender, but a present feeling of gender. This feeling of gender is completely independent from male, female, neutral, or anything derived from any of them.<ref name=":0">http://maveriques.tumblr.com/faq [https://web.archive.org/web/20230606043925/https://maveriques.tumblr.com/faq Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> However, maveriques can be [[multigender]] with their other genders being related to maleness, femaleness, or neutrality.

Maverique individuals may also identify under the [[nonbinary]] or [[transgender]] umbrella terms. However, maverique itself is a specific identity not an umbrella term.<ref name=":0" />

== Pronunciation ==
Maverique can be pronounced multiple ways:<ref name=":0" />
{| class="wikitable"
!IPA transcripton
!Simple transcription
|-
|/mævˈɹik/
|mav-REEK
|-
|/ˌmæv.əˈɹik/
|mav-uh-REEK
|}

== Usage ==
In a 2017 survey of 9,932 nonbinary participants, maverique was entered as an identity word by 0.6% of participants.<ref>''[http://nonbinarystats.tumblr.com/post/160656902130/nbgq-survey-2017-the-worldwide-results NB/GQ Survey 2017 - the worldwide results]'', Nonbinary Stats blog, May 2017. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230419150824/http://nonbinarystats.tumblr.com/post/160656902130/nbgq-survey-2017-the-worldwide-results Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

=== Grammatical usage ===
The word "maverique" can be used as either a noun or adjective. For example:
* [noun] The maverique is sitting over there.
* [adjective] The maverique person is sitting over there.

== Etymology ==
The term "maverique" was coined in 2014 by Vesper H. as a word to describe their own gender.<ref name=":0" /> It is a combination of the English word "maverick" and French suffix "ique".

"Maverick" was chosen due to its association with the unorthodox, referencing the fact that maverique as a gender is unorthodox even in regards to many nonbinary genders; due to it being unrelated to the gender binary.<ref name=":1">http://maveriques.tumblr.com/post/136474788751/i-know-im-late-to-the-whole-maverique-discussion [https://web.archive.org/web/20230606042839/http://maveriques.tumblr.com/post/136474788751/i-know-im-late-to-the-whole-maverique-discussion Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> While the word maverick implies a conscious, rebellious unorthodoxy, being maverique itself is not a conscious choice of the maverique person, nor is it a stance against the gender binary. The suffix "-ique" means "similar to" but not identical, indicating that while unorthodox ''like'' maverick, maverique is ''different'' in that it is not a conscious stance but an inherent feature of the person. This indicates that a maverique's gender is not unorthodox by choice, nor any sort of political stance. A maverique's gender is maverick-like, but the maverique is not a maverick on the basis of their gender.<ref name=":1" />

The word maverick also has connotations of independence from surroundings<ref>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/maverick [https://web.archive.org/web/20221124143309/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/maverick Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, referencing the fact that maveriques are independent from the gender binary.

== Identity overlap ==
A person can be solely maverique, in the same way a person can be solely a man, or solely a woman. Alternatively, someone can be both maverique and another gender (or lack of gender if for example they are genderfluid between maverique and [[agender]]). A [[genderfluid]] person may have maverique as one of their genders. A multigender person may have maverique as one of their genders. A person could be a [[Demigender|demi]]-maverique if they only partially identify with being maverique.

== Differences from similar genders ==
'''Third gender'''

Unlike [[third gender]], anyone of any race or ethnic background can use maverique to describe themself if they feel like it fits.<ref name=":0" /> In addition, the term "third gender" is often used to lump together many different gender experiences from a wide variety of cultures that are considered not to fit into the Western concept of male or female, whereas "maverique" describes a singular gender.

'''Aporagender'''

Both maverique and [[aporagender]] were coined at similar times and have some overlap, however aporagender is an umbrella term while maverique is not.<ref name=":0" /> Additionally, aporagender can describe a gender neutral identity<ref>http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Aporagender [https://web.archive.org/web/20230525010004/http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Aporagender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, whereas maverique is distinct from neutrality.

==References==
{{Pride flags|category=Maverique pride flags|image=Maverique}}
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Man

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Anyone with a male gender identity is male: he is a [[man]] or boy. (Note: someone who identifies as a man can use any pronouns they like) Any man's manhood is valid regardless of what kind of body parts he has, or what gender he was assigned at birth. Having or wanting to have a penis are not what makes someone a man. People who were [[Sexes#Assigned male at birth|assigned male at birth (AMAB)]] or people who are perceived as men (PPM) don't all identify themselves as men, which is the crucial criteria for whether someone is a man. Only identifying as a man makes someone a man. Cisgender men, transgender men, and intersex men are all equally men. Because gender isn't the same thing as [[sexual orientation]], men are still men whether they feel sexual attraction to men (gay), or to women (heterosexual), either/any gender ([[bisexual]] or [[pansexual]]), or none ([[asexual]]).

In the Western colonialist [[gender binary]] system, "man" is considered to be one of the only two genders that exist, one of the [[binary gender]]s. For all of written history, cultures all over the world have acknowledged people who were gender-variant or who transitioned to a different gender role than the one assigned to them at birth. Ancient cultures that thought of there being a specific number of genders did not always say there were just two. In ancient Egyptian writings, [[Gender-variant identities worldwide#Sekhet|man was one of three genders]], and in classical Jewish literature, [[Gender-variant identities worldwide#The six genders in classical Judaism|man was one of six genders]]. The gender binary is an artificial and relatively new concept to humanity. Gender is not inherently binary. Therefore, "man" is not inherently a binary gender. Rather, "man" is one of many genders that people have. Throughout [[history of nonbinary gender|the history of the world]], there have been many people who do not identify with being only female or male, who are therefore [[nonbinary]]. There are also people who identify partly as a man, and yet do not feel they completely fit into that category, so they call themselves nonbinary men. Although the gender binary system is coercive and limiting, "man" is a valid identity. Manhood can be better understood as an identity in its own right, rather than as an opposite pole in a binary system.<ref name="labelle">Sophie Labelle. ''Assigned Male'' (political comic). February 6, 2019. https://assignedmale.tumblr.com/post/182605182667</ref>

== Etymology and terminology ==

The English term "man" is derived from a Proto-Indo-European root ''*man-'' (see Sanskrit/Avestan ''manu-'', Slavic ''mǫž'' "man, male").<ref>''American Heritage Dictionary'', Appendix I: Indo-European Roots. [http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE295.html man-1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060519035935/http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE295.html|date=19 May 2006. Accessed 2007-07-22.</ref> More directly, the word derives from Old English ''mann.'' The Old English form had a default meaning of "adult male" (which was the exclusive meaning of ''wer''), though it could also signify a person of unspecified gender. The closely related Old English pronoun ''man'' was used just as it is in Modern German to designate "one" (e. g., in the saying ''man muss mit den Wölfen heulen'').<ref>John Richard Clark Hall: A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary</ref>

== Gender symbol ==

[[File:Mars symbol.svg|thumb|200px|The Mars or male [[gender symbols|gender symbol]]. Depicts the shield and spear of Mars, the Roman god of war]]

The symbol for male (as well as for the planet Mars in astrology, and iron in alchemy) comes from a set of symbols that were first used to denote the effective sex of plants (i.e. sex of individual in a given crossbreed, since most plants are hermaphroditic) by naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1751.<ref name= Stearn>{{cite journal|last=Stearn|first=William T.|s2cid=87030547|title=The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols of Biology|journal=Taxon|date=May 1962 |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=109–113 |jstor=1217734 |doi=10.2307/1217734 |quote= The origin of these symbols has long been of interest to scholars. Probably none now accepts the interpretation of Scaliger that {{char|♂}} represents the shield and spear of Mars and {{char|♀}} Venus's looking glass.}}</ref> The male and female symbols are still used in scientific publications to indicate the sex of an individual, for example of a patient.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Zhigang |first=Zhigang |date=25 September 2009 |title=A HIV-1 heterosexual transmission chain in Guangzhou, China: a molecular epidemiological study |journal=Virology Journal |publisher=BioMed Central |volume=6 |issue=148 |pages=Figure 1 |doi=10.1186/1743-422X-6-148 |pmid=19778458 |pmc=2761389 |quote=(Mars male gender symbol) indicates male; (female Venus gender symbol) indicates female|display-authors=etal}}</ref> Joseph Justus Scaliger speculated that the male symbol is associated with the Mars, god of war because it resembles a shield and spear; and that the female symbol is associated with Venus, goddess of beauty because it resembles a bronze mirror with a handle.<ref>{{Citation|last=Taylor|first=Robert B.|chapter=Now and Future Tales|date=2016 |pages=293–310 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-29053-9 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-29055-3_12 |title=White Coat Tales}}</ref> Later scholars dismiss this as fanciful,<ref name=Stearn />The visual equivalent of a backronym, preferring "the conclusion of the French classical scholar Claude de Saumaise (Salmasius, 1588-1683) that these symbols [...] are derived from contractions in Greek script of the Greek names of the planets".<ref name=Stearn />''Thouros'' (Mars) was abbreviated as θρ, and ''Phosphoros'' (Venus) by Φ, in handwriting.<ref>H W Renkema, ''Oorsprong, beteekenis en toepassing van de in de botanie gebuikelijke teekens ter aanduiding van het geslacht en den levensduur'', in: Jeswiet J, ed., ''Gedenkboek J Valckenier Suringar. Wageningen: Nederlandsche Dendrologische Vereeniging'', 1942: 96-108.</ref><ref name=Stearn />

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== Cisgender men ==
Cisgender men are men who were assigned male at birth (or were born with certain [[intersex]] conditions), and who have a male gender identity. [[Cisgender]] means "not transgender," as they don't [[transition]] to male from some other gender.

A few of the physical characteristics of a cisgender man often include:
* No vagina or uterus. However, some men were born with one or another of them (persistent Müllerian duct syndrome). Some only find out they have a uterus if they have scans or surgery on their abdomen for other reasons, or if they menstruate.
* Descended testes and scrotum, although sometimes testes never descend (cryptorchid), or are removed to treat or prevent disease
* Penis or large clitoris. With some intersex conditions, the difference between these can be unclear.
* Chromosomes that are XY (textbook example), XX (de la Chapelle syndrome), XXY (Klinefelter's syndrome), XXYY, or others.
It is possible for a cisgender man to have a body with few of the above physical characteristics that are usually used to describe a typical cisgender male body. For example, cisgender men who have lost their genitals due to disease or injury are nonetheless real men, as much as they ever were. Furthermore, having the above characteristics does not make someone a cisgender man. For example, some people who were assigned male at birth but identify as a different gender have these characteristics. Some people with intersex conditions have these physical characteristics, but don't consider themselves cisgender men. Meanwhile, some intersex people consider themselves to be cisgender men.

==Transgender men==

[[File:FTM London (4764131524).jpg|thumb|200px|Trans rights marchers at Pride London 2010. Their banner says "Supporting Female to Male Trans People."]]

Transgender men are men who were assigned female at birth (or had certain intersex conditions), and who have a male gender identity. Most trans men ask to be called by [[Pronouns#He|"he" pronouns]], though there are exceptions. A trans man's [[sexual orientation]] can be gay, heterosexual, bisexual, asexual, or otherwise. Trans men are on the female-to-male transgender spectrum. Older psychological and medical writings wrongly call trans men "female transsexuals" or "female transvestites", and call them by "she" pronouns that they did not want. Trans men are men, not masculine women or [[butch]] lesbians. However, there are people who have considered themselves more than one of these at different points in their lives, because it can take time to figure out one's identity.

Many transgender men [[transition]] to address [[gender dysphoria]], and some also consider themselves to be [[transsexual]] men. Any transgender person's transition path is very individual. Common features in a transgender man's transition path include [[hormone therapy]] to create a balance with testosterone higher than estrogen, and [[surgery]] to remove breasts (double mastectomy, in this situation called female to male chest reconstruction), and sometimes to remove their internal reproductive organs (complete hysterectomy). Many trans men choose not to get genital surgery, or are satisfied with nonsurgical methods that create a penis that looks and works differently to that of a cisgender man. With hormones alone, a trans man can easily be seen as a man in daily life, which owes partially to how patriarchy polices manhood differently than womanhood.<ref>{{cite web|author=Cary Gabriel Costello |title=Testosterone Does Not 'Work Better' than Estrogen |date=January 19, 2015 |website=TransFusion (personal blog) |url=http://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/2015/01/testosterone-does-not-work-better-than.html |access-date=24 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306032942/https://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/2015/01/testosterone-does-not-work-better-than.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

Some cultures that recognize(d) female-to-male spectrum gender roles include the Blackfoot Confederacy ([[Gender-variant identities worldwide#Ninauposkitzipxpe|Ninauposkitzipxpe]], "manly-hearted women"), the Navajo ([[Gender-variant identities worldwide#Nadleehi and Dilbaa|Dilbaa]]), the Bugis people of Indonesia ([[Gender-variant identities worldwide#Bissu|calalai]]) the Maori ([[Gender-variant identities worldwide#Whakawahine and Wakatane|Wakatane]]), and Albania ([[Gender-variant identities worldwide#Burrnesha|Burrnesha]], "sworn virgins"), and [[gender-variant identities worldwide|many others]]. Historically, these female-to-male spectrum people have included some people who were analogous to modern, Western ideas of trans men, as well as some possibly cisgender women who took up a male gender role or appearance in order to escape patriarchal oppression, to protect themselves from violence, and to have jobs that only men were allowed to have.

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==Nonbinary men==
{{Personal story
|quote=For me, there are elements of being a “trans guy” that speak to my experiences – but it's not quite enough to hold all the other [[queer]], [[femme]], and fluid aspects that make me who I am.
|name=Sam Dylan Finch
|identity= genderqueer trans guy
|ref= <ref>{{cite web|url=https://letsqueerthingsup.com/2016/05/13/non-binary-trans-guy-isnt-contradiction/ |title=Being Non-Binary and a Trans Guy Isn't a Contradiction |author=Sam Dylan Finch |website=Let's Queer Things Up! |date=13 May 2016 |access-date = 24 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228232508/https://letsqueerthingsup.com/2016/05/13/non-binary-trans-guy-isnt-contradiction/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>}}
Some people identify as both nonbinary and as a binary gender such as man. They see themselves as almost but not quite fitting into the gender binary, and feel an association with being a man or masculinity, while still feeling that it's significant that they don't fit into that category. Alternatively, they may simply not mind being seen as men while feeling no inherent connection to masculinity. Depending on how the individual defines their identity, they may consider themself to be nonbinary men if they also consider themself to be partly male ([[demiboy]]), queer masculine ([[butch]]), someone who only wants to be in the active role of sex without being touched ([[stone]]), [[lesbian man]], having a gender that often changes ([[genderfluid]]), [[genderqueer]], having more than one gender ([[multigender]]), [[eunuch]], or other kinds of identities. A self-described nonbinary man may consider themself to be on the female-to-male spectrum, or [[transmasculine]]. However, a nonbinary man could also be someone who considers themself to be on the male-to-female spectrum, or [[transfeminine]], and partly identifies with the masculinity assigned at birth.

=== Notable nonbinary men ===

[[File:Du Blonde 7-7-2019 by Paul Hudson.jpg|thumb|200px|Musician [[Du Blonde]] performing in July 2019, who identifies as nonbinary predominantly male.]]

Some notable people who identify as nonbinary who also use "male", "boy", or "man" in the description of their gender identity include:

* Musician and visual artist [[Du Blonde]] ([[she/her]],<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/B26o9pvHwMk/ Sept 27, 2019 instagram post] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519214921/https://www.instagram.com/p/B26o9pvHwMk/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> b. 1990) - nonbinary, predominantly male<ref name="Loftin">{{Cite web |title=Will the real Du Blonde please stand up? |author=Steven Loftin |work=The Line of Best Fit |date=18 February 2019 |access-date=28 March 2020 |url= https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/longread/du-blonde-the-real-beth-jeans-houghton-will-see-you-now|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604045954/https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/longread/du-blonde-the-real-beth-jeans-houghton-will-see-you-now |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Author [[Kacen Callender]] ([[they/them]], b. 1989) - [[demiboy]].<ref>{{cite tweet|user=kacencallender|number=1183344675631091712|date=October 13, 2019|title=I'm the demiboy of my dreams, honestly.}}</ref>

* Chinese-American clinical psychologist and educator Dr. [[Sand Chang]] ([[they/them]]) - nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, demiboy, femme<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ep 69 Dr. Sand Chang Licensed Psychologist Interview |last=Kramer |first=Kaiya |work=The Queer Life Radio |date=11 December 2015 |access-date=6 April 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtFtRleENew|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419140750/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtFtRleENew |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Actor [[Sam de Leve]] ([[they/them]]) - half-boy.<ref>https://twitter.com/chaikovsky [https://web.archive.org/web/20230702040137/https://twitter.com/chaikovsky Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* Author and journalist [[Sassafras Lowrey]] ([[ze/hir]],<ref name="Lowrey2017">{{Cite web |title=A Guide To Non-binary Pronouns And Why They Matter |last=Lowrey |first=Sassafras |work=HuffPost |date=8 November 2017 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/non-binary-pronouns-why-they-matter_b_5a03107be4b0230facb8419a |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529102548/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/non-binary-pronouns-why-they-matter_b_5a03107be4b0230facb8419a |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> b. 1984) - [[genderqueer]], trans, femme, leather boy<ref>{{cite tweet|user= sassafraslowrey|number= 1182723625448685568|date=11 October 2019|title=and to have made a core aspect of my career around writing the queerest books and stories I can imagine. Happy #NationalComingOutDay Queerly yours a: #runaway, formerly #homeless, #genderqueer, #trans, #femme, #queer, #polyamorous, #asexual, #little, #leather boy}}</ref>

* Well-known e-sports player [[SonicFox|Dominique "SonicFox" McLean]] ([[they/them]],<ref>https://twitter.com/SonicFox/status/1172597487560994821 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230507185711/https://twitter.com/SonicFox/status/1172597487560994821 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> b. 1998) - nonbinary man<ref name="Dalbey">{{Cite web |title=‘I will finally explore my true identity’: SonicFox comes out as nonbinary |last=Dalbey|first=Alex |work=The Daily Dot |date=4 September 2019 |access-date=2 April 2020 |url= https://www.dailydot.com/irl/sonicfox-nonbinary/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207033106/https://www.dailydot.com/irl/sonicfox-nonbinary/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Canadian actor-producer [[Elliot Page]] (he/they) - nonbinary transgender guy<ref name="Steinmetz">{{Cite web |title=Elliot Page Is Ready for This Moment |last=Steinmetz |first=Katy |work=Time |date=March 16, 2021 |access-date=March 19, 2021 |url= https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page/ |quote=During our interviews, Page will repeatedly refer to himself as a “transgender guy.” He also calls himself nonbinary and queer, but for him, transmasculinity is at the center of the conversation right now. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619190900/https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* Canadian singer-songwriter [[T. Thomason]] (he/him) - nonbinary man<ref name="Ratchford">{{Cite web |title=Getting To Know The Creator Of ‘Babes,’ The Web’s Cutest Queer Series |last=Ratchford, Sarah |work=Medium |date=6 January 2017 |access-date=22 October 2020 |url=https://medium.com/the-establishment/getting-to-know-the-creator-of-babes-the-cutest-queer-series-on-the-web-ab4e0325e5f0 |quote=T. Thomason, a nonbinary trans man |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720055243/https://medium.com/the-establishment/getting-to-know-the-creator-of-babes-the-cutest-queer-series-on-the-web-ab4e0325e5f0 |archive-date=20 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

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==See also==
*[[Transmasculine]]
*[[Gender binary]]
*[[Binary gender]]
*[[Boi]]
*[[Butch]]
*[[List of nonbinary identities]]
*[[Glossary of English gender and sex terminology]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Identities]]

Transneutral

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== The Term: Transneutral ==
{{infobox identity
| flag = Transneutral Flag.png
| related = [[Abinary]], [[Gender neutral]], and [[Neutrois]]
| umbrella = [[Transgender]] and [[Nonbinary]]
| frequency = 0.6%
| gallery_link = Https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Transneutral
| name = Transneutral
}}
Transneutral is a term used to describe a [[transgender]] individual who identifies fully or partially as a [[Gender neutral|neutral]], [[abinary]], or other <u>specific</u>* non-binary gender. It can be considered [[umbrella term]] for individuals who transition to a neutral identity. Transneutral individuals can identify as other, non-neutral genders as well - for example, someone who identifies as a neuwoman could simultaneously identify as transneutral, though usually the individuals' neutral identities are more significant than the individuals' non-neutral identities, or the individual usually wants their neutral identity considered more significant than their non-neutral.

Transneutral individuals are sometimes called MtN/FtN or M2N/F2N (male/female to neutral) depending on the individuals [[assigned gender at birth]] ([[Sexes|AGaB]] - which can include [[Sexes|AFAB]], otherwise known as assigned female at birth, or [[Sexes|AMAB]], otherwise known as assigned male at birth)

== Umbrella Terms ==
Within the [[LGBT|LGBTQIA+]] community, "[[Umbrella term|umbrella terms]]" are a system of terms that correlate with, or centre more on specific terms, for gender or sexual identity / orientation. Using as an example:
{{Infobox identity
| flag = Transneutral.png
| meaning = This is the Binary to Non-Binary Flay (BTNB), which is often confused with the transneutral flag. While they're similar in that they both centre with Non-Binary identities, they're not the same.
| name = BTX / BTNB
}}
'''''<big>Non-Binary:</big>'''''
{| class="wikitable"
!<big>NB: Common Terms</big>
!
!<big>NB/ NBCT: More Specified Terms</big>
|-
|Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Genderneutral
| -- >
|Genderless, Genderflux,
|-
|Demigender, Demiboy, Demigirl
| -->
|Demiboyflux, Demigirlflux, Demigenderflux, Demiflux
|-
|Polygender
| -->
|Bigender, Trigender, Quadgender
|-
|Queer
| -- >
|Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Asexual
|-
|Transgender
| -- >
|Transmasculine, Transfeminine, Transneutral
|}
Transneutral is not synonymous with being [[non-binary]], since several [[non-binary]] genders are neutral-aligned or [[Ningender|neutral in nature]], and not all [[non-binary]] individuals identify as [[transgender]]. However, it is often still shown under the umbrella term of Non-Binary, due to the spectrum of genders that an umbrella term can show simultaneously often being overlooked or generalised.

== Transitioning ==
Transneutral is sometimes used, not specifically as a gender identity, instead as a way to describe anyone who undergoes a medical transition process that is not fully [[transmasculine]] or fully [[transfeminine]] - either through surgery, hormone replacement therapy, or other similar ways of internally or externally transitioning. Under this definition, individuals who undergo transition(s) - whether internally or externally, socially or legally - to seem more neutral would be considered transneutral, regardless of their actual gender identity. The [[feminine]] equivalent to transneutral is [[transfeminine]]. The [[masculine]] equivalent is [[transmasculine]].

==History==
In the 2022 Gender Census, a 0.3% of participants in the survey identified as transneutral.{{Gender Census|2022}}

==References==
<references />
[[Category:Identities]]
[[Category:Nonbinary identities]]

Femmegender

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{{uncommon identity}}
{{infobox identity
| flag = Femmegender2.png
| related = [[Demigirl]] and [[Femme]]
| umbrella = [[Nonbinary]]
| frequency = <0.1%
}}
'''Femmegender''', or '''femgender''', is a nonbinary gender identity that is feminine in nature. It comes from the queer term "[[femme]]", which means a person who subverts and/or queers [[femininity]]. The term is popular in [[lesbian]] and [[sapphic]] communities. Femmegender can denote a person whose gender identity is tied to their femmeness. For a person who does not identify as femme, but still feels like their femininity is a part of their gender, the spelling femgender can be used.

==History==
Femmegender has been coined in multiple instances by different people over time. An early coining of femmegender was posted by tumblr user queerfucker in July 2014. They defined it as "identifying with femininity, femme, and girlhood, but also not a girl; nonbinary with a core and foundation of enduring femme".<ref>{{cite web|title=femmegender|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823034501/https://queerfucker.tumblr.com/post/92069054803/femmegender-identifying-with-femininity-femme|archive-date=23 August 2014|date=2014|url=https://queerfucker.tumblr.com/post/92069054803/femmegender-identifying-with-femininity-femme}}</ref>
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[[File:Femmegender (7 stripes - mint, lavender, purple).png|thumb|200px|One of queernoctis' proposed femmegender flags.]]
In August 2014 the Tumblr user queernoctis created flag ideas for femmegender:<ref>[https://queernoctis.tumblr.com/post/93713712129/some-ideas-for-a-femmegender-flag-purple-is-a Tumblr post], 3 August 2014 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230605214625/https://queernoctis.tumblr.com/post/93713712129/some-ideas-for-a-femmegender-flag-purple-is-a Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

{{quote|Purple is a feminine color, but doesn't have the same GIRL connotations that pink does. The fade out of shades from dark to light is meant to represent the variations in gender while still associating with the core/foundation of femme.

The mint/green are meant to represent the sort of 'absence' of a binary gender/being a girl, as well as give a bit of variety of color for those that dont like the plain purple+white design.}}
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[[File:Femmegender by Red (white and purple).png|thumb|200px|Red's femmegender flag.]]
An alternative meaning of femmegender was coined in 2019 by a nonbinary [[lesbian]] named Red. Red's definition of femmegender is "where you have [[Multigender|two or more genders]] where they are ALL feminine genders!"<ref>[https://mogai-on-the-internet.tumblr.com/post/187036794620/femmegender-flag-femmegender-is-where-you-have Femmegender flag!] by Red, 15 August 2019 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230607023336/https://mogai-on-the-internet.tumblr.com/post/187036794620/femmegender-flag-femmegender-is-where-you-have Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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[[File:Femmegender by imthatgremlin (4 stripes - purple yellow white orange).png|thumb|200px|Gordon's femmegender flag. The stripes' meanings are as follows: Purple - femme identity and unique gender presentation; Yellow - relationship to gender experienced through lesbian identity; White - experiences of gender outside the binary; Orange - Solidarity and community with butches]]
In 2020, a nonbinary [[butch]] lesbian named Gordon defined their own coinage of butchgender and femmegender as [[xenogender]]s "for butch and femme lesbians who feel like their gender either is, or is heavily influenced by their butch or femme identity".<ref>{{cite tweet |user=imthatgremlin |number=1281079859737882624 |title=i came up with some xenogenders for lesbians [orange heart emoji] butchgender and femmegender, for butch and femme lesbians who feel like their gender either is, or is heavily influenced by their butch or femme identity / here are the flags i made, and their meanings! |date=8 July 2020}}</ref>

Additional femmegender/femgender flags can be seen in [[:Category:Femmegender pride flags]].
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==See also==
* [[Femme]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Nonbinary identities]]

Unlabeled Gender

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[[File:UnalebelGenderFlag.png|alt=Unlabeled Gender flag|thumb|Unlabeled gender flag]]'''Unlabeled gender''' is a broad [[umbrella term]] that can be used as a [[gender identity]] label in and of itself. Someone who uses this term to describe themself may do so for various reasons, such as:

* Being unsure of their specific gender label;
* Being [[agender]];
* Being unaware of any label that matches their gender identity;
* Their primary identification being as human;<ref>Piwetz, Sawyer D.; Stewart, Katricia D.F.; Weisberg, Yanna J.; and Tompkins, Tanya L., "Non-binary Living in a Binary World: The Unlabeled Experience" (2015). ''Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement.'' Event. Submission 86. https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/symposium/2015/all/86/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230701011021/https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/symposium/2015/all/86/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
* Disliking labels.
Moreover, someone who identifies as unlabeled may use additional terms to specify their experience. Examples of these supplementary labels can be [[Galactian system]] labels, [[transfeminine]], [[transmasculine]], [[non-binary]], among many others.
Someone whose gender is unlabeled does not necessarily have to be non-binary, though they can be.<references />

[[Category:Identities]]
[[Category:Umbrella Terms]]

Gender neutral titles

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{{featured article}}
{{Side list
|title = Most used titles
|content =
# No title (33%)
# Mx (31.3%)
# Mr (8.7%)
# Ms (4.7%)
# Miss (3.1%)
# Ind (3%)

Data provided by the 2019 Gender Census.<ref name="Census2018"/>
}}
A '''gender neutral title''' is an alternative to the gendered honorifics Miss, Mrs, Ms and Mr, Mt/Mm for people who don't fit the [[gender binary]] and therefore don't feel that a gendered title fits their identity. It is used in formal situations when it is inappropriate to refer to someone by their first or last name only. However, there are quite a lot of people who would prefer to never be referred to with a title. In the 2019 Gender Census, 33% of respondents didn't want to use a title for themselves.<ref name="Census2018" />

For the most part, gender neutral titles without qualification/career connotations are not recognised by the general public or businesses/organisations. Activists and supporters are working toward awareness and acceptance of alternative titles. The generally accepted gender neutral titles are associated with qualifications and careers, such as Dr (Doctor) and Rev (Reverend).

For some nonbinary folk, being referred to with a gendered title can trigger [[gender dysphoria]].

==Changing your title==

===United Kingdom===

A Deed Poll can be used to change your name and your title free of charge, if you can get two witnesses together - however if you are only changing your title, there may be no need for this.

The Deed Poll Service notes that “There's no need to follow any formal procedure (such as executing a Deed Poll) if you only wish to change your title. You simply need to start using your new title and notify all the record holders that you have changed it.”[http://www.deedpoll.org.uk/AreThereAnyRestrictionsOnNames.html#Section3.6] The UK Deed Poll Service also offer the gender-inclusive title Mx.<ref>''[http://mxactivist.tumblr.com/mxevidence The Growing Use of Mx as a Gender-inclusive Title in the UK]'', captured August 2017. [https://web.archive.org/web/20211221025245/https://mxactivist.tumblr.com/mxevidence Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

A Statutory Declaration of title change can be drawn up and presented to a regular solicitor to witness/sign for a cost of approximately £10.00 (this usually includes a couple of legal copies); having the solicitor draw the document up for you may incur a much higher cost (£70.00+). You do not usually need to make an appointment for this service as the process only takes a few minutes.

There is, however, no need to use a paid service to create a Deed Poll. "DIY" versions are just as valid.

A Deed Poll firmly demonstrates your commitment to your chosen gender when you apply to the government's Gender Recognition Panel. However, if you already have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) you do not need a deed poll to switch your name as your GRC is proof for governmental bodies (i.e. passport office). <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukdeedpolloffice.org/transgender-name-changes/|title=Transgender Name Changing Services By UK Deed Poll Office|website=The UK Deed Poll Office|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604175503/https://www.ukdeedpolloffice.org/transgender-name-changes/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

==List of nonbinary/gender neutral titles==
Here follows an alphabetical list of gender-neutral or specifically nonbinary titles that are alternatives to Mr. and Ms.

===De/Dᵉ===

A proposed neutral title pronounced "done".<ref name="GenderJargon">{{cite web|url=https://gender-resource.tumblr.com/catalog|title=Gender Jargon: Transgender and IMOGA Terms 2020|date= 12 May 2020|access-date=11 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527032601/https://gender-resource.tumblr.com/catalog|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

===Div===

'''How to use:''' Div. Sam Smith, Div. Smith.

'''Pronunciation:'''

'''History:'''

'''Meaning:''' Short for "Individual".<ref name="Ind-Coin">{{cite web|author=Torin Unrealisk (minimalistfish)|title=Ind. as a gender neutral title?|date=15 February 2014|work=A Glorious Abscence of Gender| url=http://minimalistfish.tumblr.com/post/76750503799/ind-as-a-gender-neutral-title|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229064400/https://minimalistfish.tumblr.com/post/76750503799/ind-as-a-gender-neutral-title}}</ref>

===Fren===
'''How to use:''' Use like sir or ma'am. (Example: Excuse me, '''fren''', I think you left your notebook on this table.)

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced ''fren'' (IPA: fɹɛn) or ''friend'' without the -d ending.

'''History and meaning:''' Shortened form of "friend" and used colloquially, both as a phonological variant of "friend" and as a diminutive of the word.

===Ind===

'''How to use:''' Ind. Sam Smith, Ind. Smith.

'''Pronunciation:''' "ind" (IPA: ˌɪnd) or "individual".

'''History:''' The Ind title was coined by Torin "MinimalistFish" Unrealisk in early 2014, a [[genderless]] individual who goes by the Ind title. Unrealisk proposed it in a post to a social blogging website, Tumblr.<ref>Conversation thread between Orion Scribner (frameacloud) and Torin Unrealisk (minimalistfish). 2014-11-12. <i>A Glorious Abscence of Gender</i> (personal blog). Torin Unrealisk. [http://minimalistfish.tumblr.com/post/102483931685/torin-unrealisk-thank-you-for-what-you-wrote-about-the http://minimalistfish.tumblr.com/post/102483931685/torin-unrealisk-thank-you-for-what-you-wrote-about-the]{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Or archive: [http://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/102488535511/torin-unrealisk-thank-you-for-what-you-wrote-about-the http://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/102488535511/torin-unrealisk-thank-you-for-what-you-wrote-about-the]{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

'''Meaning:''' According to the one who coined it, Ind is short for "Individual". This title may be more appropriate for those who do not feel "mixed gender" implied titles meets their gender-neutral standards. Ind was designed to be entirely free of gender, thus making it an attractive option for [[agender]] and [[gender nonconforming]] individuals. For more information, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20191229064400/https://minimalistfish.tumblr.com/post/76750503799/ind-as-a-gender-neutral-title the post in which it was coined].<ref name="Ind-Coin" />

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Ind was chosen by 3% respondents.<ref name="Census2018">''[https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/183832246805/gender-census-2019-the-full-report-worldwide Gender Census 2019 - The Full Report (Worldwide)]'', April 2019 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230525010935/https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/183832246805/gender-census-2019-the-full-report-worldwide Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

===M===

'''How to use:''' M Smith. M. Smith.

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced ''em'' (IPA: ɛm), like the name of the letter M.

'''Meaning:''' Meant to be a neutral title that is not based off "mixing" binary genders. Based on the gendered titles Mr and Ms, just without the second letter.

'''Examples of use:''' In science fiction by Dan Simmons, ''Hyperion Cantos,'' all adult humans go by the title M.<ref>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasticHonorifics [https://web.archive.org/web/20230421080451/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasticHonorifics Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''Similar-looking titles:''' One potential problem with the neutral title "M" is confusion with the French title "M." short for "Monsieur," which is masculine, not neutral. [http://epochryphal.tumblr.com/post/27562258920/hmmmm-so-i-know-m-stands-for-monsieur-en][http://epochryphal.tumblr.com/post/37860057313/delvinappterrace-replied-to-your-post-today-i] It can also be confused for a first initial.

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, M was chosen by 0.2% of the respondents.<ref name="Census2018"/>

=== M* ===

'''How to use:''' M* Sam Smith. M* Smith.

'''Pronunciation:''' miss-star

'''History:''' M* (alternatively "M⭐" or "Mstr") was coined in May 2018 by Osiesaur (tumblr user owlsofstarlight).<ref name="owls">{{Cite web |title=Can't sleep so have the gender shitpost my brain is thinking about instead |author=owlsofstarlight |work=Writing Volcano |date=22 May 2019 |access-date=11 July 2020 |url= https://owlsofstarlight.tumblr.com/post/185055185526/cant-sleep-so-have-the-gender-shitpost-my-brain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221025244/https://owlsofstarlight.tumblr.com/post/185055185526/cant-sleep-so-have-the-gender-shitpost-my-brain |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

'''Use:'''

=== Mir ===
'''How to use:''' Mir Sam Smith. Mir Smith.

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced like "mer" in merlin (IPA: / mɜr /).

'''History and meaning:''' Blend of honorifics Miss and Mr, or Sir and Madam. In use from at least 2017.<ref name=":0">[https://genderqueeries.tumblr.com/titles] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230612130812/https://genderqueeries.tumblr.com/titles Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name=":0" />

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Mir was chosen by less than 0.1% of respondents.<ref name="Census2018" />

===Misc===

'''How to use:''' Misc Sam Smith. Misc Smith.

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced "misk" (IPA: mɪsk).

'''History and meaning:''' The roots of the word miscellaneous comes from the Latin *miscellus*, meaning “mixed,” following the rationale that a lot of [[nonbinary]] people would say that they have aspects of various genders at various times. [http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/3015181250/a-gender-neutral-title-misc First known mention] in January 2011.

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Misc was chosen by less than 0.1% of respondents.<ref name="Census2018"/>

===Mre===

'''How to use:''' Mre. Smith.

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced ''mystery'' or ''misstree''.

'''History and meaning:''' A play on nonbinary gender often being perceived as "mysterious." One potential problem is that it contains the "mister" and "miss" sounds in the beginning. In 2001, Liz Menzel wrote, "As Mr. is short for Mister, and Mrs. was once short for Mistress, how about Mre., for 'Mistree' (or I suppose for 'mystery,' for those who demand their spelling)."<ref>{{cite web|work=Æther Lumina|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310125817/http://aetherlumina.com/gnp/references.html|archive-date=10 March 2007|title=References & Related Realms|url=http://aetherlumina.com/gnp/references.html}}</ref>

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Mre was chosen by less than 0.1% of respondents.<ref name="Census2018"/>

===Msr===

'''How to use:''' Msr Smith.

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced ''misser''.<ref name=":1">http://genderqueeries.tumblr.com/titles [https://web.archive.org/web/20230612130812/https://genderqueeries.tumblr.com/titles Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Msr was chosen by less than 0.1% of respondents.<ref name="Census2018"/>

===Mt/Mm (Mistrum)===

'''How to use:''' Mt. Smith / Mm. Smith

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced ''misstruhm'' (IPA: mɪstɹʌm)

'''History and Meaning:''' From Latin's ''magister'', whence ''mister'' and ''mistress'', with the neuter ending -trum related to the suffix -ter, the masculine -tor, and the feminine -trix.<ref>'[https://www.reddit.com/r/whatstheword/comments/jhodsn/comment/ga18pey/ "WTW for a gender-neutral sir/ma'am"]', comment on Reddit post, 25 October 2020. [https://archive.ph/aPHMz Archive], captured 24 August 2022.</ref> However, top search results also point to ''mistrum'' in Early Middle English, where it meant ''scant'' or ''poor''.

===Mx===

''For more information, see main article: [[Mx]].''

'''How to use:''' Mx Sam Smith. Mx Smith.

'''History:''' It's not yet known who created the Mx title, when, or what their original intentions were. There is anecdotal evidence that someone went by this title "in about 1965,"<ref>Cassian Lotte Lodge (cassolotl). "Mx has been around since the 1960s." November 26, 2014. Blog post. [http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103645470405 http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103645470405] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519033811/http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103645470405 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>octopus8. November 18, 2014. Comment on news article. [http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/nov/17/rbs-bank-that-likes-to-say-mx#comment-43834815 http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/nov/17/rbs-bank-that-likes-to-say-mx#comment-43834815] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230509012340/https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/nov/17/rbs-bank-that-likes-to-say-mx Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and the earliest known recorded mention of the Mx title was in 1977.<ref>{{cite tweet|date=4 May 2015|author=Practical Androgyny|user=PractiAndrogyny|number=595329679789260801|title=The text of the 1977 Single Parent magazine article that coins Mx|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IgwdAQAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3ALCCNsc83001271&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Mx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518102048/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IgwdAQAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3ALCCNsc83001271&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Mx|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref> [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IgwdAQAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3ALCCNsc83001271&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Mx ''The Single Parent'', vol 20.]</ref> The earliest recorded mention of the Mx title on the Internet was in 1982, and the earliest person found on the Internet earnestly and actively using Mx as their title was in 1998.<ref>Nat Titman, "When was the Mx gender-inclusive title created?" August 28, 2014. ''Practical Androgyny.'' [http://practicalandrogyny.com/2014/08/28/when-was-the-mx-gender-inclusive-title-created/ http://practicalandrogyny.com/2014/08/28/when-was-the-mx-gender-inclusive-title-created/] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230216171134/https://practicalandrogyny.com/2014/08/28/when-was-the-mx-gender-inclusive-title-created/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> People began using Mx more often starting around 2000.<ref>Cassian Lotte Lodge, "The growing use of Mx as a gender-inclusive title in the UK." Version 2.5. May 9, 2015. [http://mxactivist.tumblr.com/post/118514708025 http://mxactivist.tumblr.com/post/118514708025] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220328233924/https://mxactivist.tumblr.com/post/118514708025 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> In 2015, assistant editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Jonathan Dent said that they are considering putting Mx into the OED,<ref>Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, "Gender neutral honorific Mx 'to be included' in the Oxford English Dictionary alongside Mr, Ms and Mrs and Miss." May 3, 2015. ''The Independent''. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gender-neutral-honorific-mx-to-be-included-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary-alongside-mr-ms-and-mrs-and-miss-10222287.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gender-neutral-honorific-mx-to-be-included-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary-alongside-mr-ms-and-mrs-and-miss-10222287.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230317113849/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gender-neutral-honorific-mx-to-be-included-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary-alongside-mr-ms-and-mrs-and-miss-10222287.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>Mary Papenfuss, "Oxford Dictionary may include gender-neutral honorific 'Mx'." May 5, 2015. ''International Business Times.'' [http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oxford-dictionary-may-include-gender-neutral-honorific-mx-1499626 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oxford-dictionary-may-include-gender-neutral-honorific-mx-1499626] [https://web.archive.org/web/20221213084021/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oxford-dictionary-may-include-gender-neutral-honorific-mx-1499626 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and it was added in August 2015.<ref>''[http://www.out.com/news-opinion/2015/8/27/gender-neutral-title-mx-added-oxford-english-dictionary Gender-Neutral Title Mx Added to Oxford English Dictionary]'', out.com, 27th August 2015. Captured April 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221128085532/https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2015/8/27/gender-neutral-title-mx-added-oxford-english-dictionary Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''Pronunciation:''' There are several different pronunciations of Mx, including muks (IPA: məks or mʌks), mix, em ex, mixter,<ref>Cassian Lotte Lodge, "On the pronunciation of Mx." November 27, 2014. Blog post. [http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103744029100 http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103744029100] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519033731/http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103744029100 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, or mixture.<ref>"Beyond the binary question twenty three." July 8, 2013. Blog post. [https://cnlester.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/beyond-the-binary-question-twenty-three/ https://cnlester.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/beyond-the-binary-question-twenty-three/] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519101217/http://cnlester.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/beyond-the-binary-question-twenty-three/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> A 2014 survey of 118 people found the most popular pronunciations in the UK was "məks" (by 43%), and worldwide was "mix" (42%).<ref>Cassian Lotte Lodge, "On the pronunciation of Mx." November 27, 2014. Blog post. [http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103744029100 http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103744029100] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519033731/http://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/103744029100 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''Meaning:''' The ''x'' acts as a wild card, taking the usual title format of Mr and Ms, and putting in an ''x'' to remove the gender in the title.

'''Popularity:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Mx was chosen by 31.3% of respondents.<ref name="Census2018"/> As the result of nonbinary activists asking companies to offer the Mx title as an option in paperwork, this option is becoming more widely available and well-established. As of February 2015, "31 major and respected companies, organisations and governmental departments in the UK" have been shown to give this option.<ref>Cassian Lotte Lodge (mxactivist). "There’s a new UK Mx evidence PDF up." February 6, 2015. Blog post. [http://mxactivist.tumblr.com/post/110248930295 http://mxactivist.tumblr.com/post/110248930295] [https://web.archive.org/web/20211221025246/https://mxactivist.tumblr.com/post/110248930295 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

===Mv===
A proposed title specifically for addressing a [[maverique]] person.<ref name="GenderJargon" />

===Myr===

Myr (or myr) was used as a gender neutral title, honorific, and proper noun in science fiction books by David Marusek. Its plural form is myren.<ref>{{cite web|author=cicadacicada|date=2011|title='New' Gender-neutral title.|url=http://cicadacicada.tumblr.com/post/13856770096/new-gender-neutral-title|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216135308/https://cicadacicada.tumblr.com/post/13856770096/new-gender-neutral-title|archive-date=16 December 2019}}</ref>

Myr was also independently coined by Osiesaur (tumblr user owlsofstarlight) in May 2019, and given the pronunciation "myster".<ref name="owls" />

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Myr was chosen by less than 0.1% of respondents. <ref name="Census2018"/>

=== Mys ===
'''How to use:''' Mys. Hikaru Utada. Mys. Utada.

'''Pronunciation:''' "mis"

'''Meaning:''' Short for "mystery".

'''History:''' Coined by J-pop singer [[Utada Hikaru]], who would come out as non-binary a few days later, in a 2021 Instagram post.<ref>Utada, Hikaru (June 18, 2021). [https://www.instagram.com/p/CQQil30pg34/ "I'm sick of being asked if I'm 'Miss or Missus' or choosing between 'Miss/Mrs/Ms' for everyday things"]. [[Instagram]]. Retrieved on October 26, 2021. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220107230627/https://www.instagram.com/p/CQQil30pg34/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

=== Mzr ===
'''How to use:''' Mzr. Jones

'''Pronunciation:''' ''Mezzir''

'''Use:''' A variation on Msr.

=== '''Nb''' ===
'''How to use:''' Nb. Hammond

'''Pronunciation: "'''En-bee" Just say the letters 'N' and 'B'

'''Meaning:''' This title stands for non-binary.

'''History:''' The acronym came before the word "enby."

'''Rationale:''' There are many reasons a non-binary person may "come out" publicly. Some of us choose to do so in an effort to normalize gender diversity. The word "enby" was coined as a result of the pronunciation of the acronym "NB" for "non-binary," just like "okay" followed "OK." Like many other titles, such as "Mx." or "Ind.," this title serves as a mechanism to educate folks about the existence of a non-binary gender spectrum. It is natural to identify ourselves using the word which was coined for our sake.

'''Example:''' A child says, "Mom, why does my teacher use Nb. Hammond instead of Ms. Hammond?" Parent replies, "Well, your teacher is not a boy or a girl. They are non-binary. So we call them 'enby' Hammond."

===Pr===

'''How to use:''' Pr Smith.

'''Pronunciation:''' The title Pr is pronounced "per" (IPA, UK: pɜː(ɹ), US: pɝ)

'''Meaning:''' It is intended as an abbreviation of "person". (source needed)

'''Examples of use:''' One written record of its use as a genderless title is from 2001, in a press complaint by non-gendered activist Pr [[Christie Elan-Cane]].<ref>"Pr Christie Elan-Cane v Woman's Own about Accuracy." January 31, 2001. [http://presscomplaints.org/case/3431/ http://presscomplaints.org/case/3431/] [https://web.archive.org/web/20180904215750/http://presscomplaints.org/case/3431/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''Similar-looking titles:''' Pr. is also the title given to a Christian pastor.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastor [https://web.archive.org/web/20230305221722/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastor Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Pr was chosen by less than 0.1% of respondents.<ref name="Census2018"/>

===Sai===

Sai. In ''The Dark Tower,'' the title "Sai" is a gender neutral title, the equivalent Mr or Ms, as well as the honorifics sir or ma'am.

'''Pronunciation:''' The title Sai is pronounced "sigh".

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Sai was chosen by less than 0.1% of respondents.<ref name="Census2018" />

===Ser===

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced ''sair'', to rhyme with ''hair''.

'''History and meaning (as a gender-neutral title):''' Used as a gender-neutral version of "Sir" in works of fiction such as Greg Bear's ''The Way'' novels, and the ''Dragon Age'' series of video games.

'''Similar-looking titles:''' While the title "Ser" is hundreds of years old, and has been used in a lot of media, it does not always mean the same thing, and is not gender-neutral in all cases. It's also not always equivalent to Mr or Ms, and may imply that a person has a specific profession or status. In the 1400s, "Ser" was "an honorific title usually given to notaries."<ref>Girolamo Savonarola, ''A guide to righteous living and other works.'' p. 149. </ref> In the seventeenth century in Tuscany, "Ser" was one of the titles given to physicians, and thus equivalent to "Doctor".<ref>David Gentilcore, ''Healers and healing in early modern Italy.'' p. 58.</ref> In Game of Thrones, "Ser" is the title given to knights, who are mostly male except in the case of Ser Brienne of Tarth.<ref>"Knighthood." ''Game of Thrones Wiki.'' http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Knighthood [https://web.archive.org/web/20221221235549/http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Knighthood Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Many examples of fiction use Ser, but they don't all use it to mean the same thing, as can be seen in [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasticHonorifics TV Tropes's article about Ser and other unusual honorifics in fiction]. "Ser" is also not to be confused with a similar title, "Sr," meaning "sister," the title given to a Catholic nun.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_honorifics [https://web.archive.org/web/20230707183202/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_honorifics Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

'''Use:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, Ser was chosen by 0.1% of respondents.<ref name="Census2018"/>

=== Tiz ===
'''How to use:''' Use like sir or ma'am. (Example: Excuse me, '''tiz''', I think you left your notebook on this table.)

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced ''tizz'', to rhyme with ''fizz''

'''History and meaning:''' Short form of citizen. (ci '''tiz''' en).

===Vx===
'''How to use:''' Vx. Doe

A derivative of "Mx," this title appears to have been coined and primarily seen adoption on the Fediverse.

===Zr===
'''How to use:''' Zr. Smith

'''Pronunciation:''' Pronounced ''zeester''

'''History and meaning:''' Invented by Alex Kapitan in 2007.

'''Use:''' The Zr. title is used by activist/educator [[Alex Kapitan]].

==See Also==
* [[Pronouns]]

===External Links===
*[http://genderqueeries.tumblr.com/titles Gender Queeries: Gender Neutral / Queer Titles]
*[http://genderqueerintheuk.wordpress.com/misc-or-mx-a-gender-neutral-title/ Genderqueer in the UK: Misc, or Mix: A Gender-neutral Title]
*[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasticHonorifics TV Tropes: Fantastic Honorifics]. On unusual titles and honorifics in fiction, only some of which are gender-neutral.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutral_title Wikipedia: Gender neutral title]

==References==
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[[Category:Gender neutral language]]

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'''Genderfuck''' is a form of gender expression that seeks to subvert the traditional gender binary or gender roles by mixing traditionally [[masculine]] (such as a beard) and traditionally [[feminine]] (such as a dress) components. It literally means to "fuck with" or mess with traditional notions of gender expression or gender roles.<ref name=":0">Dictionary definition of what Genderfuck means: https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/genderfuck/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230701110928/http://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/genderfuck/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name=":1">LGBTIA+ Wiki about Genderfuck: https://lgbt.wikia.org/wiki/Genderfuck [https://web.archive.org/web/20220124160321/https://lgbt.wikia.org/wiki/Genderfuck Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>Wikitionary about Genderfuck: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderfuck [https://web.archive.org/web/20230617185415/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderfuck Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Queer Bisexuality: Perceptions of Bisexual Existence, Distinctions, and Challenges|journal=Journal of Bisexuality|year=2008|last1=Horncastle|first1=Julia|volume=8|doi=10.1080/15299710802142192|quote=Genderfuck is specifically about queering gender rather than sexuality—disrupting conventional dress and behavior gender codes—...}}</ref> For some it is their gender identity, for others it is a label for a certain event's clothing or outfit. <ref>Wiki page on Genderbender / gender bending: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bender [https://web.archive.org/web/20230228220817/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> This may also extend to the belief that the social construct of gender does not exist.<ref name="UD-genderfuck">{{Cite web |title=Urban Dictionary: genderfuck |author=Michelle |work=Urban Dictionary |date=27 April 2003 |access-date=8 July 2020 |url= https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=genderfuck|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616044322/https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=genderfuck |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>


Genderfuck may alternatively be called '''genderpunk'''.<ref name="UD-genderpunk">{{Cite web |title=Urban Dictionary: genderpunk |author=Kozmo the WordWíld |work=Urban Dictionary |date=29 December 2013 |access-date=8 July 2020 |url= https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=genderpunk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627004802/https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=genderpunk |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="DA-genderpunk">{{Cite web |title=Genderpunk (1) |author=Pride-Flags |work=DeviantArt |date=23 August 2015 |access-date=8 July 2020 |url= https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Genderpunk-1-555820431|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516165133/https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Genderpunk-1-555820431 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>


There is no established, agreed-upon pride flag for genderfuck, but some have been proposed: see [[:Category:Genderfuck pride flags]].

== Usage == 

=== Genderfuck as a form of identity === 


Some people may feel like genderfuck is the best descriptor for their identity, as they in general feel it applies to them not only in expression but also in their personal feeling of gender. People who identify as Genderfuck may often use parody and/or exaggeration to show how intensely it has broken traditional gender roles. They may want to expose them as fake, artificial or absurd<ref name=":1" /> by using one's own expression to create an image that fits in neither traditional box and thus may spark discussion or disagreement.


In the 2019 [[Gender Census]], 42 people wrote that their identity was "genderfuck", 11 wrote their identity was "genderfucked", 3 people wrote "genderfucker", and 17 wrote that they were "genderpunk".<ref name="docs_Gend">{{Cite web |title=Gender Census 2019 - the public spreadsheet |author=Cassian |work=Google Docs |date=30 March 2019 |access-date=26 July 2020 |url= https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ePCyWMdorSHAaxNcd1Iv64oLvkdgeoZldTdGZZTHlvY/edit#gid=498446722|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522223529/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ePCyWMdorSHAaxNcd1Iv64oLvkdgeoZldTdGZZTHlvY/edit |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>


Genderfuck people may share many things with [[genderqueer]], but they are separate identities.

=== Genderfuck as a form of expression === 


Some binary identifying trans people or nonbinary people may choose to intentionally dress up in a genderfuck outfit for an event or photoshoot. This usually consists of using secondary sexual characteristics of different sexes such as a beard '''and''' breasts, or another expression of traditionally male and female identifiers together. This may be to intentionally confuse the audience and to set traditional gender roles and expression into question, leading to discussion under the umbrella of "what is masculine/feminine?" or similar discourse.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="UD-genderfuck" />


Genderfuck also seeks to break down the rigid binary space and create a new fluid space where people can express and qualities they want of themselves without being ridiculed for "not fitting in your box." More open room to express oneself however you find comfortable. This is also often used by [[Drag]] Queens and Drag Kings when performing as they do not use just feminine or masculine qualities in their outfits and intentionally dress up in a way that cannot be limited to feminine or masculine qualities.<ref>Wiki on Genderbender Drag section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bender#Drag [https://web.archive.org/web/20230228220817/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>


Although this is often associated with [[queer]] identities, you do not have to be queer to want to or to participate in genderfucking.<ref name=":1" />

== History == 


Genderfuck as a term has been used since the 1960s or 1950s<ref name=":1" />. It stems from a political movement which states "the idea that the personal is political."


It has been used since at least 1974 for gender expression and identity, starting with an article by Christopher Lonc, entitled "Genderfuck and Its Delights"<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />


A very detailed article can be found [https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2013/04/25/the-history-of-genderfuck/ here].<blockquote>Lonc wrote: "I want to criticize and poke fun at the roles of women and of men too. I want to try and show how not-normal I can be. I want to ridicule and destroy the whole cosmology of restrictive sex roles and sexual identification."<ref>{{cite book|title=Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality|editor=Bergman, David|year=1993|isbn=0870238787}}</ref></blockquote>

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''"Sex" redirects here. For other uses, see [[intimacy]] (regarding sex acts), or [[romantic and sexual orientations]] (regarding sexuality).''

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'''Sexes''' are a system of categories, a way of putting kinds of bodies into categories. Living things of many species evolved to be specialized into their own male, female, and [[intersex]] kinds, each known as a sex. A sex is generally determined by reproductive body parts. In humans, these imply-- but do not prove-- a correlation with chromosomes. In gender studies, the sex and [[gender]] of a person are thought of as two distinct things: sex is about the body, whereas gender is about the self. What most people mean when they talk about someone's sex is their assigned gender at birth.

==Distinction between sex and gender==
The distinction between sex and gender differentiates a person's biological sex (the anatomy of an individual's reproductive system, and secondary sex characteristics) from that person's gender, which can refer to either social roles based on the sex of the person (gender role) or personal identification of one's own gender based on an internal awareness (gender identity).<ref name="Virginia">Prince, Virginia. 2005. "Sex vs. Gender." ''International Journal of Transgenderism''. 8(4).</ref><ref name="Carlson">Neil R., Carlson. Psychology: The science of behavior. Fourth Canadian edition. isbn 978-1-57344-199-5. Pearson, 2010. P. 140–141</ref> In this model, the idea of a "biological gender" is an oxymoron: the biological aspects are not gender-related, and the gender-related aspects are not biological. In some circumstances, an individual's assigned sex and gender do not align, and the person may be [[transgender]].<ref name="Virginia"/> In other cases, an individual may have biological sex characteristics that complicate sex assignment, and the person may be intersex.

The sex and gender distinction is not universal. In ordinary English, ''sex'' and ''gender'' are often used interchangeably.<ref name=udry>{{cite journal|doi=10.2307/2061790 |first1=J. Richard |last1=Udry |date=November 1994 |title=The Nature of Gender |journal=Demography |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=561–573 |pmid=7890091 |url=https://www.unc.edu/courses/2006fall/econ/586/001/Readings/Udry_Nature_Gender.pdf |jstor=2061790 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007105102/https://www.unc.edu/courses/2006fall/econ/586/001/Readings/Udry_Nature_Gender.pdf |archive-date=7 October 2015 }}</ref><ref name="haig">{{cite journal|first1=David |last1=Haig |authorlink1=David Haig (biologist) |date=April 2004 |title=The Inexorable Rise of Gender and the Decline of Sex: Social Change in Academic Titles, 1945–2001 |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=87–96 |pmid=15146141 |doi=10.1023/B:ASEB.0000014323.56281.0d |url=http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/publications_files/04inexorablerise.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525090802/http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/Publications_files/04InexorableRise.pdf |archive-date=25 May 2011|citeseerx=10.1.1.359.9143 }}</ref> Some dictionaries and academic disciplines give them different definitions while others do not. Some languages, such as German or Finnish, have no separate words for sex and gender, and the distinction has to be made through context. On occasion, using the English word ''gender'' is appropriate.<ref name="Bograd-2015">{{cite journal|last1=Bograd |first1=Michele |last2=Weingarten |first2=Kaethe |title=Reflections on Feminist Family Therapy Training |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHlsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 |accessdate=11 February 2018 |series=EBL-Schweitzer |date=28 January 2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=978-1-317-72776-7 |page=69 |oclc=906056635 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508090147/https://books.google.com/books?id=JHlsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 |archivedate=8 May 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://global.finland.fi/gender/ngo/peruskasitteet.htm|title=Peruskäsitteet|access-date=2018-02-11|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508090148/http://global.finland.fi/gender/ngo/peruskasitteet.htm|archivedate=2018-05-08|lang=fi}}</ref>

Among scientists, the term ''sex differences'' (as compared to ''gender differences'') is often used for sexually dimorphic traits that are thought to be evolved results of sexual selection.<ref name="Mealey, L. 2000">Mealey, L. (2000). Sex differences. NY: Academic Press.</ref><ref name="Geary, D. C. 2009">Geary, D. C. (2009) Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association</ref>

==Biological essentialism==

The form of sexism called biological essentialism is the belief that your body is the main thing that makes you who you are. It is supposed to define you forever, no matter what you change about yourself, think about yourself, or anything. It says the gender you were assigned at birth must be your only real gender. Biological essentialism is used to justify most forms of sexism. It is harmful to virtually everyone, of any sex or gender.<ref name="Weiss">{{Cite web |title=How Gender Essentialism Hurts Us All |last=Weiss |first=Suzannah |work=Bustle |date=13 March 2017 |access-date=16 February 2021 |url= https://www.bustle.com/p/7-ways-gender-essentialism-hurts-everyone-43897|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330090711/https://www.bustle.com/p/7-ways-gender-essentialism-hurts-everyone-43897 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Some [[transgender exclusionists]] use biological essentialism to discriminate against transgender and nonbinary people.

==Assigned gender at birth==
[[File:Phall-O-meter', Intersex Society of North Wellcome L0031936.jpg|thumb|200px|The "Phall-O-Meter" is a satirical measure that critiques the medical standard of assigning sex at birth solely based on the size of a newborn's phallus.]]
When people speak of a person's "sex", usually what they really mean is their assigned gender at birth. This is because a person's sex is much more difficult to determine than most people believe. For example, chromosomes are part of defining someone's sex, but most people never get their chromosomes tested. A baby's assigned gender at birth is based on only one thing: the presence or absence of what a doctor thinks is probably a penis. This will be the only basis of that child's [[legal gender]]. As the person grows up, the doctor's guess about their sex can turn out to be wrong, because some intersex conditions only become clear once a person has gone through puberty. Even then, the person might have unusual chromosomes or internal reproductive organs without ever knowing about it.

"Sex identity" can mean either how a person categorizes their own physical sex,<ref>"LGBTQI Terminology." [http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/documents/LGBTTerminology.pdf] {{dead link}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20230516205518/http://lgbt.ucla.edu/documents/LGBTTerminology.pdf Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=LGBT resources: Definition of terms |url=http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms |archive-url =}}</ref> or it can mean how other people categorize that person's sex.<ref name="TGQTG">{{cite web| title=Trans, Genderqueer, and Queer Terms Glossary| url= http://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/Trans_and_queer_glossary.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170210021940/https://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/Trans_and_queer_glossary.pdf |archive-date = 10 February 2017}}</ref>

Some [[activism|activists]] advocate for society to cease assigning gender at birth. For example, author and lawyer [[wikipedia:Martine Rothblatt|Martine Rothblatt]] wrote: "As we gradually free ourselves from stamping newborn babies as one sex or the other, gender expectations will become self-defining and the full cultural liberation of all people can occur at last."<ref>{{cite journal|title=Gender Manifesto: a selection from The Apartheid of Sex |journal=TV/TS Tapestry Journal |date=Spring 1995 |number=71 |page=33 |url=https://archive.org/details/tvtstapestry7119unse/ |publisher= International Foundation for Gender Education|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026123416/https://archive.org/details/tvtstapestry7119unse/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> In 2020, several MDs published an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine stating that "Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation wouldn't compromise the birth certificate's public health function but could avoid harm."<ref name="ShteylerClarke2020">{{cite journal|last1=Shteyler|first1=Vadim M.|last2=Clarke|first2=Jessica A.|last3=Adashi|first3=Eli Y.|title=Failed Assignments — Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=383|issue=25|year=2020|pages=2399–2401|issn=0028-4793|doi=10.1056/NEJMp2025974}}</ref>

===Other phrasing===

People writing about gender use several different phrases to refer to assigned gender at birth. Some of them are more accurate and respectful than others. This list gives some of these phrases.

* '''Assigned Gender At Birth (AGAB)'''. Most people are either '''Assigned Female At Birth (AFAB)''' or '''Assigned Male At Birth (AMAB)'''. This is an accurate and respectful phrase.

* '''Gender Assigned At Birth (GAAB)''' is a different word order for the above phrase, with the same meaning. This makes '''Female Assigned At Birth (FAAB)''', and '''Male Assigned At Birth (MAAB)'''.

* '''Designated Gender At Birth (DGAB)'''. Most people are either '''Designated Female At Birth (DFAB)''' or '''Designated Male At Birth (DMAB)'''. This phrase is used interchangeably with AGAB, with much the same meaning.

* '''Coercively Assigned Gender At Birth (CAGAB)'''. Most people are either '''Coercively Assigned Female At Birth (CAFAB)''' or male ('''CAMAB'''). Unlike AGAB and GAAB, CAGAB emphasizes that the gender was assigned against the person's will, and implies that the person was abused as a child. People disagree about who gets to say their gender was ''coercively'' assigned. Some say only intersex people can call themselves CAGAB, and that the coercion refers to non-consensual practices such as genital surgery given to intersex infants to make their genitals "normal." However, many [[children]] who aren't intersex also have a gender role assigned to them by means of coercion and abuse. For example, some parents put gender non-conforming and transgender children through "conversion therapy" to make the children conform to their assigned gender.

The next list of phrases gives those that aren't as accurate or respectful. Please use one of the above phrases instead of them.

* '''Biological sex''' ('''biological girl''', '''biological boy''') isn't a good phrase for talking about assigned gender or sex. For example, although a typical transgender woman was assigned male at birth, it could offend her to call her a biological male. She's not a non-biological woman or a robot. Because she is a woman, she might not consider herself to have a "male biology". It would be more tactful to describe her as AMAB. Even more tactful, no direct explicit reference to her assigned gender at birth at all, and simply say that she is a trans woman.

* '''Genetic girl''' and '''genetic boy''' aren't good things to call someone, for similar reasons as "biological sex". "Genetic" refers to chromosomes, but doctors usually don't check babies' chromosomes at birth. During pregnancy, some OBGYN practices offer fetal genetic testing and use the sex chromosome result to assign a gender, but chromosomes aren't part of how gender is assigned at birth. Even adults only rarely get to find out what their chromosomes are. Doctors only do that test if they think it might answer questions certain kinds of challenges with health and fertility. Intersex conditions prove that there is no guarantee that a person's assigned gender might match their chromosomes.

* '''Natal sex''' (as in '''natal female''' and '''natal male'''). This means the sex that a person supposedly had when they were born.<ref name="TGQTG" /> Because of the problems in determining a baby's actual sex, a more accurate phrase is "assigned at birth" or one of its variants.

==Dyadic sexes==
'''Dyadic''' means "not intersex." The dyadic sexes are male and female, with no noticable intersex characteristics. Dyadic sexes should not be confused with [[cisgender]] or [[binary gender]].

There is some controversy around the usage of the term "dyadic."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fullfrontalactivism.blogspot.com/2012/09/dyadic.html |title="Dyadic"? |date=10 September 2012 |last=Astorino |first=Claudia |work=Full-Frontal Activism: Intersex and Awesome|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128150823/https://fullfrontalactivism.blogspot.com/2012/09/dyadic.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="tcaa">{{Cite web |title=I'm sorry if this is bad to ask but why is dyadic a bad term to use? |author= |work=To Cultivate an Ally |date=27 October 2014 |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://transriley.tumblr.com/post/101068658963/im-sorry-if-this-is-bad-to-ask-but-why-is-dyadic|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518082522/https://transriley.tumblr.com/post/101068658963/im-sorry-if-this-is-bad-to-ask-but-why-is-dyadic |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> ''Dyad'' means two, so ''dyadic'' promotes the idea of a dualism for sex: male and female. Although well intended, it may fall short of deconstructing binary of sex and acknowledging the complexity of human biology. Other common terms for "not intersex" are ''perisex''<ref name="Lanquist">{{Cite web |title=Definitions |author=Lanquist, L.A. |work=Trans Narrative |date= |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://lalanquist.com/definitions/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321143000/https://lalanquist.com/definitions/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="themeaningofbi">{{Cite web |title=What tf is perisex |author= |work=Correcting Bisexuality Definitions One at a Time |date=17 July 2016 |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918160541/https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> and ''endosex''<ref name="ihra_What">{{Cite web |title=What is intersex? |work=Intersex Human Rights Australia |date=2 August 2013 |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://ihra.org.au/18106/what-is-intersex/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304091433/https://ihra.org.au/18106/what-is-intersex/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="anun_Biol">{{Cite web |title=Biological and Anatomical Sex: Endosex, Intersex & Altersex |author=Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez |work= |date=12 December 2019 |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://anunnakiray.com/2019/12/12/biological-and-anatomical-sex-endosex-intersex-altersex/ |quote=I prefer to use the word endosex to describe people who were not born intersex. In the past 'dyadic' was used for this same purpose. The very word 'dyadic' implies that only two sex exist which is not accurate if we are to respect intersex existence. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213103039/https://anunnakiray.com/2019/12/12/biological-and-anatomical-sex-endosex-intersex-altersex/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>, which avoid this binary implication. Other proposed terms, which have not gained much use, include ''intrasex'' and ''juxtasex''.<ref name="tcaa" />

==Assigned female at birth==

'''Assigned Female At Birth (AFAB)''', also called '''Female Assigned At Birth (FAAB)''', or '''Designated Female At Birth (DFAB)'''. The term '''Coercively Assigned Female At Birth (CAFAB)''' means the same, but with additional nuances. Less accurate or respectful terms for this are '''biological female''', '''genetic girl''', and '''natal female'''.

When a person is born, a doctor will say the baby is female based on this one criteria: the absence of a penis, or rather, or a clitoris smaller than a certain size. The doctor doesn't check the baby for the presence of a vagina, so sometimes the absence of this is missed. Some people with intersex conditions who were AFAB only discover they don't have a vagina once they are older. The doctor also doesn't check the baby's chromosomes to assign a female gender, so a person who was AFAB doesn't necessarily have XX chromosomes.

A person who was AFAB usually but doesn't necessarily consider their sex to be female. Being AFAB doesn't mean that a person necessarily has a female gender identity, which is the main criteria for someone being female. Being AFAB doesn't necessarily mean that someone is a person perceived as a woman (PPW).

Transgender people who were AFAB are usually assumed to be [[transgender men]]. However, some transgender people who were AFAB are nonbinary, not trans men. Transgender people who were AFAB can be said more broadly to be on the [[transmasculine]] spectrum, which can include some AFAB nonbinary people, and AFAB [[butch|butches]]. However, the umbrella term of transmasculine doesn't include transgender people who were AFAB who don't think of themselves as masculine.

A few of the physical characteristics of a person who was AFAB often include:
* A uterus, ovaries, and vagina, unless if they were born without one or another of them (agenesis), or had them removed (hysterectomy, oophorectomy, or vaginectomy, respectively) to treat or prevent disease
* The ability to give birth, unless if sterile, or without some of the anatomy listed above, or past childbearing years
* Breasts (a secondary sexual characteristic), unless if they never developed, or they had them removed (mastectomy) to treat or prevent breast cancer
* Has a hormone balance with estrogen higher than testosterone, and the presence of progesterone
* Chromosomes that are XX (textbook example), XY (androgen insensitivity syndrome/swyer syndrome), XXX (triple X syndrome), XXXX, X (Turner syndrome), or others. People rarely take a test to find out what these are, unless if they think it might explain another physical challenge.
It is possible for an AFAB person to have a body with few of the physical characteristics that are usually used to describe a typical [[cisgender women|cisgender female]] body.

==Assigned male at birth==

'''Assigned Male At Birth (AMAB)''', also called '''Male Assigned At Birth (MAAB)''', or '''Designated Male At Birth (DMAB)'''. The term '''Coercively Assigned Male At Birth (CAMAB)''' means the same, but with additional nuances. Less accurate or respectful terms for this are '''biological male''', '''genetic boy''', and '''natal male'''.

When a person is born, a doctor will say the baby is male based on this one criteria: the presence of a penis or a clitoris over a certain size. The doctor doesn't check the baby for the absence of a vagina, so sometimes the presence of this is missed. Some people with intersex conditions who were AMAB only discover they have a vagina once they are older. The doctor also doesn't check chromosomes, so a person who was AMAB doesn't necessarily have XY chromosomes.

Transgender people who were AMAB are usually assumed to be [[transgender women]]. However, some transgender people who were AMAB are nonbinary, not trans women. Transgender people who were AMAB can be said more broadly to be on the trans feminine spectrum, which can include some AMAB nonbinary people. However, the umbrella term of trans feminine doesn't include transgender people who were AMAB who don't think of themselves as feminine.

A few of the physical characteristics of a person who was AMAB often include:
* No vagina or uterus. However, some people who were AMAB were born with one or another of them (persistent Müllerian duct syndrome). Some only find out they have a uterus if they have scans or surgery on their abdomen for other reasons, or if they menstruate.
* Descended testes and scrotum, although sometimes testes never descend (cryptorchid), or are removed to treat or prevent disease
* Penis or large clitoris. With some intersex conditions, the difference between these can be unclear.
* Chromosomes that are XY (textbook example), XX (de la Chapelle syndrome), XXY (Klinefelter's syndrome), XXYY, or others.
It is possible for a person who was AMAB to have a body with few of the physical characteristics that are usually used to describe a typical [[cisgender men|cisgender male]] body.

==Intersex conditions==
[[File:ILGA conference 2018 Intersex Awareness Day group photo.jpg|thumb|300px|Intersex Awareness Day in Brussels, 2018.]]

''See main article: [[intersex]].''

Intersex people are people born with any variation in [[sex]] characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that do not fit the typical definitions of male or female bodies.<ref>[https://unfe.org/system/unfe-65-Intersex_Factsheet_ENGLISH.pdf "Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex"] (PDF). United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230627091022/https://www.unfe.org/system/unfe-65-intersex_factsheet_english.pdf Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

Because intersexuality is about the kind of body that someone is born with, not how they identify, intersex is not a gender, and is not the same thing as nonbinary. However, some intersex people can consider their gender identity to simply be "intersex."

An intersex person may have any [[gender identity]]. An intersex person doesn't necessarily identify as intersex, and may instead prefer to be called a man or woman. Or an intersex person may agree with their assigned gender; in this case, they would be described as either [[ipsogender]] or [[cisgender]]. Intersex people may think of themselves as [[cisgender]], [[transgender]], [[genderqueer]], [[nonbinary]], etc. An intersex person who feels that their intersex status has influenced their gender identity may identify as [[intergender]]. Some intersex people think of their intersex status as belonging to the broader range of [[LGBT]] identities.

People who identify as [[nonbinary]] aren't necessarily intersex, and instead may be ''dyadic'' (meaning not intersex).

===Discrimination against intersex people===
"Dyadism" is a common kind of [[sexism]]. As a concept, dyadism is the incorrect belief that humans are strictly ''dyadic,'' having only two sexes. In action, dyadism is discrimination against intersex people. That discrimination can include erasure, harassment, medical malpractice, lack of marriage rights, religious intolerance, human rights violations, and hate crimes against intersex people. Dyadism is also the basis of other forms of sexism, including [[binarism]], the belief that people have only two genders.

Because of dyadism, doctors think of intersex conditions as an irregularity. As a result, intersex people were given so-called "normalizing" or "corrective" surgeries, often at a very young age, and without their consent.

==Sexes of nonhuman animals==
[[File:ZwitterHauhechelblaeuling.jpg|thumb|A Common Blue (''Polyommatus icarus'') individual that is a gynandromorph, having a female form on one side and male on the other. Gynandromorphs occur in some animal species.]]
One common misconception is that all animals have only male and female sexes. However, nature is much more complex and varied. Many animal species are known to have a variety of intersex conditions, or very different kinds of sexes than occur among humans. For example: male seahorses that get pregnant, fish that change sex if there aren't enough of a particular sex in their group, female deer with antlers, lionesses with manes, lizards that lay fertile eggs after two females mate together (''parthenogenesis''), hyenas that give birth through an organ that is nearly indistinguishable from a penis, and so on. Most animals don't have sex chromosomes that are the same as the XX or XY set that are most common in humans. Learning about the diversity of animal sexes can help one recognize how much the sexes are an idea constructed by humans to describe and simplify reality, but our understanding of that reality tends to be limited by our own sexual stereotypes widespread in our culture.

To learn more about the diversity of animal sexes, read Joan Roughgarden's book, ''Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People'' (2009).
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==See also==
* [[Intimacy]]
* [[Sexism]]

==References==

<references/>

[[Category:Concepts]]

[[de:bei_der_geburt_zugewiesenes_geschlecht]]

Genderfaer

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{{Uncommon identity}}
{{infobox identity
| flag = genderfaer 1.png
| related = [[Genderfae]] and [[Genderfaunet]]
| umbrella = [[Genderfluid]]
| frequency = 0.1%
}}
'''Genderfaer''' is an identity which is [[genderfluid|fluid between multiple genders]], and can encompass masculine genders but does not ever include binary male.<ref name="LGBTA-Genderfae">{{cite web|url=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Genderfae |work=LGBTA Wiki |title=Genderfae |access-date=23 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604171603/https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Genderfae |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

In the 2021 [[Gender Census]], 32 people reported they were genderfaer.<ref name="GC2021">{{cite web |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WCFvopijdsWAsT6NGGnjUB7QpLmrs584Q9slbId3JDw/edit#gid=260963482|title=[GC2021] Identity |access-date=19 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505080710/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WCFvopijdsWAsT6NGGnjUB7QpLmrs584Q9slbId3JDw/edit|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Nonbinary identities]]

Andrew Hussie

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'''Andrew Hussie''' (born August 25, 1979) is an American author and artist and the creator of MS Paint Adventures, a collection of webcomics that includes ''Homestuck'' as well as of several other webcomics, books, and videos.

They have recently described themselves as [[clowngender]] in the credits of Psycholonials<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/mzf8j1/hussie_coming_out_in_psycholonials_credits/|title=r/homestuck - Hussie "coming out" in Psycholonials credits?|website=reddit|language=en-US|access-date=2021-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607212110/https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/mzf8j1/hussie_coming_out_in_psycholonials_credits/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> and uses "any/all pronouns"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://homestuckexamination.tumblr.com/post/651719000323145728/what-are-other-sources-indicating-hussie-is-nb|title=Let Me Tell You About Homestuck|website=Let Me Tell You About Homestuck|access-date=2021-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230509005926/https://homestuckexamination.tumblr.com/post/651719000323145728/what-are-other-sources-indicating-hussie-is-nb|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Nonbinary people]]

Public Universal Friend

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{{Infobox person
| picture=Public Universal Friend portrait.jpg
| caption= A portrait of the Public Universal Friend (in black clerical robes and white cravat) from the biography written by David Hudson in 1821.<ref name="Hudson">David Hudson, ''History of Jemima Wilkinson: A Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century'' (1821, S. P. Hull).</ref>
| date_birth=November 29, 1752<ref name="Wisbey">Herbert Wisbey, Jr., ''Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Public Universal Friend'' (2009 [1964], Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-7551-1), p. 3.</ref><ref name="Moyer">Paul B. Moyer, ''The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America'' (2015, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-5413-4), p. 13.</ref>
| place_birth=Cumberland, Rhode Island
| date_death=July 1, 1819<ref>Wisbey, p. 163; Moyer, p. 243.</ref>
| nationality=American
| pronouns=[[No pronouns]]
| gender=[[genderless]]
| occupation=preacher
| known_for=establishing a Christian religious movement, the Society of Universal Friends
}}
The [[Public Universal Friend]]<ref group="note">Further reading about the Public Universal Friend can often be found under the birth name of Jemima Wilkinson.</ref> (November 29, 1752 – July 1, 1819), was born as a fourth-generation English-American to a Quaker family in Rhode Island, and [[sexes#Assigned female at birth|assigned female at birth]]. As a child, the person was strong and athletic, loved animals, and was an adept rider and avid reader.<ref>Wisbey (2009), pp. 2-5, 53; Moyer (2015), pp. 13-14</ref><ref name="Lamphier-Welch-331"/> The person suffered a severe illness in 1776 (age 24), and reported having died and been reanimated by God (who proclaimed there was "Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone") as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend.<ref>Wisbey (2009), pp. 10-12; Moyer (2015), pp. 12, 18; Brekus (2000), p. 82; originally spelled ''the Publick Universal Friend'', a name which referenced the term for Quakers who traveled to preach, "Public friends".</ref><ref>Michael Bronski, ''A Queer History of the United States'' (2011, Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0-8070-4465-0), p. 50; Douglas L. Winiarski, ''Darkness Falls on the Land of Light'' (2017, ISBN 1469628279), p. 430; James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, ''The American Promise, Combined Volume: A History of the United States'' (2012, ISBN 0312663129) p. 307.</ref>

The Friend refused to answer to the previous name any longer,<ref name="Moyer-12 Winiarski-430 Juster-MacFarlane-27-28">Moyer, p. 12; Winiarski, p. 430; and Susan Juster, Lisa MacFarlane, ''A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism'' (1996), p. 27, and p. 28.</ref> quoted [[:wikisource:Bible (King James)/Luke#Chapter 23|Luke 23:3]] ("thou sayest it") when visitors asked if it was the name of the person they were addressing, and ignored or chastised those who insisted on using it. The preacher shunned the name completely, having friends hold realty in trust rather than see the name on deeds and titles. Even when a lawyer insisted that the person's Will should identify its subject as having been born under the birth name, the preacher refused to sign that name, only making an X which others witnessed, despite being able to read and write.<ref name="Brekus-85">Catherine A. Brekus, ''Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845'' (2000), p. 85</ref>

The Friend asked [[English neutral pronouns#No pronouns|not to be referred to with gendered pronouns]]. Followers respected these wishes, largely avoiding gender-specific pronouns even in private diaries, and referring only to "the Public Universal Friend" or short forms such as "the Friend" or "P.U.F."<ref name="Juster-MacFarlane-27-28 Brekus-85 etc">Juster & MacFarlane, ''A Mighty Baptism'', pp. 27-28; Brekus, p. 85</ref> The Friend wore [[clothing|clothes]] that contemporaries described as androgynous or masculine, chiefly black robes. When a man criticized this manner of dress, saying "the singularity of [your] appearance would excited many remarks" including "some indecent ones", the preacher replied "there is nothing indecent or improper in my dress or appearance; I am not accountable to mortals, I am that I am",<ref>Susan Juster, ''Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution'' (2010, ISBN 978-0-8122-1951-7, p. 228</ref><ref>Adam Jortner, ''Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic'' (2017), p. 192</ref><ref>P.U.F uses the same phrase God told Moses to use to identify God to the Israelites. [https://www.bible.com/bible/1/EXO.3.13-14.KJV Exodus 3:13-14 (KJV)] says "…they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM." This was a famous passage so P.U.F's reference would have been obvious to his audience. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230509010133/https://www.bible.com/bible/1/EXO.3.13-14.KJV Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> saying the same thing ("[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am I am that I am]") when someone asked if the Friend was male or female.<ref>Moyer (2015), p. 24</ref><ref name="Schmidt"/> Followers considered the Friend's androgynous clothing consistent with the evangelist's genderless spirit, and Susan Juster and other writers speculate that, for followers, the Friend embodied Paul's statement in [[:wikisource:Bible (King James)/Galatians#Chapter 3|Galatians 3:28]] that "there is neither male nor female" in Christ.<ref name="Juster 373">Juster, p. 373; also Charles Campbell, ''1 Corinthians: Belief'' (2018, ISBN 1611648432).</ref><ref name="Larson" />

The Friend preached throughout the northeastern United States, attracting many followers who became the Society of Universal Friends.<ref name="Lamphier-Welch-331">Peg A. Lamphier, Rosanne Welch, ''Women in American History'' (2017, ISBN 1610696034), p. 331.</ref> The Friend's theology was broadly similar to that of other Quakers, believing in free will, actively opposing slavery, and supporting sexual abstinence. The Friend persuaded followers who owned people in slavery to free them, and the Society included black people. The Society also included many unmarried women, who took prominent roles in their communities that were usually reserved for men. In the 1790s, the Society formed the town of Jerusalem, New York, near Penn Yan. Many modern writers have portrayed the Friend as a pioneering figure in the history of women's rights (like Juster), sometimes even while acknowledging that the Friend defied the idea of gender as [[gender binary|binary]] and as [[gender essentialism|essential]] or innate (like Catherine Brekus and Catherine Wessinger),<ref>Catherine Wessinger, ''The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism'' (2016, {{ISBN|0190611944}}), p. 173; Brekus (2000), p. 90; Betcher, p. 77.</ref> or else in transgender history (like Scott Larson and Rachel Hope Cleves).<ref name="Larson">Scott Larson, ''"Indescribable Being": Theological Performances of Genderlessness in the Society of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776–1819'', ''Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' (University of Pennsylvania Press), volume 12, number 3, Fall 2014, pp. 576–600</ref><ref name="Cleves-and-Routledge">Rachel Hope Cleves, ''Beyond the Binaries in Early America: Special Issue Introduction'', ''Early American Studies'' 12.3 (2014), pp. 459–468; also ''The Routledge History of Queer America'', edited by Don Romesburg (2018, {{ISBN|1317601025}}), esp. § "Revolution's End".</ref> Historian [[Michael Bronski]] calls the Friend as an instance of an early American publicly identifying as non-binary.<ref name="Schmidt">Samantha Schmidt, ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/01/05/long-before-theythem-pronouns-genderless-prophet-drew-hundreds-followers/ A genderless prophet drew hundreds of followers long before the age of nonbinary pronouns]'', January 5, 2020, ''The Washington Post''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230511023244/https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/01/05/long-before-theythem-pronouns-genderless-prophet-drew-hundreds-followers/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

==Further reading==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend Wikipedia article]

==See also==
* [[Notable nonbinary people]]
* [[History of nonbinary gender]]
* [[Gender variance in Christianity]]

==Notes==
<references group="note"/>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Nonbinary people]][[Category:USA]]

List of uncommon nonbinary identities

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{{Content warning|reclaimed slurs}}This '''list of uncommon nonbinary identities''' contains gender identities that have less record of their use, according to community census results and historical information, or sometimes no record at all, beyond their coinage and inclusion in glossaries. This does not mean that the identity is not valid, but that not many people have decided to use it ([[Nonbinary_Wiki: Uncommon identities|More information...]]). See also the [[list of nonbinary identities]] for more common ones.

In order to keep the wiki accurate to the lived experiences of nonbinary people, identities should only be listed here if they cite from at least two separate external sources, showing both:

1. origin (such as a source about how the term was coined, or at least history of the term's use), and

2. evidence that the identity has actually been used as someone's own identity. Acceptable evidence includes presence in at least one Gender Census result, a news article, or published nonfiction book describing an actual person using it.

A design for a pride flag does not count toward origin or evidence of use. A personal blog does not count toward evidence of use. A source citation of a web page counts if it is either a live link, or an archive of a dead link, but dead links by themselves are not acceptable.

== A ==

=== Abigender ===

*'''Name(s):''' abigender/abbigender.

*'''Origin:''' Coined in 2020.{{citation needed}}

*'''Meaning:''' "experiencing two distinct genders, either simultaneously or at different times, but only feeling a loose or vague connection to each gender while also not feeling that any part of the gender is 'neutral' or 'neither'."{{citation needed}}

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2021 [[Gender Census]], two people reported they were abigender and one abbigender.<ref name="GC2021">{{cite web| url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WCFvopijdsWAsT6NGGnjUB7QpLmrs584Q9slbId3JDw/edit#gid=1292827503 | title=[GC2021] Identity |date=10 March 2021}}</ref>

===Abimegender===
* '''Name(s):''' abimegender.

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 or earlier.<ref name="m-a_archivedlist">{{cite web|archive-url=https://archive.vn/rQYjH|url=http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/genders|archive-date=5 August 2014|title=mogai archive, genders}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "a gender which is profound, deep, and infinite. You can combine any term with relevant genders, e.g. abimegirl for an abimegender girl."<ref>https://pride-library.tumblr.com/post/141960871995/abimegender [https://web.archive.org/web/20201107171640/https://pride-library.tumblr.com/post/141960871995/abimegender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:'''

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, two people reported they were abimegender.<ref name="GC2020">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j7mwkZVtQYHxNlgS2J8onVCpVz-l1aJbBzG7msN5rxs/edit#gid=260963482 GC2020 Public Copy], 1 November 2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230603184501/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j7mwkZVtQYHxNlgS2J8onVCpVz-l1aJbBzG7msN5rxs/edit Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
<gallery>
File:Abimegender.png|Abimegender flag.
File:Abimeboy.png|Abimeboy flag.
File:Abimegirl.png|Abimegirl flag.
</gallery>

===Aerogender===

* '''Name(s):''' aerogender. (not to be confused with "arogender", below)

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user tenderagender in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="aerogender">{{cite web|date=2014|url=http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92608429989/aerogender-where-an-individuals-gender-relies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721211924/https://www.tumblr.com/login_required/mogai-archive|title=aerogender, autogender, contragender|archive-date=21 July 2023|access-date=2 August 2017|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Where an individual’s gender relies highly on their setting and/or atmosphere, which can be composed of a great number of things (ex. who they’re around, their level of comfort, the temperature, the weather, the time of day/year, etc.)"<ref name="aerogender" />

* '''Keywords:''' often changing ([[genderfluid]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent called [[singular they|themself]] aerogender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">"Gender Census 2019 - the worldwide TL;DR." ''Gender Census.'' March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2020. https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr</ref>

===Arogender===
[[File:Arogender.png|thumb|The arogender pride flag.]]
* '''Name(s):''' arogender. (not to be confused with "aerogender", above)

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2018 by tumblr user arokaladin.<ref>https://aroacearborvitae.tumblr.com/post/173271166138/arogender-any-gender-identity-influenced-by-being [https://web.archive.org/web/20230518141002/https://aroacearborvitae.tumblr.com/post/173271166138/arogender-any-gender-identity-influenced-by-being Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Arogender is a gender heavily influenced by one's place on the [[aromantic]] spectrum. It could be because they feel like they do not love in the way society expects of their gender, or it could be because they feel so strongly about not loving that it affects all parts of their being."<ref name="arogender2">https://idvault.tumblr.com/post/632782638110949376/arogender{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> "It can be used as a standalone gender label or in conjunction with others; for example, one could be an arogender boy."<ref name="AUREA-terms">{{Cite web |title=Uncommon and Newly Emerging Aromantic Terms |author= |work=AUREA |date= |access-date=15 May 2021 |url= https://www.aromanticism.org/en/uncommon-and-newly-emerging-terms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230225213758/https://www.aromanticism.org/en/uncommon-and-newly-emerging-terms/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' aromantic, arospec, aroace, grayromantic, greyromantic, demiromantic

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, eleven respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />
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===Aesthetgender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Aesthetgender}}

===Agenderflux===

* '''Name(s):''' agenderflux

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user perfectlybrokenbones in post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="agenderflux">For historical reasons, please do not delete this citation, even though the link is dead, because it is where the term was coined. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92999709954/agenderflux {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Where you identify as agender [a.k.a. genderless] but have fluctuations where you feel feminine or masculine but not male or female."<ref name="agenderflux" />

* '''Keywords:''' femininity, often changing (genderfluid), genderless, masculinity, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, 6 respondents were agenderflux.<ref name=NBGQ2016>"NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results." ''Gender Census.'' March 19, 2016. http://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results [https://web.archive.org/web/20230525010811/https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 28 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> Notable people who identify as agenderflux include television actor [[Ellie Desautels]].<ref name="dundore">{{Cite web |title=Ellie & Wren |author=Brent Dundore |work=They Them Project |date=17 August 2018 |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://dundorephoto.com/ellie-wren/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612015330/https://dundorephoto.com/ellie-wren/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

===Alexigender===

* '''Name(s):''' alexigender

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user eaglestrike in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="alexigender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91735771964/alexigender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A fluid gender experience, where you are aware that your gender is changing but cannot label each individual gender".

* '''Keywords:''' often changing (genderfluid), indescribable, unnameable

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, two respondents.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Aliagender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[aliagender]]. From Latin ''alius'' "other" + gender.<ref name="ask a nonbinary glossary 2018">{{cite web|title=Glossary (prod at me through the inbox if you think this list needs to be added to/ altered)|website=Ask a Non-Binary ''(blog)''|date=9 December 2018|archive-date=23 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223072932/http://askanonbinary.tumblr.com/post/71388258891/glossary-prod-at-me-through-the-inbox-if-you |url=https://askanonbinary.tumblr.com/post/71388258891/glossary-prod-at-me-through-the-inbox-if-you}}</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Beck, a moderator on the "askanonbinary" Tumblr blog, created the word "aliagender" in response to questions from Zoë or Leo (Tumblr user ZoboTheHob0, formerly ZoboTheHobo), in 2013.<ref name="throws up hands">{{cite web|author=Zoë or Leo|title=Untitled post|website=ZoboTheHob0 ''(blog)''|date=14 July 2014|url= https://zobothehob0.tumblr.com/post/91716663005/epochryphal-throws-up-hands-im-getting-really| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720212651/https://zobothehob0.tumblr.com/post/91716663005/epochryphal-throws-up-hands-im-getting-really|archive-date=20 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Mod Kellex|title=Aporagender vs. Aliagender|website=Aporagender ''(blog)''|date=25 November 2014|archive-date= 21 May 2015 |url=https://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/103598129904/aporagender-vs-aliagender |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521035454/https://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/103598129904/aporagender-vs-aliagender}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As described by Beck, “A gender experience which is 'other', or stands apart from existing gender constructs.”<ref name="ask a nonbinary glossary 2018" /> As Zoë or Leo later described it, "we defined it then as a gender experience other from the traditional spectrum. I always meant for this to be a term for a specific positive gender that was not associated with the man/woman spectrum, but was a gender that existed and NOT genderless."<ref name="throws up hands" /> Zoë or Leo also clarified that "they did not intend for aliagender to be harmful in any way, and was created to describe an 'othering' concept of gender."<ref name="aporagender vs aliagender">{{cite web|author=Zoë or Leo|title=Aporagender vs. Aliagender|website=ZoboTheHob0 ''(blog)''|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200720212831/https://zobothehob0.tumblr.com/post/103601097145/aporagender-vs-aliagender|archive-date=20 July 2020|url=https://zobothehob0.tumblr.com/post/103601097145/aporagender-vs-aliagender|date=25 November 2014}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' neither female nor male, not female, not male, [[other gender]]

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Aliengender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Aliengender}}

===Ambigender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[ambigender]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user Baaphomett in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost">Baaphomett. "Masterpost of genders coined by Baaphomett." ''Mogai-Archive.'' Original post where these were coined, which is lost: http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett Archive of that post: https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95720973644/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett Archive of that archive: https://archive.is/yULU0#selection-169.2-169.93</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined by Baaphomett, "Experiencing two genders simultaneously and without fluidity or shifting."<ref name="baaphomett_masterpost" />

* '''Keywords:''' many genders ([[multigender]]), not changing often (not genderfluid), two genders ([[bigender]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 3 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Ambonec===

* '''Name(s):''' [[ambonec]], from Latin ''ambo'' "both"<ref>"Ambo." ''Wiktionary.'' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambo#Latin [https://web.archive.org/web/20230404021234/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambo Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> + ''nec'' "neither."<ref>"Nec." ''Wiktionary.'' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nec#Latin [https://web.archive.org/web/20230702160259/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nec Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A "gender identity in which you identify as both male and female, yet you also identify as neither, at the same time."<ref>http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94559591894/nbshadow-introducing-ambonec-an-for-short [https://web.archive.org/web/20230322043731/https://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94559591894/nbshadow-introducing-ambonec-an-for-short Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>"Terms." Queer Querys (blog). http://queerquerys.tumblr.com/terms [https://web.archive.org/web/20230322043718/https://queerquerys.tumblr.com/terms Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>"Ambonec." Mogai-Archive (blog). http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91796206149/ambonec-an-for-short {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' both female and male, female, male, neither female nor male, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 10 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Anogender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[anogender]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by Tumblr user PocketMouse.<ref name="anogender">[https://pocketmouse.tumblr.com/post/89808536180/i-saw-another-post-going-around-about-newly i saw another post going around about newly created genders and i wanted to see if there was anything i could think of...], on ''rural kansas never forgets''. 25 June 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221004185639/https://pocketmouse.tumblr.com/post/89808536180/i-saw-another-post-going-around-about-newly Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' PocketMouse defined it as "a feeling of gender that fades in and out but feels the same whenever it comes back. different from [[genderfluid]] in that it’s one gender constantly resurfacing, rather than switching between genders".<ref name="anogender" />

* '''Keywords:''' often changing ([[genderfluid]]), often changing in intensity ([[genderflux]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2018 Gender Census, two respondents identified themselves as "anoboy".<ref name="Gender Census 2018">{{Cite web |title=Gender Census 2018 Identity words (public) |author= |work=Google Docs |date=21 June 2018 |access-date=26 July 2020 |url= https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12cN-ooc5EuLIaqbmfqbjZffYldTzWRAHc-qZaRJ2xsQ/edit#gid=1402706910|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521064702/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12cN-ooc5EuLIaqbmfqbjZffYldTzWRAHc-qZaRJ2xsQ/edit |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

===Anonbinary===

* '''Name(s):''' anonbinary

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A gender that isn't binary, but is even outside of nonbinaryness.<ref>https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Anonbinary [https://web.archive.org/web/20220127032819/https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Anonbinary Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' neither female nor male, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In 2020, two respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Antigender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[antigender]], unboy, ungirl or ungender

* '''Origin:''' Antigender was coined by Tumblr users AsexualJavert<ref name="antigenders">{{cite web|title=antigenders|url=http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91782643999/antigenders|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720040237/https://www.tumblr.com/login_required/mogai-archive|archive-date=20 July 2023|access-date=2 August 2017|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> and kgmps2.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/91274549054/introducing-antigenders|archive-date=21 May 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150521035526/http://aporagender.tumblr.com:80/post/91274549054/introducing-antigenders|title=Introducing: Antigenders!}}</ref> Ungender was coined in 2014 by Tumblr user Baaphomett by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" />

* '''Meaning:''' Antigender was originally defined as "Genders that can only be defined as the opposite of an existing gender. For instance: antiboy would be the opposite of a boy. antigirl would be the opposite of a girl."<ref name="antigenders" /> Ungender was originally defined by Baaphomett as "Not without but a negative; an unboy would be the negative of a boy and an ungirl would be the negative of a girl."<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" />

* '''Keywords:''' opposite, prefix

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 6 respondents were antigender, and 2 respondents were ungender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Apagender===

* '''Name(s):''' apagender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="apagender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92547893934/apagender Retrieved 2014. {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who is apathetic towards their gender identity and doesn't care enough to look further into it."<ref name="apagender" /> Other identities that have similar descriptions to this: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#cassgender|cassgender]], [[graygender]], and [[List of uncommon nonbinary identities#Genderwhat|genderwhat]].

* '''Keywords:''' apathy, emotion, indescribable, indifferent

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Aporagender===
* '''Name(s):''' aporagender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014, from Greek ''apo, apor'' "separate" + "gender".<ref>[http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora Anonymous asked: "could I ask the etymology of the prefix apora- ?"], posted October 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210422025740/http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] and [[umbrella term]] for "a gender separate from [[male]], [[female]], and anything in between while still having a very strong and specific gendered feeling" (that is, not an [[agender|absence of gender]]).<ref>[http://aporagender.tumblr.com/aporagender Aporagender], date unknown, captured April 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230128092303/https://aporagender.tumblr.com/aporagender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' neutal, independent

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 5 of the respondents (0.16%) were aporagender.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 23 of the respondents (0.20%) were aporagender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Aquarigender===

* '''Name(s):''' aquarigender, genderflow<ref name="acousticlesbian">https://acousticlesbian.tumblr.com/post/145650169550/hey-i-dont-know-if-ive-ever-mentioned-this-but [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111150647/https://acousticlesbian.tumblr.com/post/145650169550/hey-i-dont-know-if-ive-ever-mentioned-this-but Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 or earlier<ref name="m-a_archivedlist" /> by tumblr user 8-bit-angel<ref>https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/147207958645/aquarigender-genderflow [https://web.archive.org/web/20211014044818/https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/147207958645/aquarigender-genderflow Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' " a gender that is perpetually changing. It is never to a specific gender identity, but sometimes there are existing labels that are close to what the gender feels like at the time. Sometimes it changes to a completely inexplicable feeling. Aquarigender is a flowing gender that changes slowly and constantly. It is not a set amount of genders that it switches between."<ref name="acousticlesbian" />

* '''Keywords:''' fluid, [[genderfluid]], flowing, water, changing

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />
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===Astralgender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Astralgender}}

===Autismgender===
* '''Name(s):''' [[neurogender#autismgender|autismgender]], autigender, autgender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by Tumblr users autismgender and esperancegirl, by submissions to the [[MOGAI-Archive blog]].<ref name="mogai-archive-autigender">The since-deleted post in the ''mogai-archive'' blog where this word was coined: http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93477063574/auti-s-gender Another blog's archive of that lost blog post: http://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95723823254/autisgender An archive of that archive: https://archive.is/BTFMN#selection-489.0-489.14</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity with which some nonbinary people with autism choose to use to describe themselves. The creators of this term defined it as "autism as part or whole of gender identity; a gender that can only be understood in context of being autistic." When your gender experience is influenced by or linked to your autism, or your understanding of the concept of gender itself is fundamentally altered by your autism.<ref name="mogai-archive-autigender"/>

* '''Keywords:''' neurogender, neurodivergence, autism

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, one of the respondents called their gender identity "autistic," and another said "autisgender."<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 66 of the respondents (0.59%) called their gender identity autigender, autgender, autistic, or autiqueer.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== B ==

===Bordergender===

{{#section-h:Neurogender|Bordergender}}

===Bxy===

* '''Name(s):''' bxy

* '''Origin:''' Coined by tumblr user sadghostbxy (Frankie), later renamed to colorbandiits.<ref>https://colorbandiits.tumblr.com/post/155286142742/my-gendercoining-a-new-term [https://web.archive.org/web/20220220010957/https://colorbandiits.tumblr.com/post/155286142742/my-gendercoining-a-new-term Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that is both [[boy]] and [[agender]]/no gender. You can be a boy and agender/no gender at the same time, go between them, or fluctuate between feeling male and not feeling gender."<ref>https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/187023788904/hey-if-i-am-mostly-agender-sometimes-feel-more [https://web.archive.org/web/20230603014457/https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/187023788904/hey-if-i-am-mostly-agender-sometimes-feel-more Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> The "girl and agender" counterpart is gxrl.

* '''Keywords:''' agender boy, agender man, genderless male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2018 Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" />

== C ==

===Cadensgender===
[[File:Cadensgender.png|thumb|Cadensgender flag.]]
* '''Name(s):''' cadensgender

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that's easily influenced by music."<ref name="what_Infl">{{Cite web |title=Influenced Genders |author= |work=what-the-heck-gender-am-i |date= |access-date=7 October 2020 |url= https://what-the-heck-gender-am-i.tumblr.com/influenced%20gender|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112001216/https://what-the-heck-gender-am-i.tumblr.com/influenced%20gender|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' music, songs

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2018 [[Gender Census]], one respondent.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" />

===Caelgender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Caelgender}}

===Cassgender===

* '''Name(s):''' cassgender

* '''Origin:''' Cassgender was coined by Tumblr user okaygender in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="cassgender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92975469559/cassexual-feeling-utterly-indifferent-to {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Cassgender was defined as "Feeling utterly indifferent to gender, believing it isn’t important."<ref name="cassgender" /> Similar identities: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#apagender|apagender]] and [[graygender]].

* '''Keywords:''' apathy, emotion, indescribable, indifference

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent was cassgender.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents were cassgender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, eight respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Cenrell===
'''cenrell.''' Coined by SynHeart in 2018. "a gender identity where one feels most comfortable within the [[gender neutral]] spectrum, but still feels a strong attachment to [[masculinity]]."<ref name="cenrell">https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/169779865250/cenrell-pronounced-sen-rell-a-gender [https://web.archive.org/web/20220121201307/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/169779865250/cenrell-pronounced-sen-rell-a-gender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> In the 2020 Gender Census, three respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Cogitogender===

* '''Name(s):''' cogitogender

* '''Origin:''' Coined by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="cogitogender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93377336539/existigender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that only exists when you think about it, or is quiet until called to attention. alternatively, feeling genderless until a gender is consciously chosen."<ref name="cogitogender" />

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, indescribable, often changing (genderfluid), partial gender ([[demigender]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Contigender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Contigender}}

===Cosmicgender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Cosmicgender}}

== D ==

===Demiflux===

* '''Name(s):''' demiflux

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user aflutteringlaney in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="demiflux aflutteringlaney">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93548961719/demiflux {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity for "someone whose gender is partially [[genderfluid|fluid]] with the other part(s) being static; this differs from 'demifluid' as '[[genderflux|-flux]]' indicates that one of the genders is [[neutral]]; an example could be: one part of their gender is '[[genderqueer]]' while the part that fluctuates is '[[agender]]' and '[[woman]]'."<ref>Savage. "Demigender definitions." Demigender safe space. http://demigenders.tumblr.com/post/102344212344/demigender-definitions [https://web.archive.org/web/20230610045523/https://demigenders.tumblr.com/post/102344212344/demigender-definitions Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> As defined by aflutteringlaney: "A term for [[polygender]]/[[bigender]] individuals to describe when one of their genders is “static” and the other ranges in intensity and presence."<ref name="demiflux aflutteringlaney" />

* '''Keywords:''' two genders (bigender), partial genders ([[demigender]]), often changing ([[genderfluid]]), often changing in intensity ([[genderflux]]), many genders (multigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 12 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Dryagender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Dryagender}}

== E ==

===Earthgender===

* '''Name(s):''' earthgender

* '''Origin:''' First coined in 2014 or earlier.<ref name="m-a_archivedlist" />

* '''Meaning:''' Has at least two meanings:
** "a gender identity that is directly affected, tied to, or influenced by the earth or nature. or; a gender identity similar to/the same as that of some form of earth deity."<ref>https://pride-library.tumblr.com/post/153167414640/earthgender [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205211547/https://pride-library.tumblr.com/post/153167414640/earthgender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
** "A gender based in exploration and wildly swinging moods and identities. It constantly has some level of mystery, no matter what aspect you figure out.<ref>https://gendergeode.tumblr.com/post/627117927009845249/planetgender-39-earthgender-a-gender-based-in [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205211540/https://gendergeode.tumblr.com/post/627117927009845249/planetgender-39-earthgender-a-gender-based-in Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>"

* '''Keywords:''' questioning, planetary

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="GC2020" />
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===Egogender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Egogender}}

===Enigender===
* '''Name(s):''' enigender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 or earlier by tumblr user gungnirv2, derived from the word "enigma".<ref name="enigender">https://fuckyeahmonsterenbies.tumblr.com/post/93881285262/hey-just-wondering-but-would-nb-monster-ocs-that [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205211553/https://fuckyeahmonsterenbies.tumblr.com/post/93881285262/hey-just-wondering-but-would-nb-monster-ocs-that Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that you cannot describe accurately with any words. However, certain pictures/audio/video/ect. can describe it just fine. Basically anything that’s not written or spoken word can describe enigender. Its a really fluid gender that could be described differently from person to person!"<ref name="enigender" />

* '''Keywords:'''

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Epicene===

* '''Name(s):''' [[epicene]]. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, this very old word comes "from Latin ''epicoenus'' 'common,' from Greek ''epikoinos'' 'common to many, promiscuous,' from ''epi'' 'on' ... + ''koinos'' 'common' ..."<ref name="epicene ety">"epicene (adj.)" ''Online Etymology Dictionary.'' https://www.etymonline.com/word/epicene [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519214337/https://www.etymonline.com/word/epicene Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Origin:''' According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, epicene has been used in English for the genders of people since about 1600 to the 1630s CE.<ref name="epicene ety" />

* '''Meaning:''' According to Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries, epicene has been used with several different meanings, as follows. 1. [[gender neutral|Gender-neutral]] or [[genderless]]. Having the characteristics of more than one gender, or having no gender characteristics. 2. An [[effeminate]] [[man]].<ref>"Epicene." ''Merriam-Webster.'' https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epicene [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519214735/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epicene Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>"Epicene." ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/epicene [https://web.archive.org/web/20230519214238/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/epicene Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>"Epicene." ''The Free Dictionary.'' https://www.thefreedictionary.com/epicene [https://web.archive.org/web/20230511200920/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/epicene Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' androgynous, centuries old, effeminate, genderless, gender neutral

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, six respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Ethale===

* '''Name(s):''' ethale

* '''Origin:''' Coined December 2019 by tumblr user redefine-nonb-lesbianism.<ref>https://redefine-nonb-lesbianism.tumblr.com/post/189902526660{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The word is derived from "ethereal", meaning spirit-like or immaterial.<ref>https://redefine-nonb-lesbianism.tumblr.com/post/616796255390138368/hi-whats-the-etymology-of-the-term-ethale-i{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "a person whose gender relates to womanhood though exists as a separate gender".<ref>https://redefine-nonb-lesbianism.tumblr.com/post/616701797555470336{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' related to womanhood/girlhood, femininity, feminine in nature

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Ethegender===

{{#if:1|{{#section-h:Xenogender|Ethegender}}}}

===Eunuch===

* '''Name(s):''' [[eunuch]]

* '''Origin:''' According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, this very old word has been in English since the late 14th century. Ultimately, it comes from Greek, ''euno-'' "bed" + ''ekhein'' "to have, to hold," referring to eunuchs who were guards of nobles' bedchambers.<ref name="eunuch ety">"eunuch (n.)" ''Online Etymology Dictionary.'' https://www.etymonline.com/word/eunuch [https://web.archive.org/web/20230602131215/https://www.etymonline.com/word/eunuch Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A person who was assigned male at birth, and had some or all of their genitals removed. Historically, there have been many people who had this done to them without their consent. However, there have also been many people who voluntarily and intentionally sought out this procedure, specifically in order to relieve their discomfort with having those genitals, or to stop other physical characteristics that are the result of masculinization from having testicles, such as body hair or a low voice. Some transgender people think of themselves as eunuchs. Many eunuchs have considered themselves to be men. However, many other eunuchs have thought of their status as a eunuch as a gender identity outside of the binary. This has been the case with eunuchs historically, in many different cultures, and today.<ref>"Eunuch." Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki." [https://susans.org/wiki/Eunuch] [https://web.archive.org/web/20221005020146/https://www.susans.org/wiki/Eunuch Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Some nonbinary people are or wish to become eunuchs, or label themselves as eunuchs.<ref>"FAQs." ''Neutrois.com''. http://neutrois.com/0/faq.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20230430163043/https://www.neutrois.com/0/faq.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' assigned male at birth (AMAB), centuries old, transition

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents called their gender identity "eunuch."<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== F ==

===Faegender===

* '''Name(s):''' faegender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="faegender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92386154479/faegender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined by that anonymous submission to MOGAI-Archive in 2014, "When an individual’s gender changes with the seasons, equinoxes, and moon phases."<ref name="faegender" />

* '''Keywords:''' cycle, cyclic, lunar cycle, lunar phases, moon, nature, often changing (genderfluid), seasons, time

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Faesari===

* '''Name(s):''' Faesari

* '''Origin:''' Submitted 2 January 2018 by SynHeart to the Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags blog.<ref>https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/169242719870/faesari-a-gender-identity-where-one-feels-most?is_related_post=1</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender identity where one feels most comfortable within the gender neutral spectrum, but still feels a strong attachment to femininity."

* '''Keywords:''' femininity, feminine, gender neutral

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2018 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Femache===

* '''Name(s):''' Femache, machembre, femal, or macheme<ref name="lgbta_Femache">{{Cite web |title=Femache |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=14 February 2021 |url= https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Femache|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604184016/https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Femache|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Femache was coined via beyond-mogai-pride-flags on October 1, 2018. The name is a combination of the Spanish/Portuguese words fêmea/fembra and macho but with an -e suffixed to make the word neutral.<ref name="bmpf_Femache">{{Cite web |title=Femache Pride Flag |author= |work=Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags |date=1 October 2018 |access-date=14 February 2021 |url= https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/178644762070/femache-pride-flag |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603014234/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/178644762070/femache-pride-flag |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "a non-binary gender in which one simultaneously experiences maleness or masculinity and femaleness or femininity."<ref name="lgbta_Femache" />

* '''Keywords:''' femininity, feminine, masculinity, masculine, both binary genders

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Fluidflux===

* '''Name(s):''' [[fluidflux]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined by two Tumblr users, trigenby and genderabbit, possibly in 2014, with the aim of combining [[genderfluid]] and [[genderflux]].<ref>https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95787621284/fluidflux [https://web.archive.org/web/20220622041409/https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95787621284/fluidflux Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity that changes over time and also varies in intensity.<ref>{{cite web|website=genderfluidaskblog| title=Genderfluid vs. Genderflux (or fluidflux) |url=https://genderfluidaskblog.tumblr.com/post/624029029983453184/genderfluid-vs-genderflux-or-fluidflux|date=18 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130163233/https://genderfluidaskblog.tumblr.com/post/624029029983453184/genderfluid-vs-genderflux-or-fluidflux|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, often changing (genderfluid), often changing in intensity (genderflux)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, nine respondents were fluidflux, two were genderfluidflux, and one was mascfluidflux.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===FTN===

* '''Name(s):''' FTN, which is short for female-to-neuter (or neutral, or [[neutrois]]) transsexual (or transgender).<ref>"LGBTQ terms." Neutrois.com. [http://neutrois.com/definitions/terms/] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230604171327/https://www.neutrois.com/definitions/terms/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:'''

* '''Keywords:''' assigned female at birth (AFAB), assigned gender, transition

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===FTX===

* '''Name(s):''' FTX, which is short for female-to-X. This covers people who were assigned female at birth, and who identify as nonbinary or [[X-gender]].<ref name="roxiejapan">[http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan ''Selected links on nonbinary gender in Japan''], Marilyn Roxie, March 28, 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230606093151/https://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:'''

* '''Keywords:''' assigned female at birth (AFAB), assigned gender, transition

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== G ==

===Gender agnostic===

* '''Name(s):''' gender agnostic

* '''Origin:''' This term was in use at least as early as 2014, when mathematician [[Vi Hart]] tweeted about identifying as gender agnostic.<ref name="agnostic tweet">{{Cite tweet|number=461633678179696640|user=vihartvihart|title=Fun fact: I consider myself gender agnostic. "Person," not "Woman," please. I respect your religion, but don't like having it pushed on me.|date=April 30, 2014|first=Vi|last=Hart}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Hart tweeted in 2014, "I consider myself gender agnostic. 'Person,' not 'Woman,' please. I respect your religion, but don't like having it pushed on me."<ref name="agnostic tweet" /> Hart released a video in 2015, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmKix-75dsg On Gender]," about their lack of gender identity—including lacking [[genderqueer]] identities such as [[agender]]—and their attitude to gendered terms such as pronouns as a "linguistic game" that they were not interested in playing. They indicated that they have no preference and do not care which pronouns they are called by.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmKix-75dsg|title=On Gender|last=Hart|first=Vi|date=8 June 2015|language=|type=Online video|publisher=YouTube|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410051645/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmKix-75dsg|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, genders about things other than connection to female or male, opting out of the system of gender altogether, indifference

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 9 respondents called themselves gender agnostic. One of these respondents explained they meant it in the sense described by Vi Hart.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Gender-free===

* '''Name(s):''' [[agender|gender-free]], or genderfree

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' Having no gender identity. A synonym for agender and genderless.<ref name="gender-word">{{Cite web |title=By the end of this post, “gender” may not look like a real word anymore |author=Cottle, J.M. |work=A Fine Line |date=12 June 2011 |access-date=7 May 2020 |url= https://jmcottle.com/by-the-end-of-this-post-gender-may-not-look-like-a-real-word-anymore/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831184352/http://jmcottle.com/by-the-end-of-this-post-gender-may-not-look-like-a-real-word-anymore/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, neither female nor male, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, seven respondents said they were genderfree, gender-free, or gender free.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Gendervague===

* '''Name(s):''' [[neurogender#gendervague|Gendervague]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by many participants of the neurodivergentkin network.<ref name="vague coin">Cryptomegha (Gcdzilla, StrangeGloved). Untitled post. ''gcdzilla'' (blog). August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141003224751/http://gcdzilla.tumblr.com/post/91603686632/ok-so-the-rly-cool-people-at-the-neurodivergentkin</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "a nonbinary gender that [...] is not definable with words because of one’s status as neurodivergent."<ref name="vague coin" /> Autistic activist [[Lydia X. Z. Brown]] wrote, "I’ve started referring to myself as gendervague [...] a specifically neurodivergent experience of trans/gender identity. [...] Someone who is gendervague cannot separate their gender identity from their neurodivergence – being autistic doesn’t ''cause'' my gender identity, but it is inextricably related to how I understand and experience gender."<ref name="Brown">{{Cite web |title=Gendervague: At the Intersection of Autistic and Trans Experiences |last=Brown |first=Lydia X. Z. |work=The Asperger / Autism Network (AANE) |date=22 June 2016 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.aane.org/gendervague-intersection-autistic-trans-experiences/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623035102/https://www.aane.org/gendervague-intersection-autistic-trans-experiences/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> An author who is gendervague, [[Max Sparrow]], wrote that "[...] disability can affect gender presentation as much as or even more than inherent gender identity. Identity labels so often focus on sifting out one aspect of identity, holding it apart and separate from other aspects of our lives. Gendervague is an inherently intersected identity, honoring two different facets of identity equally, simultaneously more exclusive and more inclusive."<ref name="transtistic">Max Sparrow. "What is gendervague?" ''Transtistic: At the Intersection of Transtistic and Autgender'' (blog). June 17, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2019. https://transtistic.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/what-is-gendervaguear Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190411000915/https://transtistic.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/what-is-gendervague/</ref>

* '''Keywords:'''

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, 26 respondents (0.23%) called themselves gendervague.<ref name="2019 Gender Census"/>

=== Gendervoid ===
* '''Name(s):''' Gendervoid

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user Baaphomett in 2014 by a submission to the MOGAI-archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost"/>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender consisting of the void (also/originally used to mean the same thing as genderless)."<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" />

* '''Keywords:''' no gender, void

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 9 of the respondents (0.29%) called themselves gendervoid or another variation.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 91 of the respondents (0.81%) called their gender "void," "voidgender," "gendervoid," or other variations.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Genderwhat===

* '''Name(s):''' Genderwhat

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by daedric-cisphobe by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="genderwhat daedric">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92028650684/genderwhat Retrieved 2014. {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined by daedric-cisphobe, "A gender characterized by both confusion and apathy with regards to either a fluid or stable gender identity." Other identities that have similar descriptions to this: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#apagender|apagender]], [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#cassgender|cassgender]], and [[graygender]].

* '''Keywords:''' apathy, confusion, emotion, indescribable, indifference

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent said they were genderwhat.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Graygender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[graygender]], greygender, gray agender, or grey agender.<ref name="Pride-Flags">{{Cite web |title=Graygender / Gray Agender |author=Pride-Flags |work=DeviantArt |date=23 August 2015 |access-date=20 May 2020 |url= https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Graygender-Gray-Agender-555820442|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603020454/https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Graygender-Gray-Agender-555820442 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> (Spelling note: in American English, the ''color'' is called ''gray'', but in the rest of the English-speaking world, the ''colour'' is called ''grey''.)

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user invernom in March 2014.<ref>[https://invernom.tumblr.com/post/80158494356/identifying-as-graygendergreygender Identifying As “Graygender”/“Greygender”], invernom, 20 March 2014 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230601125725/https://invernom.tumblr.com/post/80158494356/identifying-as-graygendergreygender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A person who identifies as (at least partially) outside the gender binary and has a strong natural ambivalence about their [[gender identity]] or [[gender expression]]. They feel they have a gender(s), as well as a natural inclination or desire to express it, but it's weak and/or somewhat indeterminate/indefinable, or they don’t feel it most of the time, or they’re just not that invested in it. They're not entirely without a gender or gender expression, but they're not entirely 'with' it either."<ref>[https://mogai-library.tumblr.com/post/126492755533/graygreygender Gray/greygender] by mogai-library, 12 August 2015 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230512095111/https://mogai-library.tumblr.com/post/126492755533/graygreygender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:'''

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 31 responses (0.27%) were this. Of them, 5 were graygender, 20 were greygender, 3 were grey, 2 were grey gender, 1 was greygenderflux.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== I ==

===Ilyagender===

* '''Name(s):''' ilyagender. From the French grammatical construction ''il y a'' meaning “there exists” + gender, thus "there exists a gender." A short form of this identity's description in French: "il y a un genre, qui est tangible, et n’est pas homme ou femme ou neutre ou agenre en aucune façon, pas entre ces identités et pas une combinaison ou dérivation."<ref name="epochryphal ask pride color">Cor (epochryphal). "nbandproud asked: Hi! I'm one of the mods at Ask Pride Color Schemes..." ''Epochryphal'' (personal blog). February 10, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191226145306/https://epochryphal.tumblr.com/post/157076055057/hi-im-one-of-the-mods-at-ask-pride-color</ref><ref name="epochryphal ilyagender il y a">Cor (epochryphal). "Ilyagender: il y a un genre..." ''Epochryphal'' (personal blog). December 30, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160904164038/http://epochryphal.tumblr.com/post/106658742702/ilyagender-il-y-a-un-genre-qui-est-tangible-et</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Coined on December 30, 2014 by Cor (Tumblr user epochryphal).<ref name="epochryphal ask pride color" />

* '''Meaning:''' As described by Cor, ilyagender means "having a tangible presence of gender, one which is not man, woman, neutral, or agender in any way, nor between or a combination or derivation. Related: [[aliagender]], [[aporagender]], [[maverique]]."<ref name="epochryphal ilyagender il y a" />

* '''Keywords:''' neither female nor male, not female, not genderless, not male, not neutral, other gender

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Intergender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[intergender]]

* '''Origin:''' During the 1990s, usenet newsgroups were informal public discussion groups on the Internet that were oriented around topics of interest, such as hobbies, fandoms, and LGBT issues. Starting sometime before 1998, the alt.support.intergendered newsgroup was created by an intergender and non-intersex person named Donna Lynn Matthews, together with other people who also called themselves intergender.<ref name="Matthews_Genderqueer">Donna Lynn Matthews, “Being genderqueer – What it means for me.” 2006-10. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/genderqueer.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20230321220818/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/genderqueer.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As Matthews defined it in 1998 or earlier, people who call themselves intergender may consider themselves a mix of both man and woman, or neither man nor woman. Matthews said intergender people are not necessarily intersex.<ref name="newsgroup_charter">Donna Lynn Matthews. "alt.support.intergendered (ASIG) charter." Last updated in 1998. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_charter.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20230321220847/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_charter.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> 16 years later, in 2014, one intersex intergender person named Aeshling (Tumblr usernames quietlyloud-intersex, indonintersex) began to post to the MOGAI-Archive blog, arguing that this word should be for the use of intersex people only. Otherwise Aeshling's definition of intergender stayed the same.<ref name="Aeshling_Mogai">Aeshling. "Intergender." ''Mogai-Archive.'' 2014. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender{{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' both female and male, female, genderless, male, mixture, neither female nor male, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, ten respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Isogender===

* '''Name(s):''' isogender/iso

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2017 by anonymous Tumblr user via blog bigendering<ref>https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/161610343001/this-isnt-a-question-just-me-being-a-nerd-but [https://web.archive.org/web/20230703203707/https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/161610343001/this-isnt-a-question-just-me-being-a-nerd-but Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Neither cisgender nor transgender.<ref>https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/174096269085/isogender-pride-flag [https://web.archive.org/web/20230518061349/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/174096269085/isogender-pride-flag Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/188531614234/designed-an-alternate-flag-for-isoisogender [https://web.archive.org/web/20230524013126/https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/188531614234/designed-an-alternate-flag-for-isoisogender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> (Isogender is not to be confused with [[ipsogender]], which is also neither cis nor trans. Ipsogender was coined by the intersex sociologist Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello in 2014 to name a uniquely intersex identity, an identity which some-- but not all-- intersex people can experience: identifying with a coercively medically assigned gender.<ref name="Costello">{{Cite web |title=Cis Gender, Trans Gender, and Intersex |author=Cary Gabriel Costello |work=intersexroadshow.blogspot.com |date=5 August 2014 |access-date=16 May 2020 |url= https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2014/08/cis-gender-trans-gender-and-intersex.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708134749/https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2014/08/cis-gender-trans-gender-and-intersex.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> However, no respondents to the Gender Census have called themselves ipsogender, so it does not get an entry in this list.)

* '''Keywords:''' not cisgender, not transgender

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2021 Gender Census, six respondents.<ref name="GC2021" />

== J ==

===Juxera===

* '''Name(s):''' [[juxera]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined 2014 by Tumblr user ren.<ref name="Proxvir and Juxera">http://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/90527821124/hello-friends-here-are-some-new-gender-terms [https://web.archive.org/web/20230603024139/https://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/90527821124/hello-friends-here-are-some-new-gender-terms Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name="proxvir and juxera 2">http://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/164348851324/how-do-you-pronounce-juxera-and-proxvir-and [https://web.archive.org/web/20220615024920/https://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/164348851324/how-do-you-pronounce-juxera-and-proxvir-and Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As ren described it, "a gender relative to female, but is something separate and entirely on its own." Intended for use as an adjective, not a noun.

* '''Keywords:''' femme, nonbinary femme, not female

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents were juxera.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== L ==

===Libragender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[libragender]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user libragender by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="libragender mogai">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91735227414/libragender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Gender that is mostly agender [genderless], but has a strong connection to a different gender; a scale, where one side is agender and one side is male/female. The agender outweighs the male/female, but male/female is still there"

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, partial gender (demigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, a total of 19 respondents said they were libragender, librafeminine, libramasculine, librafluid, and other variations.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Lunarian===

* '''Name(s):''' [[galactian system#lunarian|lunarian]], so called because in many cultures, the Moon is associated with femininity.<ref name="stellunarian">bashana-haba-ah. "Anonymous asked: What's lunarian, stellarian and solarian?" ''Stellunarian'' (blog). A reblog made March 6, 2017 of a lost, deleted post. Retrieved September 2, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180902205854/https://stellunarian.tumblr.com/post/158086623900/whats-lunarian-stellarian-and-solarian</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Created in 2016 by Tumblr user vergess.<ref name="vergess describing alignment">vergess. "Describing alignment." ''kinda-girls'' (blog). November 16, 2016. Retrieved July 20, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200720224831/https://kinda-girls.tumblr.com/post/153284340413/describing-alignment</ref> In the 2019 Gender Census, around 0.2% of respondents identified with a galactian alignment.<ref>[https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Gender Census 2019 - the worldwide TL;DR] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230316155353/https://www.gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' The lunarian identity expresses a similarity with feminine genders, alignments, or experiences. It's a replacement for "feminine-aligned", "fem-aligned," or "female-aligned." <ref name="stellunarian" /> Lunarian is an identity from the [[galactian system]], which is an alternative classification system for nonbinary people based on the alignment in relation to the binary genders. Instead of ''male-aligned'' and ''female-aligned'', it uses concepts that are not related to the binarist system, such as the sun, the moon and the stars. It's worth noting that these words were not coined to describe genders, but a relation towards a binary gender - an alignment. For instance, an agender person may identify as lunarian because they have experiences in common with women, despite not being a woman themself.<ref name="vergess describing alignment" />

* '''Keywords:''' feminine, femme, nonbinary femme

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 18 respondents (0.16%) called themselves lunarian. Seven more (0.06%) called themselves by a word that was partly lunarian, such as stellunarian, sollunarian, solstelunarian. Together, this makes a total of 25 respondents (0.22%) who called their identity lunarian or partly lunarian.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== M ==

===Magigender===

* '''Name(s):''' magigender

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "Related to [[demigender]], magigender means to identify as mostly one gender and slightly as another gender(s)".<ref>[https://imoga-pride.tumblr.com/post/181966775951/is-there-a-label-for-a-gender-that-is-absolutely anonymous asked: is there a label for a gender that is absolutely male, except for a very once in a while it is female or agender?], imoga-pride, 12 January 2019</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' often changing (genderfluid), partial gender (demigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, no respondents, though one said they were magigenderfaun.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2018 Gender Census, there was one respondent each for magigender, magigirl, and maginonbinary.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, seven people were magiboy, four were magigirl, and there was one each of magienby, magiman, magigender, maginonbinary, and magiguy, making 16 total respondents having a magigender of some sort.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Metagender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[metagender]]

* '''Origin:''' Musician/poet/filmmaker [[Phoebe Legere]] said in a 1999 interview that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/Femme_Fatales_v08n04/page/n39/mode/2up| p=40-41|journal=Femme Fatales|volume=8|number=4|date=September 10, 1999| title=Mighty Aphrodite|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128082253/https://archive.org/details/Femme_Fatales_v08n04/page/n39/mode/2up|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> The term was coined again in the 2000s by Rook Thomas Hine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805111854/http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-date=5 August 2004|title=Metagender|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip}}</ref> Independently coined again in 2014 by Tumblr users keyblademastercecilpalmer, agenderchrismclean, and lordmoriarty by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.

* '''Meaning:'''
** 2000s coining: "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither [[neuter]] nor [[feminine]] nor [[masculine]]. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or [[androgyne]], and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."<ref>{{cite book |chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|title=Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity|year=2003|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/findingrealmetru00trac/page/76/mode/2up|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127041010/https://archive.org/details/findingrealmetru00trac/page/76/mode/2up|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
** 2014 coining: "To identify around or beyond a gender. Where your gender identity is almost that gender, but not quite, and also extends beyond that. Imagine that —- is you, and | is the gender identity (and identifying fully with a gender is —-|), then metagender is —- | —-" For example, meta-boy, meta-girl, meta-nonbinary, and so on.<ref name="metagender2014">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' third gender, other gender, partial gender (demigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Multigender===
* '''Name(s):''' [[multigender]]

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning: ''' A multigender person has more than one gender identity. This can mean they have them at the same time, or that they often switch between them at different times.<ref>Jenny Crofton. «[https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/what-it-means-to-be-multigender-the-questions-many-have-but-are-afraid-to-ask/ What It Means To Be MultiGender: The Questions Many Have, But Are Afraid To Ask]». The body is not an apology. 7 December 2016 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230603121645/https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/what-it-means-to-be-multigender-the-questions-many-have-but-are-afraid-to-ask/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.20% (22) respondents called themselves multigender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== N ==

===Nanogender===
* '''Name(s):''' nanogender or nan0gender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 or earlier.<ref name="m-a_archivedlist" /> Some people claim that it was created by [[transmedicalism|transmedicalists]] and was then reclaimed by the Tumblr nonbinary community.<ref>https://adventuresingender.tumblr.com/post/89082519003/what-is-nanogender [https://web.archive.org/web/20201118222951/https://adventuresingender.tumblr.com/post/89082519003/what-is-nanogender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>https://snowflakehealer-moved.tumblr.com/post/89388743773/tbh-my-life-got-a-lot-better-since-the-term{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who is nan0gender feels that their gender is a very small part one gender, and mostly something else; e.g. a nan0girl would feel very slightly female but mostly not."<ref>https://xeno-aligned.tumblr.com/post/185448558226/is-it-ok-if-i-call-myself-a-semidemihemigirl-i [https://web.archive.org/web/20210102211742/https://xeno-aligned.tumblr.com/post/185448558226/is-it-ok-if-i-call-myself-a-semidemihemigirl-i Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' partial gender, multigender

* '''Demographics:'''In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents were nanogirls, two were nanoboys, and one was a nan0boy.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Nebulagender===
* '''Name(s):''' nebulagender

* '''Origin:''' The term was in use by mid-2015 if not earlier.<ref>{{cite web|date=22 June 2015 |title="-Nebulous" as a Gender Suffix|author=SatuSepiida System|url=https://satusepiida.tumblr.com/post/122177282087/nebulous-as-a-gender-suffix|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208171330/https://satusepiida.tumblr.com/post/122177282087/nebulous-as-a-gender-suffix|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Has been used with two different meanings:
** A [[neurogender]] for neurodivergent people only. "The concept of gender doesnt always make clear sense, and its hard to tell subtle or not so subtle differences between genders" <ref>https://nickrants.tumblr.com/post/139465551749/nebulagender</ref>
** "a multigender/xenogender identity, nebulagender individuals have many interconnected xenogenders that collectively form a multifaceted, expansive, and beautiful gender experience. May have fully defined genders, like stars that are formed within a nebula, as well as diffuse, vague, and partly/completely unidentifiable gender feelings that exist in between, like cosmic dust."<ref>https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Nebulagender-748751971 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230325212736/https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Nebulagender-748751971 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' [[xenogender]], [[neurogender]], [[multigender]], space

* '''Demographics:'''In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents were nebulagender, including one who specified they meant the neurodivergent definition.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Neuter===

* '''Name(s):''' [[neuter]]

* '''Origin:''' The word in English usage dates back to the 14th century ''neutre'', used in the grammatical sense. The English language borrowed this word from Latin ''neuter'' meaning "neither one nor the other" (''ne-'' "not, no" + ''uter'' "either (of two)"). This Latin word is likely taken in turn from the old Greek word ''oudeteros''.<ref name="etym_neut">{{Cite web |title=neuter (adj.) |author= |work=Online Etymology Dictionary |date= |access-date=20 October 2020 |url= https://www.etymonline.com/word/neuter#etymonline_v_6890|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221090220/https://www.etymonline.com/word/neuter|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' According to Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries, this old word can have several meanings when used in reference to a person. 1. A gender neither masculine nor feminine. [[Genderless]]. [[Gender neutral]]. An [[androgynous]] person. 2. Without sexual organs, or with incomplete sexual organs. In biology and zoology, this can mean animals that were artificially spayed, castrated, or otherwise sterilized, as well as animals who were born in that condition, such as worker bees, as well as plants without pistils and stamens.<ref>"Neuter." ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary.'' https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neuter [https://web.archive.org/web/20230629150041/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neuter Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>"Neuther." ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/neuter [https://web.archive.org/web/20230130143334/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/neuter Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>"Neuter." ''The Free Dictionary.'' https://www.thefreedictionary.com/neuter [https://web.archive.org/web/20221123190856/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/neuter Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' centuries old, neutral

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Niveigender===
<section begin="Niveigender" />
[[File:Niveigender.png|thumb|Niveigender flag designed by the coiner of the term.]]
*'''Name(s):''' Niveigender.

*'''Origin:''' Coined in February 2020 by an anonymous user.<ref name="nivei">{{cite web|author=Stormy|date=17 February 2020|title=Here's a flag for a new gender term!|archive-date=25 February 2020|archive-url=https://archive.is/dWtCs|url=https://the-gender-collector-emself.tumblr.com/post/190878097989/heres-a-flag-for-a-new-gender-term-niveigender}}</ref>

*'''Meaning:''' "a snowy, chill gender that's kinda soft. A light cover, also very soothing." The adjective for describing a person with this gender is "nivalis".<ref name="nivei" />

*'''Keywords:''' snow, cold, winter, soft, soothing

*'''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent was niveigender.<ref name="GC2020"/>
<section end="Niveigender" />
===Null gender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[null gender]]

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A person without a gender identity, or whose gender identity is not feminine and not masculine.<ref>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91779169274/null-gender {{dead link}}</ref> A synonym for genderless.

* '''Keywords:''' genderless

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Nyctogender===

* '''Name(s):''' nyctogender

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user wynter-caelum by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="nyctogender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92386017394/nyctogender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined in that submission to the MOGAI-Archive, "Where your gender is pure darkness."

* '''Keywords:''' abstract, dark, genderless, light, spooky, symbols, not defined in relation to female or male ([[xenogender]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== O ==

===Other gender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[other gender]]

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A gender other than male or female.<ref>Eve Shapiro, ''Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age.'' Unpaged.</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, nine respondents called their gender "other," "other gender," "othergender," or "othergendered."<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== P ==

===Pangender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[pangender]]. From Greek πᾶν/pân "all, the whole."

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A pangender person is a person who considers themselves as a member of all genders (excluding genders they don't have access to such as [[neurogender]]s or [[Ethnicity and culture|culturally-specific genders]]).<ref>http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Pangender [https://web.archive.org/web/20230525010517/http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Pangender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' many genders (multigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 19 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

=== Paraboy ===

*'''Name(s):''' paraboy, paramasculine, or paramale.

*'''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user queerspike on or before July 10, 2014.<ref name="Paraboy">{{Cite web |title=Paraboy |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=24 August 2021 |url= https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Paraboy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127032913/https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Paraboy|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

*'''Meaning:''' An identity that is mostly boy/man, but partially not. Can be considered a more specific term under [[demiboy]].<ref name="Paraboy" />

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2021 Gender Census, seven people (0.02% of respondents) said they were paraboys, and one respondent was paramasculine.<ref name="GC2021" />

=== Paragirl ===

*'''Name(s):''' paragirl, parafeminine, parawoman, or parafemale.

*'''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user queerspike on or before July 10, 2014.<ref name="Paragirl">{{Cite web |title=Paragirl |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=24 August 2021 |url= https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Paragirl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127033146/https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Paragirl|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

*'''Meaning:''' An identity that is mostly girl/woman, but partially not. Can be considered a more specific term under [[demigirl]].<ref name="Paragirl" />

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2021 Gender Census, 16 people (0.04% of respondents) said they were paragirls, two respondents were parafeminine, two people were parawomen, and one was parafemale.<ref name="GC2021" />

===Pendogender===

{{#section-h:Neurogender|Pendogender}}

===Prin*gender===

* '''Name(s):''' pringender, princessgender, princegender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2017 or earlier.<ref>https://uncommongenders.tumblr.com/post/168101666256/novarian-pringender-sheet-music-violin-and [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205211916/https://uncommongenders.tumblr.com/post/168101666256/novarian-pringender-sheet-music-violin-and Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A soft but grandiose gender; The individual with this gender feels that their identity feels majestic, imposing and grand, but also prim, cute and ethereal", or a gender simply related to princes/princesses/prins.<ref>https://plurgai.tumblr.com/post/621734217905209344/flag-remakes-added-definition-a-new-gender [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205211811/https://plurgai.tumblr.com/post/621734217905209344/flag-remakes-added-definition-a-new-gender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' royalty, majestic, xenogender

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, two respondents were pringender and one was princegender.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Proxvir===

* '''Name(s):''' proxvir

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by Tumblr user ren.<ref name="Proxvir and Juxera" />

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender relative to male, but is something separate and entirely on it’s own."<ref name="Proxvir and Juxera"></ref> Ren coined this because he no longer identified with "demiboy," because of that word's focus on "boy," and the implication of a split/mixed gender. Intended as an adjective.<ref name="proxvir and juxera 2" />

* '''Keywords:''' masculine, nonbinary, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, nine respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, 22 respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

==Q==
===Quoigender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[quoigender]], quoi-gender. From French ''quoi'' "what" + gender.

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' Has various definitions including "someone who feels that gender identity and/or existing gender terms don't apply to them" and "someone whose relationship with gender is complicated".{{Citation needed}}

* '''Keywords:''' indescribable

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 17 (0.15%) respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== S ==

===Salmacian===

* '''Name(s):''' salmacian

* '''Origin:''' This term was proposed by the androgyne [[Raphael Carter]] in 1996 or earlier.<ref name="angels dictionary">Raphael Carter, "Angel's Dictionary." 1996-07-14. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050308185631/http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/angels.shtml]</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined by Carter, "A term for male-to-intersex and female-to-intersex transsexuals." A reference to the myth of the deity Hermaphroditus and the nymph Salmacis.<ref name="angels dictionary" /> Synonyms: bigenital, aphrodisian.<ref>https://plurgai.tumblr.com/post/618195598880997376/aphrodisian-bigenital-people-who-wish-to [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205211734/https://plurgai.tumblr.com/post/618195598880997376/aphrodisian-bigenital-people-who-wish-to Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>https://queerflagswithbenton.tumblr.com/post/172223819553/bigenitalflux-bigenitalsalmacian-one-who</ref> See also [[Glossary_of_English_gender_and_sex_terminology#A|altersex]].

* '''Keywords:''' assigned female at birth (AFAB), assigned male at birth (AMAB), altersex, intersex, not intersex

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Scorpigender===
[[File:Scorpigender.png|thumb|The scorpigender pride flag, consisting of three stripes: black, dark red, and dark grey.]]
* '''Name(s):''' scorpigender, scorpifluid

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2017 or earlier.

* '''Meaning:'''
** Scorpigender: "A gender that is a mystery, and very difficult to understand. Lots of labels vaguely fit it, but almost none can fully describe it."<ref name="scorpi">{{cite web|url=https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/165732128594/i-dunno-if-youre-able-to-make-a-flag-for-this|title=Anonymous asked: I dunno if you're able to make a flag for this, but|date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122172013/https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/165732128594/i-dunno-if-youre-able-to-make-a-flag-for-this|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
** Scorpifluid: "A gender fluid between unknown genders."<ref name="scorpi" />

* '''Keywords:''' unknown, mysterious, genderfluid, indescribable, questioning

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent was scorpifluid.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Sekhet===

{{#if:1|{{#section:Gender variance in spirituality|SekhetDefinition}}}} ''Why this is poorly attested: We need demographic information showing that any people identify as this today.''

===Stargender===

* '''Name(s):''' stargender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in January 2014 by a person named Mars (Tumblr user nbqt). Se described stargender as follows:

{{quote|Lately I’ve experiencing a new gender that isn’t male or female! I don’t believe it is [[agender]], since it certainly is a gender! It’s like, very neutral on the “spectrum” of gender, but I don’t feel like it’s [[androgyny]] either.
The reason I call it star gender is uh, because when I was mulling on it one day I somehow started thinking about alien/nonhuman genders and how it was really unknown to people currently, and I ended up reasoning maybe it was the same genders stars could experience? (sorry that sounds super silly uh)

I don’t believe it’s androgyny because it??? doesn’t really feel like a middle between masculine and feminine?? like it seems??? Beyond That? Like it is potentially neutral but encompassing both masculine and feminine at the same time, if that makes any sense?<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://archive.vn/UHMMQ|title=A Post About Star Gender!|url=http://nbqt.tumblr.com/post/74798543114/a-post-about-star-gender-more-uh-i-guess-i|date=27 January 2014|archive-date=6 May 2014}}</ref>}}

* '''Meaning:''' Has several meanings. A: "a person whose gender is otherworldly and beyond comprehension using earthly terms", B. "a person whose gender cannot be defined no matter how many other terms are created", C. "a person whose gender is that of a star".<ref name="QHCOTD">{{Cite web |title=Orientation and Gender Glossary |author=queerheadcanonoftheday |work=Tumblr |date= |access-date=11 July 2020 |url= https://queerheadcanonoftheday.tumblr.com/definitions|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517214704/http://queerheadcanonoftheday.tumblr.com/definitions |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>https://sickly-cute-anti.tumblr.com/post/185710697172/stargender-an-otherworldly-gender-that-is [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205211626/https://sickly-cute-anti.tumblr.com/post/185710697172/stargender-an-otherworldly-gender-that-is Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' indescribable, nature, unnameable, not defined in relation to female or male (xenogender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, seven respondents called themselves stargender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, 14 respondents were stargender and one was starfluid.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Staticgender===

{{#if:1|{{#section:Xenogender|Staticgender}}}}

===Systemfluid===
* '''Name(s):''' systemfluid, system fluid, system-fluid

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "When your system's collective gender changes depending on who's fronting, for systems and plural folk."<ref name="systemfluid">{{Cite web |title=Systemfluid Flag Redesign! |author=Woods, Jeffery |work= |date=15 April 2020|access-date=2 August 2021 |url= https://mogaiphobic.tumblr.com/post/615478197822373888/systemfluid-flag-redesign-systemfluid-when-your|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202030336/https://mogaiphobic.tumblr.com/post/615478197822373888/systemfluid-flag-redesign-systemfluid-when-your|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' multiplicity, multiple systems, headmates, alters, DID

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, six respondents were systemfluid.<ref name="GC2020" /> In the 2021 Gender Census, 25 respondents were systemfluid/system fluid.<ref name="GC2021" />

Various flags for systemfluid can be seen in [[:Category: Systemgender and Systemfluid pride flags]].
{{clear}}

===Systemgender===
[[File:Systemgender.png|thumb|A systemgender flag designed by almighty-hail and Tikva.]]
* '''Name(s):''' systemgender, system gender, system-gender

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender which is defined as a sum of all the genders within a multiple or median system."<ref name="devi_Syst">{{Cite web |title=Systemgender |work=DeviantArt |date=20 January 2018 |access-date=9 November 2020 |url= https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Systemgender-726551000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213083037/https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Systemgender-726551000 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' multiplicity, multiple systems, headmates, alters, DID

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, four respondents were systemgender.<ref name="GC2020" /> In the 2021 Gender Census, 16 respondents were systemgender/system gender/system-gender.<ref name="GC2021" />
{{clear}}

==T==
===Trigender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[trigender]]

* '''Origin:''' People called themselves trigender before 1999.<ref name="feinberg trans lib">Leslie Feinberg, ''Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink Or Blue'', page 53-4, Beacon Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8070-7951-0, ISBN 978-0-8070-7951-5.</ref><ref name="Elejalde-Ruiz">Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, "[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-18/news/0911180173_1_gender-born-layers For the young, gender is fluid]", ''Chicago Tribune'', November 18, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230517225626/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-18/news/0911180173_1_gender-born-layers Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Trigender people experience three genders, either at the same time, or moving between the three at different times.<ref name="feinberg trans lib" /><ref name="Elejalde-Ruiz" /><ref>Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin, ''Teaching for diversity and social justice'', page 224, CRC Press, 2007, ISBN 0-415-95200-X, 9780415952002.</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' many genders, often changing (genderfluid), three genders

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 14 respondents called themselves trigender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, 24 respondents were trigender, one was trigenderfluid, and one said they were "maybe" trigender.<ref name="GC2020" />

==U==
===Unisex===

* '''Name(s):''' unisex

* '''Origin:''' The word dates back to 1968.<ref name="etym_unisex">{{Cite web |title=unisex (adj.) |author= |work=Online Etymology Dictionary |date= |access-date=14 February 2021 |url= https://www.etymonline.com/word/unisex#etymonline_v_25020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328074347/https://www.etymonline.com/word/unisex|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "sexually indistinguishable or neutral"<ref name="etym_unisex" />

* '''Keywords:''' gender neutral

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, two respondents called themselves unisex.<ref name="GC2020" />

== V ==

===Virgender===
[[File:virgender.png|thumb|Virgender [[Flags|flag]] created by pridearchive.<ref name="virgender">http://pridearchive.tumblr.com/post/91781500576/virgender-pride</ref> The meaning of the flag colors are: '''Red:''' To symbolise the stress/difficulty in having a gender, '''White:''' An amalgamation of all genders '''Black:''' Genderlessness. The red stripes lighten as one goes down the flag to symbolise how one’s stress is causing their gender to get weaker and weaker until it goes to white and the individual is relieved of the stress of keeping up with one’s gender. The white transitions to grey and then to black to symbolise the complete lack of gender.]]

* '''Name(s):''' Virgender

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user stevenuniversequartz.<ref name="virgender" />

* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity that is practically and particularly genderless. This usually happens when it is too stressful or difficult to have a gender. A gender identity that feels weakened by stress, to the point where one is nearly genderless. The prefix comes from the constellation Virgo, the maiden.{{Citation needed}}

* '''Keywords:''' emotions, genderless, stress

'''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, two respondents were virgender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

<gallery>
File:virgender-2.png|Alternative design of virgender flag.
</gallery>

{{Clear}}

== X ==

=== Xenogender ===
* '''Name(s):''' [[xenogender]]

* '''Origin:''' From ''xeno'' alien + "gender." Coined in 2014 by Tumblr user Baaphomett, in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost"/>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender; more concerned with crafting other methods of gender categorization and hierarchy such as those relating to animals, plants, or other creatures/things."<ref name="baaphomett masterpost"/> An umbrella term for many nonbinary gender identities defined in reference to very different ideas than female or male.

* '''Keywords:''' external, alien

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 40 of the respondents (0.35%) called themselves "xenogender." Far more called themselves by specific genders that could be seen as under the xenogender umbrella, though that is hard to quantify or differentiate.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Xirl===

* '''Name(s):''' xirl

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who identifies in some way as a [[Woman#Nonbinary_women|nonbinary girl]] or nonbinary girl-adjacent. Someone who identifies with some part of woman/girlhood but who wants a more nonbinary and neutral sounding word because they aren't entirely girls or don't want to be associated with the typical ideas brought up by the word 'girl.'"<ref>https://nandbaremyfavouriteletters.tumblr.com/post/132010965767/xirl-someone-who-identifies-in-some-way-as-a [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205210326/https://nandbaremyfavouriteletters.tumblr.com/post/132010965767/xirl-someone-who-identifies-in-some-way-as-a Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' femme, nonbinary woman

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Xoy===

* '''Name(s):''' Xoy

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who identifies in some way as a [[Man#Nonbinary_men|nonbinary boy]] or nonbinary boy-adjacent. Someone who identifies with some part of manhood/boyhood but who wants a more nonbinary and neutral sounding word because they aren't entirely boys or don't want to be associated with the typical ideas brought up by the word 'boy.'"<ref>https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/148378934126/xirl-and-xoy [https://web.archive.org/web/20230106052540/https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/148378934126/xirl-and-xoy Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' nonbinary man, nonbinary boy

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2018 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents included "xoy" in their identity words.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" />

== See also ==

* [[List of nonbinary identities]]
* [[Glossary of English gender and sex terminology]]

== References ==
<references />

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[[Category:nonbinary identities]]

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{{Content warning|reclaimed slurs}}This '''list of uncommon nonbinary identities''' contains gender identities that have less record of their use, according to community census results and historical information, or sometimes no record at all, beyond their coinage and inclusion in glossaries. This does not mean that the identity is not valid, but that not many people have decided to use it ([[Nonbinary_Wiki: Uncommon identities|More information...]]). See also the [[list of nonbinary identities]] for more common ones.

In order to keep the wiki accurate to the lived experiences of nonbinary people, identities should only be listed here if they cite from at least two separate external sources, showing both:

1. origin (such as a source about how the term was coined, or at least history of the term's use), and

2. evidence that the identity has actually been used as someone's own identity. Acceptable evidence includes presence in at least one Gender Census result, a news article, or published nonfiction book describing an actual person using it.

A design for a pride flag does not count toward origin or evidence of use. A personal blog does not count toward evidence of use. A source citation of a web page counts if it is either a live link, or an archive of a dead link, but dead links by themselves are not acceptable.

== A ==

=== Abigender ===

*'''Name(s):''' abigender/abbigender.

*'''Origin:''' Coined in 2020.{{citation needed}}

*'''Meaning:''' "experiencing two distinct genders, either simultaneously or at different times, but only feeling a loose or vague connection to each gender while also not feeling that any part of the gender is 'neutral' or 'neither'."{{citation needed}}

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2021 [[Gender Census]], two people reported they were abigender and one abbigender.<ref name="GC2021">{{cite web| url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WCFvopijdsWAsT6NGGnjUB7QpLmrs584Q9slbId3JDw/edit#gid=1292827503 | title=[GC2021] Identity |date=10 March 2021}}</ref>

===Abimegender===
* '''Name(s):''' abimegender.

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 or earlier.<ref name="m-a_archivedlist">{{cite web|archive-url=https://archive.vn/rQYjH|url=http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/genders|archive-date=5 August 2014|title=mogai archive, genders}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "a gender which is profound, deep, and infinite. You can combine any term with relevant genders, e.g. abimegirl for an abimegender girl."<ref>https://pride-library.tumblr.com/post/141960871995/abimegender</ref>

* '''Keywords:'''

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, two people reported they were abimegender.<ref name="GC2020">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j7mwkZVtQYHxNlgS2J8onVCpVz-l1aJbBzG7msN5rxs/edit#gid=260963482 GC2020 Public Copy], 1 November 2020</ref>
<gallery>
File:Abimegender.png|Abimegender flag.
File:Abimeboy.png|Abimeboy flag.
File:Abimegirl.png|Abimegirl flag.
</gallery>

===Aerogender===

* '''Name(s):''' aerogender. (not to be confused with "arogender", below)

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user tenderagender in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="aerogender">{{cite web|date=2014|url= http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92608429989/aerogender-where-an-individuals-gender-relies|archive-url=https://heatsickness.tumblr.com/post/92608567681/mogai-archive-aerogender-where-an-individuals|title=aerogender, autogender, contragender|archive-date=23 July 2014}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Where an individual’s gender relies highly on their setting and/or atmosphere, which can be composed of a great number of things (ex. who they’re around, their level of comfort, the temperature, the weather, the time of day/year, etc.)"<ref name="aerogender" />

* '''Keywords:''' often changing ([[genderfluid]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent called [[singular they|themself]] aerogender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">"Gender Census 2019 - the worldwide TL;DR." ''Gender Census.'' March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2020. https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr</ref>

===Arogender===
[[File:Arogender.png|thumb|The arogender pride flag.]]
* '''Name(s):''' arogender. (not to be confused with "aerogender", above)

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2018 by tumblr user arokaladin.<ref>https://aroacearborvitae.tumblr.com/post/173271166138/arogender-any-gender-identity-influenced-by-being</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Arogender is a gender heavily influenced by one's place on the [[aromantic]] spectrum. It could be because they feel like they do not love in the way society expects of their gender, or it could be because they feel so strongly about not loving that it affects all parts of their being."<ref name="arogender2">https://idvault.tumblr.com/post/632782638110949376/arogender</ref> "It can be used as a standalone gender label or in conjunction with others; for example, one could be an arogender boy."<ref name="AUREA-terms">{{Cite web |title=Uncommon and Newly Emerging Aromantic Terms |author= |work=AUREA |date= |access-date=15 May 2021 |url= https://www.aromanticism.org/en/uncommon-and-newly-emerging-terms}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' aromantic, arospec, aroace, grayromantic, greyromantic, demiromantic

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, eleven respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />
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===Aesthetgender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Aesthetgender}}

===Agenderflux===

* '''Name(s):''' agenderflux

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user perfectlybrokenbones in post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="agenderflux">For historical reasons, please do not delete this citation, even though the link is dead, because it is where the term was coined. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92999709954/agenderflux {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Where you identify as agender [a.k.a. genderless] but have fluctuations where you feel feminine or masculine but not male or female."<ref name="agenderflux" />

* '''Keywords:''' femininity, often changing (genderfluid), genderless, masculinity, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, 6 respondents were agenderflux.<ref name=NBGQ2016>"NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results." ''Gender Census.'' March 19, 2016. http://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 28 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> Notable people who identify as agenderflux include television actor [[Ellie Desautels]].<ref name="dundore">{{Cite web |title=Ellie & Wren |author=Brent Dundore |work=They Them Project |date=17 August 2018 |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://dundorephoto.com/ellie-wren/}}</ref>

===Alexigender===

* '''Name(s):''' alexigender

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user eaglestrike in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="alexigender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91735771964/alexigender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A fluid gender experience, where you are aware that your gender is changing but cannot label each individual gender".

* '''Keywords:''' often changing (genderfluid), indescribable, unnameable

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, two respondents.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Aliagender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[aliagender]]. From Latin ''alius'' "other" + gender.<ref name="ask a nonbinary glossary 2018">{{cite web|title=Glossary (prod at me through the inbox if you think this list needs to be added to/ altered)|website=Ask a Non-Binary ''(blog)''|date=9 December 2018|archive-date=23 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223072932/http://askanonbinary.tumblr.com/post/71388258891/glossary-prod-at-me-through-the-inbox-if-you |url=https://askanonbinary.tumblr.com/post/71388258891/glossary-prod-at-me-through-the-inbox-if-you}}</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Beck, a moderator on the "askanonbinary" Tumblr blog, created the word "aliagender" in response to questions from Zoë or Leo (Tumblr user ZoboTheHob0, formerly ZoboTheHobo), in 2013.<ref name="throws up hands">{{cite web|author=Zoë or Leo|title=Untitled post|website=ZoboTheHob0 ''(blog)''|date=14 July 2014|url= https://zobothehob0.tumblr.com/post/91716663005/epochryphal-throws-up-hands-im-getting-really| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720212651/https://zobothehob0.tumblr.com/post/91716663005/epochryphal-throws-up-hands-im-getting-really|archive-date=20 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Mod Kellex|title=Aporagender vs. Aliagender|website=Aporagender ''(blog)''|date=25 November 2014|archive-date= 21 May 2015 |url=https://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/103598129904/aporagender-vs-aliagender |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521035454/https://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/103598129904/aporagender-vs-aliagender}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As described by Beck, “A gender experience which is 'other', or stands apart from existing gender constructs.”<ref name="ask a nonbinary glossary 2018" /> As Zoë or Leo later described it, "we defined it then as a gender experience other from the traditional spectrum. I always meant for this to be a term for a specific positive gender that was not associated with the man/woman spectrum, but was a gender that existed and NOT genderless."<ref name="throws up hands" /> Zoë or Leo also clarified that "they did not intend for aliagender to be harmful in any way, and was created to describe an 'othering' concept of gender."<ref name="aporagender vs aliagender">{{cite web|author=Zoë or Leo|title=Aporagender vs. Aliagender|website=ZoboTheHob0 ''(blog)''|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200720212831/https://zobothehob0.tumblr.com/post/103601097145/aporagender-vs-aliagender|archive-date=20 July 2020|url=https://zobothehob0.tumblr.com/post/103601097145/aporagender-vs-aliagender|date=25 November 2014}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' neither female nor male, not female, not male, [[other gender]]

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Aliengender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Aliengender}}

===Ambigender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[ambigender]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user Baaphomett in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost">Baaphomett. "Masterpost of genders coined by Baaphomett." ''Mogai-Archive.'' Original post where these were coined, which is lost: http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett Archive of that post: https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95720973644/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett Archive of that archive: https://archive.is/yULU0#selection-169.2-169.93</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined by Baaphomett, "Experiencing two genders simultaneously and without fluidity or shifting."<ref name="baaphomett_masterpost" />

* '''Keywords:''' many genders ([[multigender]]), not changing often (not genderfluid), two genders ([[bigender]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 3 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Ambonec===

* '''Name(s):''' [[ambonec]], from Latin ''ambo'' "both"<ref>"Ambo." ''Wiktionary.'' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambo#Latin</ref> + ''nec'' "neither."<ref>"Nec." ''Wiktionary.'' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nec#Latin</ref>

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A "gender identity in which you identify as both male and female, yet you also identify as neither, at the same time."<ref>http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94559591894/nbshadow-introducing-ambonec-an-for-short</ref><ref>"Terms." Queer Querys (blog). http://queerquerys.tumblr.com/terms</ref><ref>"Ambonec." Mogai-Archive (blog). http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91796206149/ambonec-an-for-short {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' both female and male, female, male, neither female nor male, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 10 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Anogender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[anogender]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by Tumblr user PocketMouse.<ref name="anogender">[https://pocketmouse.tumblr.com/post/89808536180/i-saw-another-post-going-around-about-newly i saw another post going around about newly created genders and i wanted to see if there was anything i could think of...], on ''rural kansas never forgets''. 25 June 2014.</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' PocketMouse defined it as "a feeling of gender that fades in and out but feels the same whenever it comes back. different from [[genderfluid]] in that it’s one gender constantly resurfacing, rather than switching between genders".<ref name="anogender" />

* '''Keywords:''' often changing ([[genderfluid]]), often changing in intensity ([[genderflux]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2018 Gender Census, two respondents identified themselves as "anoboy".<ref name="Gender Census 2018">{{Cite web |title=Gender Census 2018 Identity words (public) |author= |work=Google Docs |date=21 June 2018 |access-date=26 July 2020 |url= https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12cN-ooc5EuLIaqbmfqbjZffYldTzWRAHc-qZaRJ2xsQ/edit#gid=1402706910}}</ref>

===Anonbinary===

* '''Name(s):''' anonbinary

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A gender that isn't binary, but is even outside of nonbinaryness.<ref>https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Anonbinary</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' neither female nor male, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In 2020, two respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Antigender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[antigender]], unboy, ungirl or ungender

* '''Origin:''' Antigender was coined by Tumblr users AsexualJavert<ref name="antigenders">{{cite web|title=antigenders|url=http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91782643999/antigenders|archive-url=https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95722966204/antigenders|archive-date=25 August 2014}}</ref> and kgmps2.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/91274549054/introducing-antigenders|archive-date=21 May 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150521035526/http://aporagender.tumblr.com:80/post/91274549054/introducing-antigenders|title=Introducing: Antigenders!}}</ref> Ungender was coined in 2014 by Tumblr user Baaphomett by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" />

* '''Meaning:''' Antigender was originally defined as "Genders that can only be defined as the opposite of an existing gender. For instance: antiboy would be the opposite of a boy. antigirl would be the opposite of a girl."<ref name="antigenders" /> Ungender was originally defined by Baaphomett as "Not without but a negative; an unboy would be the negative of a boy and an ungirl would be the negative of a girl."<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" />

* '''Keywords:''' opposite, prefix

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 6 respondents were antigender, and 2 respondents were ungender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Apagender===

* '''Name(s):''' apagender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="apagender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92547893934/apagender Retrieved 2014. {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who is apathetic towards their gender identity and doesn't care enough to look further into it."<ref name="apagender" /> Other identities that have similar descriptions to this: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#cassgender|cassgender]], [[graygender]], and [[List of uncommon nonbinary identities#Genderwhat|genderwhat]].

* '''Keywords:''' apathy, emotion, indescribable, indifferent

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Aporagender===
* '''Name(s):''' aporagender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014, from Greek ''apo, apor'' "separate" + "gender".<ref>[http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora Anonymous asked: "could I ask the etymology of the prefix apora- ?"], posted October 2014.</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] and [[umbrella term]] for "a gender separate from [[male]], [[female]], and anything in between while still having a very strong and specific gendered feeling" (that is, not an [[agender|absence of gender]]).<ref>[http://aporagender.tumblr.com/aporagender Aporagender], date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' neutal, independent

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 5 of the respondents (0.16%) were aporagender.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 23 of the respondents (0.20%) were aporagender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Aquarigender===

* '''Name(s):''' aquarigender, genderflow<ref name="acousticlesbian">https://acousticlesbian.tumblr.com/post/145650169550/hey-i-dont-know-if-ive-ever-mentioned-this-but</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 or earlier<ref name="m-a_archivedlist" /> by tumblr user 8-bit-angel<ref>https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/147207958645/aquarigender-genderflow</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' " a gender that is perpetually changing. It is never to a specific gender identity, but sometimes there are existing labels that are close to what the gender feels like at the time. Sometimes it changes to a completely inexplicable feeling. Aquarigender is a flowing gender that changes slowly and constantly. It is not a set amount of genders that it switches between."<ref name="acousticlesbian" />

* '''Keywords:''' fluid, [[genderfluid]], flowing, water, changing

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />
<gallery>
File:Aquarigender.png
File:Aquarigender-2.png
</gallery>

===Astralgender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Astralgender}}

===Autismgender===
* '''Name(s):''' [[neurogender#autismgender|autismgender]], autigender, autgender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by Tumblr users autismgender and esperancegirl, by submissions to the [[MOGAI-Archive blog]].<ref name="mogai-archive-autigender">The since-deleted post in the ''mogai-archive'' blog where this word was coined: http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93477063574/auti-s-gender Another blog's archive of that lost blog post: http://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95723823254/autisgender An archive of that archive: https://archive.is/BTFMN#selection-489.0-489.14</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity with which some nonbinary people with autism choose to use to describe themselves. The creators of this term defined it as "autism as part or whole of gender identity; a gender that can only be understood in context of being autistic." When your gender experience is influenced by or linked to your autism, or your understanding of the concept of gender itself is fundamentally altered by your autism.<ref name="mogai-archive-autigender"/>

* '''Keywords:''' neurogender, neurodivergence, autism

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, one of the respondents called their gender identity "autistic," and another said "autisgender."<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 66 of the respondents (0.59%) called their gender identity autigender, autgender, autistic, or autiqueer.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== B ==

===Bordergender===

{{#section-h:Neurogender|Bordergender}}

===Bxy===

* '''Name(s):''' bxy

* '''Origin:''' Coined by tumblr user sadghostbxy (Frankie), later renamed to colorbandiits.<ref>https://colorbandiits.tumblr.com/post/155286142742/my-gendercoining-a-new-term</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that is both [[boy]] and [[agender]]/no gender. You can be a boy and agender/no gender at the same time, go between them, or fluctuate between feeling male and not feeling gender."<ref>https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/187023788904/hey-if-i-am-mostly-agender-sometimes-feel-more</ref> The "girl and agender" counterpart is gxrl.

* '''Keywords:''' agender boy, agender man, genderless male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2018 Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" />

== C ==

===Cadensgender===
[[File:Cadensgender.png|thumb|Cadensgender flag.]]
* '''Name(s):''' cadensgender

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that's easily influenced by music."<ref name="what_Infl">{{Cite web |title=Influenced Genders |author= |work=what-the-heck-gender-am-i |date= |access-date=7 October 2020 |url= https://what-the-heck-gender-am-i.tumblr.com/influenced%20gender}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' music, songs

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2018 [[Gender Census]], one respondent.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" />

===Caelgender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Caelgender}}

===Cassgender===

* '''Name(s):''' cassgender

* '''Origin:''' Cassgender was coined by Tumblr user okaygender in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="cassgender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92975469559/cassexual-feeling-utterly-indifferent-to {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Cassgender was defined as "Feeling utterly indifferent to gender, believing it isn’t important."<ref name="cassgender" /> Similar identities: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#apagender|apagender]] and [[graygender]].

* '''Keywords:''' apathy, emotion, indescribable, indifference

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent was cassgender.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents were cassgender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, eight respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Cenrell===
'''cenrell.''' Coined by SynHeart in 2018. "a gender identity where one feels most comfortable within the [[gender neutral]] spectrum, but still feels a strong attachment to [[masculinity]]."<ref name="cenrell">https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/169779865250/cenrell-pronounced-sen-rell-a-gender</ref> In the 2020 Gender Census, three respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Cogitogender===

* '''Name(s):''' cogitogender

* '''Origin:''' Coined by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="cogitogender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93377336539/existigender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that only exists when you think about it, or is quiet until called to attention. alternatively, feeling genderless until a gender is consciously chosen."<ref name="cogitogender" />

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, indescribable, often changing (genderfluid), partial gender ([[demigender]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Contigender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Contigender}}

===Cosmicgender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Cosmicgender}}

== D ==

===Demiflux===

* '''Name(s):''' demiflux

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user aflutteringlaney in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="demiflux aflutteringlaney">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93548961719/demiflux {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity for "someone whose gender is partially [[genderfluid|fluid]] with the other part(s) being static; this differs from 'demifluid' as '[[genderflux|-flux]]' indicates that one of the genders is [[neutral]]; an example could be: one part of their gender is '[[genderqueer]]' while the part that fluctuates is '[[agender]]' and '[[woman]]'."<ref>Savage. "Demigender definitions." Demigender safe space. http://demigenders.tumblr.com/post/102344212344/demigender-definitions</ref> As defined by aflutteringlaney: "A term for [[polygender]]/[[bigender]] individuals to describe when one of their genders is “static” and the other ranges in intensity and presence."<ref name="demiflux aflutteringlaney" />

* '''Keywords:''' two genders (bigender), partial genders ([[demigender]]), often changing ([[genderfluid]]), often changing in intensity ([[genderflux]]), many genders (multigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 12 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Dryagender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Dryagender}}

== E ==

===Earthgender===

* '''Name(s):''' earthgender

* '''Origin:''' First coined in 2014 or earlier.<ref name="m-a_archivedlist" />

* '''Meaning:''' Has at least two meanings:
** "a gender identity that is directly affected, tied to, or influenced by the earth or nature. or; a gender identity similar to/the same as that of some form of earth deity."<ref>https://pride-library.tumblr.com/post/153167414640/earthgender</ref>
** "A gender based in exploration and wildly swinging moods and identities. It constantly has some level of mystery, no matter what aspect you figure out.<ref>https://gendergeode.tumblr.com/post/627117927009845249/planetgender-39-earthgender-a-gender-based-in</ref>"

* '''Keywords:''' questioning, planetary

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="GC2020" />
{{clear}}

===Egogender===

{{#section-h:Xenogender|Egogender}}

===Enigender===
* '''Name(s):''' enigender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 or earlier by tumblr user gungnirv2, derived from the word "enigma".<ref name="enigender">https://fuckyeahmonsterenbies.tumblr.com/post/93881285262/hey-just-wondering-but-would-nb-monster-ocs-that</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that you cannot describe accurately with any words. However, certain pictures/audio/video/ect. can describe it just fine. Basically anything that’s not written or spoken word can describe enigender. Its a really fluid gender that could be described differently from person to person!"<ref name="enigender" />

* '''Keywords:'''

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Epicene===

* '''Name(s):''' [[epicene]]. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, this very old word comes "from Latin ''epicoenus'' 'common,' from Greek ''epikoinos'' 'common to many, promiscuous,' from ''epi'' 'on' ... + ''koinos'' 'common' ..."<ref name="epicene ety">"epicene (adj.)" ''Online Etymology Dictionary.'' https://www.etymonline.com/word/epicene</ref>

* '''Origin:''' According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, epicene has been used in English for the genders of people since about 1600 to the 1630s CE.<ref name="epicene ety" />

* '''Meaning:''' According to Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries, epicene has been used with several different meanings, as follows. 1. [[gender neutral|Gender-neutral]] or [[genderless]]. Having the characteristics of more than one gender, or having no gender characteristics. 2. An [[effeminate]] [[man]].<ref>"Epicene." ''Merriam-Webster.'' https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epicene</ref><ref>"Epicene." ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/epicene</ref><ref>"Epicene." ''The Free Dictionary.'' https://www.thefreedictionary.com/epicene</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' androgynous, centuries old, effeminate, genderless, gender neutral

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, six respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Ethale===

* '''Name(s):''' ethale

* '''Origin:''' Coined December 2019 by tumblr user redefine-nonb-lesbianism.<ref>https://redefine-nonb-lesbianism.tumblr.com/post/189902526660</ref> The word is derived from "ethereal", meaning spirit-like or immaterial.<ref>https://redefine-nonb-lesbianism.tumblr.com/post/616796255390138368/hi-whats-the-etymology-of-the-term-ethale-i</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "a person whose gender relates to womanhood though exists as a separate gender".<ref>https://redefine-nonb-lesbianism.tumblr.com/post/616701797555470336</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' related to womanhood/girlhood, femininity, feminine in nature

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Ethegender===

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===Eunuch===

* '''Name(s):''' [[eunuch]]

* '''Origin:''' According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, this very old word has been in English since the late 14th century. Ultimately, it comes from Greek, ''euno-'' "bed" + ''ekhein'' "to have, to hold," referring to eunuchs who were guards of nobles' bedchambers.<ref name="eunuch ety">"eunuch (n.)" ''Online Etymology Dictionary.'' https://www.etymonline.com/word/eunuch</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A person who was assigned male at birth, and had some or all of their genitals removed. Historically, there have been many people who had this done to them without their consent. However, there have also been many people who voluntarily and intentionally sought out this procedure, specifically in order to relieve their discomfort with having those genitals, or to stop other physical characteristics that are the result of masculinization from having testicles, such as body hair or a low voice. Some transgender people think of themselves as eunuchs. Many eunuchs have considered themselves to be men. However, many other eunuchs have thought of their status as a eunuch as a gender identity outside of the binary. This has been the case with eunuchs historically, in many different cultures, and today.<ref>"Eunuch." Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki." [https://susans.org/wiki/Eunuch]</ref> Some nonbinary people are or wish to become eunuchs, or label themselves as eunuchs.<ref>"FAQs." ''Neutrois.com''. http://neutrois.com/0/faq.html</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' assigned male at birth (AMAB), centuries old, transition

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents called their gender identity "eunuch."<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== F ==

===Faegender===

* '''Name(s):''' faegender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="faegender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92386154479/faegender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined by that anonymous submission to MOGAI-Archive in 2014, "When an individual’s gender changes with the seasons, equinoxes, and moon phases."<ref name="faegender" />

* '''Keywords:''' cycle, cyclic, lunar cycle, lunar phases, moon, nature, often changing (genderfluid), seasons, time

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Faesari===

* '''Name(s):''' Faesari

* '''Origin:''' Submitted 2 January 2018 by SynHeart to the Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags blog.<ref>https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/169242719870/faesari-a-gender-identity-where-one-feels-most?is_related_post=1</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender identity where one feels most comfortable within the gender neutral spectrum, but still feels a strong attachment to femininity."

* '''Keywords:''' femininity, feminine, gender neutral

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2018 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Femache===

* '''Name(s):''' Femache, machembre, femal, or macheme<ref name="lgbta_Femache">{{Cite web |title=Femache |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=14 February 2021 |url= https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Femache}}</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Femache was coined via beyond-mogai-pride-flags on October 1, 2018. The name is a combination of the Spanish/Portuguese words fêmea/fembra and macho but with an -e suffixed to make the word neutral.<ref name="bmpf_Femache">{{Cite web |title=Femache Pride Flag |author= |work=Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags |date=1 October 2018 |access-date=14 February 2021 |url= https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/178644762070/femache-pride-flag }}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "a non-binary gender in which one simultaneously experiences maleness or masculinity and femaleness or femininity."<ref name="lgbta_Femache" />

* '''Keywords:''' femininity, feminine, masculinity, masculine, both binary genders

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Fluidflux===

* '''Name(s):''' [[fluidflux]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined by two Tumblr users, trigenby and genderabbit, possibly in 2014, with the aim of combining [[genderfluid]] and [[genderflux]].<ref>https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95787621284/fluidflux</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity that changes over time and also varies in intensity.<ref>{{cite web|website=genderfluidaskblog| title=Genderfluid vs. Genderflux (or fluidflux) |url=https://genderfluidaskblog.tumblr.com/post/624029029983453184/genderfluid-vs-genderflux-or-fluidflux|date=18 July 2020}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, often changing (genderfluid), often changing in intensity (genderflux)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, nine respondents were fluidflux, two were genderfluidflux, and one was mascfluidflux.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===FTN===

* '''Name(s):''' FTN, which is short for female-to-neuter (or neutral, or [[neutrois]]) transsexual (or transgender).<ref>"LGBTQ terms." Neutrois.com. [http://neutrois.com/definitions/terms/]</ref>

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:'''

* '''Keywords:''' assigned female at birth (AFAB), assigned gender, transition

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===FTX===

* '''Name(s):''' FTX, which is short for female-to-X. This covers people who were assigned female at birth, and who identify as nonbinary or [[X-gender]].<ref name="roxiejapan">[http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan ''Selected links on nonbinary gender in Japan''], Marilyn Roxie, March 28, 2013.</ref>

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:'''

* '''Keywords:''' assigned female at birth (AFAB), assigned gender, transition

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== G ==

===Gender agnostic===

* '''Name(s):''' gender agnostic

* '''Origin:''' This term was in use at least as early as 2014, when mathematician [[Vi Hart]] tweeted about identifying as gender agnostic.<ref name="agnostic tweet">{{Cite tweet|number=461633678179696640|user=vihartvihart|title=Fun fact: I consider myself gender agnostic. "Person," not "Woman," please. I respect your religion, but don't like having it pushed on me.|date=April 30, 2014|first=Vi|last=Hart}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Hart tweeted in 2014, "I consider myself gender agnostic. 'Person,' not 'Woman,' please. I respect your religion, but don't like having it pushed on me."<ref name="agnostic tweet" /> Hart released a video in 2015, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmKix-75dsg On Gender]," about their lack of gender identity—including lacking [[genderqueer]] identities such as [[agender]]—and their attitude to gendered terms such as pronouns as a "linguistic game" that they were not interested in playing. They indicated that they have no preference and do not care which pronouns they are called by.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmKix-75dsg|title=On Gender|last=Hart|first=Vi|date=8 June 2015|language=|type=Online video|publisher=YouTube}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, genders about things other than connection to female or male, opting out of the system of gender altogether, indifference

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 9 respondents called themselves gender agnostic. One of these respondents explained they meant it in the sense described by Vi Hart.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Gender-free===

* '''Name(s):''' [[agender|gender-free]], or genderfree

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' Having no gender identity. A synonym for agender and genderless.<ref name="gender-word">{{Cite web |title=By the end of this post, “gender” may not look like a real word anymore |author=Cottle, J.M. |work=A Fine Line |date=12 June 2011 |access-date=7 May 2020 |url= https://jmcottle.com/by-the-end-of-this-post-gender-may-not-look-like-a-real-word-anymore/}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, neither female nor male, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, seven respondents said they were genderfree, gender-free, or gender free.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Gendervague===

* '''Name(s):''' [[neurogender#gendervague|Gendervague]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by many participants of the neurodivergentkin network.<ref name="vague coin">Cryptomegha (Gcdzilla, StrangeGloved). Untitled post. ''gcdzilla'' (blog). August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141003224751/http://gcdzilla.tumblr.com/post/91603686632/ok-so-the-rly-cool-people-at-the-neurodivergentkin</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "a nonbinary gender that [...] is not definable with words because of one’s status as neurodivergent."<ref name="vague coin" /> Autistic activist [[Lydia X. Z. Brown]] wrote, "I’ve started referring to myself as gendervague [...] a specifically neurodivergent experience of trans/gender identity. [...] Someone who is gendervague cannot separate their gender identity from their neurodivergence – being autistic doesn’t ''cause'' my gender identity, but it is inextricably related to how I understand and experience gender."<ref name="Brown">{{Cite web |title=Gendervague: At the Intersection of Autistic and Trans Experiences |last=Brown |first=Lydia X. Z. |work=The Asperger / Autism Network (AANE) |date=22 June 2016 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.aane.org/gendervague-intersection-autistic-trans-experiences/}}</ref> An author who is gendervague, [[Max Sparrow]], wrote that "[...] disability can affect gender presentation as much as or even more than inherent gender identity. Identity labels so often focus on sifting out one aspect of identity, holding it apart and separate from other aspects of our lives. Gendervague is an inherently intersected identity, honoring two different facets of identity equally, simultaneously more exclusive and more inclusive."<ref name="transtistic">Max Sparrow. "What is gendervague?" ''Transtistic: At the Intersection of Transtistic and Autgender'' (blog). June 17, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2019. https://transtistic.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/what-is-gendervaguear Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190411000915/https://transtistic.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/what-is-gendervague/</ref>

* '''Keywords:'''

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, 26 respondents (0.23%) called themselves gendervague.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">"Gender Census 2019 - The Worldwide tl;dr." ''Gender Census'' (blog). March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2020. https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr</ref>

=== Gendervoid ===
* '''Name(s):''' Gendervoid

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user Baaphomett in 2014 by a submission to the MOGAI-archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost">Baaphomett. "Masterpost of genders coined by Baaphomett." ''Mogai-Archive.'' Original post where these were coined, which is lost: http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett Archive of that post: https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95720973644/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett Archive of that archive: https://archive.is/yULU0#selection-169.2-169.93</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender consisting of the void (also/originally used to mean the same thing as genderless)."<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" />

* '''Keywords:''' no gender, void

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 9 of the respondents (0.29%) called themselves gendervoid or another variation.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 91 of the respondents (0.81%) called their gender "void," "voidgender," "gendervoid," or other variations.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Genderwhat===

* '''Name(s):''' Genderwhat

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by daedric-cisphobe by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="genderwhat daedric">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92028650684/genderwhat Retrieved 2014. {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined by daedric-cisphobe, "A gender characterized by both confusion and apathy with regards to either a fluid or stable gender identity." Other identities that have similar descriptions to this: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#apagender|apagender]], [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#cassgender|cassgender]], and [[graygender]].

* '''Keywords:''' apathy, confusion, emotion, indescribable, indifference

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent said they were genderwhat.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Graygender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[graygender]], greygender, gray agender, or grey agender.<ref name="Pride-Flags">{{Cite web |title=Graygender / Gray Agender |author=Pride-Flags |work=DeviantArt |date=23 August 2015 |access-date=20 May 2020 |url= https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Graygender-Gray-Agender-555820442}}</ref> (Spelling note: in American English, the ''color'' is called ''gray'', but in the rest of the English-speaking world, the ''colour'' is called ''grey''.)

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user invernom in March 2014.<ref>[https://invernom.tumblr.com/post/80158494356/identifying-as-graygendergreygender Identifying As “Graygender”/“Greygender”], invernom, 20 March 2014</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A person who identifies as (at least partially) outside the gender binary and has a strong natural ambivalence about their [[gender identity]] or [[gender expression]]. They feel they have a gender(s), as well as a natural inclination or desire to express it, but it's weak and/or somewhat indeterminate/indefinable, or they don’t feel it most of the time, or they’re just not that invested in it. They're not entirely without a gender or gender expression, but they're not entirely 'with' it either."<ref>[https://mogai-library.tumblr.com/post/126492755533/graygreygender Gray/greygender] by mogai-library, 12 August 2015</ref>

* '''Keywords:'''

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 31 responses (0.27%) were this. Of them, 5 were graygender, 20 were greygender, 3 were grey, 2 were grey gender, 1 was greygenderflux.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== I ==

===Ilyagender===

* '''Name(s):''' ilyagender. From the French grammatical construction ''il y a'' meaning “there exists” + gender, thus "there exists a gender." A short form of this identity's description in French: "il y a un genre, qui est tangible, et n’est pas homme ou femme ou neutre ou agenre en aucune façon, pas entre ces identités et pas une combinaison ou dérivation."<ref name="epochryphal ask pride color">Cor (epochryphal). "nbandproud asked: Hi! I'm one of the mods at Ask Pride Color Schemes..." ''Epochryphal'' (personal blog). February 10, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191226145306/https://epochryphal.tumblr.com/post/157076055057/hi-im-one-of-the-mods-at-ask-pride-color</ref><ref name="epochryphal ilyagender il y a">Cor (epochryphal). "Ilyagender: il y a un genre..." ''Epochryphal'' (personal blog). December 30, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160904164038/http://epochryphal.tumblr.com/post/106658742702/ilyagender-il-y-a-un-genre-qui-est-tangible-et</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Coined on December 30, 2014 by Cor (Tumblr user epochryphal).<ref name="epochryphal ask pride color" />

* '''Meaning:''' As described by Cor, ilyagender means "having a tangible presence of gender, one which is not man, woman, neutral, or agender in any way, nor between or a combination or derivation. Related: [[aliagender]], [[aporagender]], [[maverique]]."<ref name="epochryphal ilyagender il y a" />

* '''Keywords:''' neither female nor male, not female, not genderless, not male, not neutral, other gender

* '''Demographics:''' In the Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey 2016, one respondent.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Intergender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[intergender]]

* '''Origin:''' During the 1990s, usenet newsgroups were informal public discussion groups on the Internet that were oriented around topics of interest, such as hobbies, fandoms, and LGBT issues. Starting sometime before 1998, the alt.support.intergendered newsgroup was created by an intergender and non-intersex person named Donna Lynn Matthews, together with other people who also called themselves intergender.<ref name="Matthews_Genderqueer">Donna Lynn Matthews, “Being genderqueer – What it means for me.” 2006-10. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/genderqueer.html</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As Matthews defined it in 1998 or earlier, people who call themselves intergender may consider themselves a mix of both man and woman, or neither man nor woman. Matthews said intergender people are not necessarily intersex.<ref name="newsgroup_charter">Donna Lynn Matthews. "alt.support.intergendered (ASIG) charter." Last updated in 1998. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_charter.html</ref> 16 years later, in 2014, one intersex intergender person named Aeshling (Tumblr usernames quietlyloud-intersex, indonintersex) began to post to the MOGAI-Archive blog, arguing that this word should be for the use of intersex people only. Otherwise Aeshling's definition of intergender stayed the same.<ref name="Aeshling_Mogai">Aeshling. "Intergender." ''Mogai-Archive.'' 2014. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender{{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' both female and male, female, genderless, male, mixture, neither female nor male, not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, ten respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Isogender===

* '''Name(s):''' isogender/iso

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2017 by anonymous Tumblr user via blog bigendering<ref>https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/161610343001/this-isnt-a-question-just-me-being-a-nerd-but</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Neither cisgender nor transgender.<ref>https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/174096269085/isogender-pride-flag</ref><ref>https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/188531614234/designed-an-alternate-flag-for-isoisogender</ref> (Isogender is not to be confused with [[ipsogender]], which is also neither cis nor trans. Ipsogender was coined by the intersex sociologist Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello in 2014 to name a uniquely intersex identity, an identity which some-- but not all-- intersex people can experience: identifying with a coercively medically assigned gender.<ref name="Costello">{{Cite web |title=Cis Gender, Trans Gender, and Intersex |author=Cary Gabriel Costello |work=intersexroadshow.blogspot.com |date=5 August 2014 |access-date=16 May 2020 |url= https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2014/08/cis-gender-trans-gender-and-intersex.html }}</ref> However, no respondents to the Gender Census have called themselves ipsogender, so it does not get an entry in this list.)

* '''Keywords:''' not cisgender, not transgender

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2021 Gender Census, six respondents.<ref name="GC2021" />

== J ==

===Juxera===

* '''Name(s):''' [[juxera]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined 2014 by Tumblr user ren.<ref name="Proxvir and Juxera">http://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/90527821124/hello-friends-here-are-some-new-gender-terms</ref><ref name="proxvir and juxera 2">http://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/164348851324/how-do-you-pronounce-juxera-and-proxvir-and</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As ren described it, "a gender relative to female, but is something separate and entirely on its own." Intended for use as an adjective, not a noun.

* '''Keywords:''' femme, nonbinary femme, not female

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents were juxera.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== L ==

===Libragender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[libragender]]

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user libragender by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="libragender mogai">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91735227414/libragender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Gender that is mostly agender [genderless], but has a strong connection to a different gender; a scale, where one side is agender and one side is male/female. The agender outweighs the male/female, but male/female is still there"

* '''Keywords:''' genderless, partial gender (demigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, a total of 19 respondents said they were libragender, librafeminine, libramasculine, librafluid, and other variations.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Lunarian===

* '''Name(s):''' [[galactian system#lunarian|lunarian]], so called because in many cultures, the Moon is associated with femininity.<ref name="stellunarian">bashana-haba-ah. "Anonymous asked: What's lunarian, stellarian and solarian?" ''Stellunarian'' (blog). A reblog made March 6, 2017 of a lost, deleted post. Retrieved September 2, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180902205854/https://stellunarian.tumblr.com/post/158086623900/whats-lunarian-stellarian-and-solarian</ref>

* '''Origin:''' Created in 2016 by Tumblr user vergess.<ref name="vergess describing alignment">vergess. "Describing alignment." ''kinda-girls'' (blog). November 16, 2016. Retrieved July 20, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200720224831/https://kinda-girls.tumblr.com/post/153284340413/describing-alignment</ref> In the 2019 Gender Census, around 0.2% of respondents identified with a galactian alignment.<ref>[https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Gender Census 2019 - the worldwide TL;DR]</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' The lunarian identity expresses a similarity with feminine genders, alignments, or experiences. It's a replacement for "feminine-aligned", "fem-aligned," or "female-aligned." <ref name="stellunarian" /> Lunarian is an identity from the [[galactian system]], which is an alternative classification system for nonbinary people based on the alignment in relation to the binary genders. Instead of ''male-aligned'' and ''female-aligned'', it uses concepts that are not related to the binarist system, such as the sun, the moon and the stars. It's worth noting that these words were not coined to describe genders, but a relation towards a binary gender - an alignment. For instance, an agender person may identify as lunarian because they have experiences in common with women, despite not being a woman themself.<ref name="vergess describing alignment" />

* '''Keywords:''' feminine, femme, nonbinary femme

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 18 respondents (0.16%) called themselves lunarian. Seven more (0.06%) called themselves by a word that was partly lunarian, such as stellunarian, sollunarian, solstelunarian. Together, this makes a total of 25 respondents (0.22%) who called their identity lunarian or partly lunarian.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== M ==

===Magigender===

* '''Name(s):''' magigender

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "Related to [[demigender]], magigender means to identify as mostly one gender and slightly as another gender(s)".<ref>[https://imoga-pride.tumblr.com/post/181966775951/is-there-a-label-for-a-gender-that-is-absolutely anonymous asked: is there a label for a gender that is absolutely male, except for a very once in a while it is female or agender?], imoga-pride, 12 January 2019</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' often changing (genderfluid), partial gender (demigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, no respondents, though one said they were magigenderfaun.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2018 Gender Census, there was one respondent each for magigender, magigirl, and maginonbinary.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, seven people were magiboy, four were magigirl, and there was one each of magienby, magiman, magigender, maginonbinary, and magiguy, making 16 total respondents having a magigender of some sort.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Metagender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[metagender]]

* '''Origin:''' Musician/poet/filmmaker [[Phoebe Legere]] said in a 1999 interview that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/Femme_Fatales_v08n04/page/n39/mode/2up| p=40-41|journal=Femme Fatales|volume=8|number=4|date=September 10, 1999| title=Mighty Aphrodite}}</ref> The term was coined again in the 2000s by Rook Thomas Hine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805111854/http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-date=5 August 2004|title=Metagender|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip}}</ref> Independently coined again in 2014 by Tumblr users keyblademastercecilpalmer, agenderchrismclean, and lordmoriarty by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.

* '''Meaning:'''
** 2000s coining: "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither [[neuter]] nor [[feminine]] nor [[masculine]]. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or [[androgyne]], and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."<ref>{{cite book |chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|title=Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity|year=2003|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/findingrealmetru00trac/page/76/mode/2up}}</ref>
** 2014 coining: "To identify around or beyond a gender. Where your gender identity is almost that gender, but not quite, and also extends beyond that. Imagine that —- is you, and | is the gender identity (and identifying fully with a gender is —-|), then metagender is —- | —-" For example, meta-boy, meta-girl, meta-nonbinary, and so on.<ref name="metagender2014">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' third gender, other gender, partial gender (demigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Multigender===
* '''Name(s):''' [[multigender]]

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning: ''' A multigender person has more than one gender identity. This can mean they have them at the same time, or that they often switch between them at different times.<ref>Jenny Crofton. «[https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/what-it-means-to-be-multigender-the-questions-many-have-but-are-afraid-to-ask/ What It Means To Be MultiGender: The Questions Many Have, But Are Afraid To Ask]». The body is not an apology. 7 December 2016</ref>

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.20% (22) respondents called themselves multigender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== N ==

===Nanogender===
* '''Name(s):''' nanogender or nan0gender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 or earlier.<ref name="m-a_archivedlist" /> Some people claim that it was created by [[transmedicalism|transmedicalists]] and was then reclaimed by the Tumblr nonbinary community.<ref>https://adventuresingender.tumblr.com/post/89082519003/what-is-nanogender</ref><ref>https://snowflakehealer-moved.tumblr.com/post/89388743773/tbh-my-life-got-a-lot-better-since-the-term</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who is nan0gender feels that their gender is a very small part one gender, and mostly something else; e.g. a nan0girl would feel very slightly female but mostly not."<ref>https://xeno-aligned.tumblr.com/post/185448558226/is-it-ok-if-i-call-myself-a-semidemihemigirl-i</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' partial gender, multigender

* '''Demographics:'''In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents were nanogirls, two were nanoboys, and one was a nan0boy.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Nebulagender===
* '''Name(s):''' nebulagender

* '''Origin:''' The term was in use by mid-2015 if not earlier.<ref>{{cite web|date=22 June 2015 |title="-Nebulous" as a Gender Suffix|author=SatuSepiida System|url=https://satusepiida.tumblr.com/post/122177282087/nebulous-as-a-gender-suffix}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Has been used with two different meanings:
** A [[neurogender]] for neurodivergent people only. "The concept of gender doesnt always make clear sense, and its hard to tell subtle or not so subtle differences between genders" <ref>https://nickrants.tumblr.com/post/139465551749/nebulagender</ref>
** "a multigender/xenogender identity, nebulagender individuals have many interconnected xenogenders that collectively form a multifaceted, expansive, and beautiful gender experience. May have fully defined genders, like stars that are formed within a nebula, as well as diffuse, vague, and partly/completely unidentifiable gender feelings that exist in between, like cosmic dust."<ref>https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Nebulagender-748751971</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' [[xenogender]], [[neurogender]], [[multigender]], space

* '''Demographics:'''In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents were nebulagender, including one who specified they meant the neurodivergent definition.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Neuter===

* '''Name(s):''' [[neuter]]

* '''Origin:''' The word in English usage dates back to the 14th century ''neutre'', used in the grammatical sense. The English language borrowed this word from Latin ''neuter'' meaning "neither one nor the other" (''ne-'' "not, no" + ''uter'' "either (of two)"). This Latin word is likely taken in turn from the old Greek word ''oudeteros''.<ref name="etym_neut">{{Cite web |title=neuter (adj.) |author= |work=Online Etymology Dictionary |date= |access-date=20 October 2020 |url= https://www.etymonline.com/word/neuter#etymonline_v_6890}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' According to Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries, this old word can have several meanings when used in reference to a person. 1. A gender neither masculine nor feminine. [[Genderless]]. [[Gender neutral]]. An [[androgynous]] person. 2. Without sexual organs, or with incomplete sexual organs. In biology and zoology, this can mean animals that were artificially spayed, castrated, or otherwise sterilized, as well as animals who were born in that condition, such as worker bees, as well as plants without pistils and stamens.<ref>"Neuter." ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary.'' https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neuter</ref><ref>"Neuther." ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/neuter</ref><ref>"Neuter." ''The Free Dictionary.'' https://www.thefreedictionary.com/neuter</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' centuries old, neutral

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Niveigender===
<section begin="Niveigender" />
[[File:Niveigender.png|thumb|Niveigender flag designed by the coiner of the term.]]
*'''Name(s):''' Niveigender.

*'''Origin:''' Coined in February 2020 by an anonymous user.<ref name="nivei">{{cite web|author=Stormy|date=17 February 2020|title=Here's a flag for a new gender term!|archive-date=25 February 2020|archive-url=https://archive.is/dWtCs|url=https://the-gender-collector-emself.tumblr.com/post/190878097989/heres-a-flag-for-a-new-gender-term-niveigender}}</ref>

*'''Meaning:''' "a snowy, chill gender that's kinda soft. A light cover, also very soothing." The adjective for describing a person with this gender is "nivalis".<ref name="nivei" />

*'''Keywords:''' snow, cold, winter, soft, soothing

*'''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent was niveigender.<ref name="GC2020">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j7mwkZVtQYHxNlgS2J8onVCpVz-l1aJbBzG7msN5rxs/edit#gid=260963482 GC2020 Public Copy], 1 November 2020</ref>
<section end="Niveigender" />
===Null gender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[null gender]]

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A person without a gender identity, or whose gender identity is not feminine and not masculine.<ref>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91779169274/null-gender {{dead link}}</ref> A synonym for genderless.

* '''Keywords:''' genderless

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Nyctogender===

* '''Name(s):''' nyctogender

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user wynter-caelum by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="nyctogender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92386017394/nyctogender {{dead link}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined in that submission to the MOGAI-Archive, "Where your gender is pure darkness."

* '''Keywords:''' abstract, dark, genderless, light, spooky, symbols, not defined in relation to female or male ([[xenogender]])

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== O ==

===Other gender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[other gender]]

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A gender other than male or female.<ref>Eve Shapiro, ''Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age.'' Unpaged.</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' not female, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, nine respondents called their gender "other," "other gender," "othergender," or "othergendered."<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== P ==

===Pangender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[pangender]]. From Greek πᾶν/pân "all, the whole."

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' A pangender person is a person who considers themselves as a member of all genders (excluding genders they don't have access to such as [[neurogender]]s or [[Ethnicity and culture|culturally-specific genders]]).<ref>http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Pangender</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' many genders (multigender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 19 respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

=== Paraboy ===

*'''Name(s):''' paraboy, paramasculine, or paramale.

*'''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user queerspike on or before July 10, 2014.<ref name="Paraboy">{{Cite web |title=Paraboy |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=24 August 2021 |url= https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Paraboy}}</ref>

*'''Meaning:''' An identity that is mostly boy/man, but partially not. Can be considered a more specific term under [[demiboy]].<ref name="Paraboy" />

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2021 Gender Census, seven people (0.02% of respondents) said they were paraboys, and one respondent was paramasculine.<ref name="GC2021" />

=== Paragirl ===

*'''Name(s):''' paragirl, parafeminine, parawoman, or parafemale.

*'''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user queerspike on or before July 10, 2014.<ref name="Paragirl">{{Cite web |title=Paragirl |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=24 August 2021 |url= https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Paragirl}}</ref>

*'''Meaning:''' An identity that is mostly girl/woman, but partially not. Can be considered a more specific term under [[demigirl]].<ref name="Paragirl" />

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2021 Gender Census, 16 people (0.04% of respondents) said they were paragirls, two respondents were parafeminine, two people were parawomen, and one was parafemale.<ref name="GC2021" />

===Pendogender===

{{#section-h:Neurogender|Pendogender}}

===Prin*gender===

* '''Name(s):''' pringender, princessgender, princegender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2017 or earlier.<ref>https://uncommongenders.tumblr.com/post/168101666256/novarian-pringender-sheet-music-violin-and</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "A soft but grandiose gender; The individual with this gender feels that their identity feels majestic, imposing and grand, but also prim, cute and ethereal", or a gender simply related to princes/princesses/prins.<ref>https://plurgai.tumblr.com/post/621734217905209344/flag-remakes-added-definition-a-new-gender</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' royalty, majestic, xenogender

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, two respondents were pringender and one was princegender.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Proxvir===

* '''Name(s):''' proxvir

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by Tumblr user ren.<ref name="Proxvir and Juxera" />

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender relative to male, but is something separate and entirely on it’s own."<ref name="Proxvir and Juxera"></ref> Ren coined this because he no longer identified with "demiboy," because of that word's focus on "boy," and the implication of a split/mixed gender. Intended as an adjective.<ref name="proxvir and juxera 2" />

* '''Keywords:''' masculine, nonbinary, not male

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, nine respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, 22 respondents.<ref name="GC2020" />

==Q==
===Quoigender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[quoigender]], quoi-gender. From French ''quoi'' "what" + gender.

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' Has various definitions including "someone who feels that gender identity and/or existing gender terms don't apply to them" and "someone whose relationship with gender is complicated".{{Citation needed}}

* '''Keywords:''' indescribable

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 17 (0.15%) respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

== S ==

===Salmacian===

* '''Name(s):''' salmacian

* '''Origin:''' This term was proposed by the androgyne [[Raphael Carter]] in 1996 or earlier.<ref name="angels dictionary">Raphael Carter, "Angel's Dictionary." 1996-07-14. [http://web.archive.org/web/20050308185631/http:/www.chaparraltree.com/raq/angels.shtml]</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' As defined by Carter, "A term for male-to-intersex and female-to-intersex transsexuals." A reference to the myth of the deity Hermaphroditus and the nymph Salmacis.<ref name="angels dictionary" /> Synonyms: bigenital, aphrodisian.<ref>https://plurgai.tumblr.com/post/618195598880997376/aphrodisian-bigenital-people-who-wish-to</ref><ref>https://queerflagswithbenton.tumblr.com/post/172223819553/bigenitalflux-bigenitalsalmacian-one-who</ref> See also [[Glossary_of_English_gender_and_sex_terminology#A|altersex]].

* '''Keywords:''' assigned female at birth (AFAB), assigned male at birth (AMAB), altersex, intersex, not intersex

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Scorpigender===
[[File:Scorpigender.png|thumb|The scorpigender pride flag, consisting of three stripes: black, dark red, and dark grey.]]
* '''Name(s):''' scorpigender, scorpifluid

* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2017 or earlier.

* '''Meaning:'''
** Scorpigender: "A gender that is a mystery, and very difficult to understand. Lots of labels vaguely fit it, but almost none can fully describe it."<ref name="scorpi">{{cite web|url=https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/165732128594/i-dunno-if-youre-able-to-make-a-flag-for-this|title=Anonymous asked: I dunno if you're able to make a flag for this, but|date=25 September 2017}}</ref>
** Scorpifluid: "A gender fluid between unknown genders."<ref name="scorpi" />

* '''Keywords:''' unknown, mysterious, genderfluid, indescribable, questioning

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, one respondent was scorpifluid.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Sekhet===

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===Stargender===

* '''Name(s):''' stargender

* '''Origin:''' Coined in January 2014 by a person named Mars (Tumblr user nbqt). Se described stargender as follows:

{{quote|Lately I’ve experiencing a new gender that isn’t male or female! I don’t believe it is [[agender]], since it certainly is a gender! It’s like, very neutral on the “spectrum” of gender, but I don’t feel like it’s [[androgyny]] either.
The reason I call it star gender is uh, because when I was mulling on it one day I somehow started thinking about alien/nonhuman genders and how it was really unknown to people currently, and I ended up reasoning maybe it was the same genders stars could experience? (sorry that sounds super silly uh)

I don’t believe it’s androgyny because it??? doesn’t really feel like a middle between masculine and feminine?? like it seems??? Beyond That? Like it is potentially neutral but encompassing both masculine and feminine at the same time, if that makes any sense?<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://archive.vn/UHMMQ|title=A Post About Star Gender!|url=http://nbqt.tumblr.com/post/74798543114/a-post-about-star-gender-more-uh-i-guess-i|date=27 January 2014|archive-date=6 May 2014}}</ref>}}

* '''Meaning:''' Has several meanings. A: "a person whose gender is otherworldly and beyond comprehension using earthly terms", B. "a person whose gender cannot be defined no matter how many other terms are created", C. "a person whose gender is that of a star".<ref name="QHCOTD">{{Cite web |title=Orientation and Gender Glossary |author=queerheadcanonoftheday |work=Tumblr |date= |access-date=11 July 2020 |url= https://queerheadcanonoftheday.tumblr.com/definitions}}</ref><ref>https://sickly-cute-anti.tumblr.com/post/185710697172/stargender-an-otherworldly-gender-that-is </ref>

* '''Keywords:''' indescribable, nature, unnameable, not defined in relation to female or male (xenogender)

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, seven respondents called themselves stargender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, 14 respondents were stargender and one was starfluid.<ref name="GC2020" />

===Staticgender===

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===Systemfluid===
* '''Name(s):''' systemfluid, system fluid, system-fluid

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "When your system's collective gender changes depending on who's fronting, for systems and plural folk."<ref name="systemfluid">{{Cite web |title=Systemfluid Flag Redesign! |author=Woods, Jeffery |work= |date=15 April 2020|access-date=2 August 2021 |url= https://mogaiphobic.tumblr.com/post/615478197822373888/systemfluid-flag-redesign-systemfluid-when-your}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' multiplicity, multiple systems, headmates, alters, DID

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, six respondents were systemfluid.<ref name="GC2020" /> In the 2021 Gender Census, 25 respondents were systemfluid/system fluid.<ref name="GC2021" />

Various flags for systemfluid can be seen in [[:Category: Systemgender and Systemfluid pride flags]].
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===Systemgender===
[[File:Systemgender.png|thumb|A systemgender flag designed by almighty-hail and Tikva.]]
* '''Name(s):''' systemgender, system gender, system-gender

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender which is defined as a sum of all the genders within a multiple or median system."<ref name="devi_Syst">{{Cite web |title=Systemgender |work=DeviantArt |date=20 January 2018 |access-date=9 November 2020 |url= https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Systemgender-726551000}}</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' multiplicity, multiple systems, headmates, alters, DID

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, four respondents were systemgender.<ref name="GC2020" /> In the 2021 Gender Census, 16 respondents were systemgender/system gender/system-gender.<ref name="GC2021" />
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==T==
===Trigender===

* '''Name(s):''' [[trigender]]

* '''Origin:''' People called themselves trigender before 1999.<ref name="feinberg trans lib">Leslie Feinberg, ''Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink Or Blue'', page 53-4, Beacon Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8070-7951-0, ISBN 978-0-8070-7951-5.</ref><ref name="Elejalde-Ruiz">Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, "[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-18/news/0911180173_1_gender-born-layers For the young, gender is fluid]", ''Chicago Tribune'', November 18, 2009.</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' Trigender people experience three genders, either at the same time, or moving between the three at different times.<ref name="feinberg trans lib" /><ref name="Elejalde-Ruiz" /><ref>Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin, ''Teaching for diversity and social justice'', page 224, CRC Press, 2007, ISBN 0-415-95200-X, 9780415952002.</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' many genders, often changing (genderfluid), three genders

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 14 respondents called themselves trigender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> In the 2020 Gender Census, 24 respondents were trigender, one was trigenderfluid, and one said they were "maybe" trigender.<ref name="GC2020" />

==U==
===Unisex===

* '''Name(s):''' unisex

* '''Origin:''' The word dates back to 1968.<ref name="etym_unisex">{{Cite web |title=unisex (adj.) |author= |work=Online Etymology Dictionary |date= |access-date=14 February 2021 |url= https://www.etymonline.com/word/unisex#etymonline_v_25020}}</ref>

* '''Meaning:''' "sexually indistinguishable or neutral"<ref name="etym_unisex" />

* '''Keywords:''' gender neutral

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2020 Gender Census, two respondents called themselves unisex.<ref name="GC2020" />

== V ==

===Virgender===
[[File:virgender.png|thumb|Virgender [[Flags|flag]] created by pridearchive.<ref name="virgender">http://pridearchive.tumblr.com/post/91781500576/virgender-pride</ref> The meaning of the flag colors are: '''Red:''' To symbolise the stress/difficulty in having a gender, '''White:''' An amalgamation of all genders '''Black:''' Genderlessness. The red stripes lighten as one goes down the flag to symbolise how one’s stress is causing their gender to get weaker and weaker until it goes to white and the individual is relieved of the stress of keeping up with one’s gender. The white transitions to grey and then to black to symbolise the complete lack of gender.]]

* '''Name(s):''' Virgender

* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user stevenuniversequartz.<ref name="virgender" />

* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity that is practically and particularly genderless. This usually happens when it is too stressful or difficult to have a gender. A gender identity that feels weakened by stress, to the point where one is nearly genderless. The prefix comes from the constellation Virgo, the maiden.{{Citation needed}}

* '''Keywords:''' emotions, genderless, stress

'''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Gender Census, two respondents were virgender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

<gallery>
File:virgender-2.png|Alternative design of virgender flag.
</gallery>

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== X ==

=== Xenogender ===
* '''Name(s):''' [[xenogender]]

* '''Origin:''' From ''xeno'' alien + "gender." Coined in 2014 by Tumblr user Baaphomett, in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost"/>

* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender; more concerned with crafting other methods of gender categorization and hierarchy such as those relating to animals, plants, or other creatures/things."<ref name="baaphomett masterpost"/> An umbrella term for many nonbinary gender identities defined in reference to very different ideas than female or male.

* '''Keywords:''' external, alien

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 40 of the respondents (0.35%) called themselves "xenogender." Far more called themselves by specific genders that could be seen as under the xenogender umbrella, though that is hard to quantify or differentiate.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Xirl===

* '''Name(s):''' xirl

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who identifies in some way as a [[Woman#Nonbinary_women|nonbinary girl]] or nonbinary girl-adjacent. Someone who identifies with some part of woman/girlhood but who wants a more nonbinary and neutral sounding word because they aren't entirely girls or don't want to be associated with the typical ideas brought up by the word 'girl.'"<ref>https://nandbaremyfavouriteletters.tumblr.com/post/132010965767/xirl-someone-who-identifies-in-some-way-as-a</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' femme, nonbinary woman

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

===Xoy===

* '''Name(s):''' Xoy

* '''Origin:'''

* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who identifies in some way as a [[Man#Nonbinary_men|nonbinary boy]] or nonbinary boy-adjacent. Someone who identifies with some part of manhood/boyhood but who wants a more nonbinary and neutral sounding word because they aren't entirely boys or don't want to be associated with the typical ideas brought up by the word 'boy.'"<ref>https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/148378934126/xirl-and-xoy</ref>

* '''Keywords:''' nonbinary man, nonbinary boy

* '''Demographics:''' In the 2018 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents included "xoy" in their identity words.<ref name="Gender Census 2018" />

== See also ==

* [[List of nonbinary identities]]
* [[Glossary of English gender and sex terminology]]

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Uncommon identities|*]]
[[Category:nonbinary identities]]