Gender alignment
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'''Gender alignment''' has two meanings.
A. '''Gender alignment''' is terminology used by some [[nonbinary]] people to describe their experience of gender. For instance, a [[genderless]] person may identify as female-aligned because they have experiences in common with [[women]], or a [[demiboy]] may identify as male-aligned because they are partly a [[man|boy]], or a [[maverique]] may identify as unaligned because they have no ties to manhood or womanhood.
The meaning of alignment terminology differs from person to person. Mod Lune on the tumblr blog We Don't Care About Your Binary put it this way:
{{quote|Some people use (wo)man-aligned to mean “the social category I belong to is (wo)men”.<br>Some people use it to mean “I present as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I am read by other people as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “my gender is somehow, in some way, related to (wo)manhood.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I am closeted and outwardly identify as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I experience [[queer]] sexuality like a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I interact with [[sexism|patriarchy]] like a (wo)man.”<ref>{{cite web| url=https://wedontcareaboutyourbinary.tumblr.com/post/169860045173/what-the-fuck-do-people-mean-by-male-aligned |title=What the fuck do people mean by "male-aligned" / "woman-aligned" / whatever? |author=Mod Lune @ we don't care about your binary |date=18 January 2018}}</ref>}}
Someone's gender alignment does not tell you anything about what they were [[assigned at birth]] or how they like to [[Gender expression|express their gender]], including what [[pronouns]] they use.
B. The term '''gender alignment''' is also used to describe a person's status as [[cis]], [[trans]], nonbinary, etc. (As in "does their [[assigned gender at birth]] align with their [[gender identity]] or not?"), for example in the phrase [[MOGAI|Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments, and Intersex]]. See also [[Gender Modality]].
==See also==
*[[Galactian system]]
*[[Alloy Alignment System]]
==References==
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[[Category: Concepts]]
'''Gender alignment''' has two meanings.A. '''Gender alignment''' is terminology used by some [[nonbinary]] people to describe their experience of gender. For instance, a [[genderless]] person may identify as female-aligned because they have experiences in common with [[women]], or a [[demiboy]] may identify as male-aligned because they are partly a [[man|boy]], or a [[maverique]] may identify as unaligned because they have no ties to manhood or womanhood.The meaning of alignment terminology differs from person to person. Mod Lune on the tumblr blog We Don't Care About Your Binary put it this way:{{quote|Some people use (wo)man-aligned to mean “the social category I belong to is (wo)men”.<br>Some people use it to mean “I present as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I am read by other people as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “my gender is somehow, in some way, related to (wo)manhood.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I am closeted and outwardly identify as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I experience [[queer]] sexuality like a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I interact with [[sexism|patriarchy]] like a (wo)man.”<ref>{{cite web| url=https://wedontcareaboutyourbinary.tumblr.com/post/169860045173/what-the-fuck-do-people-mean-by-male-aligned |title=What the fuck do people mean by "male-aligned" / "woman-aligned" / whatever? |author=Mod Lune @ we don't care about your binary |date=18 January 2018}}</ref>}}Someone's gender alignment does not tell you anything about what they were [[assigned at birth]] or how they like to [[Gender expression|express their gender]], including what [[pronouns]] they use.B. The term '''gender alignment''' is also used to describe a person's status as [[cis]], [[trans]], nonbinary, etc. (As in "does their [[assigned gender at birth]] align with their [[gender identity]] or not?"), for example in the phrase [[MOGAI|Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments, and Intersex]]. See also [[Gender Modality]].==See also==*[[Galactian system]]*[[Alloy Alignment System]]==References=={{reflist}}[[Category: Concepts]]