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* '''[[transgender]]'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> is an umbrella term that refers to people whose identity differs from their assigned gender at birth. Some nonbinary people also use this word to talk about their identity. | * '''[[transgender]]'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> is an umbrella term that refers to people whose identity differs from their assigned gender at birth. Some nonbinary people also use this word to talk about their identity. | ||
* '''[[transmasculine]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A transgender person who transitions in a masculine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as male. They may have a non-binary gender identity. | * '''[[transmasculine]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A transgender person who transitions in a masculine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as male. They may have a non-binary gender identity. | ||
* '''[[Two-spirit]]'''. | * '''[[Two-spirit]]'''. "Berdache" was an old word used by European-American anthropologists as an umbrella term for LGBT identities (including those noted as nonbinary gender roles) in hundreds of cultures throughout North and South America. The term was internationally replaced by Two-Spirit in 1990 at an Indigenous lesbian and gay international gathering.<ref name=NativeOut101>"[http://nativeout.com/twospirit-rc/two-spirit-101/ Two Spirit 101]" at ''NativeOut''. Accessed 23 Sep 2015</ref><ref>Eve Shapiro, ''Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age.'' Unpaged.</ref> Both terms should only be used in reference to people who are Native American. | ||
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This alphabetical list of some of the more common nonbinary identities gives names of many kinds of gender identities that are nonbinary. That is, those other than just female and male, which are the binary genders. This list gives names for nonbinary identities in English-speaking cultures, as well as those that are part of other cultures. (For the latter, please never use a word for your gender that belongs only to a culture or ethnic group that is not yours.) Some of these words for nonbinary genders have been used in writing for thousands of years. Meanwhile, some of these words were created last year. This page lists fewer of the older gender-variant identities than the new ones, because it can be harder to say whether it's accurate to put those in the category of "nonbinary." See also List of uncommon nonbinary identities.
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Shown here live at Øyafestivalen 2013, Raeen Roes, better known by their stage name Angel Haze, is a well known agender rapper, as they announced via twitter in February 2015.
- agender. 1. Some who call themselves agender have no gender identity (genderless). 2. Some who call themselves agender have a gender identity, which isn't female or male, but neutral.[1]
- agenderflux. Coined by perfectlybrokenbones in 2014. "Where you identify as agender but have fluctuations where you feel feminine or masculine but not male or female".[1]
- androgyne. This word is used for a wide variety of gender nonconforming and non-binary gender identities and gender expressions.[1]
- aporagender. Coined in 2014, from Greek apo, apor "separate" + "gender".[2] 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 absence of gender).[3][1]
- ashtime. In Ethiopia, the Maale people had a gender role called Ashtime, for eunuchs who live as women, though later this became an umbrella term for all kinds of gender non-conforming people who were assigned male at birth.[4]
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- bi-gender, or bigender.[1] Bigender individuals have two gender identities, at the same time, or at different times.[5] These two genders might be female and male, or they might be a different pair of genders.
- butch.[1] A lesbian gender identity or expression, which some see as a nonbinary gender.