List of uncommon nonbinary identities: Difference between revisions

* '''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>

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

* '''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" />

* '''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" />

* '''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

* '''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" />

* '''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 ==

* '''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

== 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" />

* '''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>  

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

* '''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 ==

[[Category: Uncommon identities|*]]