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    [[File:Pangender-Symbol.png|thumb|150x150px|right]]'''Pangender''' (and/or '''Omnigender''') is a non-binary gender experience which refers to a wide multiplicity of genders that can (or not) tend to the infinite (meaning that this experience can go beyond the current knowledge of genders). This experience can be either simultaneously or over time. 
    {{infobox identity
    Being pangender does not require that one knows everything about all the established genders nowadays; being pangender goes beyond the known genders.
    | flag = pangender.png
    Pangender can express gender fluidity or not; for example, a pangender person can manifest a [[genderflux]], flowing from pangender to agender.
    | meaning = Yellow: gender without reference to the binary; Light red: transition to genders related to female and male; Light violet/pink: combination of female and male; White: blend of all these genders; The colors are very light because white is the combination of all colors.
    | related = [[Polygender]]
    | umbrella = [[Multigender]]
    | frequency = 0.4%
    | gallery_link = Pride Gallery/Pangender
    }}
    '''Pangender,''' or '''omnigender''', is a [[gender identity]] in which a person either identifies as a countless number of separate identities that they are fluid between over time, or that they identify as one all encompassing identity. The genders that a pangender person has only includes genders within the person's own culture and life experience<ref name="genderwiki">{{Cite web |title=Pangender |author= |work=Gender Wiki |date=31 August 2018 |access-date=9 November 2020 |url= https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Pangender?oldid=33547 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230226231320/https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Pangender?oldid=33547 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Navigating Trans and Complex Gender Identities|year=2019|at=page 140, Appendix E|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing}}</ref> (e.g. their genders would not include [[Fa'afafine]] unless they are Samoan; their genders would not include [[Neurogender#Bordergender|bordergender]] unless they have Borderline Personality Disorder).


    '''Panflux''' is a gender identity consisting of pangender + [[genderflux]].
    A pangender person's identity may or may not include genders not currently recognized or known<ref name="genderwiki" /> and may or may not fluctuate in intensity or include differing intensities among the genders that the Pangender person encompasses. Thus a pangender person can also be [[genderfluid]] or [[genderflux]]. The combination of pangender and [[genderflux]] is called [[panflux]].


    Pangender = binary genders (100% female and 100% male) + known genders + unknown genders.
    Just like any other gender identity, pangender people can use any set of [[pronouns]] they choose or vary between [[pronouns]] depending on how they identify at the time.


    The greek prefix “pan” refers to “everything” or “all”, therefore, pangender could mean “all genders”, however the genders of pangender people are limited to their own life experience. Pangenders only identify with genders of their own culture. Pangenders DO NOT try to identify with ethnic genders outside their own culture (and ALL of them by the way), because that’s impossible (one would have to spend their life in ALL cultures). Attempting to identify with ethnic genders outside one’s culture is colonialist/appropriative; people who do that and call themselves pangender should NOT be considered as an example of pangender. This applies to ALL non-binary identities: one cannot identify with gender(s) outside their own culture.
    An alternative term with a similar meaning is ''maxigender''<ref>{{cite book|title=The ABC's of LGBT+|last=Mardell|first=Ashley|year=2016}}</ref>, since some people on Tumblr who don't identify as pangender argue that it is appropriative of [[Ethnicity and culture|culturally-specific]] and [[Neurogender|neurotype-specific]] genders. The reason for that, according to them, is that no one can identify as all genders, as this would include culturally-specific or neurotype-specific genders.<ref>[https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/161250119616/reminder-about-pangender Reminder about pangender], 30 May 2017 [https://web.archive.org/web/20201109152234/https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/161250119616/reminder-about-pangender Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>[https://kinda-girls.tumblr.com/post/159477370346/as-far-as-i-know-the-identity-that-means anonymous asked: As far as I know, the identity that means "identifying as all genders that are available to you" is maxigender], 11 April 2017</ref><ref>[https://jimjamjames.tumblr.com/post/163259277748 jimjamjames asked: Hi !I'm doing some research on the origins of the identity “Maxigender”], 21 July 2017 [https://web.archive.org/web/20201008141604/https://jimjamjames.tumblr.com/post/163259277748 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>


    '''Omnigender''' is sometimes used as a synonym for pangender<ref name="pridenation">{{Cite web |title=Pangender/Omnigender Flag |author= |work=Pride Nation |date= |access-date=31 January 2021 |url= https://pridenation.lgbt/products/pangender-omnigender-flag|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527212702/https://pridenation.lgbt/products/pangender-omnigender-flag|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=
    6 March 2020|title=Omnigender pastel stimboard for anon|url=https://uncommongenders.tumblr.com/post/611875301221351424/omnigender-pastel-stimboard-for-anon-omingender-a|archive-url=|archive-date=17 July 2023}}{{Dead link}}</ref>, but sometimes is defined as experiencing ''almost'' all genders.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/170959528060/hello-anon-polygender-is-more-of-an-umbrella|date=16 February 2018|title=Hello Anon! Polygender is more of an umbrella term...|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721034659/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/170959528060/hello-anon-polygender-is-more-of-an-umbrella|archive-date=21 July 2023|access-date=31 January 2021|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
    Omnigender is also sometimes used to mean "gender neutral"/"treating all genders equally".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases|last=Davis|first=Chloe|year=2021|page=228}}</ref>


    == Pangender pride flags ==
    == History ==
    [[File:Pangender-2.png|thumb|220x220px|]]
    The use of "pangender" as a identity goes back at least to the 1990s, as stated in the preface to ''The Flock'', a 1992 book by Lynn Wilson about dissociative identity disorder: "Some [[gender-nonconforming]] individuals call themselves [[androgyne]]s, pan-gender, or [[non-binary]]."<ref>{{cite book|title=The Flock|isbn=9780449907320|year=1992|last=Wilson|first=Lynn|page=xi|publisher=Fawcett Columbine}}</ref>
    [[File:Pangender.png|thumb|220x220px|]]


    The proposed pangender pride flags are based on the agender pride flag. The colors are very bright so that they represent the multiplicity of genders (because the white light, in the electromagnetic spectrum, is a combination of all colors). The yellow color represents all the genders that are not related to female and male; the light red color represents the transition to the genders which are related to female and male; the light violet-pink color represents the combination of female and male; the white color represents the blend of all these genders.
    Pangender was mentioned as one of many 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>
    These flags were proposed by [http://pangendering.tumblr.com/ Pangendering].


    == Pangender FAQ ==
    In 2018, Washington state began to allow "X" gender markers on official documents<ref name="Jackman">{{Cite web |title=Washington to recognise third gender in groundbreaking move |last=Jackman |first=Josh |work=PinkNews |date=5 January 2018 |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/05/washington-to-recognise-third-gender-in-groundbreaking-move/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213084016/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/05/washington-to-recognise-third-gender-in-groundbreaking-move/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>, with the law stating that {{quote|"X" means a gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, [[agender]], [[amalgagender]], [[androgynous]], [[bigender]], [[demigender]], female-to-male, [[genderfluid]], [[genderqueer]], male-to-female, [[neutrois]], [[nonbinary]], [[pangender]], [[third gender|third sex]], [[transgender]], [[transsexual]], [[Two Spirit]], and unspecified.<ref name="washington">{{Cite web |title=WAC 246-490-075: Changing sex designation on a birth certificate. |author= |work=Washington State Legislature |date= |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-490-075|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325195929/https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-490-075|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>}}
    '''Question:''' Isn’t pangender the same as pansexual?


    '''Answer:''' No, it’s not. Pansexuality is a sexual orientation, which means, the group of genders to which a person can become sexually attracted, if at all. Pansexuality is the potential to experience sexual attraction to someone of any gender. Pangender is a gender identity, which means, a person’s internal mental experience of themself and their relationship to other identities. Gender is about yourself, while sexual orientation is about the other people.
    Popular news site The Daily Dot published an article "What it means to be pangender" on June 16, 2020.<ref name="Burke">{{Cite web |title=What it means to be pangender |last=Burke |first=Collyn |work=The Daily Dot |date=16 June 2020 |access-date=11 September 2020 |url= https://www.dailydot.com/irl/pangender-definition-pronouns/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419210110/https://www.dailydot.com/irl/pangender-definition-pronouns/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>


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    '''Q:''' I’ve read on sites that pangender is “someone who identifies as neither male or female, but instead a third gender.”
    == Notable pangender people ==


    '''A:''' This definition is wrong. It was probably written by someone who has never experienced the pangender identity nor the third gender identity and is assuming that pangender = third gender. You can’t compare pangender and third gender, saying that they are the same, because they are not. Third gender individuals have a gender identity and/or gender expression that is not defined with reference to the gender binary (makes no reference to female/male or feminine/masculine). Pangender is a gender experience which refers to a wide multiplicity of genders that can (or not) tend to the infinite (meaning that this experience can go beyond the current knowledge of genders). This experience can be either simultaneously or over time. The greek prefix “pan” refers to “everything” or “all”, therefore, pangender could mean “all genders”. Therefore, pangender refers to MULTIPLE genders, INCLUDING binary genders AND many other genders (known and unknown); while third gender refers to a gender that is outside the binary genders.
    ''See main article: [[Notable nonbinary people]]''


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    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 "pangender", "maxigender", or "omnigender" for themselves.


    '''Q:''' Is it okay if I come up with new terms for pangender people? So that the term I created substitutes pangender. What if I start calling pangender people by the new name I made up? Because I don’t like pangender.
    ''Please help expand this section.''


    '''A:''' That’s totally NOT okay. If you are not yourself a pangender person and you are imposing your new label on pangender people, you are acting like transphobic people. It’s only okay when a person identifies theirself with a term that they think it’s appropriate. Labeling other people’s gender is a form of discrimination called Identity Policing.
    == Pangender characters in fiction ==


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


    '''Q:''' Pangender is not okay, because it’s racist!!!!
    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 "pangender", "maxigender", or "omnigender," either in their canon, or by their creators.


    '''A:''' A gender identity cannot be racist; it’s individual people who can be racist. Just like there might be, for example, agender people who are racist.
    * In the sci-fi thriller novel ''Zero-G: Book 1'' (by William Shatner and Jeff Rovin), Adsila Waters is described multiple times as "pan-gender" (used as both an adjective and a noun in the book). "He" and "she" pronouns are variously used for Adsila. Adsila is also able to shapeshift her [[sex|sex characteristics]] to accompany gender switches.


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    '''Q:''' Pangender is not okay, because it can be used by people in colonialist / appropriating ways, if they attempt to claim identities that are not from their own culture (for example, the two-spirit umbrella without belonging to the two-spirit cultures).
    == See also ==
    * [[List of nonbinary identities]]


    '''A:''' It’s true that individuals who ARE colonialists or racists can use pangender in these ways. People like this should NOT be considered as good examples of pangender. So, that doesn’t mean that it’s correct for people to erase the pangender identity from people who are pangender. Pangender is still an identity and it’s NOT limited to colonialist / racist individuals.
    == References ==
    <references />


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    '''Q:''' Pangender has the "pan" prefix, which refers to "everything" or "all", therefore pangender automatically means people who attempt to identify with ethnic genders outside their culture.
     
    '''A:''' No. That's incorrect. If you are not pangender yourself, don't try to dictate what our gender is and what it's not. Only pangender people can say what their gender is. Pansexual also has the "pan" prefix, but it doesn't mean "people who are sexually attracted to everything, including objects and animals". Bissexual has the "bi" prefix, but it doesn't mean "people who are sexually attracted to exclusively 2 genders".  The same thing applies to pangender. Just because it has the "pan" prefix, it doesn't mean we are appropriating genders outside our culture. We are not. That's just the name of our gender identity. Please, respect pangender identity and don't erase us, it's transphobic. If someone says that their gender is called agoragender (example), you simply accept it, you don't question it and you don't say "your gender can't be called like that" or "your gender doesn't exist".
     
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    '''Q:''' You can't identify as all genders &amp; somehow exclude ethnic genders from this. that would be erasing those genders and saying "i identify as ALL genders"
     
    '''A:''' Pangenders are not erasing ethnic genders, they just don't identify as them. We identify with all or multiple genders THAT ARE FROM OUR OWN CULTURE. Please, people, stop being transphobic and erasing our identity. It doesn't really matter how much you keep on trying to erase us, we still exist, we won't disappear just because you don't like our identity. We are not doing any harm, we are just trying to exist just like the other nonbinary people.
     
     
    == External Links ==
     
    *[http://pangendering.tumblr.com/ Pangendering]
    *[http://espectrometria-nao-binaria.tumblr.com/post/95841791923/glossario-termos-sobre-genero-orientacao-feminismo#_=_ Espectrometria N-B]
    *[http://pt-br.identidades.wikia.com/wiki/Pang%C3%AAnero Wiki Identidades]
    *[http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Pangender Gender Wiki]
     
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    Pangender
    Pangender.png
    Meaning
    Yellow: gender without reference to the binary; Light red: transition to genders related to female and male; Light violet/pink: combination of female and male; White: blend of all these genders; The colors are very light because white is the combination of all colors.
    Related identities Polygender
    Under the umbrella term Multigender
    Frequency 0.4%
    Click here to see alternative flags!

    Pangender, or omnigender, is a gender identity in which a person either identifies as a countless number of separate identities that they are fluid between over time, or that they identify as one all encompassing identity. The genders that a pangender person has only includes genders within the person's own culture and life experience[1][2] (e.g. their genders would not include Fa'afafine unless they are Samoan; their genders would not include bordergender unless they have Borderline Personality Disorder).

    A pangender person's identity may or may not include genders not currently recognized or known[1] and may or may not fluctuate in intensity or include differing intensities among the genders that the Pangender person encompasses. Thus a pangender person can also be genderfluid or genderflux. The combination of pangender and genderflux is called panflux.

    Just like any other gender identity, pangender people can use any set of pronouns they choose or vary between pronouns depending on how they identify at the time.

    An alternative term with a similar meaning is maxigender[3], since some people on Tumblr who don't identify as pangender argue that it is appropriative of culturally-specific and neurotype-specific genders. The reason for that, according to them, is that no one can identify as all genders, as this would include culturally-specific or neurotype-specific genders.[4][5][6]

    Omnigender is sometimes used as a synonym for pangender[7][8], but sometimes is defined as experiencing almost all genders.[9] Omnigender is also sometimes used to mean "gender neutral"/"treating all genders equally".[10]

    History[edit | edit source]

    The use of "pangender" as a identity goes back at least to the 1990s, as stated in the preface to The Flock, a 1992 book by Lynn Wilson about dissociative identity disorder: "Some gender-nonconforming individuals call themselves androgynes, pan-gender, or non-binary."[11]

    Pangender was mentioned as one of many valid nonbinary identities in the 2013 text Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide.[12]

    In 2018, Washington state began to allow "X" gender markers on official documents[13], with the law stating that

    « "X" means a gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, agender, amalgagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender, female-to-male, genderfluid, genderqueer, male-to-female, neutrois, nonbinary, pangender, third sex, transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, and unspecified.[14] »

    Popular news site The Daily Dot published an article "What it means to be pangender" on June 16, 2020.[15]

    Please help expand this section.

    Notable pangender people[edit | edit source]

    See main article: Notable nonbinary people

    There are many more 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 "pangender", "maxigender", or "omnigender" for themselves.

    Please help expand this section.

    Pangender characters in fiction[edit | edit source]

    See main article: Nonbinary gender in fiction

    There are many more 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 "pangender", "maxigender", or "omnigender," either in their canon, or by their creators.

    • In the sci-fi thriller novel Zero-G: Book 1 (by William Shatner and Jeff Rovin), Adsila Waters is described multiple times as "pan-gender" (used as both an adjective and a noun in the book). "He" and "she" pronouns are variously used for Adsila. Adsila is also able to shapeshift her sex characteristics to accompany gender switches.

    Please help expand this section.

    See also[edit | edit source]

    References[edit | edit source]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Pangender". Gender Wiki. 31 August 2018. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
    2. ↑ Navigating Trans and Complex Gender Identities. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2019. page 140, Appendix E.
    3. ↑ Mardell, Ashley (2016). The ABC's of LGBT+.
    4. ↑ Reminder about pangender, 30 May 2017 Archived on 17 July 2023
    5. ↑ anonymous asked: As far as I know, the identity that means "identifying as all genders that are available to you" is maxigender, 11 April 2017
    6. ↑ jimjamjames asked: Hi !I'm doing some research on the origins of the identity “Maxigender”, 21 July 2017 Archived on 17 July 2023
    7. ↑ "Pangender/Omnigender Flag". Pride Nation. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
    8. ↑ "Omnigender pastel stimboard for anon". 6 March 2020.[Dead link]
    9. ↑ "Hello Anon! Polygender is more of an umbrella term..." 16 February 2018. Archived from the original on 21 July 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2021.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
    10. ↑ Davis, Chloe (2021). The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases. p. 228.
    11. ↑ Wilson, Lynn (1992). The Flock. Fawcett Columbine. p. xi. ISBN 9780449907320.
    12. ↑ Richards, Christina; Barker, Meg (2013). Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781446293133.
    13. ↑ Jackman, Josh (5 January 2018). "Washington to recognise third gender in groundbreaking move". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
    14. ↑ "WAC 246-490-075: Changing sex designation on a birth certificate". Washington State Legislature. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
    15. ↑ Burke, Collyn (16 June 2020). "What it means to be pangender". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
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