Gender expression

Masculinity

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Masculinity is often associated with rougher things than femininity. Confidence, violence, and being emotionally closed off are often traditionally masculine traits, which together with most boys being socialized differently results in a huge rift between how the different groups interact, or handle things like feelings and platonic relationships.

Some masculine gender identities and expressions include butch, masculine of center, and by some definitions, boi and demiboy.

Androgyny

See main article androgyny.

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Androgyny is the "in between" of femininity and masculinity, where a person doesn't look fully like one gender or the other. Being androgynous or wanting to present that way doesn't always mean that a person is nonbinary, and being nonbinary doesn't have to come with presenting androgynous.

Also called epicene.

Some androgynous gender identities and expressions include androgyne, neutrois, bigender, genderqueer, and intergender, although this depends on the individual's definition.

See also

• Transition
• Gender nonconformity