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* '''[[genderfluid]]''', or gender-fluid. A gender identity that often changes, so that a person may feel one day like a boy, and another day like a girl. Fluid gender. | * '''[[genderfluid]]''', or gender-fluid. A gender identity that often changes, so that a person may feel one day like a boy, and another day like a girl. Fluid gender. | ||
* '''[[genderflux]]'''. A gender identity that often changes in intensity, so that a person may feel one day as though they have almost no gender, or none at all, and another day they feel very gendered. "Whereas genderfluidity is a shift between different genders, genderflux is more like varying intensity." <ref>[http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92281884804/genderflux http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92281884804/genderflux]</ref> | * '''[[genderflux]]'''. A gender identity that often changes in intensity, so that a person may feel one day as though they have almost no gender, or none at all, and another day they feel very gendered. "Whereas genderfluidity is a shift between different genders, genderflux is more like varying intensity." <ref>[http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92281884804/genderflux http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92281884804/genderflux]</ref> | ||
* '''gender-free'''. Having no gender identity.<ref>Cottle, "By the end of this post, 'gender' may not look like a real word anymore." [http://jilliancottle.com/by-the-end-of-this-post-gender-may-not-look-like-a-real-word-anymore]</ref> Syn. [[Agender|agender]]. | * '''gender-free'''. Having no gender identity.<ref>Cottle, "By the end of this post, 'gender' may not look like a real word anymore." [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329052422/http://jilliancottle.com/by-the-end-of-this-post-gender-may-not-look-like-a-real-word-anymore/]</ref> Syn. [[Agender|agender]]. | ||
* '''[[Clothing#Genderfuck_fashion|genderfuck]]'''. A gender expression that intentionally mixes feminine gender markers with masculine. | * '''[[Clothing#Genderfuck_fashion|genderfuck]]'''. A gender expression that intentionally mixes feminine gender markers with masculine. | ||
* '''[[Gender identity|gender identity]]'''. "An individual’s internal sense of gender, which may or may not be the same as one’s gender assigned at birth."<ref>"LGBT resources: Definition of terms." [http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms]</ref> Most people identify as the gender that they were assigned at birth. They are described as 'cisgender' by the transgender community, who do not identify with their assigned birth genders. | * '''[[Gender identity|gender identity]]'''. "An individual’s internal sense of gender, which may or may not be the same as one’s gender assigned at birth."<ref>"LGBT resources: Definition of terms." [http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms]</ref> Most people identify as the gender that they were assigned at birth. They are described as 'cisgender' by the transgender community, who do not identify with their assigned birth genders. | ||