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* '''Name(s):''' aerogender. (not to be confused with "arogender", below) | * '''Name(s):''' aerogender. (not to be confused with "arogender", below) | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user tenderagender in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="aerogender">2014. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92608429989/aerogender-where-an-individuals-gender-relies</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user tenderagender in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="aerogender">2014. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92608429989/aerogender-where-an-individuals-gender-relies {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' "Where an individual’s gender relies highly on their setting and/or atmosphere, which can be composed of a great number of things (ex. who they’re around, their level of comfort, the temperature, the weather, the time of day/year, etc.)"<ref name="aerogender" /> | * '''Meaning:''' "Where an individual’s gender relies highly on their setting and/or atmosphere, which can be composed of a great number of things (ex. who they’re around, their level of comfort, the temperature, the weather, the time of day/year, etc.)"<ref name="aerogender" /> | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' agenderflux | * '''Name(s):''' agenderflux | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user perfectlybrokenbones in post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="agenderflux">For historical reasons, please do not delete this citation, even though the link is dead, because it is where the term was coined. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92999709954/agenderflux</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user perfectlybrokenbones in post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="agenderflux">For historical reasons, please do not delete this citation, even though the link is dead, because it is where the term was coined. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92999709954/agenderflux {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' "Where you identify as agender [a.k.a. genderless] but have fluctuations where you feel feminine or masculine but not male or female."<ref name="agenderflux" /> | * '''Meaning:''' "Where you identify as agender [a.k.a. genderless] but have fluctuations where you feel feminine or masculine but not male or female."<ref name="agenderflux" /> | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' alexigender | * '''Name(s):''' alexigender | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user eaglestrike in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="alexigender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91735771964/alexigender</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user eaglestrike in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="alexigender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91735771964/alexigender {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' "A fluid gender experience, where you are aware that your gender is changing but cannot label each individual gender". | * '''Meaning:''' "A fluid gender experience, where you are aware that your gender is changing but cannot label each individual gender". | ||
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* '''Meaning:''' A "gender identity in which you identify as both male and female, yet you also identify as neither, at the same time."<ref>http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94559591894/nbshadow-introducing-ambonec-an-for-short</ref><ref>"Terms." Queer Querys (blog). http://queerquerys.tumblr.com/terms</ref><ref>"Ambonec." Mogai-Archive (blog). http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91796206149/ambonec-an-for-short | * '''Meaning:''' A "gender identity in which you identify as both male and female, yet you also identify as neither, at the same time."<ref>http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94559591894/nbshadow-introducing-ambonec-an-for-short</ref><ref>"Terms." Queer Querys (blog). http://queerquerys.tumblr.com/terms</ref><ref>"Ambonec." Mogai-Archive (blog). http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91796206149/ambonec-an-for-short {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Keywords:''' both female and male, female, male, neither female nor male, not female, not male | * '''Keywords:''' both female and male, female, male, neither female nor male, not female, not male | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' [[antigender]], unboy, ungirl or ungender | * '''Name(s):''' [[antigender]], unboy, ungirl or ungender | ||
* '''Origin:''' Antigender was coined by Tumblr users AsexualJavert<ref>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91782643999/antigenders</ref> and kgmps2.<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/91274549054/introducing-antigenders</ref> Ungender was coined in 2014 by Tumblr user Baaphomett by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" /> | * '''Origin:''' Antigender was coined by Tumblr users AsexualJavert<ref name="antigenders">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91782643999/antigenders {{dead link}}</ref> and kgmps2.<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/91274549054/introducing-antigenders</ref> Ungender was coined in 2014 by Tumblr user Baaphomett by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" /> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' Antigender was originally defined as "Genders that can only be defined as the opposite of an existing gender. For instance: antiboy would be the opposite of a boy. antigirl would be the opposite of a girl."<ref | * '''Meaning:''' Antigender was originally defined as "Genders that can only be defined as the opposite of an existing gender. For instance: antiboy would be the opposite of a boy. antigirl would be the opposite of a girl."<ref name="antigenders" /> Ungender was originally defined by Baaphomett as "Not without but a negative; an unboy would be the negative of a boy and an ungirl would be the negative of a girl."<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" /> | ||
* '''Keywords:''' opposite, prefix | * '''Keywords:''' opposite, prefix | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' apagender | * '''Name(s):''' apagender | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="apagender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92547893934/apagender Retrieved 2014.</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="apagender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92547893934/apagender Retrieved 2014. {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' "Someone who is apathetic towards their gender identity and doesn't care enough to look further into it."<ref name="apagender" /> Other identities that have similar descriptions to this: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#cassgender|cassgender]], [[graygender]], and [[List of uncommon nonbinary identities#Genderwhat|genderwhat]]. | * '''Meaning:''' "Someone who is apathetic towards their gender identity and doesn't care enough to look further into it."<ref name="apagender" /> Other identities that have similar descriptions to this: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#cassgender|cassgender]], [[graygender]], and [[List of uncommon nonbinary identities#Genderwhat|genderwhat]]. | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' cassgender | * '''Name(s):''' cassgender | ||
* '''Origin:''' Cassgender was coined by Tumblr user okaygender in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="cassgender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92975469559/cassexual-feeling-utterly-indifferent-to</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Cassgender was coined by Tumblr user okaygender in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="cassgender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92975469559/cassexual-feeling-utterly-indifferent-to {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' Cassgender was defined as "Feeling utterly indifferent to gender, believing it isn’t important."<ref name="cassgender" /> Similar identities: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#apagender|apagender]] and [[graygender]]. | * '''Meaning:''' Cassgender was defined as "Feeling utterly indifferent to gender, believing it isn’t important."<ref name="cassgender" /> Similar identities: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#apagender|apagender]] and [[graygender]]. | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' cogitogender | * '''Name(s):''' cogitogender | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="cogitogender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93377336539/existigender</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="cogitogender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93377336539/existigender {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' "A gender that only exists when you think about it, or is quiet until called to attention. alternatively, feeling genderless until a gender is consciously chosen."<ref name="cogitogender" /> | * '''Meaning:''' "A gender that only exists when you think about it, or is quiet until called to attention. alternatively, feeling genderless until a gender is consciously chosen."<ref name="cogitogender" /> | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' demiflux | * '''Name(s):''' demiflux | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user aflutteringlaney in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="demiflux aflutteringlaney">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93548961719/demiflux</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user aflutteringlaney in a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="demiflux aflutteringlaney">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93548961719/demiflux {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' A gender identity for "someone whose gender is partially [[genderfluid|fluid]] with the other part(s) being static; this differs from 'demifluid' as '[[genderflux|-flux]]' indicates that one of the genders is [[neutral]]; an example could be: one part of their gender is '[[genderqueer]]' while the part that fluctuates is '[[agender]]' and '[[woman]]'."<ref>Savage. "Demigender definitions." Demigender safe space. http://demigenders.tumblr.com/post/102344212344/demigender-definitions</ref> As defined by aflutteringlaney: "A term for [[polygender]]/[[bigender]] individuals to describe when one of their genders is “static” and the other ranges in intensity and presence."<ref name="demiflux aflutteringlaney" /> | * '''Meaning:''' A gender identity for "someone whose gender is partially [[genderfluid|fluid]] with the other part(s) being static; this differs from 'demifluid' as '[[genderflux|-flux]]' indicates that one of the genders is [[neutral]]; an example could be: one part of their gender is '[[genderqueer]]' while the part that fluctuates is '[[agender]]' and '[[woman]]'."<ref>Savage. "Demigender definitions." Demigender safe space. http://demigenders.tumblr.com/post/102344212344/demigender-definitions</ref> As defined by aflutteringlaney: "A term for [[polygender]]/[[bigender]] individuals to describe when one of their genders is “static” and the other ranges in intensity and presence."<ref name="demiflux aflutteringlaney" /> | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' faegender | * '''Name(s):''' faegender | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="faegender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92386154479/faegender</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="faegender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92386154479/faegender {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' As defined by that anonymous submission to MOGAI-Archive in 2014, "When an individual’s gender changes with the seasons, equinoxes, and moon phases."<ref name="faegender" /> | * '''Meaning:''' As defined by that anonymous submission to MOGAI-Archive in 2014, "When an individual’s gender changes with the seasons, equinoxes, and moon phases."<ref name="faegender" /> | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' genderfae | * '''Name(s):''' genderfae | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014. <ref name="genderfae coined">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93603850939/genderfae</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined by an anonymous submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014. <ref name="genderfae coined">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93603850939/genderfae {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' As the coiner described it, "An experience of genderfluidity that never encompasses feeling masculine."<ref name="genderfae coined" /> The counterpart of this identity is genderfaun, which is fluid but never feminine.{{Citation needed}} | * '''Meaning:''' As the coiner described it, "An experience of genderfluidity that never encompasses feeling masculine."<ref name="genderfae coined" /> The counterpart of this identity is genderfaun, which is fluid but never feminine.{{Citation needed}} | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' Genderwhat | * '''Name(s):''' Genderwhat | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by daedric-cisphobe by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="genderwhat daedric">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92028650684/genderwhat Retrieved 2014.</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined in 2014 by daedric-cisphobe by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog.<ref name="genderwhat daedric">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92028650684/genderwhat Retrieved 2014. {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' As defined by daedric-cisphobe, "A gender characterized by both confusion and apathy with regards to either a fluid or stable gender identity." Other identities that have similar descriptions to this: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#apagender|apagender]], [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#cassgender|cassgender]], and [[graygender]]. | * '''Meaning:''' As defined by daedric-cisphobe, "A gender characterized by both confusion and apathy with regards to either a fluid or stable gender identity." Other identities that have similar descriptions to this: [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#apagender|apagender]], [[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#cassgender|cassgender]], and [[graygender]]. | ||
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* '''Origin:''' During the 1990s, usenet newsgroups were informal public discussion groups on the Internet that were oriented around topics of interest, such as hobbies, fandoms, and LGBT issues. Starting sometime before 1998, the alt.support.intergendered newsgroup was created by an intergender and non-intersex person named Donna Lynn Matthews, together with other people who also called themselves intergender.<ref name="Matthews_Genderqueer">Donna Lynn Matthews, “Being genderqueer – What it means for me.” 2006-10. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/genderqueer.html</ref> | * '''Origin:''' During the 1990s, usenet newsgroups were informal public discussion groups on the Internet that were oriented around topics of interest, such as hobbies, fandoms, and LGBT issues. Starting sometime before 1998, the alt.support.intergendered newsgroup was created by an intergender and non-intersex person named Donna Lynn Matthews, together with other people who also called themselves intergender.<ref name="Matthews_Genderqueer">Donna Lynn Matthews, “Being genderqueer – What it means for me.” 2006-10. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/genderqueer.html</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' As Matthews defined it in 1998 or earlier, people who call themselves intergender may consider themselves a mix of both man and woman, or neither man nor woman. Matthews said intergender people are not necessarily intersex.<ref name="newsgroup_charter">Donna Lynn Matthews. "alt.support.intergendered (ASIG) charter." Last updated in 1998. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_charter.html</ref> 16 years later, in 2014, one intersex intergender person named Aeshling (Tumblr usernames quietlyloud-intersex, indonintersex) began to post to the MOGAI-Archive blog, arguing that this word should be for the use of intersex people only. Otherwise Aeshling's definition of intergender stayed the same.<ref name="Aeshling_Mogai">Aeshling. "Intergender." ''Mogai-Archive.'' 2014. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender</ref> | * '''Meaning:''' As Matthews defined it in 1998 or earlier, people who call themselves intergender may consider themselves a mix of both man and woman, or neither man nor woman. Matthews said intergender people are not necessarily intersex.<ref name="newsgroup_charter">Donna Lynn Matthews. "alt.support.intergendered (ASIG) charter." Last updated in 1998. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/asig_charter.html</ref> 16 years later, in 2014, one intersex intergender person named Aeshling (Tumblr usernames quietlyloud-intersex, indonintersex) began to post to the MOGAI-Archive blog, arguing that this word should be for the use of intersex people only. Otherwise Aeshling's definition of intergender stayed the same.<ref name="Aeshling_Mogai">Aeshling. "Intergender." ''Mogai-Archive.'' 2014. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender{{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Keywords:''' both female and male, female, genderless, male, mixture, neither female nor male, not female, not male | * '''Keywords:''' both female and male, female, genderless, male, mixture, neither female nor male, not female, not male | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' [[libragender]] | * '''Name(s):''' [[libragender]] | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user libragender by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="libragender mogai">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91735227414/libragender</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user libragender by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="libragender mogai">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91735227414/libragender {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' "Gender that is mostly agender [genderless], but has a strong connection to a different gender; a scale, where one side is agender and one side is male/female. The agender outweighs the male/female, but male/female is still there" | * '''Meaning:''' "Gender that is mostly agender [genderless], but has a strong connection to a different gender; a scale, where one side is agender and one side is male/female. The agender outweighs the male/female, but male/female is still there" | ||
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** 2000s coining: "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither [[neuter]] nor [[feminine]] nor [[masculine]]. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or [[androgyne]], and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."<ref>{{cite book |chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|title=Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity|year=2003|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/findingrealmetru00trac/page/76/mode/2up}}</ref> | ** 2000s coining: "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither [[neuter]] nor [[feminine]] nor [[masculine]]. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or [[androgyne]], and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."<ref>{{cite book |chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|title=Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity|year=2003|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/findingrealmetru00trac/page/76/mode/2up}}</ref> | ||
** 2014 coining: "To identify around or beyond a gender. Where your gender identity is almost that gender, but not quite, and also extends beyond that. Imagine that —- is you, and | is the gender identity (and identifying fully with a gender is —-|), then metagender is —- | —-" For example, meta-boy, meta-girl, meta-nonbinary, and so on.<ref>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender</ref> | ** 2014 coining: "To identify around or beyond a gender. Where your gender identity is almost that gender, but not quite, and also extends beyond that. Imagine that —- is you, and | is the gender identity (and identifying fully with a gender is —-|), then metagender is —- | —-" For example, meta-boy, meta-girl, meta-nonbinary, and so on.<ref>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Keywords:''' third gender, other gender, partial gender (demigender) | * '''Keywords:''' third gender, other gender, partial gender (demigender) | ||
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* '''Meaning:''' A person without a gender identity, or whose gender identity is not feminine and not masculine.<ref> | * '''Meaning:''' A person without a gender identity, or whose gender identity is not feminine and not masculine.<ref>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91779169274/null-gender {{dead link}}</ref> A synonym for genderless. | ||
* '''Keywords:''' genderless | * '''Keywords:''' genderless | ||
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* '''Name(s):''' nyctogender | * '''Name(s):''' nyctogender | ||
* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user wynter-caelum by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="nyctogender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92386017394/nyctogender</ref> | * '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr user wynter-caelum by a submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.<ref name="nyctogender">http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92386017394/nyctogender {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
* '''Meaning:''' As defined in that submission to the MOGAI-Archive, "Where your gender is pure darkness." | * '''Meaning:''' As defined in that submission to the MOGAI-Archive, "Where your gender is pure darkness." | ||