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+'''Gender alignment''' has two meanings.
+A. '''Gender alignment''' is terminology used by some [[nonbinary]] people to describe their experience of gender. For instance, a [[genderless]] person may identify as female-aligned because they have experiences in common with [[women]], or a [[demiboy]] may identify as male-aligned because they are partly a [[man|boy]], or a [[maverique]] may identify as unaligned because they have no ties to manhood or womanhood.
-'''Gender alignment''' has two meanings.
+The meaning of alignment terminology differs from person to person. Mod Lune on the tumblr blog We Don't Care About Your Binary put it this way:
-A. '''Gender alignment''' is terminology used by some [[nonbinary]] people to describe their experience of gender. For instance, a [[genderless]] person may identify as female-aligned because they have experiences in common with women, or a [[demiboy]] may identify as male-aligned because they are partly a boy, or a [[maverique]] may identify as unaligned because they have no ties to manhood or womanhood.
+{{quote|Some people use (wo)man-aligned to mean “the social category I belong to is (wo)men”.<br>Some people use it to mean “I present as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I am read by other people as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “my gender is somehow, in some way, related to (wo)manhood.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I am closeted and outwardly identify as a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I experience [[queer]] sexuality like a (wo)man.”<br>Some people use it to mean “I interact with [[sexism|patriarchy]] like a (wo)man.”<ref>{{cite web| url=https://wedontcareaboutyourbinary.tumblr.com/post/169860045173/what-the-fuck-do-people-mean-by-male-aligned |title=What the fuck do people mean by "male-aligned" / "woman-aligned" / whatever? |author=Mod Lune @ we don't care about your binary |date=18 January 2018}}</ref>}}
-A person's gender alignment does not tell you anything about what they were [[assigned at birth]] or how they like to [[Gender expression|express their gender]], including what [[pronouns]] they use.
+Someone's gender alignment does not tell you anything about what they were [[assigned at birth]] or how they like to [[Gender expression|express their gender]], including what [[pronouns]] they use.
-B. The term '''gender alignment''' is also used to describe a person's status as [[cis]], [[trans]], or nonbinary (As in "does their [[assigned gender at birth]] align with their [[gender identity]] or not?"), for example in the phrase [[MOGAI|Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments, and Intersex]].
+B. The term '''gender alignment''' is also used to describe a person's status as [[cis]], [[trans]], nonbinary, etc. (As in "does their [[assigned gender at birth]] align with their [[gender identity]] or not?"), for example in the phrase [[MOGAI|Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments, and Intersex]]. See also [[Gender Modality]].
 ==See also==
 *[[Galactian system]]
+*[[Alloy Alignment System]]
 ==References==
 {{reflist}}
+[[Category: Concepts]]