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'''Gender alignment''' has two meanings. | '''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 boy, or a [[maverique]] may identify as unaligned because they have no ties to manhood or womanhood. | 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. | ||
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]], 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]]. | ||