Trigender: Difference between revisions

{{uncommon identity}}

'''Trigender''' people experience three [[gender]]s, at the same time, or moving between the three at different times.<ref name="feinberg trans lib">Leslie Feinberg, ''Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink Or Blue'', page 53-4, Beacon Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8070-7951-0, ISBN 978-0-8070-7951-5.</ref><ref>Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, "[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-18/news/0911180173_1_gender-born-layers For the young, gender is fluid]", ''Chicago Tribune'', November 18, 2009.</ref> These three genders can be any gender, either binary or nonbinary.<ref>Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin, ''Teaching for diversity and social justice'', page 224,CRC Press, 2007, ISBN 0-415-95200-X, 9780415952002.</ref> A trigender person may change from expressing one gender to another, depending on that person's mood or situation.<ref name="Herdt">Gilbert H. Herdt, ''Third sex, third gender: beyond sexual dimorphism in

culture and history'', Zone Books, 1996, ISBN 0-942299-82-5, ISBN 978-0-942299-82-3.</ref> Someone who identifies as trigender may feel that their gender is a combination of several genders happening at the same time.<ref>Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, "For the young, gender is fluid", ''Chicago Tribune'', November 18, 2009.</ref> Trigender falls under the general categories of [[multigender]] (having many genders) and sometimes [[genderfluid]] (having genders that change from time to time). It can also be considered a type of [[genderqueer]] or [[nonbinary]] identity, which goes beyond the Western [[binary gender]] system,<ref name="Herdt"/> much as can be seen in cultures that recognize individuals' right to define their own sense of self<ref name="Bentz">Leslie Bentz, "The Neurobiology of Gender Bending", Bryn Mawr , 2005.</ref>