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* '''[[agender]]'''. People have been calling themselves agender since at least before 2013.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=9781446293133|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide|last1=Richards|first1=Christina|last2=Barker|first2=Meg|year=2013|publisher=SAGE Publications}}</ref> Some who call themselves agender have no gender identity (genderless). Others who call themselves agender have a gender identity, which isn't female or male, but neutral.<ref name="Trans Bodies 611">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 611.</ref> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 944 of the 3,055 respondents (31%) were agender.<ref name=NBGQ2016>"NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results." ''Gender Census.'' March 19, 2016. http://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results [https://web.archive.org/web/20230525010811/https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 2,723 of the 11,242 respondents (24.22%) were agender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">"Gender Census 2019 - The Worldwide tl;dr." ''Gender Census'' (blog). March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2020. https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr</ref> Notable agender people include rapper [[Angel Haze]],<ref name="haze">[https://twitter.com/AngelHaze/status/567432462406393856 "angxl hxze on Twitter"], February 14, 2015 [https://web.archive.org/web/20220705165025/https://twitter.com/angelhaze/status/567432462406393856 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> <ref name="hazetwo">[https://twitter.com/AngelHaze/status/566688238396375041 "angxl hxze on Twitter"], February 14, 2015 [https://web.archive.org/web/20201122234754/https://twitter.com/AngelHaze/status/566688238396375041 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> astrophysicist [[Amita Kuttner]],<ref name="Identity">{{Cite web |title=Identity in Politics|author=Kuttner, Amita |work=amitakuttner.ca |date=2019 |access-date=18 May 2020 |url= https://amitakuttner.ca/news/identity-in-politics/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926002548/https://amitakuttner.ca/news/identity-in-politics/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> model [[Juno Mitchell]],<ref name="igbio">[https://www.instagram.com/juno_mitchell/ Instagram bio] accessed 1 June 2020</ref> and poet [[Bogi Takács]].<ref name="BT-tweet">[https://twitter.com/bogiperson Twitter bio] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230510111247/http://www.twitter.com/bogiperson Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''[[androgyne]]'''. This ancient word from Latin means ''man-woman,'' and it entered English in the 12th century.<ref>"Androgyne." ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary.'' Retrieved July 5, 2020. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/androgyne [https://web.archive.org/web/20230527213452/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/androgyne Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> For over a century, it has been used for a wide variety of kinds of [[gender nonconforming|gender nonconformance]], gender identities, and gender expressions that do not fit into the gender binary.<ref name="Trans Bodies 611" /> It has been used as an umbrella term for them. Androgyne can mean [[intersex]], but not all androgynes are intersex.<ref name="Raphael Carter Not This">Raphael Carter, "Not this, not that: A meditation on labels." July 14, 1996. ''Androgyny RAQ (Rarely Asked Questions)'' (personal site). [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209234238/http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/notthis.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20041209234238/http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/notthis.shtml]</ref> Victorian and Edwardian era people who called themselves androgynes believed their gender-nonconforming natures originated in hidden intersex characteristics in their brain or body. This was the view of a notable androgyne, autobiographer [[Jennie June]] (b. 1874).<ref>Katz, Jonathan Ned. "Transgender Memoir of 1921 Found". ''Humanities and Social Sciences Online''. N.p., 10 October 2010. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017.</ref> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 380 of the respondents (12%) called themselves androgynes.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 1054 of the respondents (9.3%) called themselves androgynes.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[bigender]]''', or '''bi-gender'''. A bigender person feels they have two gender identities, at the same time, or at different times.<ref name="Trans Bodies 611"></ref><ref name="Schneider APA 2008">Schneider, M., et al, American Psychological Association, ''APA Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions'', 2008 [http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.pdf Answers to Your Questions About Transgender People, Gender Identity, And Gender Expression] (PDF), date unknown, captured April 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230306005418/http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.pdf Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> A bigender person may move between their gender expressions based on their situation or their feelings.<ref name="Trans Bodies 611" /> These two genders might be female and male, or they might be a different pair of genders. This identity (in the form "bigendered") was in use as early as 1995.<ref name="Bowen">{{cite web|author=Bowen, Gary|title=A Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women|work=FTM International|date=15 May 1995|url=http://www.ftm-intl.org/Wrtngs/ftm-words.gary.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/19961105010926/http://www.ftm-intl.org/Wrtngs/ftm-words.gary.html|archive-date=5 November 1996}}</ref> In 1997, it was described in ''International Journal of Transgenderism''.<ref name="Eyler">{{cite journal|last1=Eyler |first1=A.E.|last2=Wright |first2=K.|year=1997|url=https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm|title=Gender Identification and Sexual Orientation Among Genetic Females with Gender-Blended Self-Perception in Childhood and Adolescence.|journal=International Journal of Transgenderism|quote=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718084440/https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> The American Psychological Association (APA) recognizes bigender as one type of transgender person.<ref name="Schneider APA 2008" /> A 1999 survey conducted by the San Francisco Department of Public Health observed that, among the transgender community, less than 3% of those who were [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] and less than 8% of those who were [[AFAB|assigned female at birth]] identified as bigender.<ref>Clements, K. "The Transgender Community Health Project." San Francisco Department of Public Health. 1999. [http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=cftg-02-02 http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=cftg-02-02] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230531053748/http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=cftg-02-02 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 123 of the respondents (4%) were bigender.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 419  of the respondents (3.72%) were bigender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> Notable bigender people include the top-charting musician [[B-Complex]],<ref name="denn_Prel">{{Cite web |title=Prelomil/a B-complex: Keď som muž, tak som Maťo, keď žena, tak Matia |trans-title=B-complex explained: When I'm a man, I'm Mato, when a woman, Matia |last=Pecíková |first=Laura |work=Denník N |date= |access-date=28 March 2020 |url= https://dennikn.sk/321936/prelomila-b-complex-muz-mato-zena-matia/ |language=sk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202222723/https://dennikn.sk/321936/prelomila-b-complex-muz-mato-zena-matia/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> the speculative fiction writer [[R.B. Lemberg]],<ref name="RBL-about">http://rblemberg.net/?page_id=16 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230331004532/http://rblemberg.net/?page_id=16 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name="RBL-tweet">{{cite tweet|user=RB_Lemberg|number=1022283262906048513|date=July 25, 2018|title=@bogiperson is my spouseperson and Mati the Child is our childperson. We are all #ActuallyAutistic :) I forgot to mention that I am bigender and use the pronoun "they." Good to see you here - come say hello if you feel like it! <3}}</ref> and the young adult novelist [[Mia Siegert]].<ref name="dive_Writ">{{Cite web |title=Writing from a Place of Truth |author= |work=Diversity in YA |date= |access-date=2 May 2020 |url= https://diversityinya.tumblr.com/post/143740997531/writing-from-a-place-of-truth |quote=I’m bigender, identifying as both a mostly-hetero female and a gay male. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809232144/https://diversityinya.tumblr.com/post/143740997531/writing-from-a-place-of-truth |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

[[File:Puang Matoa 2004.JPG|thumb|120px|A ''bissu'' leader named Puang Matoa Saidi, in 2004.<ref name="Saidi">M. Farid W Makkulau. "Remembered Saidi with Bissu Tradition." ''Palotaraq''. May 26, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2020. https://palontaraq.id/2018/05/26/remembered-saidi-with-bissu-tradition [https://web.archive.org/web/20210301022402/https://palontaraq.id/2018/05/26/remembered-saidi-with-bissu-tradition Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>]]

* '''[[gender-variant identities worldwide#bissu|bissu]]'''. For the past six centuries, the Bugis people of Indonesia have divided their society into five genders, which must coexist harmoniously: ''oroané'' (cisgender men), ''makkunrai'' (cisgender women), ''calabai'' (transgender women), ''calalai'' (transgender men), and ''bissu'' (all aspects of gender combined to form a whole).<ref>"Sulawesi's fifth gender" . Inside Indonesia. https://web.archive.org/web/20120728104208/http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-66-apr-jun-2001/sulawesi-s-fifth-gender-3007484 Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 2011-07-25.</ref><ref>[http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/29/IIASNL29_27.pdf Sex, Gender, and Priests in South Sulawesi, Indonesia] (PDF). International Institute for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2011-07-25. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230314234207/http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/29/IIASNL29_27.pdf Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>Davies, Sharyn Graham. Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves (ASAA Women in Asia Series), Routledge, 2010.</ref><ref>Davies, Sharyn Graham. Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), Wadsworth Publishing, 2006.</ref><ref>Pelras, Christian. The Bugis (The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific), Wiley-Blackwell, 1997.</ref><ref name=Prezi>{{cite web |url=http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/29/IIASNL29_27.pdf |title=Sex, Gender, and Priests in South Sulawesi, Indonesia |publisher=[[International Institute for Asian Studies]] |accessdate=2011-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721074825/http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/29/IIASNL29_27.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Someone is born with the propensity to become ''bissu'' if they are [[intersex]], but ambiguous genitalia alone do not confer the state of being a ''bissu'', and ambiguous genitalia need not be visible. A normative male who becomes a ''bissu'' is believed to be female on the inside.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-66/sulawesi-s-fifth-gender-3007484 |title=Sulawesi's fifth gender |journal=[[Inside Indonesia]] |accessdate=2011-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728104208/http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-66-apr-jun-2001/sulawesi-s-fifth-gender-3007484 |archive-date=28 July 2012 }}</ref> In order to become ''bissu'', one must learn priestly skills,  remain celibate, and wear conservative clothes.<ref name=ABC>{{cite news|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation News|first=Farid M|last=Ibrahim|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-27/indonesia-fifth-gender-might-soon-disappear/10846570|accessdate=27 February 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227045350/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-27/indonesia-fifth-gender-might-soon-disappear/10846570|archive-date=27 February 2019|title=Homophobia and rising Islamic intolerance push Indonesia's intersex bissu priests to the brink|date=27 February 2019}}</ref><ref name=Prezi1>{{cite web|website=Prezi|url=https://prezi.com/yhh0sdzysou5/the-bugis-five-genders-and-belief-in-a-harmonious-world/|title=The Bugis Five Genders and Belief in a Harmonious World|first=Karlana|last=June|date=23 February 2015|accessdate=27 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103074510/https://prezi.com/yhh0sdzysou5/the-bugis-five-genders-and-belief-in-a-harmonious-world/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Until the 1940s, the ''bissu'' were central to keeping ancient palace rituals alive, including coronations of kings and queens.<ref name=ABC/> Changes in the Bugis government sidelined the ''bissu''. Persecution from hardline Islamic groups, police, and politicians resulted in fewer people taking on the role. By 2019, the ''bissu'' still exist, though their numbers have declined. ''Bissu'' today participate in weddings as maids of honour, and work as farmers, as well as performing their cultural roles as priests.<ref name=ABC/>  

* '''[[boi]]'''. A queer masculine identity which is not cis-heteronormative.<ref>{{cite book|title=The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality|page=56|year=2019|isbn=9781784506636}}</ref> Boi originated in African American culture during the 1990s. It covers a wide variety of alternative masculine identities in emo, BDSM, gay male, lesbian, and genderqueer communities. For some, but not all, boi is an identity outside the gender binary. Not all who use it are people of color. Definitions of "boi" vary widely.<ref name="Trans Bodies 612">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 612.</ref><ref>http://genderqueerid.com/post/52144260437/hello-i-once-heard-somebody-say-the-term-boi [https://web.archive.org/web/20221022131652/https://genderqueerid.com/post/52144260437/hello-i-once-heard-somebody-say-the-term-boi Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>"bklyn boihood." https://prezi.com/ybttsym4mewd/bklyn-boihood/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20220624041702/https://prezi.com/ybttsym4mewd/bklyn-boihood/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>Riley, "Don't call me butch: What kind of lez are you?" September 21, 2011. ''Lez Get Real.'' http://web.archive.org/web/20140116213509/http://lezgetreal.com/2011/09/dont-call-me-butch-what-kind-of-lez-are-you/ (archive)</ref> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 3 of the respondents said their gender was boi.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 76 of the respondents (0.68%) said their gender was boi, or used boi as part of a word for their gender identity, such as femme boy, femboi, tomboi, or demiboy.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[butch]]'''. Butch is a queer masculine identity.<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> It originated in working-class lesbian bar culture in the 1940s and 50s.<ref name=LevittSR>{{Cite journal|last=Levitt|first=Heidi|date=February 2003|title=The Misunderstood Gender: A Model of Modern Femme Identity|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225274019|journal=Sex Roles|volume=48|issue=3/4|pages=99–113|doi=10.1023/A:1022453304384|pmid=|access-date=May 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425035825/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225274019|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name=Kennedy1993_82>{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=Elizabeth Lapovsky|author2=Madeline D. Davis|title=Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community|year=1993|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=0-415-90293-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bootsofleathersl00kenn_0/page/82 82–86]|url=https://archive.org/details/bootsofleathersl00kenn_0/page/82|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309063942/https://archive.org/details/bootsofleathersl00kenn_0/page/82|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> [[Leslie Feinberg]], who was a butch of the 1950s onward and a trans person,<ref name="trans warriors x">Leslie Feinberg, ''Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul.'' Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. p. x.</ref> defines butch as a category of gender identity, neither male nor female. From the mid-20th century, there has been a tradition of roles of queer butch-femme couples.<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> Butch-femme couples are not a rule, especially not after cultural changes in lesbian culture in the 1970s.<ref name="selfmade 79">Henry Rubin, ''Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men.'' Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. P. 79.</ref> Butch-femme couples are not an imitation of heterosexuality.<ref>Jack Halberstam, ''Female Masculinity'', Durham: Duke University, 2018. p. 122.</ref> Masculinity or butchness is neither the same as nor an imitation of manhood. As one trans man interviewed by sociologist Henry Rubin put it, the butch lesbian women he knew "were much more butch than me. But I was much more male than they were."<ref name="selfmade 24">Henry Rubin, ''Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men.'' Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. P. 24.</ref> Though butch most often means a lesbian woman, not all are.<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> Queer theorist and butch [[Jack Halberstam]] defines its indefinability: "The butch is neither [[cisgender|cis-gender]] nor simply transgender [...] Butch is always a misnomer-- not male, not female, masculine but not male, female but not feminine".<ref>Jack Halberstam, ''Female Masculinity'', Durham: Duke University, 2018. p. xi.</ref> Butch is a diverse category. Some people choose to call themselves butch.<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 6 of the respondents said they were butch.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 105 of the respondents (0.93%) called their identity butch, or some form of it, such as soft butch.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> Notable people who call themselves butch as an identity outside the gender binary include writer [[Ivan E. Coyote]],<ref>[https://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_coyote_why_we_need_gender_neutral_bathrooms/transcript Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms], Ivan Coyote, November 2015 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230325200731/http://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_coyote_why_we_need_gender_neutral_bathrooms/transcript Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name="case_Gend">{{Cite web |title=Gender Landmines: Trans Masculinities, Femininities, and Binaries: A Review of Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon's Gender Failure |author= |work=Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian |date=7 July 2014 |access-date=3 April 2020 |url= https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.com/2014/07/07/gender-landmines-trans-masculinities-feminities-and-binaries-a-review-of-ivan-coyote-and-rae-spoons-gender-failure/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103074503/https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.com/2014/07/07/gender-landmines-trans-masculinities-feminities-and-binaries-a-review-of-ivan-coyote-and-rae-spoons-gender-failure/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>https://abcbookworld.com/writer/coyote-ivan-e/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20221205154452/https://abcbookworld.com/writer/coyote-ivan-e/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> comedian [[Kelli Dunham]],<ref name="Guerrero">{{Cite web |title=Genderqueer Comic Kelli Dunham On Getting (Thee) Away From a Nunnery |last=Guerrero |first=Desirée |work=The Advocate |date=21 April 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2020/4/21/genderqueer-comic-kelli-dunham-getting-thee-away-nunnery|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103074504/https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2020/4/21/genderqueer-comic-kelli-dunham-getting-thee-away-nunnery |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> and social worker [[Sonalee Rashatwar]].<ref name="IGbio">https://www.instagram.com/thefatsextherapist/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230523141837/https://www.instagram.com/thefatsextherapist/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

* '''[[demiboy]]'''. A gender identity that is both male and [[genderless]].<ref name"asexualityorgpromasterlist">[http://asexualityorg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gender&amp;action=print&amp;thread=9 Definitions Master List], asexualityorg proboards, posted August 2012, captured April 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220808200314/http://asexualityorg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gender&amp;action=print&amp;thread=9 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 834 of the respondents (7.42%) said they were a demiboy, demiguy, demiman, or other form of this identity.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[demigirl]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A gender identity that is both female and [[genderless]].<ref>[http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/55798-definitions-master-list/ AVEN: Definitions Master List] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230607222033/https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/55798-definitions-master-list/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 7.98% (897) of the respondents said they were a demigirl, demiwoman, demifemale, or other form of this identity.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[fa'afafine]]'''. <section begin=Fa'afafineDefinition />In Samoa, the Fa'afafine are people who were [[Sexes#Assigned male at birth|assigned male at birth (AMAB)]], have a feminine gender expression, and don't think of themselves as female or male.<ref name="Kremer">{{Cite web |title=The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality |author=William Kremer |work=BBC News |date=18 February 2014 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26089486|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518041252/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26089486 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> It has been estimated that 1–5% of Samoans identify as fa'afafine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37227803|title=Samoa's 'third gender' beauty pageant|first=Yvette|last=Tan|date=September 1, 2016|via=www.bbc.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323203928/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37227803|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> ''Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand'' estimates that there are 500 fa’afafine in Samoa, and the same number in the Samoan diaspora in New Zealand,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/160363|title=3. – Gender diversity – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand|first=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu|last=Taonga|website=teara.govt.nz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310081109/https://teara.govt.nz/en/160363|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> while according to SBS news, there are up to 3,000 fa'afafine currently living in Samoa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/07/16/faafafine-boys-raised-be-girls| title=Fa'afafine: Boys Raised to be Girls ten minute news video about faafafine in Australia|date=26 August 2013| |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323202418/http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/07/16/faafafine-boys-raised-be-girls|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> The masculine and [[Sexes#Assigned female at birth|assigned female at birth (AFAB)]] counterpart of fa'afafine in Samoa are known variously as faʻatane, faʻatama, and fafatama.{{Citation needed}}<section end=Fa'afafineDefinition />

* '''[[femme]]'''. From the French word for "woman," femme originated as a queer feminine identity in 1950s working-class lesbian bar culture.<ref name=LevittSR /> Traditionally, femme was the counterpart of the butch role. Today, queer people who choose to call themselves femme do not necessarily seek a butch-femme relationship.<ref name="Trans Bodies 613">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 613.</ref> Femme does not simply mean a conventionally feminine woman, and is instead a culturally transgressive queer identity. Surveys show that a significant percentage of nonbinary and genderqueer people identify as femme. Or, to put it another way, that many femmes consider themselves nonbinary or genderqueer. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 20 of the respondents (0.65%) called themselves a femme, a nonbinary femme, or othe variations.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 1.35% of the respondents identified as some form of femme.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> Some notable people who identify as femme outside the binary include author [[Kate Bornstein]],<ref name="Raymond">{{Cite web |title=Interview: Kate Bornstein on Their Broadway Debut in Straight White Men |last=Raymond |first=Gerard |work=Slant Magazine |date=July 11, 2018 |access-date=May 16, 2020 |url= https://www.slantmagazine.com/interviews/pretty-damn-bowie-kate-bornstein-on-their-broadway-debut-in-straight-white-men/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221230307/https://www.slantmagazine.com/interviews/pretty-damn-bowie-kate-bornstein-on-their-broadway-debut-in-straight-white-men/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> journalist [[Sassafras Lowrey]],<ref>{{cite tweet|user= sassafraslowrey|number= 1182723625448685568|date=11 October 2019|title=and to have made a core aspect of my career around writing the queerest books and stories I can imagine. Happy #NationalComingOutDay Queerly yours a: #runaway, formerly #homeless, #genderqueer, #trans, #femme, #queer, #polyamorous, #asexual, #little, #leather boy}}</ref> disability rights activist [[Sharon daVanport]],<ref name="ECE">{{Cite web |title=PEOPLE: Why Sharon daVanport built a support network for autistic women and nonbinary people |author= |work=Echo Chamber Escape |date=May 26, 2020 |access-date=May 28, 2020 |url= https://echochamberescape.com/2020/05/26/people-why-sharon-davanport-built-a-support-network-for-autistic-women-and-nonbinary-people|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004135400/https://echochamberescape.com/2020/05/26/people-why-sharon-davanport-built-a-support-network-for-autistic-women-and-nonbinary-people/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> and multimedia artist [[Dev Blair]].<ref>{{cite tweet|user=Dev_Blair|number=956701170503954432|title=Starting 2 prefer "they" pronouns because so many people wanna equate "she" pronouns w/ me being a woman n that's not really what I mean when I say non-binary femme-what I mean is my gender is neither male nor female but I do strongly align with femininity|date=25 January 2018}}</ref>  

* '''[[genderfuck]]'''. A form of gender expression that seeks to subvert the traditional gender binary or gender roles by mixing traditionally [[masculine]] (such as a beard) and traditionally [[feminine]] (such as a dress) components.<ref name=":0">Dictionary definition of what Genderfuck means: https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/genderfuck/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230701110928/http://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/genderfuck/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Even though it's often used as a [[gender expression]], 0.4% of participants in the 2019 Gender Census identified with this word.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[genderqueer]]''' Any gender identity or expression which is queer, in and of itself. That is, a gender which is transgressive and non-normative. This can be an umbrella term, or a specific identity.<ref name="Trans Bodies 614" /> The earliest known recorded use of genderqueer was in 1995, in the ''Transsexual Menace'' newsletter.<ref>"Answering gender questions concerning genderqueer." ''Genderqueer ID.'' http://genderqueerid.com/post/8813994851/answering-gender-questions-coining-genderqueer [https://web.archive.org/web/20230525021313/https://genderqueerid.com/post/8813994851/answering-gender-questions-coining-genderqueer Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 1,244 of the respondents (40.72%) called themselves genderqueer.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 3,274 of the respondents (29.12%) called themselves genderqueer.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[hijra]]'''. <section begin=HijraDefinition />In south Asian countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the hijra are people who were [[Sexes#Assigned male at birth|assigned male at birth]], who have a feminine gender expression. Traditionally and today, some hijras seek castration. Hijras live together communally. They have important roles in religious practice. They can be Hindu or Muslim. Hijra traditions are ancient. The earliest mention of hijras is in the ''Kama Sutra,'' from 400 BCE to 300 CE.<ref>{{cite book|title=Refractions of Desire, Feminist Perspectives in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Michèle Roberts, and Anita Desai|author=Sengupta, J.|date=2006|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors|isbn=9788126906291|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC|page=21|accessdate=7 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601214550/https://books.google.com/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> In one of the earliest Western records of them, Franciscan travelers wrote about seeing hijras in the 1650s.<ref>Donald Lach. ''Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 2, South Asia.'' University of Chicago, 1998.</ref> From the 1850s onward, the British Raj criminalized and tried to exterminate hijras.<ref>Laurence W. Preston. "A Right to Exist: Eunuchs and the State in Nineteenth-Century India." ''Modern Asian Studies'' (journal), April 1987, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 371–387 doi=10.1017/S0026749X00013858 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231903575 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230618160146/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231903575 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Reddy, Gayatri.|title=With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India|date=2005|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-70754-9|location=Chicago|oclc=655225261}}</ref> Since the late 20th century, hijra activists and non-government organizations have lobbied for official recognition of the hijra as a legal sex other than male or female. This is important for them to be able to have passports, travel, hold jobs, and other rights. They have been successful at achieving legal recognition as another gender in Nepal, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.<ref>Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, 310 pp., University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 0-226-70755-5 (see p. 8)</ref><ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/india.gender.voting/index.html, "India's third gender gets own identity in voter rolls", Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN.com], Nov. 2009 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210301022352/http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/india.gender.voting/index.html, Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>Mitch Kellaway. "Trans Indian's Predicament at Border Shows the U.S. Lags Behind." May 9, 2015. Advocate. http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/05/09/trans-indian-womans-predicament-border-shows-us-lags-behind [https://web.archive.org/web/20230603065740/https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/05/09/trans-indian-womans-predicament-border-shows-us-lags-behind Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>[http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/25/pakistan-recognizes-third-gender/ "Pakistan Recognizes Third Gender", Ria Misra, Politics Daily], Dec. 2009 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225224129/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/25/pakistan-recognizes-third-gender/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>[http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2013/nov/11/hijras-now-separate-gender, "Hijras now a separate gender", Mohosinul Karim, Dhaka Tribune], Nov. 2013 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210226002453/https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2013/nov/11/hijras-now-separate-gender, Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>http://www.attn.com/stories/868/transgender-passport-status [https://web.archive.org/web/20221213084025/https://www.attn.com/stories/868/transgender-passport-status Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> The Hijra in India alone may number as many as 2,000,000 today.<ref>Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, 310 pp., University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 0-226-70755-5 (see p. 8)</ref><section end=HijraDefinition />  

[[File:Paul Gauguin 063.jpg|thumb|200px|''Papa Moe (Mysterious Water)'', an oil painting by the Westerner, Paul Gauguin, from 1893. It depicts a māhū in Tahiti drinking from a waterfall.<ref>Mario Vargas Llosa. "The men-women of the Pacific." ''Tate Britain.'' http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/men-women-pacific [https://web.archive.org/web/20230323202357/http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/men-women-pacific Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>Stephen F. Eisenman. Gauguin's Skirt. 1997.</ref>]]

* '''[[maverique]]'''. Coined by Vesper H. (queerascat) in 2014. A specific nonbinary gender identity "characterized by autonomy and inner conviction regarding a sense of self that is entirely independent of male/masculinity, female/femininity or anything which derives from the two while still being neither without gender nor of a neutral gender."<ref>''[http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/89448452041/maverique-definition-reworded-06-21-14-a maverique]'', Vesper H. (queerascat), June 2014, captured April 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180902190130/http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/89448452041/maverique-definition-reworded-06-21-14-a Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 12 of the respondents (0.39%) called themselves maverique.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 72 of the respondents (0.64%) said they were maverique or mavrique.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[neutrois]]'''. Coined by a neutrois person named H. A. Burnham in 1995.<ref>Axey, Qwill, Rave, and Luscious Daniel, eds. “FAQ.” Neutrois Outpost. Last updated 2000-11-23. Retrieved 2001-03-07. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010307115554/http://www.neutrois.com/faq.htm]</ref> Having one non-binary gender identity that is neutral. Not female, not male, and not a mix. Some neutrois people are transsexual, experience gender dysphoria, and want to get a physical transition.<ref>''[http://neutrois.me/neutrois Define]'', Neutrois Nonsense, date unknown, captured April 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221206235937/https://neutrois.me/neutrois/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 616.</ref> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 208 of the respondents (6.8%) were neutrois.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 398 of the respondents (3.54%) were neutrois.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

Phillips. Native North American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-19-284218-3}} . pg. 34</ref> and the ''lhamana'' in Zuni,<ref name=Stevenson380>Matilda Coxe Stevenson, The Zuni Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies, (BiblioBazaar, 2010) p.&nbsp;380</ref> among many others. In 1990, an Indigenous lesbian and gay international gathering chose to internationally replace "berdache" with "Two-Spirit" as a preferable umbrella term for these identities.<ref name=NativeOut101>"[http://nativeout.com/twospirit-rc/two-spirit-101/ Two Spirit 101]" at ''NativeOut''. Accessed 23 Sep 2015 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230213092737/http://nativeout.com/twospirit-rc/two-spirit-101/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>Eve Shapiro, ''Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age.'' Unpaged.</ref> Two-Spirit was chosen to distance these identities from non-Natives,<ref name="de Vries 2009">{{cite book|last1=de Vries|first1=Kylan Mattias|editor1-last=O'Brien|editor1-first=Jodi|title=Encyclopedia of gender and society|date=2009|publisher=SAGE|location=Los Angeles |isbn=9781412909167 |page=64 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nyHS4WyUKEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0|accessdate=6 March 2015|chapter=Berdache (Two-Spirit)}}</ref> and should only be used for people who are Native American, because it is for identities that must be contextualized in Native cultures.<ref name=NYT1>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/fashion/08SPIRIT.html?_r=0|title=A Spirit of Belonging, Inside and Out|work=The New York Times|date=8 Oct 2006|accessdate=28 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409124947/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/fashion/08SPIRIT.html?_r=0|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name=Vowel-1>{{cite book|last1=Vowel|first1=Chelsea|editor1-last=|editor1-first=|title= Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada|date=2016|publisher=Highwater Press|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada|isbn=978-1553796800|page=|accessdate=|chapter=All My Queer Relations - Language, Culture, and Two-Spirit Identity |ref=harv}}</ref> Because of the wide variety of identities under the Two-Spirit umbrella, a Two-Spirit person does not necessarily have an identity analogous to a non-Native nonbinary gender identity. Some do, but others are more analogous to non-Native gay male or lesbian woman identities. Notable people who identify specifically with the label "Two-Spirit" include Menominee poet [[Chrystos]] (b. 1946), who goes by they/them pronouns,<ref>{{cite web |title=Chrystos |url= http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/chrystos |website=PoetryFoundation.org |access-date=October 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318095035/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/chrystos |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brehm|first=Victoria|date=1998|title=Urban Survivor Stories: The Poetry of Chrystos|journal=Studies in American Indian Literatures|volume=10|issue=1|pages=73–82|jstor=20739440|issn=0730-3238}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sorrel |first1=Lorraine |title=Review: Not Vanishing |journal=[[off our backs]] |date=March 31, 1989 |volume=19 |issue= 3}}</ref> and Ojibwe artist [[Raven Davis]] (b. 1975), who goes by neutral pronouns.<ref name="ednet">{{cite web|url=http://www.middleton.ednet.ns.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter.May2015.pdf|title=Newsletter.May2015.pdf|accessdate=2015-11-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125220828/http://www.middleton.ednet.ns.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter.May2015.pdf|archive-date=2015-11-25|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=IT ALL STARTS WITH AWARENESS -LGBTQ DAY IN ESKASONI |url=http://kinu.ca/news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125225027/http://kinu.ca/news |archive-date=25 November 2015}}</ref> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 8 of the respondents (0.26%) called themselves Two-Spirit.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.18% (20) of the responses called themselves Two-Spirit.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /><section end=TwoSpiritDefinition />

* '''[[X-gender]] (Ｘジェンダー, ekkusujendā)'''. In Japan, this is a common transgender identity that isn't female or male, much as the words "genderqueer" and "nonbinary" has come to be in the English-speaking world, to such a degree that "X-gender" is typically used as the Japanese translation for these.<ref name="RoxieSelected">Marilyn Roxie. "Selected links on nonbinary gender in Japan." March 28, 2013. [http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230606093151/https://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Therefore, a person does not need to be Japanese to be X-gender. The term "X-gender" began to be used during the latter 1990s, popularized by writings published by queer organizations in Kansai, in Osaka and Kyoto.<ref>"【ＸラウンジからNEWS！】参議院議員の尾辻かな子さんへのレインボー・アクションの陳情で、Ｘラウンジから要望書を提出しました。([NEWS from X Lounge! ] We submitted a request form from the X Lounge in response to a petition of Kanae Otsuji, a member of the House of Councilors, about the rainbow action.)" ''NPO Rainbow Action.'' May 30, 2013. http://rainbowaction.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.html Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200221122651/http://rainbowaction.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.html</ref><ref>S.P.F. Dale. "An Introduction to X-Jendā: Examining a New Gender Identity in Japan." ''Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific'' Issue 31, December 2012. http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dale.htm [https://web.archive.org/web/20230507214727/http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dale.htm Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Notable X-gender people include manga artist [[Wikipedia:Yuu Watase|Yuu Watase]] (渡瀬 悠宇), who created the comics ''Fushigi Yūgi'' and ''Ceres, Celestial Legend.''<ref>{{cite tweet|user=wataseyuu_|author=Yuu Watase|number=1130461270358908928|title=ブログでもここでも呟いたけど、再度。 漫画にも影響してると思うから。 私はXジェンダーと医師に診断されてて、中身は、男にも女にも寄れるし男でも女でもない。 見た目はちゃんと(20代後半から社会に合わせて)どうせやるならやるでメイクもオシャレもする、それだけ。 女性の身体は否定しないが→|trans-title=I blogged here and again, but again. I think it also affects manga. I have been diagnosed by X-gender and a doctor, and the contents are neither men nor women, nor men or women. It looks just fine (according to society from the late 20s), and if you do it, you can make and be fashionable. I do not deny the female body |date=2019-05-20}}</ref> In April and May of 2019, Japan LGBT Research Institute Inc. conducted an online survey. It collected a total of 348,000 valid responses from people aged 20 to 69, not all of whom were LGBT. 2.5% of the respondents called themselves X-gender.<ref>{{cite web|title=Most people in Japan know LGBT but understanding limited.|work=Kyodo News|date=December 11, 2019|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/12/bf50b5f548d5-most-people-in-japan-know-lgbt-but-understanding-limited.html|access-date=July 5, 2020  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606152406/https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/12/bf50b5f548d5-most-people-in-japan-know-lgbt-but-understanding-limited.html|archive-date=June 6, 2020}}</ref> This identity term was underrepresented in the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, in which 4 of the respondents called themselves X-gender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />