Pangender: Difference between revisions

'''Pangender,''' or '''omnigender''', is a [[gender identity]] in which a person either identifies as a countless number of separate identities that they are fluid between over time, or that they identify as one all encompassing identity. The genders that a pangender person has only includes genders within the person's own culture and life experience<ref name="genderwiki">{{Cite web |title=Pangender |author= |work=Gender Wiki |date=31 August 2018 |access-date=9 November 2020 |url= https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Pangender?oldid=33547 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Navigating Trans and Complex Gender Identities|year=2019|at=page 140, Appendix E|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing}}</ref> (e.g. their genders would not include [[Fa'afafine]] unless they are Samoan; their genders would not include [[Neurogender#Bordergender|bordergender]] unless they have Borderline Personality Disorder).

An alternative term with a similar meaning is ''maxigender''<ref>{{cite book|title=The ABC's of LGBT+|last=Mardell|first=Ashley|year=2016}}</ref>, since some people on Tumblr who don't identify as pangender argue that it is appropriative of [[Ethnicity and culture|culturally-specific]] and [[Neurogender|neurotype-specific]] genders. The reason for that, according to them, is that no one can identify as all genders, as this would include culturally-specific or neurotype-specific genders.<ref>[https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/161250119616/reminder-about-pangender Reminder about pangender], 30 May 2017</ref><ref>[https://kinda-girls.tumblr.com/post/159477370346/as-far-as-i-know-the-identity-that-means anonymous asked: As far as I know, the identity that means "identifying as all genders that are available to you" is maxigender], 11 April 2017</ref><ref>[https://jimjamjames.tumblr.com/post/163259277748 jimjamjames asked: Hi !I'm doing some research on the origins of the identity “Maxigender”], 21 July 2017</ref>

'''Omnigender''' is sometimes used as a synonym for pangender<ref name="pridenation">{{Cite web |title=Pangender/Omnigender Flag |author= |work=Pride Nation |date= |access-date=31 January 2021 |url= https://pridenation.lgbt/products/pangender-omnigender-flag}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=  

6 March 2020|title=Omnigender pastel stimboard for anon|url=https://uncommongenders.tumblr.com/post/611875301221351424/omnigender-pastel-stimboard-for-anon-omingender-a}}</ref>, but sometimes is defined as experiencing ''almost'' all genders.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/170959528060/hello-anon-polygender-is-more-of-an-umbrella| date=16 February 2018|title=Hello Anon! Polygender is more of an umbrella term...}}</ref>

In 2018, Washington state began to allow "X" gender markers on official documents<ref name="Jackman">{{Cite web |title=Washington to recognise third gender in groundbreaking move |last=Jackman |first=Josh |work=PinkNews |date=5 January 2018 |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/05/washington-to-recognise-third-gender-in-groundbreaking-move/}}</ref>, with the law stating that {{quote|"X" means a gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, [[agender]], [[amalgagender]], [[androgynous]], [[bigender]], [[demigender]], female-to-male, [[genderfluid]], [[genderqueer]], male-to-female, [[neutrois]], [[nonbinary]], [[pangender]], [[third gender|third sex]], [[transgender]], [[transsexual]], [[Two Spirit]], and unspecified.<ref name="washington">{{Cite web |title=WAC 246-490-075: Changing sex designation on a birth certificate. |author= |work=Washington State Legislature |date= |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-490-075}}</ref>}}

Popular news site The Daily Dot published an article "What it means to be pangender" on June 16, 2020.<ref name="Burke">{{Cite web |title=What it means to be pangender |last=Burke |first=Collyn |work=The Daily Dot |date=16 June 2020 |access-date=11 September 2020 |url= https://www.dailydot.com/irl/pangender-definition-pronouns/}}</ref>