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'''[[Ambonec]]''' is a [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] in which a person identifies as both [[female]], [[male]] and neither at the same time. Coined by transmalenaoto (nbshadow) in 2014,<ref name="ambonec coined">{{cite web |title=Ambonec (AN for short) |website=purrloin is SHIT |url=https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95721021539/ambonec-an-for-short |date=25 August 2014|access-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024112922/https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95721021539/ambonec-an-for-short |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/172710343306/term-of-the-day-ambonec|website=bigendering|title=Term of the day: Ambonec|date=7 April 2018|access-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412011757/https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/172710343306/term-of-the-day-ambonec|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> from Latin ''ambo'' "both" + ''nec'' "neither". Described by the one who coined it as a nonbinary "gender identity in which you identify as both male and female, yet you also identify as neither, at the same time. You can lean towards any sort of [[gender expression]] [...] if you wanted. You can use [any] [[pronouns]] if you wanted. You can identify this within bi/tri/qua/etc if you wanted. You can be [[demigender|demi]]-[ambonec], meaning there could be circumstances where it changes (mood, etc). You do not need [[gender dysphoria|dysphoria]] to identify as [ambonec]."<ref name="nbshadow">{{cite web|url=https://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94559591894/nbshadow-introducing-ambonec-an-for-short|title=Introducing: Ambonec [AN for short] |website=Queer As Cat (Tumblr)|date=12 August 2014|access-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322043731/https://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94559591894/nbshadow-introducing-ambonec-an-for-short|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Abbreviation: AN.<ref name="nbshadow" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://queerquerys.tumblr.com/genders|title=Gender Terms|website=Queer Querys (Tumblr)|access-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322152517/http://queerquerys.tumblr.com/genders|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="ambonec coined" />

Similarly, "genderdox" means simultaneously having two genders and being genderless. The term was coined by Tumblr user htt in 2014 and is based on the word "paradox."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lgbtqiarchive.tumblr.com/post/638182663359987712/genderdox|title=LGBTQIA Archive — Genderdox|website=Tumblr|date=22 December 2020|access-date=29 July 2023}}</ref>

Another paradoxical gender is oppogender, meaning "when you feel/are two (or more) contradicting or generally ‘opposite’ genders at the same time, such as being simultaneously completely gender-null and another gender." The post listed several alternative names as well: contrarigender, divergender, and discrepantgender.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://xeno-aligned.tumblr.com/post/188482688309/contrarigender-oppogender-divergender|title=Xeno Aligned — Contrarigender / Oppogender / Divergender / Discrepantgender|date=2020|website=Tumblr|access-date=29 July 2023}}</ref>

In a 2004 issue of the feminist magazine ''Off Our Backs'', a transgender lesbian named Sam Bullington wrote, "I understand myself to be simultaneously and serially both man and woman, as well as neither."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bullington|first=Sam|date=November-December 2004|title= Transgendered Feminist Body Issues|journal=Off Our Backs|volume=34|number=11-12|pages=34–36|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20838217|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627135907/http://www.jstor.org/stable/20838217|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>