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'''Demigender''' (from ''demi'' "half" + "gender") is an [[umbrella term]] for [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity|gender identities]] that have a partial connection to a certain gender. This includes the partly [[female]] identity '''demigirl,''' and the partly [[male]] identity '''demiboy'''. There are other partial genders using the "demi-" prefix for the same reasons. For example, '''deminonbinary''', '''demifluid''', '''demiflux''', and so on. Like nonbinary, '''demigender''' is also an identity within itself, for people who feel connection to the concept of gender rather than certain genders. Being a demigender "is not dependent on how much (as in percentage) someone identities as one gender; it solely depends on if a person identifies as partially. For some, they may identify with two or more genders while others may not."<ref name="Savage">{{Cite web |title=Demigender Definitions |author=Savage |work=A Safe Place for Demigenders |date=11 November 2014 |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://demigenders.tumblr.com/post/102344212344/demigender-definitions}}</ref>

[[File:demigirl.png|thumb|The demigirl flag by [http://transrants.tumblr.com/post/77071883543/demigirl-demiguy-flag-proposals Transrants]. Pink: female. White: agender or nonbinary gender. Gray: partial.]]

A demigirl is someone who only partially (not wholly) identifies as a girl or woman, whatever their assigned gender at birth.<ref>http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/55798-definitions-master-list/ AVEN: Definitions Master List</ref> They may or may not identify as another gender<ref name="Queeries">{{Cite web |title=Some Genderqueer Identities |author= |work=Gender Queeries |date= |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://genderqueeries.tumblr.com/identities}}</ref> in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman. May also use the terms demigal, demifemale or demiwoman.

Alternatively, demigirl can be used to describe someone [[Assigned_at_birth#Assigned_Gender_At_Birth|assigned female at birth]] who feels but the barest association with that identification, though not a significant enough dissociation to create real physical discomfort or dysphoria, or someone assigned male at birth who is trans feminine but not wholly binary-identified, so that they feel more strongly associated with “female” than “male,” socially or physically, but not strongly enough to justify an absolute self-identification as "woman".<ref>http://genderqueerid.com/gq-terms</ref>

==Deminonbinary==

Deminonbinary, or demienby, is a gender identity for someone who partially identifies as nonbinary.<ref name="Savage"/>

==Demifluid==

Demifluid is a gender identity for "someone whose gender is partially fluid ([[genderfluid]]) with the other part(s) being static; an example could be: one part of their gender is 'woman' while the part that fluctuates is  'man' and '[[genderqueer]]'."<ref name="Savage"/> In other terms, one part of the gender is static while the other part changes between genders.

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==Demiflux==

Demiflux is a gender identity for "someone whose gender is partially fluid with the other part(s) being static; this differs from 'demifluid' as '-flux' indicates that one of the genders is neutral; an example could be: one part of their gender is 'genderqueer' while the part that fluctuates is 'agender' and 'woman'."<ref name="Savage"/> In other terms, one part of the gender is static while the other fluctuates in intensity; for example, one part of the gender is 'genderqueer' and the other is 'woman' of fluctuating intensity.

* In ''School Spirit: An Unlikely Webseries'', the character Charley Condomine is demigender.<ref name="lezw_Char">{{Cite web |title=Charley Condomine |author= |work=LezWatch.TV |date= |access-date=16 June 2020 |url= https://lezwatchtv.com/character/charley-condomine/}}</ref>

* ''Felix Ever After'' stars a [[demiboy]] and was written by [[Kacen Callender]] who is a demiboy as well.

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A tumblr blog named demigenders was started in March 2014, aiming to be "a safe space for those who identify as demigirl, demiboy, demienby, demigender demiflux, or demifluid".<ref>https://demigenders.tumblr.com/archive/2014/3</ref> Another blog, demigenderpalace, was created in June 2014, with a similar aim.<ref name="palace">{{Cite web |title=Hello this is the demigender palace |author=spyro |work=safe space for demigenders |date=17 June 2014 |access-date=5 July 2020 |url= https://demigenderpalace.tumblr.com/post/89018247156/hello-this-is-the-demigender-palace-a-safe-space }}</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>}}