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The '''galactian system''' is an alternative classification system for [[nonbinary]] people based on their alignment in relation to the binary genders. It was created in 2016, in response to the trend that started in that year for nonbinary people to say whether they were "male-aligned" or "female-aligned," which meant that they were almost but not quite those genders. The downside of such "[[gender alignment]] language" (as pointed out by the creator of the galactian system, Tumblr user vergess) was that it amounts to saying that nonbinary people are really male or female, and to invalidate their gender. The galactian system tries to solve this instead using celestial imagery, in order to avoid concepts that are related to the [[gender binary]] system. These words were not coined to describe genders, but a relation towards a binary gender, an alignment. For instance, a [[genderless]] person may identify as female-aligned or lunarian because they have experiences in common with women, despite not considering [[singular they|themself]] a woman.<ref name="vergess describing alignment">vergess. "Describing alignment." ''kinda-girls'' (blog). November 16, 2016. Retrieved July 20, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200720224831/https://kinda-girls.tumblr.com/post/153284340413/describing-alignment</ref> In the 2019 Gender Census, around 0.2% of respondents identified with a galactian alignment.<ref>[https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Gender Census 2019 - the worldwide TL;DR] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230316155353/https://www.gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Galactian alignments are often used together with other gender identities, such as "solarian bigender" or "lunarian demigender".

The solarian identity expresses a similarity with masculine genders, alignments, or experiences, but not that one is a man. It's a replacement for "masculine-aligned," "masc-aligned," or "male-aligned." This is called solarian because many cultures associate the Sun with masculinity and male energy.<ref name="stellunarian">bashana-haba-ah. "Anonymous asked: What's lunarian, stellarian and solarian?" ''Stellunarian'' (blog). A reblog made March 6, 2017 of a lost, deleted post. Retrieved September 2, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180902205854/https://stellunarian.tumblr.com/post/158086623900/whats-lunarian-stellarian-and-solarian</ref>

The lunarian identity expresses a similarity with feminine genders, alignments, or experiences, but not that one is a woman. It's a replacement for "feminine-aligned", "fem-aligned," or "female-aligned." This is called lunarian because many cultures associate the Moon with femininity and female energy.<ref name="stellunarian"/>

The stellarian identity expresses that a person does not feel similarity with feminine or masculine genders, alignments, or experiences. This expresses a nonbinary alignment, in contrast to feminine and masculine alignments. It is called stellarian because there are many nonbinary identities and presentations, just as there are many stars.<ref name="stellunarian"/>

 

The singularian identity rejects any kind of relation with the gender binary, and therefore the alignment system itself. This is in contrast to stellarian, which aligns with neither male nor female within the alignment system. The greatest difference between the terms is that a singularian person rejects alignment entirely, and so will never identify as lunarian or solarian, while a stellarian person may identify as lunarian or solarian at different times or in different ways. It is called singularian in reference to black holes, also called singularities.<ref>Stellunarian. "Anonymous asked: Since this (very good) system is comparing alignment to celestial bodies, would voidian/voidarian/voidic be a black hole?" ''Stellunarian'' (blog). March 6, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200420171029/https://stellunarian.tumblr.com/post/158086230565/since-this-very-good-system-is-comparing</ref>

A person can identify with more than one galactian identity, at the same time or in different situations. When this happens, they can be called ''eclipsian'' (solarian and lunarian, also known as sollunarian), ''nebularian'' (lunarian and stellarian, also known as stellunarian), ''novarian'' (stellarian and solarian, also known as solstellarian) or ''galaxian'' (solarian, lunarian and stellarian, also known as solstellunarian).

Finally, ''aurorian'' is a fluid identity between various alignments.<ref name="system-mogai">From [https://system-mogai.tumblr.com/ System MOGAI]; retrieved May 18th, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20180902205851/https://system-mogai.tumblr.com/post/176264135088/galactian-system-expanded</ref>