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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=NBGQ2016>[http://nonbinarystats.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results], March 2016.</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.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</ref> <ref name="hazetwo">[https://twitter.com/AngelHaze/status/566688238396375041 "angxl hxze on Twitter"], February 14, 2015</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/}}</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]</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</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=NBGQ2016></ref> 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 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 9.38% (1054 people) of the respondents called themselves androgynes.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[aporagender]]'''. Coined in 2014, from Greek ''apo, apor'' "separate" + "gender".<ref>[http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora Anonymous asked: "could I ask the etymology of the prefix apora- ?"], posted October 2014.</ref> A [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] and [[umbrella term]] for "a gender separate from [[male]], [[female]], and anything in between while still having a very strong and specific gendered feeling" (that is, not an [[agender|absence of gender]]).<ref>[http://aporagender.tumblr.com/aporagender Aporagender], date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref><ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.20% (23) of the responses were aporagender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[neurogender#autismgender|autismgender or autigender]]'''. A gender identity with which some nonbinary people with autism choose to use to describe themselves. Coined on or before Aug 25, 2014 by Tumblr users autismgender and esperancegirl. They defined it as "autism as part or whole of gender identity; a gender that can only be understood in context of being autistic." When your gender experience is influenced by or linked to your autism, or your understanding of the concept of gender itself is fundamentally altered by your autism.<ref>The since-deleted post in the ''mogai-archive'' blog where this word was coined: http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/93477063574/auti-s-gender Another blog's archive of that lost blog post: http://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95723823254/autisgender An archive of that archive: https://archive.is/BTFMN#selection-489.0-489.14</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.59% (66) of the responses called their gender identity autigender, autgender, autistic, or autiqueer.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[bigender]], or bi-gender'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> A bigender person feels they have two gender identities,<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> at the same time, or at different times.<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.</ref> A bigender person may move between their gender expressions based on their situation or their feelings.<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> These two genders might be female and male, or they might be a different pair of genders. Bigender was in use before 1997, when 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=}}</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]</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 3.72% (419) of the respondents 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}}</ref> the speculative fiction writer [[R.B. Lemberg]],<ref name="RBL-about">http://rblemberg.net/?page_id=16</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. }}</ref>

* '''[[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>http://genderqueerid.com/post/52144260437/hello-i-once-heard-somebody-say-the-term-boi</ref><ref>"bklyn boihood." https://prezi.com/ybttsym4mewd/bklyn-boihood/</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 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 76 of the responses 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]]'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> 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}}</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}}</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 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.93% (105 people) of respondents 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</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/}}</ref><ref>https://abcbookworld.com/writer/coyote-ivan-e/</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}}</ref> and social worker [[Sonalee Rashatwar]].<ref name="IGbio">https://www.instagram.com/thefatsextherapist/</ref>

* '''[[demiboy]]'''. A gender identity that expresses both male identity and [[agender]] identity, or 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.</ref><ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 7.42% (834) of the respondents said they were a demiboy, demiguy, demiman, or other form of this identity.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[demigender]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> An umbrella term for nonbinary identities that have a partial connection to a certain gender. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 20.73% (2331) responses were demigender, demiboy, demigirl, deminonbinary, or other form of this identity.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[demigirl]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A gender identity that expresses both female identity and [[Agender]] identity, or both female and genderless.<ref>[http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/55798-definitions-master-list/ AVEN: Definitions Master List]</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" />

* '''[[Nonbinary|enby]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined in 2013 by a nonbinary person under the Tumblr username vector (revolutionator), based on an initialism of "non-binary," "NB." A common noun for a person with a nonbinary identity. This is the nonbinary equivalent of the common nouns "boy" or "girl." Plural: enbies.<ref>vector (revolutionator). ''[http://revolutionator.tumblr.com/post/60853952929/i-wish-there-was-an-nb-equivalent-to-words-like Untitled post]'', September 2013. revolutionator's blog is password-protected, but the post has been reblogged many times, eg: [http://adventuresingender.tumblr.com/post/60940278905/revolutionator-i-wish-there-was-an-nb here], date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref> The word immediately caught on. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 32.1% (3609) of the respondents called themselves enbies.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" /> Because of the wording of the post where the word "enby" was coined, some nonbinary people question whether "enby" is only for youth, or whether it is also for adults, as a nonbinary equivalent of the common nouns "man" or "woman." The Gender Census collected opinions on this aspect, and will explore it further in the future.<ref>"On 'enby' and age." ''Gender Census.'' June 15, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2020. https://gendercensus.com/post/620965788841558016/on-enby-and-age</ref>

* '''[[fa'afafine]]'''. In Samoa, the Fa'afafine are people who were [[Sexes#Assigned male at birth|assigned male at birth]], 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}}</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}}</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}}</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| }}</ref> No respondents to the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census were fa'afafine.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[femme]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> 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 identity. Surveys show that a significant percentage of nonbinary and genderqueer people identify as femme.<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/}}</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</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>  

* '''[[genderfluid]]''', '''gender fluid,''' or '''fluid gender'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A gender identity that often changes, so that a person may feel one day like a boy, and another day like a girl, or some other gender. It has been in use since at least the 1990s.{{Citation needed}} In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 21.76% (2446) of the respondents were genderfluid, or otherwise called themselves "fluid."<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[genderflux]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A gender identity that often changes in intensity, so that a person may feel one day as though they have almost no gender, or none at all, and another day they feel very gendered. This usage of the word was coined in 2014 on Tumblr.<ref name="crushing">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321220845/http://crushingthebinary.tumblr.com:80/genderflux|url=http://crushingthebinary.tumblr.com/genderflux|title=Genderflux Information and Resources|archive-date=21 March 2016}}</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 7.4% (814) of the responses were genderflux, boyflux, girlflux, agenderflux, or otherwise called themselves flux.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[genderless]].'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Having no gender identity. A synonym of [[agender]]. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 13.75% (1546) of the responses used the word genderless for themselves.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[gender neutral]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> This can mean having nothing to do with gender, or is inclusive of any gender. It can mean having no gender identity; [[agender]]. Or it can mean having a gender identity that is neutral: not female, not male, not a mix; compare [[neutrois]]. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 12.36% (1390) of the responses said they were neutral, transneutral, gender neutral, neutral gender, or other similar words.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[genderqueer]]'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> 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. 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</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 29.12% (3274) of the responses called themselves genderqueer.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[gendervoid]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined by Tumblr user Baaphomett in 2014 by a submission to the MOGAI-archive blog.<ref name="baaphomett masterpost">Baaphomett. "Masterpost of genders coined by Baaphomett." ''Mogai-Archive.'' Original post where these were coined, which is lost: http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett Archive of that post: https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95720973644/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett Archive of that archive: https://archive.is/yULU0#selection-169.2-169.93</ref> "A gender consisting of the void (also/originally used to mean the same thing as genderless)."<ref name="baaphomett masterpost" /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 91 of the 11,242 respondents (0.81%) called their gender "void," "voidgender," "gendervoid," or other variations.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[hijra]]'''. 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. Some seek castration. Hijras live together communally. They often have an important role 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}}</ref> 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</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 </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</ref><ref>[http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/25/pakistan-recognizes-third-gender/ "Pakistan Recognizes Third Gender", Ria Misra, Politics Daily], Dec. 2009</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 </ref><ref>http://www.attn.com/stories/868/transgender-passport-status</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> No respondents to the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census were hijra.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[māhū]]'''. In the Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) and Maohi (Tahitian) cultures, the māhū (meaning "in the middle") is a traditional gender role outside of the Western concept of gender. It is made of people who may have been [[Sexes#Assigned gender at birth|assigned either male or female at birth]]. This tradition existed before Western invaders.<ref name="tate">''[http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/men-women-pacific The men-women of the Pacific]'', tate.org.uk/Tate Britain, [http://www.webcitation.org/6WpIsllud archive URL] 6 March 2015.</ref> The first published description of māhū is from 1789.<ref>William Bligh.  Bounty Logbook.  Thursday, January 15, 1789.</ref> From 1820 onward, Westerners stigmatized and criminalized māhū.<ref>Aleardo Zanghellini. "Sodomy Laws and Gender Variance in Tahiti and Hawai'i." ''Laws'' Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2013), p. 51–68 doi: 10.3390/laws2020051</ref> Māhū still exist today,<ref name="tate" /> and play an important role in preserving and reviving Polynesian culture.<ref name=UHP95>Besnier, Niko, Alexeyeff, Kalissa. ''Gender on the edge : transgender, gay, and other Pacific islanders.'' Honolulu, 2014 isbn=9780824840198</ref><ref name=Robinson>Carol E. Robertson. 1989 "The Māhū of Hawai'i." ''Feminist Studies.'' volume 15, issue 2, pages=318. doi=10.2307/3177791 issn=0046-3663 jstor=3177791</ref> This identity term was underrepresented in the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, which had one māhū respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[maverique]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> 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.</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.64% (72) of the responses said they were maverique or mavrique.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[multigender]]'''. An umbrella term, but may also be used as a specific gender identity. Multigender identities all fall under the nonbinary and transgender umbrellas. The multigender umbrella includes [[bigender]], [[trigender]], [[polygender]], [[pangender]], [[genderfluid]], and possibly [[androgyne]]. Multigender individuals have more than one gender identity, either at the same time, or moving between different gender identities at different times. <ref>Jenny Crofton. «[https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/what-it-means-to-be-multigender-the-questions-many-have-but-are-afraid-to-ask/ What It Means To Be MultiGender: The Questions Many Have, But Are Afraid To Ask]». The body is not an apology. 7 December 2016</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.20% (22) respondants called themselves multigender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[neutrois]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> 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.</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 3.54% (398) of the responses were neutrois.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[nonbinary]]'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> is an umbrella term for all who don't identify as just female or male. Though there are innumarble kinds of nonbinary identities, some people identify as "nonbinary" only. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 68.37% (7686) of the responses used the word nonbinary for their identity, or for part of their identity.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[non-gendered]]'''. Having no gender. An identity popularized by non-gendered activist [[Christie Elan-Cane]] since at least 2000.<ref>[http://www.gender.org.uk/conf/2000/elancane.htm The Fallacy of the Myth of Gender], Christie Elan-Cane, USA and London Gendys Conference, 2000 [https://elancane.livejournal.com/profile]</ref> This identity term was underrepresented in the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, in which 7 of the responses called themselves non-gendered, nongendered, or non gendered.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[polygender]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Having several gender identities, particularly four or more of them. This can mean at different times, or at the same time.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20161015190830/http://polygender.co.uk/polygenfaq.htm</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.21% 24 of the responses were polygender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[queer]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A reclaimed slur for the LGBT+ community, and an umbrella term for identities that are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 43.46% (4886) of the responses used the word "queer" as an identity label, some of which used it as their only label for their identity. 72.74% (8177) responses used the word queer in total, including those where it was part of another identity term, such as genderqueer, neuroqueer, or queerdo.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />  

* '''[[third gender]]'''. A concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves, by their society, or by outsiders to their society, as not fitting into the Western ideas of [[binary gender]] and heterosexual roles. The phrase "third gender" has been used for a wide variety of meanings: intersex people whose bodies do not fit outdated Western medical concepts of binary sex, hundreds of indigenous societal roles as described (and often misrepresented) by Western anthropologists (including indigenous identities such as south Asian [[hijra]]s, Hawaiian and Tahitian [[māhū]], and Native American identities now called [[Two-Spirit]]s),<ref>Julia Serano, ''Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity.'' Unpaged.</ref> transgender people who are [[nonbinary]], homosexual people even in Western societies,<ref name="Trumbach">Trumbach, Randolph. (1998) ''Sex and the Gender Revolution. Volume 1: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London''. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society)</ref><ref name="The Social Studies C">{{cite book |last=Ross |first=E. Wayne |title=The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2006|isbn= 978-0-7914-6909-5 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4qFMqjxte9IC }}</ref><ref>Kennedy, Hubert C. (1980) ''The "third sex" theory of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs'', Journal of Homosexuality. 1980–1981 Fall–Winter; 6(1–2): pp. 103–1</ref> and women who were considered to be gender-nonconforming because they fought for women's rights.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=407320 | pages=582–599 | last1=Wright | first1=B. D. | title="New Man," Eternal Woman: Expressionist Responses to German Feminism | volume=60 | issue=4 | journal=The German Quarterly | year=1987 | doi=10.2307/407320  }}</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 2.17% (244) of the responses called themselves third gender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[transfeminine]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A transgender person who transitions in a feminine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as female. They may have a nonbinary identity. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 6.24% (702) of the responses were transfeminine.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

 

* '''[[transmasculine]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A transgender person who transitions in a masculine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as male. They may have a nonbinary identity. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census,  19.8% (2226) of the responses were transmasculine, trans masculine, trans masc, or transmasc.<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</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}}</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}}</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>IT ALL STARTS WITH AWARENESS -LGBTQ DAY IN ESKASONI. http://kinu.ca/news {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125225027/http://kinu.ca/news |date=2015-11-25 }}</ref> This identity term was underrepresented in the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, in which 0.18% (20) of the responses called themselves Two Spirit or Two-Spirit.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />