List of nonbinary identities: Difference between revisions

[[File:Angel Haze live at Øyafestivalen 2013.jpg|thumb|Shown here live at Øyafestivalen 2013, [[Nonbinary celebrities#Raeen Roes (Angel Haze)|Raeen Roes]], better known by their stage name Angel Haze, is a well known agender rapper, as they announced via twitter in February 2015.]]

* '''[[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> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 5 of the 3055 respondents (0.16%) were aporagender.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 23 of the 11,242 respondents (0.20%) were aporagender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

[[File:Butch Femme Society by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|350px|Lesbian Butch/Femme Society march in New York City's Gay Pride Parade (2007).]]

* '''[[butch]]'''. 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 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 6 of the 3,055 respondents said they were butch.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 105 of the 11,242 respondents (0.93%) 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>

[[File:Anjali gopalan.jpg|thumb|Asia's first genderqueer pride parade in Madurai, 2012. The [[genderqueer flag]] can be seen here, with stripes of purple, white, and green.]]  

* '''[[genderflux]]'''. 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 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 36 of the 3,055 respondents (1.18%) called themselves genderflux, or otherwise used "flux" in the word for their gender identity.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 814 of the 11,242 respondents (7.4%) were genderflux, boyflux, girlflux, agenderflux, or otherwise called themselves flux.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[genderless]].''' Having no gender identity. A synonym of [[agender]]. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 17 of the 3055 respondents (0.56%) called themselves genderless.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 1,546 of the 11,242 respondents (13.75%) used the word genderless for themselves.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[gendervoid]]'''. 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 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 9 of the 3,055 respondents (0.29%) called themselves gendervoid or another variation.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> 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" />

[[File:Marche des Fiertés Paris 02 07 2016 06.jpg|thumb|200px|Photograph taken during the Paris Gay Pride March in 2016. The banner is printed with the colors of the nonbinary flag. The big letters say "My gender is nonbinary," with dozens of names of specific nonbinary identities listed in smaller letters in the background.]]

* '''[[nonbinary]]'''. An umbrella term for all who don't identify as just female or male. Though there are innumerable kinds of nonbinary identities, some people identify as "nonbinary" only. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 1,980 of the 3,055 respondents (64.81%) called themselves nonbinary.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> 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" />

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[[File:SF Pride 2014 - Stierch 3.jpg|thumb|Two-spirited pride marchers at San Francisco Pride 2014.]]

* '''[[transfeminine]]'''. 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 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 206 of the 3,055 respondents (6.74%) called themselves transfeminine.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 6.24% (702) of the responses were transfeminine.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[transmasculine]]'''. 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 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 434 of the 3,055 respondents (14.21%) called themselves transmasculine.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> 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> In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 8 of the 3,055 respondents (0.26%) called themselves Two-Spirit.<ref name=NBGQ2016 /> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.18% (20) of the responses called themselves Two-Spirit.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

* '''[[xenogender]]'''. Coined by Baaphomett in 2014. "A gender that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender; more concerned with crafting other methods of gender categorization and hierarchy such as those relating to animals, plants, or other creatures/things."<ref>"Masterpost of genders coined by Baaphomett." 2014. MOGAI Archive. [http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett]</ref> An umbrella term for many nonbinary gender identities defined in reference to very different ideas than female or male. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.35% (40) of the responses called themselves "xenogender." Far more called themselves by specific genders under the xenogender umbrella, though that is hard to quantify or differentiate.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />

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