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 * '''[[Sexes#Assigned female at birth|AFAB]]'''. ''See AGAB.''
 * '''[[agender]]'''. A nonbinary identity. 1. Some who call themselves agender have no gender identity (genderless). 2. Some who call themselves agender have a gender identity, which isn't female or male, but neutral.
-* '''altersex.''' Describes people or fictional characters for whom "their actual body or their desired body does not conform to either binary sex standard in some way, but is not this way due to any variation of [[intersex]]. This can be due to sexual [[transition]]ing, being of a [[Nonbinary_gender_in_fiction#Fictional_sexes|fictional/impossible sex]], being able to shapeshift to change sex characteristics, or having an 'alien' sex that is not found in humans but may be found elsewhere, such as a species that has different sexes from our own." Coined by farorenightclaw.<ref name="altersex">{{Cite web |title=Altersex by Pride-Flags |author= |work=DeviantArt |date=29 May 2017 |access-date=28 June 2020 |url= https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Altersex-683411440}}</ref><ref>https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/184717767156/term-of-the-day-altersex</ref> Has been called transphobic by some<ref>https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/184723258911/chiquitadave-replied-to-your-post-term-of-the</ref> and should not be applied to real life people who do not identify themselves as such.
+* '''altersex.''' Describes people or fictional characters for whom "their actual body or their desired body does not conform to either binary sex standard in some way, but is not this way due to any variation of [[intersex]]. This can be due to sexual [[transition]]ing, being of a [[Nonbinary_gender_in_fiction#Fictional_sexes|fictional/impossible sex]], being able to shapeshift to change sex characteristics, or having an 'alien' sex that is not found in humans but may be found elsewhere, such as a species that has different sexes from our own." Coined by farorenightclaw.<ref name="altersex">{{Cite web |title=Altersex by Pride-Flags |author= |work=DeviantArt |date=29 May 2017 |access-date=28 June 2020 |url= https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Altersex-683411440}}</ref><ref>https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/184717767156/term-of-the-day-altersex</ref> Intended to replace problematic terms like "futanari", "herm", "dickgirl", etc. Has been called transphobic by some<ref>https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/184723258911/chiquitadave-replied-to-your-post-term-of-the</ref> and should not be applied to real life people who do not identify themselves as such.
 * '''[[Sexes#Assigned male at birth|AMAB]]'''. ''See AGAB.''
 [[File:Androgyne Necker Cube.png|thumb|Androgyne symbol. In 1996, self-identified androgyne Raphael Carter proposed adopting this ambiguous geometric shape, the Necker Cube, as a symbol for androgynes, "because it is either concave or convex depending on how you look at it."<ref>Raphael Carter, "Angel's Dictionary." July 14, 1996. [http://web.archive.org/web/19990427014012/www.chaparraltree.com/raq/angels.shtml http://web.archive.org/web/19990427014012/www.chaparraltree.com/raq/angels.shtml]</ref><ref>Nat Titman, "The Necker Cube: Symbol for androgyny." June 25, 2011. ''Practical Androgyny.'' [http://practicalandrogyny.com/2011/06/25/the-necker-cube-symbol-for-androgyny/ http://practicalandrogyny.com/2011/06/25/the-necker-cube-symbol-for-androgyny/]</ref>]]