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What is Gender?
What is Gender?
Your gender is a personal identity describing the way you feel aligned to your assigned gender at birth (AGAB), detailing whether or not you feel like a man or a woman, how closely to either gender you identify with, and how detached you feel from the binary genders altogether. You can also view your gender based on your relationships to gender roles, stereotypes, and cultural perspectives. Your gender can also change, and might float up and down the scales of identity over time.
Because gender is entirely based on your experience as yourself, it is expansive; it leaves room for new definitions, experiences, and terminology to be uncovered and expressed by each person who does the work to discover themselves. Therefore, many people experience a gender that can be described by many words, or feels like multiple things at the same time, or that changes in experience over time. This might feel like having two sides that fight each other, having two sides that coexist, or having different genders that come out at different times. It's important to understand that the experience of having multiple genders is complex and unique to each multigendered individual.
Different Kinds of Multigenders
Different Kinds of Multigenders
The experience of being multigender can come in many different forms. Some people feel like a man and a woman simultaneously. Others might feel fully man and fully agender at the same time. Others might be genderfluid, and switch between multiple genders, or might be genderflux and change in how feminine or masculine they feel on a day.
As a personal example, I tend to fluctuate between feeling strongly masculine, very neutral, or a strange blend of both a man and a woman. I use the term nonbinary and transmasculine to describe myself, but the terms genderfluid or bigender could also apply.
You could very easily consider yourself nonbinary, transgender, or cisgender depending on your experience, as this is the easiest and simplest way of describing yourself. If you chose to use a more specific label to explain your gender, here are some of the more frequently used multigender identities.
Bigender
Bigender
Bigender people have or fluctuating between two distinct genders. A common varient of this is demigender, which is the partial connection to one gender, and another gender.
Androgyne
Androgyne
Androgyne - from the word 'andro' meaning male and 'gyne' meaning female - is a blend of male and female identities. Androgyne people are male and female at the same time, as opposed to being genderfluid which fluctuate between genders.
Trigender
Trigender
Having or fluctuating between three distinct genders. For example, you may feel like a man, woman, and nonbinary all at once, or switch between them.
Genderfluid
Genderfluid
Genderfluid people fluctuate between multiple genders, rather than being a single, static gender. For example, a genderfluid person could shift between male and female, or female and nonbinary, or multiple genders like nonbinary, androgyne, female, and demigirl. Demigender or other polygender people can be genderfluid as apart of their gender.
Pangender
Pangender
Having or feeling connected to all genders.
Genderflux
Genderflux
Similar to genderfluid people, genderflux people have fluctuating genders, but rather than switching between different, separate genders, they shift in intensity. For examle, a maleflux person could feel very strongly masculine, then partially masculine, and then completely androgyne or agender. Some demigender people are also genderflux.
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