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82 entries
- AbinaryA cover term for genders unrelated to maleness or femaleness and nowhere between them, first recorded in a 2016 Tumblr post that was coining a different word.
- AgenderAbsence rather than an unusual answer, dated by the OED to a 1996 newspaper article, and legally recognised once, in Oregon in 2017.
- AgenderfluidAgender as the base, with other gendered feelings coming and going around it, and a community record thin enough to carry a notability warning.
- AgenderfluxFully agender at the core while the felt level of masculinity or femininity rises and falls, and a definition the community has not yet settled.
- Akava'ineAn old Cook Islands word carrying a much newer identity, shaped by Polynesian communities in Auckland and carried back to Rarotonga.
- AmbigenderTwo genders held at once and held still, the static case bigender also covers, attested in a transgender community magazine as early as 1993.
- AndrogyneA gender blending or falling between male and female, in English since at least the sixteenth century, and the outlier among terms that reject the binary.
- AndrogynosA rabbinic category for a person with both sets of genitals, ruled like a man in some respects and like a woman in others. Greek word, Talmudic use.
- AporagenderA gender separate from male, female and anything between them, coined on Tumblr in 2014 to replace aliagender and used as one gender and as an umbrella.
- AutigenderA gender inseparable from being autistic, naming a relationship with gender rather than a gender made of autism. Coined on Tumblr in August 2014.
- BaklaA Filipino gender term paired with tomboy, meaning indecisiveness in Old Tagalog, a slur by the war, and no longer one since the 1990s.
- BigenderTwo gender identities held together or in turn, with a record that starts in 1990s community magazines and a Merriam-Webster entry behind it.
- BissuThe ritual specialists of the Bugis and the fifth gender of South Sulawesi, an office reached by initiation, with six left in Pangkep Regency in 2019.
- BurrneshaA role in the Albanian highlands taken by oath: celibacy sworn before elders in exchange for a man's standing under the Kanun. About twelve remained in 2022.
- ButchMasculine presentation out of 1940s working-class lesbian bar culture, and the unsettled argument over whether it is a style or a gender.
- CisgenderA word invented in 1994 to name the default, because prose contrasting trans women with women has already decided which group is real.
- DemiboyPartly male and partly something else, from a half-serious 2010 asexuality forum post, with a printed record that does not begin until 2015.
- DemifluxOne part of the gender holds still while another rises and falls in strength, under a name that replaced genderpivot and predates its own flags.
- DemigenderThe umbrella over demiboy, demigirl and their relatives, coined on an asexuality forum in August 2010 and written into Washington state law in 2018.
- DemigirlPartly a girl and partly something else, recorded on an asexuality forum in December 2010, with a definition that broadened between 2011 and 2014.
- EgogenderA gender so personal that the only description of it is the person holding it, coined on Tumblr in June 2014 in a post that made seven words at once.
- EunuchA castrated man, and for most of history castrated by someone else. Court office, harem guard, castrato, and a disputed clinical chapter since 2022.
- Fa'afafineA Samoan role held inside an extended family, not a translation of transgender, and a morphology that repeats right across the Pacific.
- FakaleitiIn the manner of a lady, with the lady borrowed from English, naming a Tongan group far wider than any one translation will admit.
- FemmeFeminine presentation out of 1940s working-class lesbian bar culture, the paired term to butch, and the argument over who may claim the word.
- FemminielloA Neapolitan third-gender role understood as male in a feminine part, held to bring luck, with named duties at the Montevergine and Torre Annunziata feasts.
- Gender benderDeliberate subversion of expected gender roles and dress, out of gay liberation and glam rock in the 1970s, where it was first called genderfuck.
- Gender questioningA state rather than a stage: the dictionary sense, why the sources refuse the youth-only framing, and how English schools guidance turned it into a category.
- Gender variantAn institutional heading rather than a label anybody picks: who writes it, why no dictionary dates it, and what it costs to file it beside the identities.
- Gender-nonconformingExpression that departs from the norms expected of a gender, dated by Merriam-Webster to 1991, and used far more by institutions than about oneself.
- GenderfaeA fluid gender bounded so that it never reaches the masculine, an anonymous 2014 coinage, and the community objection that produced genderdoe and genderthil.
- GenderfaunA fluidity that stops short of the feminine, coined in May 2017 as the deliberate complement to genderfae, with a flag that argues its case by omission.
- GenderfluidA gender that shifts rather than settles, one of the few terms here with a dictionary of record, and the one flux is confused with.
- GenderfluxIntensity rather than direction, and a 1994 newsletter attestation that makes the word two decades older than the coinage most sources give it.
- GenderlessAn absence rather than a neutral, and a void rather than a blank: the four ordinary dictionary senses, and the 2014 Tumblr coinage of gendervoid.
- GenderpunkConscious resistance to gender normativity carried over from punk subculture, treated by its own sources as both a culture and a gender, and never dated.
- GenderqueerOlder than non-binary, nearly identical in definition, and kept by the people who want the political charge that the newer word deliberately dropped.
- GraygenderA weak or ambivalent connection to gender and its expression, coined by the Tumblr user invernom in March 2014 on the model of graysexuality.
- HijraAn organised community with a lineage system and a ritual economy, registered as a criminal tribe in 1871 and recognised as a third gender in 2014.
- IntergenderTwo coinages sixteen years apart, one intersex-only and one not, and a live argument about who the word belongs to. Both senses dated, both reported here.
- IntersexA fact about bodies that nearly every gender list files as an identity, and two prevalence figures thirty times apart from one source.
- IpsogenderAn intersex person who identifies with the binary sex they were assigned at birth, and the gap in cisgender that made the word necessary in 2015.
- JuxeraA gender near female rather than a fraction of one, coined on Tumblr in July 2014, with a record that stops at two community wikis.
- KathoeyA Thai category covering trans women and effeminate men, avoided by most Thai trans women, and rendered in English by a word tourism made.
- Khawaja siraPakistan's third-gender community, named from a Mughal court title, recognised by the courts from 2009, and still arguing over what the word covers.
- MahuIn the middle, not in the manner of a woman. A Hawaiian and Tahitian healing role suppressed after 1820 and reclaimed since the 1990s.
- ManA word that meant any person until Middle English, a category that holds cisgender and transgender men together, and a slang sense that inverts it.
- MaveriqueA present, specific gender independent of male, female and neutral, coined on Tumblr by Vesper H. in June 2014 and named after an unbranded calf.
- MetagenderA word coined independently several times for definitions that do not agree, from a spiritual gender of the late nineteen-nineties to a gender modality of 2020.
- MetiA Nepali term for a feminine person assigned male at birth, inside the third gender recognised in 2007. The 2011 census offered it and lost the data.
- MultigenderThe umbrella over bigender, trigender, polygender, pangender and ambigender: more than one gender identity, held all at once or taken in turn.
- MuxeA Zapotec gender category in Juchitán, Oaxaca, defined by duty to Zapotec custom rather than by presentation, and first attested in English in 1985.
- NeurogenderThe umbrella for genders describable only in the context of being neurodivergent. Coined on Tumblr in 2014; an unrelated sense dates to 1997.
- NeutroisA neutral gender coined by one named person in 1995, and the clearest proof on this whole site that changing a checkbox changes the answer sixfold.
- Non-binaryAn umbrella term and an identity at the very same time, and the reason its two headline figures are not remotely comparable with one another.
- Non-binary manA paired label for people who hold a binary gender and a non-binary one at once, measured by the Gender Census but never dated to a first use.
- OutherineAn umbrella for gender qualities separate from masculinity, femininity, androgyny and neutrality, coined on Tumblr in January 2019 by a disputed hand.
- PangenderA vast range of genders rather than literally all of them: the sources limit the range to a person's own culture and experience, and argue about it.
- PolygenderSeveral genders rather than one, though nobody agrees how many. It began in 1998 as an umbrella for everyone outside the binary and shrank from there.
- ProxvirA whole gender near male rather than a fraction of one, coined on Tumblr in July 2014 alongside juxera, with a record of two wikis and one dictionary site.
- Queer (gender)Queer as an answer to a gender question rather than an orientation: the 1510 Scots attestation, the 1894 letter, and an unfinished reclamation.
- QuoigenderFrom the French quoi: not a gender of none but a refusal of the question itself, coined on Tumblr in 2014 after quoiromantic, and measured once, in 2022.
- SistergirlAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words for gender-diverse people with a female or male spirit. Community-defined, area-specific, and not simply trans.
- StaticgenderA xenogender described as television static: fuzzy, complicated, incomprehensible. The coiner is unknown and the earliest dated record is a flag from July 2016.
- Third genderThe comparative term for the gender positions outside man and woman, and why counting up to three is the part that its critics object to most.
- Trans manA compound dated to the closing 1990s, the term it replaced, why the closed spelling is contested, and what the published counts actually measure.
- Trans womanWhere the compound was recorded, the medical word it replaced, why the closed spelling is rejected, and the categories other languages use instead.
- TransandrogynousCoined with a flag on a single dated day in 2017, the androgynous member of a trans alignment set, and documented by community wikis alone.
- TransfeminineA word proposed in a 1985 magazine article to be silent about surgery, lost for twenty-five years, and now naming a direction rather than a gender.
- TransgenderAn umbrella with a 1965 medical coinage, a 1994 antonym, and one of the very few gender figures that is a genuine population estimate.
- TransmasculineA word in institutional use from 2000 and in print from 2011, covering trans men and masculine non-binary people because it names a direction.
- TranssexualA German coinage of 1923, an English one of 1949, why transgender displaced it, who still claims it, and what Blanchard's typology actually said.
- TravestiA South American identity reclaimed from an insult, kept because it holds the class history and policing that activists say transgender discards.
- TrigenderThree gender identities, held together or taken in turn, with any three genders allowed. Fourteen people claimed the word in the 2019 Gender Census.
- TumtumA rabbinic legal category for a person whose sex cannot be determined. Seventeen occurrences in the Mishnah, and a ruling term rather than a claim.
- Two-SpiritAn English umbrella coined at a 1990 Winnipeg gathering to replace berdache, closed to non-Indigenous people, and translating no older word.
- VakasalewalewaThe one Pacific category rejected by many of the Fijians it names, who find it old-fashioned and use the broader word qauri instead.
- WariaIndonesia's word for trans women, built by a minister in 1978 from woman and man, and still argued over by the scholars who describe it.
- WinkteA Lakota word contracting winyanktehca, wants to be like a woman. Not a synonym for the 1990 pan-Indigenous umbrella, and now usually meaning a gay man.
- WomanA compound of wif and mann that once meant woman-person, a category holding cisgender and transgender women, and a plural whose spelling fits nothing.
- X-genderA Japanese term from the Kansai queer scene of the 1990s, defined in a 2000 magazine glossary, and unrelated to the X on a passport.
- XenogenderAn umbrella for genders described through animals, colours, textures or concepts instead of male and female. Coined on Tumblr by Baaphomett in 2014.