Distinct Nonbinary Genders · 9 entries
Distinct Nonbinary Genders
The microlabels here share one insistence, and their sources make it in almost the same words every time: this is not a partial gender, not a blend, and not a point between two poles. It is a whole gender that happens not to be either of the familiar ones. Juxera sits near female and its own documentation is emphatic that this makes it a neighbour rather than a fraction, in direct contrast to demigirl. Maverique is described as a gendered feeling entirely independent of male, female and neutral alike.
That insistence is the filing rule, and it separates this group cleanly from the partial and the multiple. It is also the group where the record is thinnest. Almost every term here was coined online between roughly 2013 and 2015, several of them on the same archive blog, and the documentation consists of two community wikis and a dictionary glossary. Those two facts belong together in a reader's mind: a word can be attributed to a named person on a known date and still have no dictionary entry, no survey figure and no scholarship at all. The entries say so in each case rather than padding around the gap.
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All 9 distinct nonbinary genders
9 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- OutherineAn umbrella for gender qualities separate from masculinity, femininity, androgyny and neutrality, coined on Tumblr in January 2019 by a disputed hand.
- 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.
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The other categories
- Gender Around the WorldThe largest group in the catalogue, and the one most readers arrive at by searching for a third gender.
- Trans & Binary IdentitiesMan, woman, trans and cis: every term for the relation between a person and the sex recorded for them at birth.
- Fluid & Changing GendersGenders that move.
- Multiple GendersHolding more than one gender, at once or in alternation.
Common questions
Questions about distinct nonbinary genders
How is this different from being non-binary?
Non-binary is an umbrella covering everything that is not exclusively male or female, including partial, multiple and shifting genders. The terms in this group are narrower claims made inside that umbrella: each one names a specific whole gender rather than a position relative to the binary.
Why do so many of these come from 2014?
A large share of the microlabel vocabulary was coined on Tumblr between roughly 2013 and 2015, and several terms trace to one archive blog that collected and circulated new coinages. The concentration is real and it is one of the more striking patterns in this catalogue.
Are these terms used by many people?
Mostly no, and the entries say so. Community surveys record most of them at write-in level only, meaning somebody typed the word into a free-text box but it never appeared often enough to be given its own checkbox.
Why include terms with almost no documentation?
Because the documentation itself is the finding. A term with a named coiner, a precise date and no scholarship whatsoever is a common object in this vocabulary, and a reference work that only listed the well-attested words would misrepresent what the record actually looks like.