Transandrogynous

The word is unusually easy to date, because it arrived as a post with a flag attached to it. The variant spelling transdrogynous is recorded alongside it.

Who coined transandrogynous and when

The LGBTQIA+ Wiki and the Nonbinary Wiki both trace the term and its flag to a post by the DeviantArt user decaykid on 23 April 2017. The definition quoted from that post is the one still in circulation: a term for transgender people who are assigned male or female at birth but who "identify with androgyny to a greater extent than masculinity or femininity", where androgyny means a mix of the binary genders, a lack of gender, or both at once. A second flag was made by the FANDOM user ElderflowerJuice on 29 July 2021.

An earlier clipped form, trans andro, is attributed by the Nonbinary Wiki to a Tumblr user posting under that name in 2012, and the wiki marks the attribution as unsourced. No dictionary records either form. The entire dated record for this word is community wikis, which is the usual position for a term of this age and this size.

How the alignment set is built

Transandrogynous sits in a series rather than on its own. Transfeminine is the feminine member and transmasculine the masculine one, and the wikis list transneutral, transxenine, transaporine and transoutherine for the neutral, xenine, aporine and outherine alignments.

The set is documented with coiners attached, which is rare. The LGBTQ+ Identity wiki credits decaykid for transandrogynous, an account called acro-pluris for transneutral, and a flag-making account called Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags for several of the others. The pattern is productive, which is why the list keeps lengthening, and it is also why this family of words is better dated than most: each member arrived as a named post rather than drifting into use.

Why transandrogynous is not transmascfem

The distinction the LGBTQIA+ Wiki draws is precise. Transmascfem names a gender that is masculine and feminine at once, two components held together. Transandrogynous is not necessarily that. The androgyny is a property of the gender itself rather than a sum of two other properties, and it may be a mix of the binary genders, an absence of gender, or a mix of the two.

The same wiki records a second and looser use, in which transandrogynous describes anyone undergoing a transition towards an androgynous presentation, whatever their gender. Under that reading the wiki argues the accurate word would be transneutral, since the subject is presentation rather than identity. Somebody who holds another, non-androgynous gender may still use the term, and the wiki notes that this usually happens where the androgynous part is the one the person wants to emphasise.

Why androgyny divides identity from expression

The Nonbinary Wiki separates the two carefully, because the word androgyny does duty for both. Androgynous expression mixes or omits the markers of feminine and masculine presentation, in clothing, in the voice, in anything else that reads as gendered, and a person may look androgynous without meaning to. Androgynous identity is a different claim, and the wiki lists androgyne, bigender, genderqueer, intergender and yinyang ren among the identities that may be described that way, depending on whose definition is used.

Someone whose expression is androgynous need not call their gender androgyne, and a Non-binary person need not want an androgynous presentation at all. Transandrogynous is a claim about the identity in its first and main sense, and about the presentation only in the looser second one.

What the record does not show

There is no survey figure. The word is a write-in: no major instrument offers it as an option, and terms at this level are documented by a coining post and by cross-reference and by nothing else.

The scale is visible in a neighbour. The Intersex Wiki's dionyfluid, coined in April 2023 by a Tumblr user posting as Estrogenism for an Intersex person whose gender moves between at least two trans alignments, transandrogynous among them, drew a single write-in response from the 48,645 people the 2024 Gender Census surveyed. The 2025 Gender Census returned one write-in for it as well.

The other trace is a passing one. The Pronouns.page dictionary of queer terminology mentions transandrogynous once, in its entry for agandrogyne, noting that the two may overlap for some people. That is the whole of the documentation outside the wikis, and stating it plainly is more useful than implying a literature that does not exist.