What is a gender identity?
In today’s age, one does not need to fit in with regards to their choices, including their gender identity.
- Gender is no more regarded as a binary concept where one can either be a male or a female.
- It has emerged as a continuum or spectrum where one can identify themselves as any of the gender identities.
The term gender identity means how a person identifies themselves concerning their gender. It may be regardless of their anatomy or genetics. Thus, a person may identify themselves as male, female, none, both, or some other category independent of their genitals.
The idea is to make everyone feel comfortable in their skin irrespective of what gender they were assigned at birth.
72 other genders
Besides male and female, there are 72 other genders, which include the following:
- Agender: A person who does not identify themselves with or experience any gender. Agender people are also called null-gender, genderless, gendervoid, or neutral gender.
- Abimegender: Associated with being profound, deep, and infinite. The term abimegender may be used alone or in combination with other genders.
- Adamas gender: A gender that is indefinable or indomitable. People identifying with this gender refuse to be categorized in any particular gender identity.
- Aerogender: Also called evaisgender, this gender identity changes according to one’s surroundings.
- Aesthetigender: Also called aesthetgender, it is a type of gender identity derived from aesthetics.
- Affectugender: This is based on the person’s mood swings or fluctuations.
- Agenderflux: A person with this gender identity is mostly agender with brief shifts of belonging to other gender types.
- Alexigender: The person has a fluid gender identity between more than one type of gender although they cannot name the genders they feel fluid in.
- Aliusgender: This gender identity stands apart from existing social gender constructs. It means having a strong specific gender identity that is neither male nor female.
- Amaregender: Having a gender identity that changes depending on the person one is emotionally attached to.
- Ambigender: Having two specific gender identities simultaneously without any fluidity or fluctuations.
- Ambonec: The person identifies themselves as both man and woman and yet does not belong to either.
- Amicagender: A gender-fluid identity where a person changes their gender depending on the friends they have.
- Androgyne: A person feels a combination of feminine and masculine genders.
- Anesigender: The person feels close to a specific type of gender despite being more comfortable in closely identifying themselves with another gender.
- Angenital: The person desires to be without any primary sexual characteristics although they do not identify themselves as genderless.
- Anogender: The gender identity fades in and out in intensity but always comes back to the same gendered feeling.
- Anongender: The person has a gender identity but does not label it or would prefer to not have a label.
- Antegender: A protean gender that can be anything but is formless and motionless.
- Anxiegender: This gender identity has anxiety as its prominent characteristic.
- Apagender: The person has apathy or a lack of feelings toward one's gender identity.
- Apconsugender: It means knowing what are not the characteristics of gender but not knowing what are its characteristics. Thus, a person hides its primary characteristics from the individual.
- Astergender: The person has a bright and celestial gender identity.
- Astral gender: Having a gender identity that feels to be related to space.
- Autigender: Having a gender identity that feels to be closely related to being autistic.
- Autogender: Having a gender experience that is deeply connected and personal to oneself.
- Axigender: A gender identity that is between the two extremes of agender and any other type of gender. Both the genders are experienced one at a time without any overlapping. The two genders are described as on the opposite ends of an axis.
- Bigender: Having two gender identities at the same or different times.
- Biogender: Having a gender that is closely related to nature.
- Blurgender: Also called gender fuss, blurgender means having more than one gender identities that blur into each other so that no particular type of gender identity is clear.
- Boyflux: The person identifies themselves as male, but they experience varying degrees of male identity. This may range from feeling agender to completely male.
- Burstgender: Frequent bursts of intense feelings quickly move to the initial calm stage.
- Caelgender: This gender identity shares the qualities or aesthetics of outer space.
- Cassgender: It is associated with the feelings of considering the gender irrelevant or unimportant.
- Cassflux: There is a fluctuating intensity of irrelevance toward gender.
- Cavusgender: The person feels close to one gender when depressed and to another when not depressed.
- Cendgender: The gender identity changes from one gender to its opposite.
- Ceterogender: It is a nonbinary gender where the person has a specific masculine, feminine or neutral feelings.
- Ceterofluid: Although the person is a ceterogender, their identity keeps fluctuating between different genders.
- Cisgender: Being closely related to the gender assigned at birth during the entire life.
- Cloudgender: The person’s gender cannot be comprehended or understood due to depersonalization and derealization disorder.
- Collgender: Various genders are present at the same time in the individual.
- Colorgender: In this category, colors are used to describe gender, for example, pink gender or black gender.
- Commogender: The person knows that they are not cisgender yet continues to identify as one for a while.
- Condigender: The person feels their gender only under specific circumstances.
- Deliciagender: Associated with the feeling of having multiple genders but preferring one over the other.
- Demifluid: Having multiple genders, some fluid while others are static.
- Demiflux: A combination of multiple genders with some genders static, whereas others fluctuating in intensity.
- Demigender: The individual has partial traits of one gender and the rest of the other gender.
- Domgender: The individual has multiple genders with one dominating over the rest.
- Duragender: Having more than one gender with one lasting longer than the others.
- Egogender: It is a personal type of gender identified by the individual alone. It is based on the person’s experience within the self.
- Epicene: It is associated with a strong feeling of not being able to relate to any of the two genders of the binary gender or both of the binary gender characteristics.
- Esspigender: The individual relates their gender identity with spirits.
- Exgender: The denial to identify with any gender on the gender spectrum.
- Existigender: The person’s gender identity exists only when they make conscious efforts to realize it.
- Femfluid: The person is fluid or fluctuating regarding the feminine genders.
- Femgender: A nonbinary gender identity that is feminine.
- Fluidflux: It means to be fluid between two or more genders with a fluctuation in the intensity of those genders.
- Gemigender: The person has two genders that are opposite yet they flux and work together.
- Genderblank: It is closely related to a blank space.
