Genders in My Characters

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I found a long list of genders, which is not complete but makes a good start. It focuses on modern American gender identities, so a lot of the ones I work with are missing, and I had to paste in what else I could find from other sources. I've found it useful to track sexual and romantic orientations in my QUILTBAG characters to increase representation; hopefully this will broaden gender too.


Any gender named _gender may be made into _boy, _girl, _nonbinary, etc.

(example: demigender, demiboy, demigirl, deminonbinary)

Abimegender: a gender that is profound, deep, and infinite; meant to resemble when one mirror is reflecting into another mirror creating an infinite paradox

Acault: In Myanmar, the Acault are AMAB people with a feminine gender expression.

Achnucek: the Aleut and Kodiak term for two-spirits.

Adamasgender: a gender which refuses to be categorized.

Aerogender: a gender that is influenced by your surroundings.

Aesthetigender: a gender that is derived from an aesthetic; also known as videgender.

Affectugender: a gender that is affected by mood swings.

Agender: the feeling of no gender/absence of gender or neutral gender.

Agenderflux: Being agender and having fluctuating feelings of masculinity of femininity, but NOT male or female.

Aisthesisgender: A gender that is made of sensation or sensations, or is a sensation or sensations. Hence aisthesis being the greek word for ‘sensation’. A gender that can be colors, feelings, sounds, or shapes. But, can also be a gender associated with such. Also called synesgender.
Can be a stand alone term, and one that describes another gender.
Can be used by both synesthetes and non-synesthetes.
Term coined by: angeiical.

Akava'ine: In the Cook Islands, people who do not fit the gender binary are called akava'ine

Aleph male: The Fifers in Feathered Nests are a race of birdlike aliens who have five genders and a polyamorous society. The aleph males are assertive and territorial, with large dark ruffs and bright plumage. The beth males are easygoing and live between the territories of the alephs; they have smaller pale ruffs. The faeder males are gentle and won't tolerate alephs or beths who are too rough, but live inside an aleph's territory; they look much like females, with drab plumage. The modor females enjoy topping other females, have low interest in males, but will follow along if their 'special friend' gimel chooses to mate. The gimel females enjoy bottoming to other females, but are also the most interested in males and typically do the mate selection, bringing along any 'special friend' modor(s) they may have. The most stable and productive family structure incorporates all five. Humans have begun interacting with the Fifers. In the process, some humans find that the five-way gender and family structure has some appeal for them too. This is improving relations between the species.

Alexigender: a gender that is fluid between more than one gender but the individual cannot tell what those genders are

Aliusgender: a gender which is removed from common gender descriptors and guidelines

Alyha (Mohave tribe, North America): “The creation myth of the Mohave tribe speaks to a time when humans were not sexually or gender-differentiated. The [sic] recognize four genders: men, women, hwame (male-identified females) and alyha (female-identified males).” –PBS

Amaregender: a gender that changes depending on who you’re in love with

Ambigender: defined as having the feeling of two genders simultaneously without fluctuation; meant to reflect the concept of being ambidextrous, only with gender

Ambonec: identifying as both man and woman, yet neither at the same time

Amicagender: a gender that changes depending on which friend you’re with

Androgyne: sometimes used in the case of “androgynous presentation”; describes the feeling of being a mix of both masculine and feminine (and sometimes neutral) gender qualities

Anesigender: feeling like a certain gender yet being more comfortable identifying with another

Angender: A gender that you can’t describe with any word but hatred or anger. Usable only by neurodivergent people with mental illnesses that cause anger or hate. Also called hategender.

Angenital: a desire to be without primary sexual characteristics, without necessarily being genderless; one may be both angenital and identify as any other gender alongside

Anler: from "anger" and "choleric." This is a strong-willed gender, they feel determined and certain about who they are. They will feel angry if other people insist that their gender does not exist, and feel very grounded and supported by their gender.
This was coined as one of a set of 5 genders similar to Maverique: Tragmat, Jouine, Orupin, Anler, and Melauche.
The symbol in the center is the symbol for Jupiter.

Anogender: a gender that fades in and out but always comes back to the same feeling

Anongender: a gender that is unknown to both yourself and others

Antegender: a protean gender which has the potential to be anything, but is formless and motionless, and therefore, does not manifest as any particular gender

Anvisgender: too unenthused to care about gender.

Anxiegender: a gender that is affected by anxiety

Apagender: a feeling of apathy towards ones gender which leads to them not looking any further into it

Apconsugender: a gender where you know what it isn’t, but not what it is; the gender is hiding itself from you

Aravani (India): “A subset of the hijra tradition are the aravanis, who are born male but adopt female gender roles early in development. They take their name from the mythical deity Aravan (the brides of Aravan).” –PBS

Asdzaan: Given that Navajo culture is matrilineal , the first gender is feminine woman (asdzaan). They are born biologically female and function socially as women

Ashtime: In Ethiopia, the Maale people had a gender role called Ashtime, for assigned-male-at-birth (AMAB) eunuchs who live as women, though later this became an umbrella term for all kinds of gender non-conforming AMAB people.

Assinnu: Like the kalǔ, the assinnu may be understood as ambiguous as a result of being institutionalized into the cult of Ishtar, a gender-ambivalent deity. Throughout texts referring to the assinnu, the figure is often represented as being a passive male, at one point "listed among a group of female cultic attendants" (Peled 2016: 283). As mentioned above, the male was supposed to be sexually active while the female took on the passive role. Because of the assinnu's passivity, he was categorized as a third gender figure.

Astergender: a gender that feels bright and celestial

Astralgender: a gender that feels connected to space

Autigender: a gender that can only be understood in the context of being autistic. Meant for autistic people only.

Autogender: a gender experience that is deeply personal to oneself

Axigender: when a person experiences two genders that sit on opposite ends of an axis; one being agender and the other being any other gender; these genders are experienced one at a time with no overlapping and with very short transition time.

Ay'lonit: Old Judaism recognized six genders: zachar, nekeivah, androgynos, ay’lonit, saris, and tumtum. A zachar is male, a nekeivah is female, and an androgynos is half-male, half-female. An ay’lonit is a female who becomes male at puberty, a saris is a male who becomes a female at puberty, and a tumtum has an indeterminate gender.

Ayahkwêw (U-yuh-gwayo): Canadian Cree-speaking blogger âpihtawikosisân attempts to translate Two Spirit terms from her culture, noting that English translations are not straightforward. She writes: a man dressed/living/accepted as a woman. I can see the ‘woman’ part of this word, but I am confused about the possible meaning of the rest of the word. Some have suggested this word can actually be used as a ‘third’ gender of sorts, applied to women and men.

Bacha posh: In Afghanistan and Pakistan, there is a 100 year old tradition in which a family with no sons will choose a daughter to raise as a bacha posh (meaning "dressed as a boy"), a male or intermediate gender role. This lasts until the child has reached marriage age, whereupon the child is pressured to switch to a female gender role.

Bakla: amab people in the Philippines, who generally (but not always) behave like women and usually exclusively attracted to men. Some self-identify as women rather than a third gender.

Berdache (North America): “A substantial number of tribes recognized a gender role, generally referred to as berdache, which was predominantly defined by the acquisition of the socioeconomic role of the opposite…sex [. . .] Berdache were usually [birth-assigned] men (or, less often, [birth-assigned women) who assumed culturally-defined traits of the opposite gender.” –Gilden Note: The use of berdache in academic literature has largely been discontinued and replaced with the term two spirit, which is viewed as less derogatory.

Beth male: The Fifers in Feathered Nests are a race of birdlike aliens who have five genders and a polyamorous society. The aleph males are assertive and territorial, with large dark ruffs and bright plumage. The beth males are easygoing and live between the territories of the alephs; they have smaller pale ruffs. The faeder males are gentle and won't tolerate alephs or beths who are too rough, but live inside an aleph's territory; they look much like females, with drab plumage. The modor females enjoy topping other females, have low interest in males, but will follow along if their 'special friend' gimel chooses to mate. The gimel females enjoy bottoming to other females, but are also the most interested in males and typically do the mate selection, bringing along any 'special friend' modor(s) they may have. The most stable and productive family structure incorporates all five. Humans have begun interacting with the Fifers. In the process, some humans find that the five-way gender and family structure has some appeal for them too. This is improving relations between the species.

Bigender: the feeling of having two genders either at the same time or separately; usually used to describe feeling “traditionally male” and “traditionally female”, but does not have to

Bigenital: As a term for people who wish to have a mixed genital set (such as a penis and a vagina, or something in between); derived from the name of the nymph Salamacis, whose body was merged with that of the son of Hermes and Aphrodite in the ancient Greek myth which also gave us the word “hermaphrodite”). This does not necessarily correspond with certain gender(s), you could be a Salmacian/Bigenital trans woman, or bigender, or agender, etc. Also called Salmacian.

Biogender: a gender that feels connected to nature in some way

Bijougender: A mix of genderfluid with a static gender with an overall gemstone aesthetic.
Named because, jewels feel hard, can sparkle and be bright, though they can also be dull. They can be opaque or clear, and some change colors in different lights! Bijou is French for gem/jewel. Also called jewlegender.

Bissu: Bissu is actually the fifth gender acknowledged by Indonesians, known as a meta-gender. Bissu translates as "transvestite priest," a somewhat inaccurate translation because the term "transvestite" refers to wearing clothes of the opposite gender. Rather than cross-dressing, the bissu actually wear their own unique type of garb. They are seen as being both male and female at once, but with a twist. Indonesian culture believes a bissu who presents as outwardly male exists internally as a female, and vice versa. Since Indonesians view bissu as conductors of spirits, the bissu often lead ceremonies or provide blessings.

Biza’ah (Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico): Among the Zapotec in Teotitlán del Valle there is third gender category called biza’ah which is similar to the Oaxacan muxe, yet less common and distinct to the area. The biza’ah are male-bodied persons known for their unique manners of speech, movement, and work. The biza’ah sometimes engage in the stereotypically feminine activities of their community such as the making of ceremonial candles. –Lynn

Blurgender: the feeling of having more than one gender that are somehow blurred together to the point of not being able to distinguish or identify individual genders; synonymous with genderfuzz

Boi (plural bois): a term used within LGBT and butch and femme communities to refer to a person's sexual and gender identity. In lesbian communities, there is an increasing acceptance of gender expression and intersexuality, as well as allowing people to self-identify with labels such as boi. The term may denote a number of possibilities that are not mutually exclusive:
* A younger person who looks and acts like a young, heterosexual male, possibly embodying stereotyped attributes towards casual sex and commitment in relationships, in contrast with the stereotype of the U-Haul lesbian. Bois may not identify as butch, regarding butches as playing a more powerful or responsible role – the "man of the house" – while a boi is still in a freer, younger phase.
* A submissive butch in the BDSM community, or a younger butch in the butch-femme community.
* A young trans man, or a trans man who is in the earlier stages of transitioning.
* A term of endearment for butches by femmes. It may also be used in the gay community to refer to a younger person – bisexual or gay – who may have effeminate characteristics.[7] The term can also be used by anyone who wishes to distinguish from heterosexual or heteronormative identities.
Boi may also refer to a female-born or female-bodied person—sometimes transsexual, transgender, or intersex, sometimes not—that generally does not identify as, or only partially identifies as feminine, female, a girl, or a woman. Some "bois" identify as one or more of these, but they almost always identify as lesbians, dykes, or queers. Many are also genderqueer or practice genderfuck. Bois may prefer a range of pronouns, including "he", "she", or gender-neutral pronouns such as "hir", "sie", "zie", and "ey". The term has found increasing usage in the larger LGBT culture.
In Fledgling Grace, the goldfinch is genderqueer, who binds her breasts and wears a t-shirt that says "Boi."

Boyflux: when one feels mostly or all male most of the time but experience fluctuating intensity of male identity

Bright: the gender of birds who court in a pair, such as roosters, peacocks, male blackbirds, female jacanas, etc. The opposite is dun or hen, the gender of the bird who is courted in a pair.

Brotherboy: In Australia, Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities recognize identities called sistergirl (analogous to trans woman) and brotherboy (analogous to trans man).

Burrnesha (Albania): “[Birth-assigned] women who a take a vow of chastity and wear male clothing in order to be viewed as men in the highly patriarchal society. The tradition exists to a smaller extent in Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro. The tradition is dying out: There are believe [sic] to be fewer than 50 sworn virgins left in the Balkans.” –PBS

Burstgender: and gender that comes in intense bursts of feeling and quickly fades back to the original state

Butch: a masculine gender role which is sometimes used as a gender identity. The term butch originated in communities of lesbian and bi women, in which more masculine butches typically partnered with more feminine femmes. Because of this, butches are often assumed to be attracted to be sexually attracted to women and/or femininity, although this is not always the case.
Butch was originally used by those assigned female at birth, but has been increasingly adopted by trans women and others in the transgender community. However, it should not be confused with identifying as a trans man. Those who identify as butch may have the gender identity of woman but have a masculine gender expression, or they may use butch as a non-binary gender identity aligned with masculinity.
Dale in Walking the Beat is butch.

Cactus: rax describes why "cactus" fits better than any of the typical gender terms. There are more details on the original post.
A while back I complained about wanting to replace my gender with a set of outward-facing spikes. I've been feeling prickly, wanting the space between me and other people to be delineated and defended, and some of that prickliness has been about gender. I've also been bonding with the desert, and spending time (though not as much as I'd like) among cacti and thorny trees and tiny flowers and birds and lizards. And I realized that... actually cactus works way better than male or female as a gender for me.

Caelgender: a gender which shares qualities with outer space or has the aesthetic of space, stars, nebulas, etc.

Calabai (womanly men): The Bugis people of Indonesia recognize five genders: oroane (manly men), makkunrai (womanly women), calabai (womanly men), calalai (manly women), and bissu (half-male and half-female). Calabai are men who behave like women. Despite this, they do not like to be considered as women.

Calalai (manly women): The Bugis people of Indonesia recognize five genders: oroane (manly men), makkunrai (womanly women), calabai (womanly men), calalai (manly women), and bissu (half-male and half-female). On the other hand, calalai are women who behave like men. They dress like men, have male mannerisms, and take on traditionally male jobs.

Cassgender: the feeling of gender is unimportant to you

Cassflux: when the level of indifference towards your gender fluctuates

Cavusgender: for people with depression; when you feel one gender when not depressed and another when depressed

Cendgender: when your gender changes between one and its opposite

Ceterofluid: when you are ceterogender and your feelings fluctuate between masculine, feminine, and neutral

Ceterogender: a nonbinary gender with specific masculine, feminine, or neutral feelings

Cisgender: the feeling of being the gender you were assigned at birth, all the time (assigned (fe)male/feeling (fe)male)

Cloudgender: a gender that cannot be fully realized or seen clearly due to depersonalization/derealization disorder

Collgender: the feeling of having too many genders simultaneously to describe each one

Colorgender: a gender associated with one or more colors and the feelings, hues, emotions, and/or objects associated with that color; may be used like pinkgender, bluegender, yellowgender
Professor Robin Renoir in "Rolling Darwin's Dice" is pearlgender: not any one of the standard genders, but all of them blended together in shifting wisps of color.

Commogender: when you know you aren’t cisgender, but you settled with your assigned gender for the time being.

Condigender: a gender that is only felt during certain circumstances.

Daegender: a gender that feels demonic or evil in nature, can be associated with a gender or be a gender all itself. someone could be Daeboy/daegirl/daenby or just daegender.

Dagurian: a gender that is normal, generic, and simple during the day, but changes to something completely at night. This might include the changing of alignments, going to an opposite end of the spectrum, or simply disappearing. it is default nonbinary-aligned, connected to sunshine, and colorful rainbows. At night, this may completely change to moonlight, and rain. Faroese: dagur - day.

Deliciagender: from the Latin word delicia meaning “favorite”, meaning the feeling of having more than one simultaneous gender yet preferring one that fits better

Demifluid: the feeling your gender being fluid throughout all the demigenders; the feeling of having multiple genders, some static and some fluid

Demiflux: the feeling of having multiple genders, some static and some fluctuating

Demigender: a gender that is partially one gender and partially another

Domgender: having more than one gender yet one being more dominant than the others

Demi-vapor (term coined by cotton_blossom_jellyfish): Continuously drifting to other genders, feeling spiritually transcendental when doing so while having a clear -slightly blurred- inner visual of your genders, transitions, and positive emotions. Tied to Demi-Smoke.

Demi-smoke (term coined by cotton_blossom_jellyfish): A transcendental, spiritual gender roughly drifting to other genders that are unable to be foreseen and understood, shrouded in darkness within your inner visual. Elevating through mystery. Caused by a lack of inner interpretation and dark emotional states. Tied to Demi-Vapor.

Dhurani (India): A lesser known term in standard Bengali used self-descriptively by some feminine male-assigned persons. –Dutta & Roy

Dilbaa (masculine woman): Navajo born biologically female but function as men.

Dun: the gender of the bird who is courted in a pair, such as peahen, female bowerbirds, or male phalaropes. It's often associated with nest building, cryptic coloration, being the one who chooses, protectiveness, etc. Also called "hen." The opposite is bright, the gender of bird that shows off and does the courting.

Duragender: from the Latin word dura meaning “long-lasting”, meaning a subcategory of multigender in which one gender is more identifiable, long lasting, and prominent than the other genders

Echogender: When you have trouble understanding/experiencing gender so you attempt to understand your gender by mimicking the genders of those you are closest to/most often around.

Egogender: a gender that is so personal to your experience that it can only be described as “you”

Enaree (or enarei): Scythian shamans recorded by Herodotus, and described as effeminate or androgynous. Scythian shamanism involved religious ecstasy through the use of entheogensWikipedia's W.svg; they had no temples and worshiped the forces of nature.

Endospectrum: a person whose experience of any or all areas of gender, orientation, any kind of attraction, or expression is in some way and to some degree formed or influenced by their being somewhere on the autism spectrum (Aspergers/Aspie, ASD, etc)

Entheogender: A gender that feels like a spiritual/psychedelic experience, or that is connected to one’s spirituality. It cannot be explained or understood in mundane terms. Stems from the term “entheogen”, a plant or drug that induces spiritual and/or psychedelic experiences.
Term coined by: pastelmemer​

Epicene: sometimes used synonymously with the adjective “androgynous”; the feeling either having or not displaying characteristics of both or either binary gender; sometimes used to describe feminine male identifying individuals

Equinogender: from “equinox”, this would be for Temporagender when the gender is changing to another, and may be mixing/indistinct as it moves to the next gender. This gender would be like for the indistinct time in between seasons, since change from one season to the next isn’t distinct/noticeable sometime.

Ergi (Siberian): The meaning of the word "ergi" changed many times over the decades, but it originally referred to Siberian shamans who embraced a different type of sexuality. The medicine men of the Chukchi, Koryak, and Kamchadal tribes were seen as spirit workers, with the spirits offering them guidance as they flowed between their gender roles. They typically assumed female roles at home, some later in life, and often wore women's clothing.

Espigender: a gender that is related to being a spirit or exists on a higher or extradimensional plane

Exgender: the outright refusal to accept or identify in, on, or around the gender spectrum

Existigender: a gender that only exists or feels present when thought about or when a conscious effort is made to notice it

Fa'afafine: In Samoan society, the literal translation of Fa'afafine is "in the manner of (fa'a) a woman (fafine)." A gender identity widely accepted today, Fa'afafine potentially goes back for many generations. They don't follow the Western standards of binary sexual orientation, so little boys who display very feminine qualities are considered totally normal. In Samoan society, tolerance of all individuals remains a high priority.

Faeder male: The Fifers in Feathered Nests are a race of birdlike aliens who have five genders and a polyamorous society. The aleph males are assertive and territorial, with large dark ruffs and bright plumage. The beth males are easygoing and live between the territories of the alephs; they have smaller pale ruffs. The faeder males are gentle and won't tolerate alephs or beths who are too rough, but live inside an aleph's territory; they look much like females, with drab plumage. The modor females enjoy topping other females, have low interest in males, but will follow along if their 'special friend' gimel chooses to mate. The gimel females enjoy bottoming to other females, but are also the most interested in males and typically do the mate selection, bringing along any 'special friend' modor(s) they may have. The most stable and productive family structure incorporates all five. Humans have begun interacting with the Fifers. In the process, some humans find that the five-way gender and family structure has some appeal for them too. This is improving relations between the species.

Fakaleiti / Fakeleti / Fakalati / Fakafefine (Tonga): in Tongan culture a male who behaves in the manner of a woman. May also be considered a third gender. Similar to mahu, Faʻafafine, and raerae.

Fatugender: A useless gender (fatu- useless).

Female: one of two binary genders where one feels fully and completely female; can and is used in conjunction with other gender labels and identities. Also called feminine to distinguish it from biological female sex.

Femfluid: having fluctuating or fluid gender feelings that are limited to feminine genders

Femgender: a nonbinary gender which is feminine in nature

Femme: a feminine gender role which is sometimes used as a gender identity. The term femme originated in communities of lesbian women (at a time when lesbian referred non-exclusively to all women-loving-women, including a group of people we know today as bisexual women). This referred to lesbian who often presented as female and took on a stereotypically feminine role. Femmes are often assumed to be sexually attracted to butches and/or masculine women, although this is not always the case. It should be noted that due to the community it originated from, many lesbians consider the use of the word femme by anyone other than a lesbian to be appropriative. For this reason, many people who identify with this gender identity choose the spelling of "fem" instead. Femme was originally used by those assigned female at birth, but has been increasingly adopted by trans women and others in the transgender community. Those who identify as femme may have the gender identity of woman and have a strongly feminine gender expression, or they may use femme as a non-binary gender identity aligned with femininity.
Kelly in Walking the Beat is femme.

Femminello: In Italy, the Femminello, "little man-woman," are AMAB people with a feminine gender expression.

Fluidflux: the feeling of being fluid between two or more genders that also fluctuate in intensity; a combination of genderfluid and genderflux

Galatur: The galatur and the kurgarra appear in "The Descent of Inanna," where they are variously described as sexless or hermaphroditic. Because there are two terms, some scholars posit that one would be "neither" male nor female and the other "both" male and female. Others think these were terms for male-to-female and female-to-male transfolk. Regardless of the details, surviving records indicate that Inanna had some sort(s) of gender-variant clergy.
Galaturi and kurgarri both appear in "The Uruk Uncertainty" in The Time Towers. It highlights the impossibility of trying to match modern definitions to historic genders.

Gallae (singular gallus): Originating in Turkey, and spreading to Europe, many of the ancient priestesses of the goddess Cybele were Gallae. The Gallae were AMAB eunuchs who were analogous to transgender women. Today, some worshipers of Cybele call themselves Gallae. One of their temples is in New York.

Galu: Before the kalǔ, the Sumerian gala worked as a "chanter of laments" and was not associated with any particular deity. Simply working as a professional lamenter categorized him as feminine because laments were typically performed by women. During the Old Babylonian period, the role of the gala expanded, became a synonym of kalǔ, and was incorporated into the cult of Ishtar. The kalǔ, like the gala in the Sumerian period, was considered a singer and was in charge of many rituals related to music and song. Beyond association with cult practice, association with Ishtar reinforced the gender ambiguity of the kalǔ. In Lady of Largest Heart, a composition for Ishtar, we read a revealing characteristic about her: "Turning a male into a female and a female into a male is yours" (Sjöberg, 190). This perceived ability is important because it demonstrates how the kalǔ were institutionalized into religious practice and ritual of Ishtar in order to maintain strong social distinctions between men, women, and the third gender, characterized as ambiguous, like Ishtar.

Gemigender: having two opposite genders that work together, being fluid and flux together

Gender Diverse: an umbrella term that refers to anyone who, for any reason, does not have a cisgender identity (which includes the trans* umbrella). Some prefer the terms “gender variant” or “gender-nonconforming.”

Gender Neutral: the feeling of having a neutral gender, whether somewhere in between masculine and feminine or a third gender that is separate from the binary; often paired with neutrois

Gender Nonconforming: Someone who looks and/or behaves in ways that don’t conform to, or are atypical of, society’s expectations of how a person of that gender should look or behave. See a gender nonconforming Pride flag on Tumblr.

Gender Questioning: Someone who may be questioning their gender or gender identity, and/or considering other ways of experiencing or expressing their gender or gender presentation.

Gender Variant: an umbrella term that refers to anyone who, for any reason, does not have a cisgender identity (which includes the trans* umbrella). Others acknowledge issues with this term as it implies that such genders are “deviations” from a standard gender, and reinforces the “naturalness” of the two-gender system. Some prefer the terms “gender diverse” or “gender-nonconforming.”

Genderbending: a term that can mean reversing the gender of an established character, blurring the lines of gender, or otherwise challenging gender barriers and concepts.
The Ursulan Cycle is genderbent Arthurian Cycle.

Genderblank: a gender that can only be described as a blank space; when gender is called into question, all that comes to mind is a blank space

Genderflow: a gender that is fluid between infinite feelings

Genderfluid: the feeling of fluidity within your gender identity; feeling a different gender as time passes or as situations change; not restricted to any number of genders
The Blueshift Troupers are human shapeshifters who can change sex, gender, sexual/romantic orientation, and other traits in metamorphosis.
Schrodinger's Heroes exist across many dimensions, and can have different gender identities, or change what they have.

Genderflux: the feeling of your gender fluctuating in intensity; like genderfluid but between one gender and agender

Genderfuzz: coined by lolzmelmel; the feeling of having more than one gender that are somehow blurred together to the point of not being able to distinguish or identify individual genders; synonymous with blurgender

Gendermeh: Where you're kinda cool with being called any gender, like whatever. You might not be that gender, you might not know your gender, but meh.

Genderpunk: a gender identity that actively resists gender norms
In the T-American gay romance novel Harmony in Pink, one of the main characters, Fran, is a genderpunk man.

Genderqueer: originally used as an umbrella term for nonbinary individuals; may be used as an identity; describes a nonbinary gender regardless of whether the individual is masculine or feminine leaning
Joan of Arc in The Arc of Joan is genderqueer.
Lagniappe in Polychrome Heroics is genderqueer.
Maryam Smith in The Steamsmith is genderqueer: female bodied, masculine presenting, "she" pronouns, and attracted to women.
Quinn from Schrodinger's Heroes hates labels and is usually some form of genderqueer or trans, but the details vary from one dimension to another. See some examples in "Why Ash Loves Quinn."
Rowen in Hart's Farm was created to be "a very affectionate biromantic asexual genderqueer character."
The Time Towers mentions various types of genderqueer people, as in "The Baghdad Debacle."

Genderwitched: a gender in which one is intrigued or entranced by the idea of a particular gender, but is not certain that they are actually feeling it

Gimel female: The Fifers in Feathered Nests are a race of birdlike aliens who have five genders and a polyamorous society. The aleph males are assertive and territorial, with large dark ruffs and bright plumage. The beth males are easygoing and live between the territories of the alephs; they have smaller pale ruffs. The faeder males are gentle and won't tolerate alephs or beths who are too rough, but live inside an aleph's territory; they look much like females, with drab plumage. The modor females enjoy topping other females, have low interest in males, but will follow along if their 'special friend' gimel chooses to mate. The gimel females enjoy bottoming to other females, but are also the most interested in males and typically do the mate selection, bringing along any 'special friend' modor(s) they may have. The most stable and productive family structure incorporates all five. Humans have begun interacting with the Fifers. In the process, some humans find that the five-way gender and family structure has some appeal for them too. This is improving relations between the species.

Girlflux: when one feels mostly or all female most of the time but experiences fluctuating intensities of female identity

Girseqû: a childless male figure within palace administration

Glassgender: a gender that is very sensitive and fragile

Glimragender: a faintly shining, wavering gender

Greygender: having a gender that is mostly outside of the binary but is weak and can barely be felt

Guevedoce: Some tribes in the Dominican Republic recognize a third gender called guevedoce (“penis at 12”) that does not have a visible penis at birth. In these cases, the penis looks more like a vagina, causing the parents to believe that their baby is a girl. These children are given feminine names and raised as girls until their penises suddenly appear when they reach puberty.In the 1970s, Dr. Julianne Imperato-McGinley of Cornell Medical College traveled to the Dominican Republic to investigate the condition after hearing rumors of girls turning into boys. She discovered that the boys actually had hidden penises caused by a genetic disorder that made their bodies produce insufficient amounts of the enzyme 5-alpha-reductase.5-alpha-reductase turns testosterone into dihydrotestosterone, a hormone which causes embryos to have penises. Without this hormone, the embryos have vaginas. The penis only appears during puberty because the body produces more testosterone at that time, causing the development of masculine features.However, some guevedoces do not like the sudden sex change and undergo sex reassignment surgery to remain women. Dr. Imperato-McGinley also noted that boys suffering from the condition always have small prostates. Further research by pharmaceutical company Merck led to the development of finasteride, a drug used to treat enlarged prostates in men.

Gyragender: having multiple genders but understanding none of them

Half-binary: Gender identity is partially binary and partially nonbinary AND/OR Identifying at least partially as one or both binary genders, yet feeling disconnected from them due to self doubt, or due to neurodivergence making ones gender difficult to understand.
Term coined by: shadowofthedude

Hastiin (masculine man): Navajo who are born biologically male and adopt the role of men

Hategender: A gender that you can’t describe with any word but hatred or anger. Usable only by neurodivergent people with mental illnesses that cause anger or hate. Also called angender.

He man eh: The Cheyenne he man eh, or 'halfman-halfwoman' (Williams
1986:76), is one of the characters in the Cheyenne village.

Healgender: a gender that once realized, brings lots of peace, clarity, security, and creativity to the individual’s mind

Heliogender: a gender that is warm and burning

Hemigender: a gender that is half one gender and half something else; one or both halves may be identifiable genders

Hen: the gender of the bird who is courted in a pair, such as peahen, female bowerbirds, or male phalaropes. It's often associated with nest building, cryptic coloration, being the one who chooses, protectiveness, etc. Also called "dun." The opposite is bright, the gender of bird that shows off and does the courting.

Hijra: The hijras of southeast Asia belong a long and colorful history, with deep cultural ties in India. The group, which encompasses many forms of homosexual and transgender individuals, experienced ups and downs in status over the years. In the Hindu religion, the deity Shiva's bonding with his wife Parvati to form the being Ardhanari shows an ancient depiction of a hijra idol. While once held in high esteem, the hijra lost much of their status when British colonizers criminalized the hijra way of life. However, in modern times, they have become somewhat celebrated once again, and just recently received official recognition as a third gender in India.

Horogender: a gender that changes over time with the core feeling remaining the same

Hwame (Mohave tribe, North America): “The creation myth of the Mohave tribe speaks to a time when humans were not sexually or gender-differentiated. The recognize four genders: men, women, hwame (male-identified females) and alyha (female-identified males).” –PBS

Hydrogender: a gender which shares qualities with water

Imperigender: a fluid gender that can be controlled by the individual

înahpîkasoht (ee-nuh-PEE-gu-soot): Canadian Cree-speaking blogger âpihtawikosisân attempts to translate Two Spirit terms from her culture, noting that English translations are not straightforward. She writes: a woman dressed/living/accepted as a man. (also translated as someone who fights everyone to prove they are the toughest? Interesting!)

Inersgender: too lazy to care about gender.

Intensiflux: a very intense and practically instant version of most kinds of genderflux. Instead of some other genderflux examples where the change is gradual, or quick but still noticeable, Intensiflux is where a person will instantly switch between their intensely-feeling gender to absolutely nothing/agender. No transition in between, or at least it happens so fast that you can barely feel that transition.

Intensigender: You definitely feel that gender, and it doesn’t change or go away, but you might feel it a lot more than other people would. Like 110%, 150%, or even 200%! A person need not pick a specific number for their feeling, they just have to decide if they feel their gender more intensely than most people would.

Intergender: the feeling of gender falling somewhere on the spectrum between masculine and feminine. Meant for intersex people only

iskwêhkân (IS-gwayh-gahn): Canadian Cree-speaking blogger âpihtawikosisân attempts to translate Two Spirit terms from her culture, noting that English translations are not straightforward. She writes: literally ‘fake woman’, but without negative connotations.

Jagappa (India): “Often (somewhat misleadingly) called eunuchs in English, they may be born intersex or apparently male, dress in feminine clothes and generally see themselves as neither men nor women.” –Duthel

Jewlegender: A mix of genderfluid with a static gender with an overall gemstone aesthetic.
Named because, jewels feel hard, can sparkle and be bright, though they can also be dull. They can be opaque or clear, and some change colors in different lights! Also called bijougender.

Jouine: from “joy” and “sanguine”. A joyful gender, very happy and euphoric about who they are. They are happy to express their gender, and know that it is special.
This was coined as one of a set of 5 genders similar to Maverique: Tragmat, Jouine, Orupin, Anler, and Melauche.
The symbol in the center is the symbol for Saturn.

Juxera: a feminine gender similar to girl, but on a separate plane and off to itself

Kalǔ: Before the kalǔ, the Sumerian gala worked as a "chanter of laments" and was not associated with any particular deity. Simply working as a professional lamenter categorized him as feminine because laments were typically performed by women. During the Old Babylonian period, the role of the gala expanded, became a synonym of kalǔ, and was incorporated into the cult of Ishtar. The kalǔ, like the gala in the Sumerian period, was considered a singer and was in charge of many rituals related to music and song. Beyond association with cult practice, association with Ishtar reinforced the gender ambiguity of the kalǔ. In Lady of Largest Heart, a composition for Ishtar, we read a revealing characteristic about her: "Turning a male into a female and a female into a male is yours" (Sjöberg, 190). This perceived ability is important because it demonstrates how the kalǔ were institutionalized into religious practice and ritual of Ishtar in order to maintain strong social distinctions between men, women, and the third gender, characterized as ambiguous, like Ishtar.

Kathoey: Thailand holds a status as a country famous for its acceptance of different sexual identities. But the roots of the kathoey, or "lady boy," tradition go a lot deeper than most people may realize. Thailand is a primarily Buddhist nation, and Buddhism actually recognizes four distinct genders, and from one of those four comes the "kathoey." Kathoey are typically transgender women, though not all transgender women see themselves as kathoey. It's deeply tied to spirituality and religion, which is why some trandgender women choose not to identify as kathoey. They are generally accepted in most major cities, and at least tolerated in smaller villages. In some instances, citizens consider kathoey to be a form of karma, resulting in their respect as everyone will go through one of their lives as kathoey. The kathoey are also viewed as conduits for both male and female spirits, lending them sometimes statuses of high regard in Thai society.

Khawaja Sira: Individuals in Pakistan who identify as Khawaja Sira occupy a confusing place in society - they simultaneously receive praise as being "gifted by god" but also face intense discrimination. Khawaja Sira individuals are usually rejected by their families, but form their own family trees through their system of gurus and apprentices. Although Pakistan has been slow to embrace the modern transgender movement, their traditional Khawaja Sira gender identity remains an ancient custom; their religious devotion led the Hindu deity Ram to declare the Khawaja Sira the final rulers of the human race.

Khanith or Khaneeth (خنيث; khanīth): a vernacular Arabic term used in Oman and the Arabian Peninsula and denotes the gender role ascribed to males who function sexually, and in some ways socially, as women. The word is closely related to the Arabic word mukhannath (مخنث "effeminate"), a Classical Arabic term referring to individuals with an effeminate nature

Kocek (köçek): In Turkey, dancing was a revered art form during the Ottoman Empire. People spent a lot of money to attend dance performances, including an infamous dance style performed by the kocek. The kocek were men who dressed in feminine clothing and performed exotic dances for audiences throughout the empire. Some of the kocek were amateurs, and some were even slaves. But many were professional, popular, and highly paid.Despite their gender-bending appearances and feminine dance moves, the kocek were not trying to impersonate females. Instead, they were a third gender, who embraced both their masculine and feminine features.

Khusra (Pakistan, India): The term khusra translates to “eunuch” and is most commonly used to describe feminine-identified males in Pakistan and Northern India. Some sources claim the term is derogatory, while others state it is used commonly within third gender communities.

Koekchuch: is an extinct gender identity recorded among the Itelmens of Siberia. These were amab individuals who behaved as women did, and were recorded in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

Kojja (Telugu dialect, India): See Aravani, Aruvani, Hijra, and/or Jagappa.

Kothi (West Bengal, India): “[. . .] one of several South Asian terms for feminine male-assigned persons who may or not present or identify as (trans) women; while kothi do not form separate clans like hijras.” Kodi kothis are individuals who present androgynously or slightly more masculine through their clothing. Bhelki, bheli, and bhorokti kothis refer to individuals who wear more feminine attire. –Dutta & Roy, 2014

Kteuy (Cambodia): In other parts of the world, this term is used to refer to gay males. In Cambodia, kteuy is now used to describe male-bodied individuals with gender identities and/or sexual orientations that don’t align with Cambodian social expectations. It is often viewed as a derogatory term by gender variant individuals in Cambodia, who refer to themselves using sak klay or sak veng.

Kurgarra: The galatur and the kurgarra appear in "The Descent of Inanna," where they are variously described as sexless or hermaphroditic. Because there are two terms, some scholars posit that one would be "neither" male nor female and the other "both" male and female. Others think these were terms for male-to-female and female-to-male transfolk. Regardless of the details, surviving records indicate that Inanna had some sort(s) of gender-variant clergy.
Galaturi and kurgarri both appear in "The Uruk Uncertainty" in The Time Towers. It highlights the impossibility of trying to match modern definitions to historic genders.

Lethargender: a Personalitygender/Esmogender defined as a subset of agender in which you know you lack a gender, but you also lack enthusiasm about your gender. You don’t care about it, and it makes you tired just to think about it. comes from the word "lethargy" which means, "a lack of energy and enthusiasm."

Lhamana (Zuni tribe, North America): “The two-spirit Zuni tradition is known as lhamana, in which a person lives as both genders simultaneously. They play a key role in society as mediators, priests, and artists, and perform both traditional women's work (pottery and crafts) as well as traditional men's work (hunting).” –PBS

Libragender: a gender that feels agender but has a strong connection to another gender

Lilapsogender: a gender of tornadoes and hurricanes. It’s like a tornado/hurricane’s strong winds, as they tend to be stronger towards a gender at one point, and then become more agender after the peak.
Term coined by: jasongu

Lύ-sag: lύ-sag and ša rēši are synonymous terms for the same figure: a palace attendant typically in charge of women’s quarters within a palace. They were permitted to do so because they were castrated and eunuchs. Attestation of this figure as castrated is only apparent, though, in the Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods. While they functioned in the same manner prior to these periods, evidence of castration is lacking. Some lύ-sag / ša rēši even acted as military commanders. As eunuchs, though, they maintained some masculine gender identity. For virility could still be maintained were the castration only partial. Even so, the consequences of castration meant they were not considered normative in regard to masculinity, hence their institutionalization in royal bureaucracies as military commanders or people in charge of women’s quarters.

Māhū: In native Hawaiian culture, Māhū means someone who embodies both male and female spirits. Instead of identifying more as a male or more as a female, they accept both equally and see gender as a beautiful, flowing thing. More than just accepted in Hawaiian society, Māhūs are revered, their fluidity considered an empowering force. Instead of viewing their "differentness" as a problem, they see their dual-spirits as a way to navigate life's challenges with grace, a true liberation.

Māhūkāne (Hawaiʻi): a wahine (woman) who lives the life of a kane (man), mentally and/or physically.

Māhūwahine (Hawaiʻi): A newly coined term (2003). A gender identity encompassing transvestitism, transgenderism, and transsexualism.

Magigender: a gender that is mostly gender and the rest is something else

Mak Nyah (Malaysia): A term used to describe male-to-female transgender women in Malaysia. The term derives from mak (mother) and was coined around 1987 by male-to-female transgender women in an effort to differentiate themselves from gay men, crossdressers, drag queens, and other sexual minorities. This relatively new identity label also attempts to reclaim trans identity in a positive way in a society that often deploys the derogatory names bapok, darai, pondan, and bantut (‘men who are effeminate’) against mak nyah. –Slamah

Makkunrai (womanly women): The Bugis people of Indonesia recognize five genders: oroane (manly men), makkunrai (womanly women), calabai (womanly men), calalai (manly women), and bissu (half-male and half-female). The oroane and makkunrai fit what was once thought of as the traditional definitions of men and women, respectively.

Malagender: A gender which is created or influenced by maladaptive daydreaming or fantasy prone personalities.
For example a malagender person might feel male usually but their gender may feel more nonbinary during a maladaptive daydreaming episode.
A gender specific to people who experience maladaptive daydreaming due to a neurodivergence such as: schizotypal personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, schizophrenia or similar.

Male: one of two binary genders where one feels fully and completely male; can and is used in conjunction with other gender labels and identities. Also called masculine to distinguish from male biological sex.

Mamluk (Egypt): “During the Mamluk Sultanate in what is now Egypt from the 1200s to the 1700s, young girls who we [sic] perceived to have masculine traits were celebrated and raised as boys and afforded all of the legal and societal advantages.” –PBS

Mascfluid: A gender that is fluid in nature, and restricted only to masculine genders

Mascgender: a non-binary gender which is masculine in nature.

Mashoga (Kenya, Tanzania): “Mashoga is a Swahili term that connotes a range of identities on the gender continuum. While loosely used to indicate gay men, a large proportion of mashoga are [birth-assigned] men who adopt the female gender early in life. They characteristically wear both men and women's clothing, but in a manner distinct to mashoga alone. They often assume female gender roles and serve a crucial role in wedding ceremonies.” –PBS

Maverique: taken from the word maverick; the feeling of having a gender that is separate from masculinity, femininity, and neutrality, but is not agender; a form of third gender.

Mazeplexgender: A gender identity best described as a dense forest or maze which is easy to get lost in, and is hard to navigate through or pinpoint a specific location or gender. It may be unknown to the person if it’s even possible to navigate through this forest or maze to find any answers. Derived from the two words Maze, and Perplex.

Melauche: combining "melancholic" and "farouche" (which is another word meaning shy or introverted). A shy gender, it is characterized by someone wanting to hide who they are to avoid conflict or attention. Still, there is a sense of self in this gender, although it can feel melancholic or introverted at times. A person with this gender will keep it very close to themselves, and rarely shares it.
This was coined as one of a set of 5 genders similar to Maverique: Tragmat, Jouine, Orupin, Anler, and Melauche.
The symbol in the center is the symbol for Pluto.

Metagender: literally "beyond gender," someone who includes aspects of various genders but does not feel bound by labels or compelled to categorize everything into gender boxes. I came up with this one in college and still use it, although I like genderqueer too.

Metis: In Nepal, the Metis are AMAB people with a feminine gender expression.

Mexoga: Moon deity, in Omaha tradition, is said to appear in a young person's vision quest or dreams, holding out men's tools in one hand, and women's tools in the other. Which one the dreamer grasps for will determine the dreamer's gender role. For this reason, the Omaha word for a two-spirit person is mexoga, meaning "instructed by the moon." "This type of vision, conferring high status because of instruction from the Moon spirit, was also reported ... among the Winnebagos, Lakotas, Assiniboine, Pawnees, Mandans, and Hidatsas"

Midgender: A gender that exists in the middle between the binary genders of female and male. Similar to intergender, but not intersex exclusive.

Mino: In Benin, when it was the Kingdom of Dahomey, it had the Mino, warriors who were AFAB and considered masculine.

Mirrorgender: a gender that changes to fit the people around you

Modor female: The Fifers in Feathered Nests are a race of birdlike aliens who have five genders and a polyamorous society. The aleph males are assertive and territorial, with large dark ruffs and bright plumage. The beth males are easygoing and live between the territories of the alephs; they have smaller pale ruffs. The faeder males are gentle and won't tolerate alephs or beths who are too rough, but live inside an aleph's territory; they look much like females, with drab plumage. The modor females enjoy topping other females, have low interest in males, but will follow along if their 'special friend' gimel chooses to mate. The gimel females enjoy bottoming to other females, but are also the most interested in males and typically do the mate selection, bringing along any 'special friend' modor(s) they may have. The most stable and productive family structure incorporates all five. Humans have begun interacting with the Fifers. In the process, some humans find that the five-way gender and family structure has some appeal for them too. This is improving relations between the species.

Molligender: a gender that is soft, subtle, and subdued

Mukhannathun: In classical Arabic writings, people called Mukhannathun (Arabic مخنثون "effeminate ones", "men who resemble women", singular mukhannath) were queer people who were assigned male at birth, analogous to transgender women, or to very feminine gay men, depending on the individual. In Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 41, Number 4910, Mohammed said to exile a mukhannath, and said not to kill them.[12] At one point during the Umayyad dynasty, a caliph ordered that all mukhannathun should be castrated. In response to this, a group of mukhannathun are recorded as having this conversation about it: "This is simply a circumcision which we must undergo again." "Or rather the Greater Circumcision!" "With castration I have become a mukhannath in truth!" "Or rather we have become women in truth!" "We have been spared the trouble of carrying around a spout for urine." "What would we do with an unused weapon anyway?"

Multigender: the feeling of having more than one simultaneous or fluctuating gender; simultaneous with multigenderand omnigender

Muxe: Muxes are a third gender originating in Oaxaca, Mexico. The word muxe said to come from the Spanish word for woman, "mujer." While muxes are usually men who identify more as women, muxes may also be those who simply don't fall into the traditional male-female or gay-straight categories (the indigenous people of the area don't actually see gender in that way). They tend to be quite skilled in arts like sewing and embroidery, and will often be the caretakers for their parents as they grow older. Since the '70s, Oaxaca annually holds a festival in their honor called Vela de las Intrepidas, or Vigil of the Intrepids.

Nàdleehé or one who is 'transformed: Feminine man (nádleehí) are born biologically male and function socially as women (Navajo)

Nanogender: feeling a small part of one gender with the rest being something else

Napêhkân (NU-payh-gahn: Canadian Cree-speaking blogger âpihtawikosisân attempts to translate Two Spirit terms from her culture, noting that English translations are not straightforward. She writes:
literally ‘fake man’, but without negative connotations.

Narnban (Pakistan): The term narnban does not appear to have a widely disseminated definition, but is parenthetically defined as a Pakistani term for “eunuch” in several sources.

Nekeivah: Old Judaism recognized six genders: zachar, nekeivah, androgynos, ay’lonit, saris, and tumtum. A zachar is male, a nekeivah is female, and an androgynos is half-male, half-female.

Neti-neti (Sanskrit): a transcendent version of agender, which denies the existence of duality, on the grounds that everything is actually Brahman (nondual reality, or God). It literally means "not this, not that," which is how some people feel about gender: that none of the terms have any meaning or relevance.

The classic statement of the via negativa approach appears in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad⁠5 (“Great Forest Text”), which is one of the oldest (c. 10th–5th century, BCE) and most important. Here we find the famous definition of Brahman as neti-neti “not this, not that.” Neti-neti means that Brahman can only be defined by what it is not, and what it is not is any thing. It is not any of the names or forms of this world. “Neti-neti” is literally saying, “No matter what you see, it’s really just God.” The chair isn’t a chair. You are not you. You’re both just God.
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This Upanishad seems to clearly describe both nirvikalpa samadhi (“it is the cessation of all phenomenon”) and nondual awareness (“it is good and nondual”), even going so far as to use the word “nondual.” The Upanishad begins by talking about AUM (which is a mantra found in the Vedas) and relates it to brahman (“nondual reality” or “God” depending on the reader), as well as atman (“soul”).

Neutrois: the feeling of having a neutral gender; sometimes a lack of gender that leads to feeling neutral
Most of the Kung Fu Robots are neuter in sex and neutrois in gender, although a few identify as masculine or feminine.
Most of the AYES in An Army of One are neuter in sex and neutrois in gender, and firm about using "it" pronouns.
Clarity of the Damask collective in Polychrome Heroics is neutrois.
Yossele the golem in Clay of Life is neuter in sex and neutrois in gender,.

Ninauposkitzipxpe: The Blackfoot Confederacy recognizes Ninauposkitzipxpe, "manly-hearted women," who are AFAB and occupy a gender role different from that of women and men.

Nonbinary: originally an umbrella term for any gender outside the binary of cisgenders; may be used as an individual identity; occasionally used alongside of genderqueer

Ombodhu (Tamil dialect, India): See Aravani, Aruvani, Hijra, and/or Jagappa.

Omnigender: the feeling of having more than one simultaneous or fluctuating gender; simultaneous with multigenderand polygender

One-between: a term for anyone with mixed signals of gender, used in my series Beneath the Family Tree. They wear red and blue feathers.
First mentioned in "One Wide Tree" was a shaman, later appearing as a spirit in "Gifts from the Spirit Wind." Introduced in "A Stranger's Way," Cobble wears the red and blue feathers, but identifies himself as a man. He marries Gullwing, who does not want to pair with a man's body but is content with a masculine person who has a female body.

Oneirogender: coined by anonymous, “being agender, but having recurring fantasies or daydreams of being a certain gender without the dysphoria or desire to actually be that gender day-to-day”

Oroane (manly men): The Bugis people of Indonesia recognize five genders: oroane (manly men), makkunrai (womanly women), calabai (womanly men), calalai (manly women), and bissu (half-male and half-female). The oroane and makkunrai fit what was once thought of as the traditional definitions of men and women, respectively.

Orupin: from "order" and "supine." An orderly gender, there is a sense of stability and reason for who they are, that it is logical to be the way they are. Sometimes, they may seem too analytical and logical, and thus may be or feel stand-offish compared to other people.
This was coined as one of a set of 5 genders similar to Maverique: Tragmat, Jouine, Orupin, Anler, and Melauche.
The symbol in the center is the symbol for Uranus.

Pangender: the feeling of having every gender; this is considered problematic by some communities and thus has been used as the concept of relating in some way to all genders as opposed to containing every gender identity; only applies to genders within one’s own culture.

Paragender: the feeling very near one gender and partially something else which keeps you from feeling fully that gender.

Perigender: identifying with a gender but not as a gender.

Personagender: A term used to describe a gender which is used in public as a social identity even though the individual doesn’t completely identify that way, eg. personaboy.
In Calliope, the main character presents as male/masculine (Calvin) for ordinary purposes and female/feminine (Calliope) for super purposes. In this regard, Calvin may be considered the personagender.

Pilpilû: a member of the Ishtar cult with feminine traits.

Pinapinaaine / Binabinaaine (Tuvalu and Kiribati): a man who might regard himself as, or be regarded by others as, a woman.

Pluralian
Pluralian /plo͝or’əl’ēən/
Noun:
1. One who is attracted to more than one gender; an umbrella term for being attracted to more than one gender, regardless of one’s gender identity (similar to “sapphic,” “achillean,” and “enbian”)
“The pluralian decided to date John, because he just broke up with Marie”
2. One who prioritizes, or is proud of, all of the genders to whom they are attracted equally; one who celebrates their multiple attraction (similar to certain usages of “sapphic,” “achillean,” and “enbian”)
“I am proud of the fact that I like boys and nonbinary people,” Carol declared, “So I guess I’m pluralian.”
3. The community of people who are attracted to more than one gender; the “mspec” community
“The pluralian community consists of bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, and other people attracted to more than one gender.”
Adjective:
1. A descriptor of the attraction someone who is attracted to multiple genders feels towards anyone of any gender; similar to “gay,” “straight,” or “diamoric”
“My love for Jen was so pluralian,” Scout sighed, “As was my love for Alex…”

Polyagender: When one has multiple genders that all fit in the agender spectrum such as neutrois and demigender and nullgender.

Polygender: the feeling of having more than one simultaneous or fluctuating gender; simultaneous with multigenderand omnigender

Proxvir: a masculine gender similar to boy, but on a separate plane and off to itself

Quariwarmi: In Peru, the pre-colonial Incas recognized Quariwarmi, a nonbinary mixed-gender role.

Quoigender: feeling as if the concept of gender is inapplicable or nonsensical to one’s self

Raerae / Māhū / Māhūvahine (Tahiti): in Tahiti this refers to an individual who is male but identifies and lives as a female. Perhaps considered a third gender.

Rosegender: A gender that is layered and thorny. Trying to hold onto the gender and pick apart every layer only causes emotional pain and stress. You can also have subtypes, ie rosegirl: a gender that has origins in girlness but you can’t quite place in what way.

Rupantarkami (India): A term often mistakenly conflated with the term transsexual, and used to describe, “someone who desires to change roop, or form” –Dutta & Roy

ša rēši: lύ-sag and ša rēši are synonymous terms for the same figure: a palace attendant typically in charge of women’s quarters within a palace. They were permitted to do so because they were castrated and eunuchs. Attestation of this figure as castrated is only apparent, though, in the Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods. While they functioned in the same manner prior to these periods, evidence of castration is lacking. Some lύ-sag / ša rēši even acted as military commanders. As eunuchs, though, they maintained some masculine gender identity. For virility could still be maintained were the castration only partial. Even so, the consequences of castration meant they were not considered normative in regard to masculinity, hence their institutionalization in royal bureaucracies as military commanders or people in charge of women’s quarters.

SAG-UR-SAG: “effeminate cultic personnel similar to the assinnu… after the end of the Old Babylonian period the office of the SAG-UR-SAG ceased to exist” (Peled 2016, 267).

Sak veng/srey sros (Cambodia): Srey sros (“charming girls”) and sak veng (“long hairs”) both refer to male-bodied individuals who identify as women. In Cambodia, sak veng may undergo surgery and/or use hormones to feminize their physical sex so it better aligns with their gender identity. Sak klay ("short hairs") refers to to male-bodied individuals who dress and identify as men and are sexually attracted to cisgender males.

Salmacian: As a term for people who wish to have a mixed genital set (such as a penis and a vagina, or something in between); derived from the name of the nymph Salamacis, whose body was merged with that of the son of Hermes and Aphrodite in the ancient Greek myth which also gave us the word “hermaphrodite”). This does not necessarily correspond with certain gender(s), you could be a Salmacian/Bigenital trans woman, or bigender, or agender, etc. Also called bigenital.

Saris: Old Judaism recognized six genders: zachar, nekeivah, androgynos, ay’lonit, saris, and tumtum. A zachar is male, a nekeivah is female, and an androgynos is half-male, half-female. An ay’lonit is a female who becomes male at puberty, a saris is a male who becomes a female at puberty, and a tumtum has an indeterminate gender.

Sekhet (Sḫt): One of the oldest known examples of a third gender come from Egypt. Pottery shards from between 2000 and 1800 BCE depict three distinct genders - male, female, and sekhet, which was neither male nor female. The drawings of the male and female characters both include anatomically correct genitalia, but the sekhet drawing appears to be a man with no penis.

Sekrata: In Madagascar, when young boys show effeminate traits, their families simply raise them as females. Most eventually forget they were actually born males. The people of Madagascar see this practice as a totally normal and natural part of life, particularly the Antandroy and Hova groups. Sekrata view themselves as "real" women, wearing long hair, decorative jewelry, and silver coins in their pierced ears. It is also believed supernatural beings who protect them from any harm.

Shifterfluid, Superfluidgender, or Gendersuperfluid: A term for someone with shifting identities. Being genderfluid between genderfluid identities including flux and Multigenders. Coined with shifter/polymorphkin in mind but can be used by anyone.
Term coined by: JaceMaverick417

Shopan: The shopan is a transformed shaman of the Aleut and Kodiak peoples of the southern Alaskan regions. Their gender variance was recognized as children, sometimes as infants. These boys were raised as girls, wearing the feminine clothing and hair styles and plucking their facial hair. After adolescence their shopan training began as with all other Aleut angakok. Mature shopan were highly respected angakut. As boys between the ages of ten to fifteen the shopan were often wed to older men, during their training. The Aleut considered it lucky to have a shopan as a partner. See also achnucek and gender variant.

Sistagirl: In Tiwi Island culture, "Sistagirl", traditionally Yimpininni, is an identity analogous to trans woman.

Sistergirl: In Australia, Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities recognize identities called sistergirl (analogous to trans woman) and brotherboy (analogous to trans man).

Subgender: mostly agender with a bit of another gender

Surgender: having a gender that is 100% one gender but with more of another gender added on top of that

Sworn virgin: In the Balkan region of Albania, “sworn virgins”—women who swear to live as virgins for their entire lives—take on a more traditional male role in the community. Sworn virgins had an interesting beginning. Sometimes in battles, a family would lose all of its men, so a woman would assume the role of patriarch. This tradition can be traced back to the 15th-century Kanun, a tribal code of law from that time.Although the prospect of being a virgin for the rest of one’s life can be daunting for many, sworn virgins were respected and proud. After one researcher had interviewed a number of sworn virgins, he claimed that none had any regrets about their lifestyle decision.While many sworn virgins were women trying to pass as men, some were more “in between,” appearing to be neither male nor female. Today, the sworn virgin phenomenon is much less common, but there are still a small number of them living in the Balkans.

Synesgender: A gender that is made of sensation or sensations, or is a sensation or sensations. A gender that can be colors, feelings, sounds, or shapes. But, can also be a gender associated with such. Also called aisthesisgender.
Can be a stand alone term, and one that describes another gender.
Can be used by both synesthetes and non-synesthetes.
Term coined by: angeiical.

Systemgender: a gender that is the sum of all the genders within a multiple or median system

Third Gender (South Asia): This term is used throughout South Asia to describe individuals whose gender expressions or identities are neither male nor female. Many countries also use culturally specific terms that refer to such individuals. Third gender rights have been recognized by Supreme Courts in countries such as India, Nepal, Iran, and Pakistan, though individuals continue to face social prejudice.

Tida wena (Venezuela): A two-spirit identity among the Warao people, an indigenous Venezuelan culture. Translated to “twisted women,” the term describes individuals who are neither men nor women. They are thought to possess two spirits and often assume the role of shaman.

Timtum (Yiddish): a term derived from Hebrew, with meanings that include:
* an androgynous person -- that is, one who has bisexual or ambiguous characteristics; one who is hard to identify as either male or female
* an effiminate man
* a beardless youth with a high-pitched voice
* a sexy, smart, creative, productive Jewish genderqueer

Tiru/tīru: likely a childless castrate and part of palace bureaucracy

Tom (Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines): “In contemporary Thai, tom is a term derived from the English word “tomboy” and refers to masculine-identified women who have sexual attraction towards and relationships with feminine identified women, who are called dee (from the English word for “lady”).” –Sinnott, 2008

Tragender: a gender that stretches over the whole spectrum of genders.

Tragmat: A peaceful gender that is at ease with who they are. They do not need to think about their gender, nor justify it to others, they accept it for what it is: unique and tranquil. The word comes from "tranquility" and "phlegmatic."
This was coined as one of a set of 5 genders similar to Maverique: Tragmat, Jouine, Orupin, Anler, and Melauche.
The symbol in the center is the symbol for Neptune.

Transgender: any gender identity that transcends or does not align with your assigned gender or society’s idea of gender; the feeling of being any gender that does not match your assigned gender
Calliope, a gendershifter, identifies as transgender and prefers to be a woman -- but hasn't given up Calvin altogether, using her birth identity as her secret identity.
In Fledgling Grace, there are mentions of transgender and other gender-variant people in various places. See "Hen-Feathered" for an example.
Hyperspaceman in Polychrome Heroics is transgender.
Jayce Olson in the Antimatter and Stalwart Stan thread of Polychrome Heroics transitions from male to female in high school.

Transman (Or FtM/MtM): is a term which describes someone who is both a man and transgender/transsexual. Trans men were assigned female at birth, but their gender identity is male. They may be referred to as transmasculine. Some trans men wish to transition in order to change their sex characteristics and gender expression to become more masculine. Trans men can have any sexual orientation.
Victor in Frankenstein's Family is a transman, identifying very strongly as male despite having a female body. He conceals his body as much as possible, and few people know its shape.
Hyperspaceman in Polychrome Heroics is a transman.

Transneutral: A term used to describe transgender people who were assigned male or female at birth, but identify with neutral gendered feelings to a greater extent than with femininity or masculinity. It is used the same way as “transfeminine” or “transmasculine”, but for neutral feelings. It can be used to describe gendered feelings, or as a gender itself.

Transvestites (also called cross-dressers): people who choose to wear clothes which are associated with a different gender identity to their own. This typically means a man (by sex)who dresses in feminine clothes, or a woman (by sex) who dresses in masculine clothes. Although this can include dressing androgynously and wearing both "men's" and "women's" clothes. In the modern day, most transvestites are not transgender and do not want to transition. However, the concept of transvestites pre-dates widespread use of the term transgender, so in the past cross-dressing (particularly drag) was seen as a way for transgender people to express their identity. In these times, the two terms were often used interchangeably.
In Fiorenza the Wisewoman Giacinto customarily wears skirts. He thinks of himself as a man, but this is a key part of his gender expression due to cultural context. Conversely, Fiorenza thinks of herself as a woman, yet often though not always wears trousers. So they are both shifted slightly toward center from the far ends of the gender spectrum, and it makes them very compatible. Read "Fiorenza and the Witch-son" for a description.
In Polychrome Heroics, Flambeaux is a crossdresser.
Salvo in Cuoio and Chiara enjoys crossdressing, and sometimes gets Cuoio and Chiara doing it too.

Transwoman: Transwomen (also sometimes call transgirls) are people assigned male at birth that feel that they are actually female. Some things Transwomen do to help them feel more comfortable in their bodies are:
* wearing breast prostheses
* tucking their genitals
* taking estrogen
* having vagina and vulva construction commonly called a Vaginoplasty
Annalee in Seeing Hearts is a transwoman, with a male body and a feminine heart, introduced in "The Diadem of Dreams and Thorns."
Jayce Olson in the Antimatter and Stalwart Stan thread of Polychrome Heroics transitions from male to female in high school.

Traumatagender, traumatgender, trautgender, or trauatgender: This is a gender that varies; it can change a lot, it could be unknown, it could just be there, it could be nonexistent, etc. Whatever it is, it is based from intense trauma. This identity should only be used by those who have experienced or are going through what they consider to be intense trauma. Traumatagender people may also identify as neurogende or affectugender. "Traumata-" or any variation of it can be used as a prefix for a gender affected by trauma. For example: trautboy, trautgirl, trautagender, etc. Coined by: furryhell
I actually saw this way back in high school, with a character that a friend of mine and I worked up together. Sin'Vraal was the mage of the adventuring party, and a complete wreck other than his ability to cast a very few spells. He had been abused so routinely by so many people that he had no real idea what his original gender and sexual orientation might have been, so he just kind of went along with the people around him, and at least the adventurers were mostly nice to him.

Travesti: a term used in some South American cultures to refer to amab people who have a feminine gender identity and are local socio-political identity. Travestis have been described as a third gender, but not all see themselves this way. By the mid-2010s, a majority of South American trans social movements and activism tend to acknowledge travesti as both a possible gender identity, and a possible socio-political identifier for trans women. Those who acknowledge non-binary genders also tend to see travesti as a possible all-encompassing label for all feminine amab people whose gender identity is not male dominant. (NOTE: "Travesti" may also mean "cross dresser", as it literally means "travestite".)

Trigender: the feeling of having three simultaneous or fluctuating genders

Tumtum: Old Judaism recognized six genders: zachar, nekeivah, androgynos, ay’lonit, saris, and tumtum. A zachar is male, a nekeivah is female, and an androgynos is half-male, half-female. An ay’lonit is a female who becomes male at puberty, a saris is a male who becomes a female at puberty, and a tumtum has an indeterminate gender.The fact that tumtums were of an indefinite gender allowed them to enjoy perks associated with both males and females. They could get married to men and women. However, the gender of their marriage partner determined the gender role they would assume. A tumtum who married a woman assumed the gender role of a husband, while a tumtum who married a man assumed the gender role of a wife.

Two-spirit: The two-spirited person is a native tradition that researchers have identified in some of the earliest discoveries of Native artifacts. Much evidence indicates that Native people, prior to colonization, believed in the existence of cross-gender roles, the male-female, the female-male, what we now call the two-spirited person. In Native American culture, before the Europeans came to the America's, "two-spirit" referred to an ancient teaching. This type of cross-gender identity has been documented in over 155 tribes across Native North America (Roscoe 1988). Our Elders tell us of people who were gifted among all beings because they carried two spirits, that of male and female. It is told that women engaged in tribal warfare and married other women, as there were men who married other men. These individuals were looked upon as a third and fourth gender in many cases and in almost all cultures they were honoured and revered. Two-spirit people were often the visionaries, the healers, the medicine people, the nannies of orphans, the care givers (Roscoe 1988).
Kenzie first appears in "Where the Journey Begins" and Blair Her Road Goes Both Ways shows up in "We Are All Related." Bobtail comes later in "Sheltered and True."

Vaka sa lewa lewa (Fiji): in Fijian culture this refers men who may present themselves, or live their lives as, women. May also be considered a third-gender similar to transgender women (male-to-female).

Vapogender: a gender that sort of feels like smoke; can be seen on a shallow level but once you go deeper, it disappears and you are left with no gender and only tiny wisps of what you thought it was

Venngender: when two genders overlap creating an entirely new gender; like a venn diagram.

Ventigender: A person who feels connected to and/or identifies with the wind/air and tends to feel their gender more strongly depending on the wind’s current strength around them. Comes from “ventus”, the latin word for wind.
Not to be confused with the Italian word for twenty.

Verangender: a gender that seems to shift/change the moment it is identified.

Vibragender: a gender that is usually one stable gender but will occasionally changes or fluctuate before stabilizing again.

Vocigender: a gender that is weak or hollow.

Wakashu: Also known as "beautiful youths," the wakashu of Japan emerged as a widely accepted third gender during the Edo period. The wakashu were generally adolescent boys who were androgynous in appearance and behavior. Woodblock prints of the time depicted them as playful, sexual, and feminine. Japanese culture portrayed them to be objects of desire for both women and men, at least until Western culture became more prominent and the tradition slowly faded away.

Wakatane: In New Zealand, the Maori culture recognizes transgender identities called Whakawahine (feminine and AMAB) and Wakatane (masculine and AFAB).

Warias are men who live their lives as women. They are believed to have feminine souls even though they have male sex organs. Their name is a hybrid of wanita (“woman”) and pria (“man”).Some warias undergo sex reassignment surgery to become women. Others leave their male characteristics but take on effeminate behaviors. However, Indonesians have mixed feelings about the warias. Some believe that they have spiritual powers and will often employ them as priests and shamans.Others will discriminate against and attack warias. In hostile environments, they may be stripped, harassed, and beaten—and sometimes have their heads shaved—before they are banished. With no source of income, many turn to prostitution.

Whakawahine: In New Zealand, the Maori culture recognizes transgender identities called Whakawahine (feminine and AMAB) and Wakatane (masculine and AFAB).

Winkte: I am 'Sihasapa', 'Lakota', or rather, that is to say that I am of the Blackfoot tribe. We are one of seven tribes of the Sioux nation. I am Native American. An old Lakota word, "Winyanktehca," has today been contracted to the simple word, "winkte," meaning, 'two-souls-person,' or more directly meaning, 'to be as a woman.' (I would like to suggest that in this speech, I will make use of the word 'winkte' synonymously for 'gender-crosser,' in either direction.) I am 'Wakan' - to my people I am sacred and mysterious, I am a spirit person. The Grandfathers tell me this. I have my feet rooted in the earth of my ancestors and my spirit soars with them in the "land above the pines." The anthropologists call me 'Berdache,' but this is wrong. This word has come a long way from its beginnings in Arabia. It means "kept boy" . . . that, I am not. The Western medical community calls me 'transsexual', but this is not entirely true either. I am 'winkte,' I am a gender-crosser. My people see me as multidimensional and I do not have to fight for a place in my society to be accepted. I already have a place, a very special and sacred place. In my culture I represent a profound healing, a reconciliation of the most fundamental rift that divides us, human from human - gender.

X-gender (Xジェンダー). In Japan, this is a common transgender identity that isn't female or male.

Xanith: Oman remained isolated from the world until the 1970s, and because of this solitude the country formed a slightly different view of sexuality than its neighbors. They recognize a third gender known as Xanith, which refers to a man who behaves like a woman and plays the passive role in homosexual relationships. Because of this behavior, Xaniths are subject to the same laws of society that apply to women. They are not allowed to cross dress, but they dress in a similar fashion as women and frequently work as prostitutes.

Xenogender: Coined by Baaphomett in 2014. "A gender that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender; more concerned with crafting other methods of gender categorization and hierarchy such as those relating to animals, plants, or other creatures/things."[25] An umbrella term for many nonbinary gender identities defined in reference to very different ideas than female or male. May be synonymous with noungender. Here is a guide to various xenogenders.

yinyang ren (陰陽人). In China, yinyang ren are people who have an equal amount of both feminine (yin) and masculine (yang) qualities. Usually this means gender nonconforming and bisexual, but can also mean transgender or intersex.

Zachar: Old Judaism recognized six genders: zachar, nekeivah, androgynos, ay’lonit, saris, and tumtum. A zachar is male, a nekeivah is female, and an androgynos is half-male, half-female.

Zenana/Zenani (Pakistan, India): Effeminate or feminine male-assigned individuals, who may or may not dress in feminine attire.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I'm not greedy- I only wanted the one and was denied it for an entire childhood.

Alas!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm sorry that people were so shitty to you.

[grayestofghosts]

You may want to add the alternate spelling “timtum” to “tumtum”. I think “timtum” is more associated with modern Jewish trans/NB identity, though.

Okay ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Can you recommend a reference for the modern spelling and definition? I think the only versions I've seen said tumtum.

Re: Okay ...

[grayestofghosts]

Probably most famous usage is from this zine: http://www.qzap.org/v5/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1552 and they use the term on their website https://www.micahbazant.com/about
It’s also used elsewhere but a lot of these references I can find quickly directly reference this zine or the resource mentioned in it. I’m pretty sure timtum is Yiddish while tumtum is Hebrew but they both refer to the same concept.

Re: Okay ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Thank you! I have added the magazine definitions.

I loved The Joy of Yiddish. :D We still use "farblondjet" in discussing degrees of lostness.

[mirrorofsmoke]

We didn’t know systemgender is a term. So many thinky thoughts.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Any version of having more than one gender is different from the usual one-per-person. But having multiple genders within a single person, and having multiple genders within a plural system, are different experiences even though they both tend to broaden one's awareness of what gender can be. So, they get different names.

I'm glad I could help.

Language is understanding

[zeeth_kyrah]

So the heavens have spoken.. I now have some focus for the ambivalence I've been feeling: I have a given name that directly works against me!

That idea has given me a lens to capture and examine my feelings better. If I had more "wise-being" (human-level intelligence) incarnations, I'd have a lot better understanding of what my feelings actually mean, but the name problem I can now set aside better. It would be deeply appropriate to change my name to something else, and ridiculous to retain the old one.

Even if I do love weaponry of all kinds.

Re: Language is understanding

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>So the heavens have spoken.. I now have some focus for the ambivalence I've been feeling: <<

I'm glad I could help.

>> I have a given name that directly works against me!<<

Well, that sucks. :(

>> That idea has given me a lens to capture and examine my feelings better.<<

Yay!

>> If I had more "wise-being" (human-level intelligence) incarnations, I'd have a lot better understanding of what my feelings actually mean,<<

There are plenty of resources about learning how to identify, understand, and work with feelings. I've linked some of them in Shiv's thread.

>> but the name problem I can now set aside better. It would be deeply appropriate to change my name to something else, and ridiculous to retain the old one.<<

Then I wish you luck in finding a new one.

>>Even if I do love weaponry of all kinds.<<

Weapons have their uses. Perhaps you could keep the old name somewhere in case you ever need it again, while wearing a new one for everyday purposes.