NOTE: There may be an overlap among one or more gender identities.
Select a letter below to browse alphabetically.
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- Abimegender: Associated with being profound, deep, and infinite. May be used alone or in combination with other genders.
- Abinary: A gender identity that does not fit within the binary of male or female.
- 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 their 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.
- Agender: A person who does not identify with any gender.
- 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: A fluctuating gender identity that is sometimes male and sometimes female.
- Ambisexual: Having, showing, or involving feelings of sexual attraction for both sexes.
- 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 whose gender identity is a mix of both male and female characteristics.
- Androgynos: A Jewish term for someone with both male and female sexual characteristics.
- Androgynous: Having physical characteristics of both male and female 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: Knowing what are not the characteristics of gender but not knowing what are its characteristics. A person hides its primary characteristics from the individual.
- Aporagender: A gender identity separate from male, female, and anything in between.
- Asexual: A person who feels very little or no sexual desire.
- Astergender: The person has a bright and celestial gender identity.
- Astral gender: Having a gender identity that feels to be related to space.
- Autigender: A gender identity that is deeply influenced by being autistic.
- Autogender: Having a gender experience that is deeply connected and personal to oneself.
- Axigender: A gender identity between the two extremes of agender and any other type of gender. Both genders are experienced one at a time without any overlapping.
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- Bakla: A Filipino term for a person assigned male at birth who has a feminine gender expression.
- Bicurious: A person who is open to or curious about having sexual relations with a person whose sex differs from that of their usual sexual partners.
- Bigender: A person who experiences two gender identities, either simultaneously or varying between them.
- Binary: Relating to, composed of, or involving two things, especially gender identities of male and female.
- Biogender: Having a gender that is closely related to nature.
- Bisexual: A person who is sexually attracted to people of their sex and people of a different sex.
- Bissu: A gender identity in Bugis society that is considered a sacred gender, transcending the binary.
- 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.
- Butch: A masculine gender expression or identity, often but not exclusively used by lesbians.
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- Caelgender: This gender identity shares the qualities or aesthetics of outer space.
- Calabai: A gender identity in Bugis culture for people assigned male at birth who take on feminine roles.
- Calalai: A gender identity in Bugis culture for people assigned female at birth who take on masculine roles.
- 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.
- Cis: Short for cisgender, referring to people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth.
- Cisgender: A person whose gender identity corresponds with their birth sex.
- Cis female: A person assigned female at birth who identifies as a woman.
- Cis male: A person assigned male at birth who identifies as a man.
- Cis man: A person assigned male at birth who identifies as a man.
- Cis woman: A person assigned female at birth who identifies as a woman.
- 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 person.
- Colorgender: 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: A person feels their gender only under specific circumstances.
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- Deliciagender: Associated with the feeling of having multiple genders but preferring one over the other.
- Demi-boy: A gender identity that is partially, but not wholly, male.
- Demifluid: Having multiple genders, some fluid while others are static.
- Demiflux: A gender identity that is partially fluid with a fixed portion that is non-binary.
- Demigender: A gender identity that is partially one gender and partially another.
- Demi-girl: A gender identity that is partially, but not wholly, female.
- Demi-guy: A gender identity that is partially, but not wholly, male.
- Demi-man: A gender identity that is partially, but not wholly, male.
- Diamoric: A non-binary person who is attracted to non-binary people.
- Domgender: The individual has multiple genders with one dominating over the rest.
- Dual gender: A gender identity that includes two genders.
- Duragender: Having more than one gender with one lasting longer than the others.
- Demi-woman: A gender identity that is partially, but not wholly, female.
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- Egogender: It is a personal type of gender identified by the individual alone. It is based on the person’s experience within the self.
- Endosex: A person whose sex characteristics fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies.
- 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.
- Eunuch: A person who has been castrated, especially one formerly employed to guard women's living areas at an oriental court.
- 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.
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- Fa'afafine: A third gender role in Samoan culture, assigned male at birth but embodying both masculine and feminine traits.
- Femfluid: The person is fluid or fluctuating regarding the feminine genders.
- Female: A sex assigned at birth based on biological characteristics typically associated with women.
- Female to male: A transgender person who was assigned female at birth but identifies as male.
- Femme: A queer identity characterized by feminine attributes or presentation.
- 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.
- FTM: Abbreviation for "female-to-male," referring to transgender men.
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- Gemigender: The person has two genders that are opposite yet they flux and work together.
- Gender bender: A person who deliberately challenges traditional gender roles.
- Genderblank: Closely related to a blank space.
- Gender diverse: An umbrella term for gender identities that demonstrate a diversity of expression beyond the binary framework.
- Gender gifted: A positive term for people whose gender identity differs from societal norms.
- Genderflow: The gender identity is fluid between infinite feelings.
- Genderfluid: A gender identity that varies over time or depending on the situation.
- Genderflux: A gender identity that changes in intensity over time.
- Genderfuck: A gender identity or expression that deliberately mixes or subverts traditional gender cues.
- Genderfuzz: More than one gender is blurred together.
- Genderless: Having no gender identity or expression.
- Genderpuck: The person resists to fit in societal norms concerning genders.
- Gendervague: A gender identity that is not definable or clearly expressed.
- Gender nonconforming: A person whose behavior or appearance does not conform to prevailing cultural and social expectations about what is appropriate to their gender.
- Genderqueer: A gender identity that is neither male nor female, is between or beyond genders, or is some combination of genders.
- Gender questioning: The process of exploring one's own gender identity.
- Gender variant: Displaying gender traits that are not normatively associated with their assigned sex.
- Gender witched: The person is inclined toward the notion of having one gender but does not know which.
- Girlflux: The individual identifies themselves as a female but with varying intensities of female identities.
- Graygender: A gender identity that is mostly outside the gender binary but with some connection to it.
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- Healgender: A gender identity that gives the person peace, calm, and positivity.
- Heterosexual: A person sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.
- Hijra: A third gender identity recognized in South Asian cultures.
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- Intergender: A gender identity between or beyond the binary of female and male.
- Intersex: A person born with sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies.
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- Kathoey: A transgender identity recognized in Thailand, often referred to as a "third gender."
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- Lesbian: A woman who is sexually attracted to women.
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- Male: A sex assigned at birth based on biological characteristics typically associated with men.
- Male to female: A transgender person who was assigned male at birth but identifies as female.
- Man: An adult human male.
- Man of trans experience: A transgender man.
- Maverique: A non-binary gender identity characterized by autonomy and conviction about one's inner sense of self.
- Mirrorgender: Changing one's gender type based on the people surrounding.
- MTF: Abbreviation for "male-to-female," referring to transgender women.
- Multigender: A gender identity that includes multiple genders.
- Muxe: A gender identity in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca, Mexico, describing a person assigned male at birth who assumes female roles.
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- Neither: A gender identity that is neither male nor female.
- Neurogender: A gender identity that is influenced by or linked to one's neurotype or neurological conditions.
- Neutrois: A non-binary gender identity that is considered neutral or null.
- Non-binary: A gender identity that does not fit into the binary of male or female.
- Non-binary transgender: A person who is both non-binary and transgender.
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- Omnigender: A gender identity that includes all genders.
- Other: A gender identity that does not conform to societal norms or expectations.
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- Pangender: A gender identity that includes all genders.
- Polygender (polysexual): A gender identity that includes multiple genders.
- Person of transgendered experience: A term used to describe someone who has transitioned or is transitioning from one gender to another.
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- Queer: An umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or cisgender.
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- Sekhet: An ancient Egyptian term for a third gender or intersex individuals.
- Straight: A colloquial term for heterosexual.
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- Third gender: A gender category that is neither male nor female.
- Trans: An abbreviation of transgender.
- Trans female: A transgender person who identifies as female.
- Trans male: A transgender person who identifies as male.
- Trans man: A man who was assigned female at birth.
- Trans person: A person whose gender identity differs from their assigned sex at birth.
- Trans woman: A woman who was assigned male at birth.
- Transgender: A person whose gender identity differs from their assigned sex at birth.
- Transgender female: A transgender person who identifies as female.
- Transgender male: A transgender person who identifies as male.
- Transgender man: A man who was assigned female at birth.
- Transgender person: A person whose gender identity differs from their assigned sex at birth.
- Transgender woman: A woman who was assigned male at birth.
- Transfeminine: A term describing transgender people who were assigned male at birth but identify more with femininity.
- Transmasculine: A term describing transgender people who were assigned female at birth but identify more with masculinity.
- Transsexual: An older term for transgender, sometimes still used by individuals who have permanently changed their bodies through medical interventions.
- Transsexual female: A transsexual person who identifies as female.
- Transsexual male: A transsexual person who identifies as male.
- Transsexual man: A transsexual person who identifies as a man.
- Transsexual person: A person who has undergone medical treatment to change their physical sex.
- Transsexual woman: A transsexual person who identifies as a woman.
- Travesti: A gender identity in Latin American cultures, typically describing people assigned male at birth who have a feminine gender expression.
- Trigender: A gender identity that involves three distinct genders.
- Tumtum: A Jewish term for a person whose sex is unknown or unspecified.
- Two spirit: A modern umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe gender-variant individuals in their communities.
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- Vakasalewalewa: A third gender role recognized in Fijian culture.
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- Waria: An Indonesian term for a third gender identity.
- Winkte: A social role in Lakota culture of a male-bodied person who has a non-masculine gender identity.
- Woman: An adult human female.
- Woman of trans experience: A transgender woman.
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- X-gender: A non-binary gender identity used in Japan.
- Xenogender: A gender identity that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender.
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