HAVING TROUBLE DECIDING? HERE ARE 21 GENDERS TO PICK FROM
To some, when it comes to gender, there are simply males and females. However, lobby groups will tell you that there are many more genders with which people identify. Here are some of the terms that are in current usage, according to transgender youth support group Mermaids:
1. CISGENDER
Sex at birth is the same as your gender identity now.
2.TRANSGENDER
Sex at birth does not match your gender identity now.
3.TRANSSEXUAL
Happy for others to know you are having medical treatment to change sex.
4. TRANS MAN Born female but now identifies as a man. 5.TRANS WOMAN
Born male but now identifies as a woman.
6. MULTIGENDER
Having more than one gender identity at the same time or at different times.
7.BIGENDER
Having two genders which can be, but are not confined to, just male and female.
8.GENDERFLUID
Fluctuating between being male, female or other gender.
9.ANDROGYNE
Roughly in the middle of the gender spectrum between male and female.
10.NON-BINARY
Gender identity is neither exclusively male nor exclusively female.
11.GENDERQUEER
Similar to non-binary, but an older term now less commonly used.
12. PANGENDER
Having many genders that could be infinite in number.
13. POLYGENDER
Used to described having more than four genders.
14. TRANSMASCULINE
Born female but identifying with a masculine gender.
15. TRANSFEMININE
Born male but identifying with a feminine gender.
16. DEMIGIRL
Identifying as partly female and partly male or another gender.
17. DEMIBOY
Identifying as partly male and partly female or another gender.
18. NEUTROIS
Having a ‘neutral’ gender so neither male nor female.
19. AGENDER
Someone who identifies as having no gender.
20. TWO-SPIRIT
From Native American cultures, a person who has both masculine and feminine spirits.
21. THIRD GENDER
Someone categorised by themselves or society as neither male nor female.