GLOSSARY — GENDER IDENTITIES

The following are some gender identities and their definitions.

Agender: A person who is agender does not identify with any particular gender, or they may have no gender at all.

Androgyne: A person who identifies as androgyne has a gender that is either both masculine and feminine or between masculine and feminine.

Bigender: A person who identifies as bigender has two genders. People who are bigender often display cultural masculine and feminine roles.

Butch: Women, especially lesbians, tend to use this term to describe the way they express masculinity, or what society defines as masculinity.

Cisgender: A cisgender person identifies with the sex that they were assigned at birth.

For example, a cisgender woman is someone who still identifies with the sex — female, in this case — a doctor assigned them at birth.

Genderfluid: A person who identifies as genderfluid has a gender identity and presentation that shifts between, or shifts outside of, society’s expectations of gender.

Gender Outlaw: A person who identifies as a gender outlaw refuses to allow society’s definition of “male” or “female” to define them.

Genderqueer: A person who identifies as genderqueer has a gender identity or expression that is not the same as society’s expectations for their assigned sex or assumed gender.

Genderqueer can also refer to a person who identifies outside of how society defines gender or someone who identifies with a combination of genders.

Masculine of Center: A person who uses this term is usually a lesbian or a trans person who leans more toward masculine performances and experiences of gender.

Nonbinary: A person who identifies as nonbinary does not experience gender within the gender binary.

Omnigender: A person who identifies as omnigender experiences and possesses all genders.

Polygender and Pangender: People who identify as polygender or pangender experience and display parts of multiple genders.

Transgender: An umbrella term that encompasses all people who experience and identify with a different gender than that which their assigned sex at birth would suggest.

Two-Spirit: There exist many definitions of the term Two-Spirit, it is also a cultural term that is reserved for those who identify as an Indigenous Native American.

Source: LGBTQIA Resource Center.