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This is a list of gender identities. Gender identity can be understood to include how people describe, present, and feel about themselves.{{cite news |title=Understanding Gender Identity |url=https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-gender-identity/ |access-date=4 June 2022 |work=Cleveland Clinic |date=March 30, 2022 |archive-date=8 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608195644/https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-gender-identity/ |url-status=live }}
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- Abinary{{Cite web |title=Trans*, Inter*, abinär |url=https://aidshilfe.org/trans-inter-abinaer/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Fachstelle für Sexualität und Gesundheit |language=de-DE |archive-date=2021-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016231437/https://aidshilfe.org/trans-inter-abinaer/ |url-status=dead }}
- Agender{{cite web |title=Gender Identity/Gender Expression: Legal Enforcement Guidance |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/law/legal-guidances-gender-identity-expression.page |publisher=New York City Commission on Human Rights |access-date=24 July 2022 |archive-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522031213/https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/law/legal-guidances-gender-identity-expression.page |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last1=Worthen |first1=Meredith G. F. |title=Sexual Deviance and Society: A Sociological Examination |date=2021 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781000421064 |oclc=1264390358 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QSE-EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22List+of+gender+identities%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA115 |access-date=1 June 2022 |quote=Gender [...] options for English platform Facebook users in 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Mallenbaum |first1=Carly |title=What you need to know about Tinder's new gender identity terms |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/11/15/tinder-app-transgender-agender-genderqueer/93873790/ |access-date=1 June 2022 |work=USA Today |date=November 15, 2016 |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531154858/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/11/15/tinder-app-transgender-agender-genderqueer/93873790/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agender | title=Definition of AGENDER | website=Merriam-Webster | access-date=10 June 2022 | archive-date=28 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528005534/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agender | url-status=live }}
- Agenderfluid
- Agenderflux
- Genderblank
- Genderfree
- Polyagender{{Cite web |date=2023-07-27 |title=Resources for the agender community |url=https://www.akt.org.uk/resources/resources-for-the-agender-community/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=akt |language=en}}
- {{wt|en|ambigender|Ambigender|i=-}}{{Cite book |last1=Ratts |first1=Manivong J. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/898418385 |title=Counseling for multiculturalism and social justice : integration, theory, and application |last2=Pedersen |first2=Paul B. |publisher= John Wiley & Sons|year=2014 |isbn=978-1-119-02602-0 |oclc=898418385}}
- Androgyne{{cite news |last1=Puckett |first1=Lily |title=Merriam-Webster Just Added 2 Very Important, Inclusive Words to the Dictionary |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/merriam-webster-cisgender-genderqueer-added-to-dictionary |access-date=1 June 2022 |work=Teen Vogue |date=April 22, 2016 |archive-date=4 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104041855/https://www.teenvogue.com/story/merriam-webster-cisgender-genderqueer-added-to-dictionary |url-status=live }}
- Androgynous
- Aporagender{{Cite book |last=Hardell |first=Ash |author-link=Ash Hardell |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/962360897 |title=The ABC's of LGBT+ |date=2016 |isbn=9781633534094 |location=[Coral Gables, Florida] |oclc=962263268}}{{Cite web |date=2020-07-03 |title=Aporagender (a Complete Guide) {{!}} OptimistMinds |url=https://optimistminds.com/aporagender/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |language=en-US}}
- Autigender{{Cite book |last1=Purkis |first1=Yenn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRhjEAAAQBAJ&dq=autigender&pg=PA32 |title=The Awesome Autistic Guide for Trans Teens |last2=Rose |first2=Sam |date=2022-06-21 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |isbn=978-1-83997-077-1 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Laube |first=Aly |date=2023-06-22 |title=Understanding Auti-gender and Auti-Ace Identities |url=https://www.autismbc.ca/blog/advocacy/auti-gender-auti-ace-identities/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=AutismBC |language=en-US}}
B
- Bakla{{cite journal |last1=Tan |first1=Michael L. |date=2001 |title=Survival Through Pluralism: Emerging Gay Communities in the Philippines |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |volume=40 |issue=3/4 |pages=117–42 |doi=10.1300/j082v40n03_07 |pmid=11386330 |s2cid=43819477}}
- Bigender
- Binary{{cite journal |last1=Haig |first1=David |author-link1=David Haig (biologist) |date=April 2004 |title=The Inexorable Rise of Gender and the Decline of Sex: Social Change in Academic Titles, 1945–2001 |url=http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/publications_files/04inexorablerise.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=87–96 |citeseerx=10.1.1.359.9143 |doi=10.1023/B:ASEB.0000014323.56281.0d |pmid=15146141 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525090802/http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/Publications_files/04InexorableRise.pdf |archive-date=25 May 2011 |s2cid=7005542}}{{cite journal |last1=Stuhlsatz |first1=Molley A.M |last2=Buck Bracey |first2=Zoe E. |last3=Donovan |first3=Brian M. |date=23 November 2020 |title=Investigating Conflation of Sex and Gender Language in Student Writing About Genetics |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11191-020-00177-9https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11191-020-00177-9 |journal=Science & Education Volume |volume=29 |issue= 6|pages=1567–1594 |doi=10.1007/s11191-020-00177-9 |bibcode=2020Sc&Ed..29.1567S |s2cid=229490367 |access-date=23 July 2022 |quote=However, 40% of the students in the genetics of human sex condition and 16% in the genetics of plant sex condition used gender language in their responses. The patterns associated with students who use gender language in their responses in the genetics of plant or human sex conditions are indicative of conflation. ...Conflation of biological sex and gender has been shown to engender unscientific essentialist beliefs about the nature of human difference that could manifest in sexism and transphobia. |via=EBSCOhost}}{{cite journal |last1=Hall |first1=Jennifer |last2=Jao |first2=Limin |last3=Di Placido |first3=Cinzia |last4=Manikis |first4=Rebecca |date=July 2021 |title='Deep questions for a Saturday morning': An investigation of the Australian and Canadian general public's definitions of gender |url=http://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/9k41zk303 |journal=Social Science Quarterly |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |volume=102 |issue=4 |pages=1866–1881 |doi=10.1111/ssqu.13021 |s2cid=238679176 |access-date=24 July 2022 |quote=The next most common response category pertained to responses in which participants simply provided the terms male and female, without any further description or explanation. Examples of such responses included: 'Gender would be male/female' (A2P45) and 'Male or female' (C3P48). ... As shown, similar proportions of Australian and Canadian participants provided responses that were coded as Feelings/Identification or that were coded as Biology. The stark difference in response patterns by country pertained to responses that were coded as Male/Female: This was the modal category for the Australian participants, with nearly one‐third of participants providing such a response, whereas Male/Female was not even in the top three response categories for the Canadian participants. |via=EBSCOhost}}
- Bissu{{Cite web |last=Stables |first=Daniel |title=Asia's isle of five separate genders |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210411-asias-isle-of-five-separate-genders |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}
- Butch
C
- Calabai
- Calalai
- Cis
- Cisgender{{cite web |title=cisgender |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cisgender |website=Merriam-Webster |access-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-date=March 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326162554/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cisgender |url-status=live }} can be defined as "personal identity and gender corresponds with their sex assigned at birth."{{cite book |author1=Teresa Ryan Manzella |author2=Jace Valcore |editor1-last=Fugate |editor1-first=C. Matthew |editor2-last=Behrens |editor2-first=Wendy A. |editor3-last=Boswell |editor3-first=Cecelia |editor4-last=Davis |editor4-first=Joy Lawson |title=Culturally Responsive Teaching in Gifted Education: Building Cultural Competence and Serving Diverse Student Populations |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781000491500 |oclc=1268983875 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeRDEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22List+of+gender+identities%22&pg=PT152 |access-date=1 June 2022 |chapter=Transgender and nonbinary youth |archive-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610211630/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeRDEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22List+of+gender+identities%22&pg=PT152 |url-status=live }}
- Cis female
- Cis male
- Cis man
- Cis woman
D
- Demi-boy
- Demiflux{{Cite book |last1=Brill |first1=Stephanie |last2=Kenney |first2=Lisa |title=The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-binary Teens |publisher=Cleis Press |location=Berkeley, California |year=2016 |isbn=978-1627781749 |oclc=933590366 |page=311}}
- Demigender
- Demi-girl
- Demi-guy{{Cite journal |last1=Tan |first1=Sulin |last2=Weisbart |first2=Cindy |date=2021-09-30 |title=Asian-Canadian trans youth: Identity development in a hetero-cis-normative white world. |url=http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/sgd0000512 |journal=Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=488–499 |language=en |doi=10.1037/sgd0000512 |s2cid=244195143 |issn=2329-0390}}
- Demi-man
- Demi-woman
- Dual gender
E
- Eunuch{{Cite journal |last1=Peeran |first1=SyedWali |last2=Ramalingam |first2=Karthikeyan |date=2016 |title=Study on eunuchs/transgenders: An opinion |journal=Journal of Forensic Dental Sciences |language=en |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=108–109 |doi=10.4103/0975-1475.186362 |doi-access=free |issn=0975-1475 |pmc=4970405 |pmid=27555729}}
F
G
- Gender bender{{cite journal |last1=Adomaitis |first1=Alyssa |last2=Espinosa |first2=Eleazer |last3=Saiki |first3=Diana |title=Dress, Gender, and Identity: An Inclusion of Many |journal=International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings |year=2018 |volume=75 |issue=1 |url=https://iastatedigitalpress.com/itaa/article/id/1441/ |access-date=2 June 2022}}
- {{wt|en|gender diverse|Gender diverse|i=-}}
- Gender gifted
- {{wt|en|genderfae|Genderfae|i=-}}{{cite web | title=08222022 NEWS AND SPORT | website=Issuu | date=August 22, 2022 | url=https://issuu.com/thetribune242/docs/08222022_a01_main_trib-combined | access-date=August 25, 2023}}{{rp|11}}
- Genderfluid can be defined as a gender identity that is "at times more masculine or feminine, and at times feeling more like a man or woman."{{rp|102}}
- {{wt|en|genderflux|Genderflux|i=-}}
- {{wt|en|genderfuck|Genderfuck|i=-}}{{Cite journal |last=Horncastle |first=Julia |date=2008-09-11 |title=Queer Bisexuality: Perceptions of Bisexual Existence, Distinctions, and Challenges |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15299710802142192 |journal=Journal of Bisexuality |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1–2 |pages=25–49 |doi=10.1080/15299710802142192 |s2cid=143279540 |issn=1529-9716}}
- {{wt|en|genderless|Genderless|i=-}}{{rp|101}}
- Gender nonconforming
- Genderqueer
- Gender questioning
- Gender variant
- Graygender{{Cite web |last=Santiago |date=2019-05-24 |title=The Gender Identification Flags You Should Know About For Pride Season! |url=http://www.thelgbtsentinel.com/gender-identification-flags-know-pride-season/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=The LGBT Sentinel |language=en-US}}
H
I
- {{wt|en|intergender|Intergender|i=-}} can be defined as "an identity somewhat between male and female".{{rp|101}}
- Intersex
- Ipsogender{{Cite book |last=Wood |first=Gary W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmRRDwAAQBAJ&dq=ipso-gender&pg=PP1 |title=The Psychology of Gender |date=2018-03-15 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-71870-7 |language=en}}
K
- Kathoey{{Cite web |last=jilada |date=2015-04-28 |title=The Third Gender in Thailand – Kathoey |url=https://maytermthailand.org/2015/04/27/the-third-gender-in-thailand-kathoey/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Service Learning in Thailand |language=en |archive-date=2021-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524005626/https://maytermthailand.org/2015/04/27/the-third-gender-in-thailand-kathoey/ |url-status=dead }}
M
- Māhū{{cite news |last1=Mcavoy |first1=Audrey |title=Hawaii museum revisits history of gender-fluid healers |url=https://apnews.com/article/travel-religion-education-museums-a41e8c9b13b872ffe37ab5192cb5e62d |access-date=20 July 2023 |work=AP News |date=8 July 2022 |language=en}}
- Male
- Male to female
- Man
- Man of trans experience
- Maverique{{Cite web |title=» Maverique |url=https://orientando.org/listas/lista-de-generos/maverique/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Orientando – Um espaço de aprendizagem |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite web |date=2021-11-23 |title=What Does Maverique Mean? + Other Maverique Information To Help You Be A Better Ally! |url=https://queerintheworld.com/what-does-maverique-mean/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Queer In The World – LGBT+ Lifestyle, Pop Culture & Travel |language=en}}
- Meta-gender{{Cite news |last=Graham |first=Sharyn |date=2019-02-26 |title=This Indonesian community has five genders — one of them is under threat of dying out |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-27/indonesia-fifth-gender-might-soon-disappear/10846570 |access-date=2023-07-15}}{{Cite book |last1=Viloria |first1=Hida |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qoq5DwAAQBAJ&q=%22meta-gender%22+OR+%22meta-gendered%22+OR+%22metagenderism%22+OR+%22metagender%22+OR++%22metagendered%22&pg=PA102 |title=The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex |last2=Nieto |first2=Maria |date=2020-02-21|page=102 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |isbn=978-1-78775-266-5 |language=en}}
- MTF
- {{wt|en|multigender|Multigender|i=-}}
- MuxeChiñas, Beverly (1995). Isthmus Zapotec attitudes toward sex and gender anomalies, pp. 293-302 in Stephen O. Murray (ed.), "Latin American Male Homosexualities" Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Chiñas (p. 294) defines muxe as "persons who appear to be predominantly male but display certain female characteristics" and fill a "third gender role between men and women, taking some of the characteristics of each."
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- Neither
- {{wt|en|neurogender|Neurogender|i=-}}{{Cite journal |last1=Vogel |first1=Erin A. |last2=Humfleet |first2=Gary L. |last3=Meacham |first3=Meredith |last4=Prochaska |first4=Judith J. |last5=Ramo |first5=Danielle E. |date=2019-08-01 |title=Sexual and gender minority young adults' smoking characteristics: Assessing differences by sexual orientation and gender identity |journal=Addictive Behaviors |language=en |volume=95 |pages=98–102 |doi=10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.03.005 |pmid=30875534 |pmc=6545125 |issn=0306-4603}}{{Cite book |last=Maxfield |first=Sparrow |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1196200638 |title=Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words |date=21 September 2020 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |isbn=978-1-78775-015-9 |oclc=1196200638}}{{Citation |last1=Cipolla |first1=Cyd |title=Neurogenderings and Neuroethics |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315708652-29/neurogenderings-neuroethics-cyd-cipolla-kristina-gupta |work=The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics |doi=10.4324/9781315708652-29 |access-date=2022-07-23 |last2=Gupta |first2=Kristina|year=2017 |pages=381–393 |isbn=9781315708652 }}
- {{wt|en|neutrois|Neutrois|i=-}}
- non-binary can be defined as "does not subscribe to the gender binary but identifies with neither, both, or beyond male and female". The term may be used as "an umbrella term, encompassing several gender identities, including intergender, agender, xenogender, genderfluid, and demigender."{{cite book |last1=Catalano |first1=Joseph T. |title=Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrows Trends |date=2019 |publisher=F.A. Davis Company |isbn=9780803674899 |oclc=1091291657 |page=560 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDHEDwAAQBAJ |access-date=4 June 2022 |archive-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610211609/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nursing_Now/GDHEDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }} Some non-binary identities are inclusive, because two or more genders are referenced, such as androgyne/androgynous, intergender, bigender, trigender, polygender, and pangender.{{rp|101}} Some non-binary identities are exclusive, because no gender is referenced, such as agender, genderless, neutrois, and xenogender.{{rp|101–102}}
- Non-binary transgender
O
- Omnigender
- Other{{rp|102–103}}
P
- Pangender
- Person of transgendered experience
- Polygender{{Cite book |last1=Ginicola |first1=Misty M. |last2=Smith |first2=Cheri |last3=Filmore |first3=Joel M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pi8bDgAAQBAJ&q=polygender&pg=PA366 |title=Affirmative Counseling with LGBTQI+ People |date=10 February 2017 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-37549-4 |oclc=974718687 |pages=366 |language=en |access-date=22 June 2021 |archive-date=3 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803194905/https://books.google.com/books?id=pi8bDgAAQBAJ&q=polygender&pg=PA366 |url-status=live}}
Q
- Queer{{Cite book |last=Carnes |first=Neal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88aHDwAAQBAJ |title=Queer Community: Identities, Intimacies, and Ideology |date=2019-02-13 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-63931-9 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Holická |first=B. Miriama |year=2022 |title=Semiotics of Gender"–"A Queer Reading of Gender as a Social Construct |url=https://theses.cz/id/os5o0i/Semiotics_of_gender_-_A_queer_reading_of_gender_as_a_soci.pdf |journal=Theses.cz |language= |location=Olomouc}}
S
T
- Third gender{{rp|102–104}}
- Trans can be defined as "outside the gender binary; is not cisgender."
- Trans*{{cite magazine |last1=Steinmetz |first1=Katy |title=The Oxford English Dictionary Added 'Trans*.' Here's What the Label Means |url=https://time.com/5211799/what-does-trans-asterisk-star-mean-dictionary/ |access-date=18 December 2022 |magazine=Time |date=April 3, 2018}}
- Trans female
- Trans male
- Trans man
- Trans person
- Trans woman
- Transgender can be defined as "gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth."
- Transgender female
- Transgender male
- Transgender man
- Transgender person
- Transgender woman
- Transfeminine
- Transmasculine
- Transsexual
- Transsexual female
- Transsexual male
- Transsexual man
- Transsexual person
- Transsexual woman
- Travesti{{Cite book |last1=Kulick |first1=Don |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1137537488 |title=Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes |last2=McCallum |first2=Cecília Anne |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1998 |isbn=9780226461007 |oclc=1137537488}}
- Trigender{{Cite book |last1=Bosson |first1=Jennifer K. |first2=Joseph A. |last3=Buckner |first3=Camille E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XStGDwAAQBAJ&q=Trigender&pg=PT54 |title=The Psychology of Sex and Gender|last2=Vandello |date=17 January 2018 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-1-5063-3134-8 |oclc=1045400244 |language=en |access-date=22 June 2021 |archive-date=3 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803194904/https://books.google.com/books?id=XStGDwAAQBAJ&q=Trigender&pg=PT54 |url-status=live}}
- Tumtum
- Two spirit{{rp|102–104}}
V
W
X
- X-gender
- X-jendā{{Cite journal |last=Dale |first=S. P. F. |date=2014-05-01 |title=X-Jendā |journal=TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly |volume=1 |issue=1–2 |pages=270–272 |doi=10.1215/23289252-2400235 |issn=2328-9252|doi-access=free }}
- Xenogender{{Cite journal |last=Morin |first=Florentin Félix |date=3 April 2017 |title=EGO HIPPO: the subject as metaphor |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0969725X.2017.1322822 |journal=Angelaki |language=en |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=87–96 |doi=10.1080/0969725X.2017.1322822 |s2cid=149400086 |issn=0969-725X |access-date=1 June 2022 |archive-date=4 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304131420/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0969725X.2017.1322822 |url-status=live }} can be defined as a gender identity that references "ideas and identities outside of gender".{{rp|102}} This may include descriptions of gender identity in terms of "their first name or as a real or imaginary animal" or "texture, size, shape, light, sound, or other sensory characteristics".{{cite book |last1=Beattie |first1=Michael |last2=Lenihan |first2=Penny |last3=Dundas |first3=Robin |title=Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity |date=2018 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |isbn=9781784504816 |oclc=1028945173 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JB88DwAAQBAJ |access-date=4 June 2022}}{{rp|102}}
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