gender ambiguity
Neither distinctly categorized
Gender ambiguity is uncertainty or lack of clarity about whether someone is male or female.
The term may describe physical presentation that doesn't signal gender clearly, or situations where gender remains unspecified or unknown: The gender ambiguity of the author's name made assumptions impossible.
In discussions of identity, it can describe someone whose gender expression falls between or outside traditional categories.
- androgynyCombined sex characteristics
- nonbinaryOutside male-female categories
- fluidityState of flowing freely
- blurLack of sharpness
- spectrumContinuous range of values
liminal · questioning · boy or girl · genderqueer · ambivalent · mix and match · neutral · indeterminate · shapeshifting · neither · both · in-between · softness · androgynous · transgressive · uncertain · passing · presentation
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