genderqueerness
Beyond the binary
Genderqueerness is a gender identity that falls outside or between traditional categories of male and female.
Someone experiencing genderqueerness may identify as both genders, neither, or as something else entirely.
The term emphasizes fluidity and resistance to binary classification: Her genderqueerness meant she never felt comfortable checking just one box on forms.
Variable gender identity
- agenderHaving no gender identity
- bigenderTwo-gender identity
- nonbinaryOutside male-female categories
- enbyNonbinary person, casually
demiboy · demigirl · intergender · transfeminine · transmasculine · selfhood · authenticity · self-identification
Combined sex characteristics
- genderbendingTransgressing conventional sex categories
- dragResistance through fluid
- cross-dressingWearing another gender's clothing
- presentationFormal display to viewers
unisex · ambiguity · style · fashion · pronouns · they/them · neopronouns · binding
Satisfaction from one's achievements
- visibilityRange of clear sight
- activismDirect effort for reform
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- liberationRelease from constraint
rights · recognition · representation · allyship · community · solidarity · intersectionality · marginalization
Continuous change or flow
- transitionChange from one state
- shiftingChanging position or form
- oscillationRepeated back-and-forth movement
- mutabilityCapacity for alteration
variability · metamorphosis · evolution · spectrum · continuum · adaptability · malleability · plasticity
genderfluid
Variable gender identity
enby · demiboy · demigirl · intergender · transfeminine · transmasculine · selfhood · authenticity · self-identification · affirmation
androgyny
Combined sex characteristics
- genderbendingTransgressing conventional sex categories
- dragResistance through fluid
- cross-dressingWearing another gender's clothing
presentation · unisex · ambiguity · style · fashion · pronouns · they/them · neopronouns · binding · tucking
pride
Satisfaction from one's achievements
- visibilityRange of clear sight
- activismDirect effort for reform
- advocacyPleading for a cause
liberation · rights · recognition · representation · allyship · community · solidarity · intersectionality · marginalization · discrimination
flux
Continuous change or flow
- transitionChange from one state
- shiftingChanging position or form
- oscillationRepeated back-and-forth movement
mutability · variability · metamorphosis · evolution · spectrum · continuum · adaptability · malleability · plasticity · protean
deadname
Rejected former legal name
closeted · out · transitioning · intersex · HRT · binder · packer
genderqueernessbinary thinking
gender, queer, cisgender, transgender, gendered, genderless, queerness, genderqueer, genderqueers