What Are the Different Types of Gender Identity?
Education about the many different types of gender identity is important. It’s only by teaching others that we can promote acceptance, understanding, and tolerance.
Agender
If you identify as agender, you might not identify as either female or male. In fact, you might not identify with any gender at all.
Androgyne
Androgyne signifies you identify as both female and male.
Bigender
When you identify as bigender, you identify with two genders.
Butch
Butch is a term you might use if you’re a lesbian woman looking to describe what society deems as your “masculinity.”
Cisgender
Cisgender is identifying with the sex you’re born with. For example, you are cisgender if you were born with male sex parts and identify as a male.
Gender expansive
Gender expansive can be used if you’ve gone beyond your individual culture’s standardized definitions of gender. You may want to broaden the cultural expectations that have been placed on your gender.
Gender fluid
Gender fluid can express if you move either outside of, or between, the gender expectations that are based on societal standards.
Gender outlaw
If you identify as gender outlaw, you refuse to let society define your gender.
Genderqueer
When your identity isn’t aligned with the societal expectations (or “norms”) that are placed on your assigned sex, you might identify as genderqueer. You can also use this term if you identify with a combination of genders.
Non-binary
Non-binary refers to identifying with a gender other than male or female. It’s common (but not always true) for those who identify or come out as transgender to also identify as non-binary.
Omnigender
Omnigender means you have and experience all genders.
Polygender/pangender
Those who identify as polygender or pangender have parts of or experience more than one gender.
Transgender/trans
When you identify as transgender, you were born with different sex parts than what you identify with. The shortened term, “trans,” serves as a more inclusive term that’s commonly used if you are non-binary or gender nonconforming.
