List of nonbinary identities

This alphabetical list of some of the more common nonbinary identities lists many gender identities that are nonbinary. That is, those other than just female and male identities, which are the binary genders. This list gives names for nonbinary identities in English-speaking cultures, as well as those that are part of other cultures. (For the latter, please never use a word for your gender that belongs only to a culture or ethnic group that is not yours.) Some of these words for nonbinary identities have been used in writing for thousands of years. Meanwhile, some of these words were created more recently. This page lists fewer of the older gender-variant identities than the new ones, because it can be harder to say whether it's accurate to put those in the category of "nonbinary." See also List of uncommon nonbinary identities.
==A==
* agender. People have been calling themselves agender since at least before 2013. Some who call themselves agender have no gender identity (genderless). Others who call themselves agender have a gender identity, which isn't female or male, but neutral.Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 611. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 944 of the 3,055 respondents (31%) were agender."NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results." Gender Census. March 19, 2016. http://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results Archived on 17 July 2023 In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 2,723 of the 11,242 respondents (24.22%) were agender."Gender Census 2019 - The Worldwide tl;dr." Gender Census (blog). March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2020. https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Notable agender people include rapper Angel Haze,"angxl hxze on Twitter", February 14, 2015 Archived on 17 July 2023 "angxl hxze on Twitter", February 14, 2015 Archived on 17 July 2023 astrophysicist Amita Kuttner, model Juno Mitchell,Instagram bio accessed 1 June 2020 and poet Bogi Takács.Twitter bio Archived on 17 July 2023
* androgyne. This ancient word from Latin means man-woman, and it entered English in the 12th century."Androgyne." Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved July 5, 2020. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/androgyne Archived on 17 July 2023 For over a century, it has been used for a wide variety of kinds of gender nonconformance, gender identities, and gender expressions that do not fit into the gender binary. It has been used as an umbrella term for them. Androgyne can mean intersex, but not all androgynes are intersex.Raphael Carter, "Not this, not that: A meditation on labels." July 14, 1996. Androgyny RAQ (Rarely Asked Questions) (personal site). https://web.archive.org/web/20041209234238/http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/notthis.shtml Victorian and Edwardian era people who called themselves androgynes believed their gender-nonconforming natures originated in hidden intersex characteristics in their brain or body. This was the view of a notable androgyne, autobiographer Jennie June (b. 1874).Katz, Jonathan Ned. "Transgender Memoir of 1921 Found". Humanities and Social Sciences Online. N.p., 10 October 2010. Web. Retrieved April 13, 2017. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 380 of the respondents (12%) called themselves androgynes. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 1054 of the respondents (9.3%) called themselves androgynes.
==B==
* bigender, or bi-gender. A bigender person feels they have two gender identities, at the same time, or at different times.Schneider, M., et al, American Psychological Association, APA Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions, 2008 Answers to Your Questions About Transgender People, Gender Identity, And Gender Expression (PDF), date unknown, captured April 2016. Archived on 17 July 2023 A bigender person may move between their gender expressions based on their situation or their feelings. These two genders might be female and male, or they might be a different pair of genders. This identity (in the form "bigendered") was in use as early as 1995. In 1997, it was described in International Journal of Transgenderism. The American Psychological Association (APA) recognizes bigender as one type of transgender person. A 1999 survey conducted by the San Francisco Department of Public Health observed that, among the transgender community, less than 3% of those who were assigned male at birth and less than 8% of those who were assigned female at birth identified as bigender.Clements, K. "The Transgender Community Health Project." San Francisco Department of Public Health. 1999. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=cftg-02-02 Archived on 17 July 2023 In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 123 of the respondents (4%) were bigender. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 419 of the respondents (3.72%) were bigender. Notable bigender people include the top-charting musician B-Complex, the speculative fiction writer R.B. Lemberg,http://rblemberg.net/?page_id=16 Archived on 17 July 2023 and the young adult novelist Mia Siegert.
thumb|120px|A bissu leader named Puang Matoa Saidi, in 2004.M. Farid W Makkulau. "Remembered Saidi with Bissu Tradition." Palotaraq. May 26, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2020. https://palontaraq.id/2018/05/26/remembered-saidi-with-bissu-tradition [https://web.archive.org/web/20210301022402/https://palontaraq.id/2018/05/26/remembered-saidi-with-bissu-tradition Archived] on 17 July 2023
* bissu. For the past six centuries, the Bugis people of Indonesia have divided their society into five genders, which must coexist harmoniously: oroané (cisgender men), makkunrai (cisgender women), calabai (transgender women), calalai (transgender men), and bissu (all aspects of gender combined to form a whole)."Sulawesi's fifth gender" . Inside Indonesia. https://web.archive.org/web/20120728104208/http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-66-apr-jun-2001/sulawesi-s-fifth-gender-3007484 Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 2011-07-25.Sex, Gender, and Priests in South Sulawesi, Indonesia (PDF). International Institute for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2011-07-25. Archived on 17 July 2023Davies, Sharyn Graham. Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves (ASAA Women in Asia Series), Routledge, 2010.Davies, Sharyn Graham. Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), Wadsworth Publishing, 2006.Pelras, Christian. The Bugis (The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific), Wiley-Blackwell, 1997. Someone is born with the propensity to become bissu if they are intersex, but ambiguous genitalia alone do not confer the state of being a bissu, and ambiguous genitalia need not be visible. A normative male who becomes a bissu is believed to be female on the inside. In order to become bissu, one must learn priestly skills, remain celibate, and wear conservative clothes. Until the 1940s, the bissu were central to keeping ancient palace rituals alive, including coronations of kings and queens. Changes in the Bugis government sidelined the bissu. Persecution from hardline Islamic groups, police, and politicians resulted in fewer people taking on the role. By 2019, the bissu still exist, though their numbers have declined. Bissu today participate in weddings as maids of honour, and work as farmers, as well as performing their cultural roles as priests. 
* boi. A queer masculine identity which is not cis-heteronormative. Boi originated in African American culture during the 1990s. It covers a wide variety of alternative masculine identities in emo, BDSM, gay male, lesbian, and genderqueer communities. For some, but not all, boi is an identity outside the gender binary. Not all who use it are people of color. Definitions of "boi" vary widely.Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 612.http://genderqueerid.com/post/52144260437/hello-i-once-heard-somebody-say-the-term-boi Archived on 17 July 2023"bklyn boihood." https://prezi.com/ybttsym4mewd/bklyn-boihood/ Archived on 17 July 2023Riley, "Don't call me butch: What kind of lez are you?" September 21, 2011. Lez Get Real. https://web.archive.org/web/20140116213509/http://lezgetreal.com/2011/09/dont-call-me-butch-what-kind-of-lez-are-you/ (archive) In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 3 of the respondents said their gender was boi. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 76 of the respondents (0.68%) said their gender was boi, or used boi as part of a word for their gender identity, such as femme boy, femboi, tomboi, or demiboy.
* butch. Butch is a queer masculine identity. It originated in working-class lesbian bar culture in the 1940s and 50s. Leslie Feinberg, who was a butch of the 1950s onward and a trans person,Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. p. x. defines butch as a category of gender identity, neither male nor female. From the mid-20th century, there has been a tradition of roles of queer butch-femme couples. Butch-femme couples are not a rule, especially not after cultural changes in lesbian culture in the 1970s.Henry Rubin, Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men. Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. P. 79. Butch-femme couples are not an imitation of heterosexuality.Jack Halberstam, Female Masculinity, Durham: Duke University, 2018. p. 122. Masculinity or butchness is neither the same as nor an imitation of manhood. As one trans man interviewed by sociologist Henry Rubin put it, the butch lesbian women he knew "were much more butch than me. But I was much more male than they were."Henry Rubin, Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men. Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. P. 24. Though butch most often means a lesbian woman, not all are. Queer theorist and butch Jack Halberstam defines its indefinability: "The butch is neither cis-gender nor simply transgender [...] Butch is always a misnomer-- not male, not female, masculine but not male, female but not feminine".Jack Halberstam, Female Masculinity, Durham: Duke University, 2018. p. xi. Butch is a diverse category. Some people choose to call themselves butch. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 6 of the respondents said they were butch. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 105 of the respondents (0.93%) called their identity butch, or some form of it, such as soft butch. Notable people who call themselves butch as an identity outside the gender binary include writer Ivan E. Coyote,Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms, Ivan Coyote, November 2015 Archived on 17 July 2023https://abcbookworld.com/writer/coyote-ivan-e/ Archived on 17 July 2023 comedian Kelli Dunham, and social worker Sonalee Rashatwar.https://www.instagram.com/thefatsextherapist/ Archived on 17 July 2023
==D==
* demiboy. A gender identity that is both male and genderless.Definitions Master List, asexualityorg proboards, posted August 2012, captured April 2016. Archived on 17 July 2023 In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 834 of the respondents (7.42%) said they were a demiboy, demiguy, demiman, or other form of this identity.
* demigender. An umbrella term for nonbinary identities that have a partial connection to a certain gender. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 459 of the respondents (15%) said they were demigender, or a form of demigender, such as demiagender, demifluid, demifemme, demimasculine, or demigal. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 2,331 of the respondents (20.73%) were demigender, demiboy, demigirl, deminonbinary, or other form of this identity.
* demigirl. A gender identity that is both female and genderless.AVEN: Definitions Master List Archived on 17 July 2023 In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 7.98% (897) of the respondents said they were a demigirl, demiwoman, demifemale, or other form of this identity.
==F==
* fa'afafine. In Samoa, the Fa'afafine are people who were assigned male at birth (AMAB), have a feminine gender expression, and don't think of themselves as female or male. It has been estimated that 1–5% of Samoans identify as fa'afafine. Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand estimates that there are 500 fa’afafine in Samoa, and the same number in the Samoan diaspora in New Zealand, while according to SBS news, there are up to 3,000 fa'afafine currently living in Samoa. The masculine and assigned female at birth (AFAB) counterpart of fa'afafine in Samoa are known variously as faʻatane, faʻatama, and fafatama.
* femme. From the French word for "woman," femme originated as a queer feminine identity in 1950s working-class lesbian bar culture. Traditionally, femme was the counterpart of the butch role. Today, queer people who choose to call themselves femme do not necessarily seek a butch-femme relationship.Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 613. Femme does not simply mean a conventionally feminine woman, and is instead a culturally transgressive queer identity. Surveys show that a significant percentage of nonbinary and genderqueer people identify as femme. Or, to put it another way, that many femmes consider themselves nonbinary or genderqueer. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 20 of the respondents (0.65%) called themselves a femme, a nonbinary femme, or othe variations. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 1.35% of the respondents identified as some form of femme. Some notable people who identify as femme outside the binary include author Kate Bornstein, journalist Sassafras Lowrey, disability rights activist Sharon daVanport, and multimedia artist Dev Blair. 
==G==
* genderfluid, gender fluid, or fluid gender. A gender identity that often changes, so that a person may feel one day like a boy, and another day like a girl, or some other gender.Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 614. It has been in use since at least the 1990s. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 947 of the respondents (31%) called themselves genderfluid, or otherwise called themselves "fluid." In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 2,446 of the respondents (21.76%) were genderfluid, or otherwise called themselves "fluid."
*genderflux. A gender identity that often changes in intensity, so that a person may feel one day as though they have almost no gender, or none at all, and another day they feel very gendered. This usage of the word was coined in 2014 on Tumblr. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 36 of the respondents (1.18%) called themselves genderflux, or otherwise used "flux" in the word for their gender identity. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 814 of the respondents (7.4%) were genderflux, boyflux, girlflux, agenderflux, or otherwise called themselves flux.
*genderfuck. A form of gender expression that seeks to subvert the traditional gender binary or gender roles by mixing traditionally masculine (such as a beard) and traditionally feminine (such as a dress) components.Dictionary definition of what Genderfuck means: https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/genderfuck/ Archived on 17 July 2023 Even though it's often used as a gender expression, 0.4% of participants in the 2019 Gender Census identified with this word.
*genderless. Having no gender identity. A synonym of agender. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 17 of the respondents (0.56%) called themselves genderless. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 1,546 of the respondents (13.75%) used the word genderless for themselves.
*gender neutral. This can mean having nothing to do with gender, or is inclusive of any gender. It can mean having no gender identity, being genderless. Or it can mean having a gender identity that is neutral: not female, not male, not a mix; compare neutrois. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 420 of the respondents (13.75%) called themselves neutral. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 1,390 of the respondents (12.36%) said they were neutral, transneutral, gender neutral, neutral gender, or other similar words.
 
*genderqueer Any gender identity or expression which is queer, in and of itself. That is, a gender which is transgressive and non-normative. This can be an umbrella term, or a specific identity. The earliest known recorded use of genderqueer was in 1995, in the Transsexual Menace newsletter."Answering gender questions concerning genderqueer." Genderqueer ID. http://genderqueerid.com/post/8813994851/answering-gender-questions-coining-genderqueer Archived on 17 July 2023 In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 1,244 of the respondents (40.72%) called themselves genderqueer. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 3,274 of the respondents (29.12%) called themselves genderqueer.
==H==
*hijra. In south Asian countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the hijra are people who were assigned male at birth, who have a feminine gender expression. Traditionally and today, some hijras seek castration. Hijras live together communally. They have important roles in religious practice. They can be Hindu or Muslim. Hijra traditions are ancient. The earliest mention of hijras is in the Kama Sutra, from 400 BCE to 300 CE. In one of the earliest Western records of them, Franciscan travelers wrote about seeing hijras in the 1650s.Donald Lach. Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 2, South Asia. University of Chicago, 1998. From the 1850s onward, the British Raj criminalized and tried to exterminate hijras.Laurence W. Preston. "A Right to Exist: Eunuchs and the State in Nineteenth-Century India." Modern Asian Studies (journal), April 1987, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 371–387 doi=10.1017/S0026749X00013858 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231903575 Archived on 17 July 2023 Since the late 20th century, hijra activists and non-government organizations have lobbied for official recognition of the hijra as a legal sex other than male or female. This is important for them to be able to have passports, travel, hold jobs, and other rights. They have been successful at achieving legal recognition as another gender in Nepal, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, 310 pp., University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 0-226-70755-5 (see p. 8)"India's third gender gets own identity in voter rolls", Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN.com, Nov. 2009 Archived on 17 July 2023Mitch Kellaway. "Trans Indian's Predicament at Border Shows the U.S. Lags Behind." May 9, 2015. Advocate. http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/05/09/trans-indian-womans-predicament-border-shows-us-lags-behind Archived on 17 July 2023"Pakistan Recognizes Third Gender", Ria Misra, Politics Daily, Dec. 2009 Archived on 17 July 2023"Hijras now a separate gender", Mohosinul Karim, Dhaka Tribune, Nov. 2013 Archived on 17 July 2023http://www.attn.com/stories/868/transgender-passport-status Archived on 17 July 2023 The Hijra in India alone may number as many as 2,000,000 today.Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, 310 pp., University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 0-226-70755-5 (see p. 8)
==M==
*māhū. In the Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) and Maohi (Tahitian) cultures, the māhū (meaning "in the middle") is a traditional gender role outside of the Western concept of gender. It is made of people who may have been assigned either male or female at birth. This tradition existed before Western invaders.The men-women of the Pacific, tate.org.uk/Tate Britain, 6 March 2015. The first published description of māhū is from 1789.William Bligh. Bounty Logbook. Thursday, January 15, 1789. From 1820 onward, Westerners stigmatized and criminalized māhū.Aleardo Zanghellini. "Sodomy Laws and Gender Variance in Tahiti and Hawai'i." Laws Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2013), p. 51–68 doi: 10.3390/laws2020051 Māhū still exist today, and play an important role in preserving and reviving Polynesian culture.Besnier, Niko, Alexeyeff, Kalissa. Gender on the edge : transgender, gay, and other Pacific islanders. Honolulu, 2014 isbn=9780824840198Carol E. Robertson. 1989 "The Māhū of Hawai'i." Feminist Studies. volume 15, issue 2, pages=318. doi=10.2307/3177791 issn=0046-3663 jstor=3177791 There was one māhū in the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, and one in the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census.
*maverique. Coined by Vesper H. (queerascat) in 2014. A specific nonbinary gender identity "characterized by autonomy and inner conviction regarding a sense of self that is entirely independent of male/masculinity, female/femininity or anything which derives from the two while still being neither without gender nor of a neutral gender."maverique, Vesper H. (queerascat), June 2014, captured April 2016. Archived on 17 July 2023 In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 12 of the respondents (0.39%) called themselves maverique. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 72 of the respondents (0.64%) said they were maverique or mavrique.
==N==
*neutrois. Coined by a neutrois person named H. A. Burnham in 1995.Axey, Qwill, Rave, and Luscious Daniel, eds. “FAQ.” Neutrois Outpost. Last updated 2000-11-23. Retrieved 2001-03-07. Having one non-binary gender identity that is neutral. Not female, not male, and not a mix. Some neutrois people are transsexual, experience gender dysphoria, and want to get a physical transition.Define, Neutrois Nonsense, date unknown, captured April 2016. Archived on 17 July 2023Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 616. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 208 of the respondents (6.8%) were neutrois. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 398 of the respondents (3.54%) were neutrois.
*nonbinary, shortened as NB or enby.vector (revolutionator). Untitled post, September 2013. revolutionator's blog is password-protected, but the post has been reblogged many times, eg: here, date unknown, captured April 2016. Nonbinary is an umbrella term for all who don't identify as just female or male. Though there are innumerable kinds of nonbinary identities, some people identify as "nonbinary" only. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 1,980 of the respondents (64.81%) called themselves nonbinary, and 477 of the respondents (16%) called themselves enbies. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 68.37% (7686) of the responses used the word nonbinary for their identity (or for part of their identity), and 3,609 of the respondents (32.1%) called themselves enbies.
*non-gendered. Having no gender.Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 617. An identity popularized by non-gendered activist Christie Elan-Cane since at least 2000.The Fallacy of the Myth of Gender, Christie Elan-Cane, USA and London Gendys Conference, 2000 Due to Elan-Cane's activism, this word has had significant visibility, though it is not one of the more commonly used identity labels in community surveys. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 2 of the respondents called themselves non-gendered. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 7 of the responses called themselves non-gendered, nongendered, or non gendered.
==P== 
*polygender. A polygender person has several gender identities. This can mean they have them at the same time, or that they often switch between them at different times. People called themselves polygender as early as 1995.Gary Bowen. "A Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women." FTM International. May 15, 1995. Retrieved November 5, 1996. https://web.archive.org/web/19961105010926/http://www.ftm-intl.org/Wrtngs/ftm-words.gary.html In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 7 of the respondents (0.23%) were polygender. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 24 of the respondents (0.21%) were polygender.
==Q==
* queer. A long-reclaimed slur for the broader LGBT+ community, and an umbrella term for identities that are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 9 of the respondents (0.29%) used the word "queer" as an identity label, and 1,253 (41%) used the word queer in total, including as part of terms such as genderqueer. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 4,886 of the responses (43.46%) used the word "queer" as an identity label, some of which used it as their only label for their identity, and 8,177 responses (72.74%) used the word queer in total, including those where it was part of another identity term, such as genderqueer, neuroqueer, or queerdo.
==S== 
*swarmgender, hivegender, or dronegender. A category of genders where family, romantic, and sexual relationships involve hiveminds, mind-melding, and/or telepathy. A family of swarmgender people is typically called a swarm or a hive. They may wish they had a shared consciousness, or they may have attempted to achieve one through occult techniques. A hive may have a queen, or it may be democratic. swarmgenders are common in fiction, and can be seen in the Zerg, the Borg, and the Xenomorphs. People in the real world who have swarm genders are often fictives or fictionkin.
==T==
*third gender. Third gender is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves, by their society, or by outsiders to their society, as not fitting into the Western ideas of binary gender and heterosexual roles. The phrase "third gender" has been used for a wide variety of meanings: intersex people whose bodies do not fit outdated Western medical concepts of binary sex, hundreds of indigenous societal roles as described (and often misrepresented) by Western anthropologists (including indigenous identities such as south Asian hijras, Hawaiian and Tahitian māhū, and Native American identities now called Two-Spirits),Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Unpaged. transgender people who are nonbinary, homosexual people (even those who are white and in Western societies),Trumbach, Randolph. (1998) Sex and the Gender Revolution. Volume 1: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society)Kennedy, Hubert C. (1980) The "third sex" theory of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Journal of Homosexuality. 1980–1981 Fall–Winter; 6(1–2): pp. 103–1 and women who were considered to be gender-nonconforming because they fought for women's rights. Some people self-identify as third gender, especially in communities of people of color in the United States. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 84 of the respondents (2.75%) called themselves third gender. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 244 of the respondents (2.17%) called themselves third gender.
*transfeminine. A transgender person who transitions in a feminine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as female. They may have a nonbinary identity. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 206 of the respondents (6.74%) called themselves transfeminine. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 702 of the respondents (6.24%) were transfeminine.
*transmasculine. A transgender person who transitions in a masculine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as male. They may have a nonbinary identity. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 434 of the respondents (14.21%) called themselves transmasculine. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 2,226 of the respondents (19.8%) were transmasculine, trans masculine, trans masc, or transmasc.
*Two-spirit. "Berdache" was an old word used by European-American anthropologists. Berdache was an umbrella term for all traditional gender and sexual identities in all cultures throughout the Americas that were outside of Western ideas of binary gender and heterosexual roles. These identities included the nádleeh in Diné (Navajo),Franc Johnson Newcomb (1980-06). Hosteen Klah: Navaho Medicine Man and Sand Painter. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-1008-2.Lapahie, Harrison, Jr. Hosteen Klah (Sir Left Handed). Lapahie.com. 2001 (retrieved 19 Oct 2009)Berlo, Janet C. and Ruth B. 
Phillips. Native North American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-284218-3. pg. 34 and the lhamana in Zuni,Matilda Coxe Stevenson, The Zuni Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies, (BiblioBazaar, 2010) p. 380 among many others. In 1990, an Indigenous lesbian and gay international gathering chose to internationally replace "berdache" with "Two-Spirit" as a preferable umbrella term for these identities."Two Spirit 101" at NativeOut. Accessed 23 Sep 2015 Archived on 17 July 2023Eve Shapiro, Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age. Unpaged. Two-Spirit was chosen to distance these identities from non-Natives, and should only be used for people who are Native American, because it is for identities that must be contextualized in Native cultures. Because of the wide variety of identities under the Two-Spirit umbrella, a Two-Spirit person does not necessarily have an identity analogous to a non-Native nonbinary gender identity. Some do, but others are more analogous to non-Native gay male or lesbian woman identities. Notable people who identify specifically with the label "Two-Spirit" include Menominee poet Chrystos (b. 1946), who goes by they/them pronouns, and Ojibwe artist Raven Davis (b. 1975), who goes by neutral pronouns. In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 8 of the respondents (0.26%) called themselves Two-Spirit. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 0.18% (20) of the responses called themselves Two-Spirit.
==X==
*X-gender (Ｘジェンダー, ekkusujendā). In Japan, this is a common transgender identity that isn't female or male, much as the words "genderqueer" and "nonbinary" has come to be in the English-speaking world, to such a degree that "X-gender" is typically used as the Japanese translation for these.Marilyn Roxie. "Selected links on nonbinary gender in Japan." March 28, 2013. http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan Archived on 17 July 2023 Therefore, a person does not need to be Japanese to be X-gender. The term "X-gender" began to be used during the latter 1990s, popularized by writings published by queer organizations in Kansai, in Osaka and Kyoto."【ＸラウンジからNEWS！】参議院議員の尾辻かな子さんへのレインボー・アクションの陳情で、Ｘラウンジから要望書を提出しました。([NEWS from X Lounge! ] We submitted a request form from the X Lounge in response to a petition of Kanae Otsuji, a member of the House of Councilors, about the rainbow action.)" NPO Rainbow Action. May 30, 2013. http://rainbowaction.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.html Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200221122651/http://rainbowaction.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.htmlS.P.F. Dale. "An Introduction to X-Jendā: Examining a New Gender Identity in Japan." Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific Issue 31, December 2012. http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dale.htm Archived on 17 July 2023 Notable X-gender people include manga artist Yuu Watase (渡瀬 悠宇), who created the comics Fushigi Yūgi and Ceres, Celestial Legend. In April and May of 2019, Japan LGBT Research Institute Inc. conducted an online survey. It collected a total of 348,000 valid responses from people aged 20 to 69, not all of whom were LGBT. 2.5% of the respondents called themselves X-gender. This identity term was underrepresented in the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, in which 4 of the respondents called themselves X-gender.
==See also==
*List of uncommon nonbinary identities
*Glossaries of gender and sex terminology in different languages
==References==
Category:Nonbinary identities
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