Pangender

Pangender flag

### Flag Descripton

Pastel stripes, from the top: yellow, pink, light pink, white, light pink, pink, yellow

**Pangender** is a form of multigender that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. It is primarily defined as referring to someone who identifies as all genders, however, this can be described in multiple ways such as:

* Identifying as all known genders
* Identifying as too many genders to count
* Identifying as one gender that encompasses all possibilities
* Identifying as all genders within reason (won't include every xenogender, etc)
* Identifying as what feels like an infinite amount of genders
* Not caring about the gender that they are viewed as and/or identify as (less common definition)

Someone who is pangender cannot identify as genders from outside of their culture or genders that are exclusive to other groups that they do not fit into. The term maxigender has been used as an alternative used by those that believe that pangender appropriates or supports identifying as these exclusive genders, however, the term pangender does not aim to do this.

Omnigender is sometimes considered a synonym of pangender.

## Modifiers

> **Panflux** describes experiencing 'all' genders with a fluctuating intensity, or someone who fluctuates between feeling pangender and feeling bigender, monogender, or agender

> **Panfluix** describes experiencing 'all' genders or is fluid between 'all' genders, and said genders fluctuate in intensity

Pangender also has multiple variants describing things such as experiencing all genders but no masculine genders (pangenderfae), things like identifying as all space genders (panspacegender), and more.

## History & Coining

The use of pangender as a identity goes back at least to the 1990s, as stated in the preface to a 1992 book by Lynn Wilson about dissociative identity disorder, 'The Flock'. It states: "Some gender-nonconforming individuals call themselves androgynes, pan-gender, or non-binary."

Pangender was also mentioned as one of many non-binary identities in the 2013 text 'Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide'.

In 2018, Washington state began to allow "X" gender markers on official documents, with the law stating that "'X' means a gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, agender, amalgagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender, female-to-male, genderfluid, genderqueer, male-to-female, neutrois, nonbinary, **pangender**, third sex, transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, and unspecified."

## Flags & Symbols

The first pangender flags were created by Tumblr user Cari-Rez-Lobo on January 28th, 2015. Two were created around the same time with the same meanings. The colors are very bright so that they represent the multiplicity of genders (because white light is a combination of all colors). Yellow represents all the genders that are not related to female and male (abinary). Light red represents the transition to the genders which are related to female and male. Light pink represents the combination of female and male. White represents the blend of all genders.

The pangender symbol was created by an unknown individual, appearing to be a combination of the androgyne symbol, the non-binary symbol, and the agender symbol.

## Resources

https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Pangender

https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Pangender

https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Pangender?oldid=33547

https://pangendering.tumblr.com/post/109400686126/possible-pangender-pride-flags

https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Pangender-1-584885794