Genderqueer101: What is Genderqueer ?
Gender identity is the internal sense of one’s true gender. This could be male, female, or something else.
A binary gender identity refers to an identity that is either female or male. The Gender Binary is the idea that all gender identities must be either male or female.
Non-Binary and Genderqueer are catch-all words for gender identities other than female and male, identities that do not fit into the gender binary.
This can mean:
- Feeling that your gender identity does not fit into the binary.
- Not having a gender (nongendered, genderless, agender, neutrois)
- Moving between genders, or with a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid).
- Having two or more genders (bigender, trigender, pangender).
Other words people may use: androgyne, other-gendered, non-binary, genderqueer.
Transgender refers to people whose true gender identity is different from the gender they were assigned at birth.
Some transgender people identify as genderqueer, and some do not.
Some genderqueer people identify as transgender, and some do not.