Do You Know These 5 Common Non Binary Identities?
Non binary is often used as an umbrella term covering gender identities that don’t fit within the two gender categories of male and female.
Apart from being used as an umbrella term, you may simply claim non binary as your gender identity.
Non binary individuals identify with one or both of the binary genders to lesser or greater extend. Non binary also allows you not to attach a name to your gender.
Some non binary people find gender to be multidimensional and fluid.
Non binary people also experience gender dysphoria which can range from mild to severe.
And just like transgender people, some non binary individuals desire physical modification via HRT or surgical transition.
With gender terminology rapidly changing, it can be confusing to keep up with various ways people identify.
Here are 5 most common non binary identities you want to know about!
#1 GENDER-NEUTRAL, GENDER—FREE, & AGENDER
For those of you who do not feel you have a gender, these are the most common identity terms used.
You may feel a slight connection to the concept of what gender is, and yet feel as if you don’t really embody any particular gender.
While others may not even understand what gender is nor have an inner experience of it.
And others feel that your are more than your gender and to label aspects of Self as such, is reductionistic and supports sexist notions of gender.
#2 ANDROGYNE/ANDGROGYNOUS
You may identify as androgynes if you feel you simultaneously posses both masculine and feminine qualities.
These qualities within you may not necessarily be equal and sometimes one quality may predominate.
Gender expression tends to be more a combination of female and male characteristics.
Some may even feel that they are a blended gender, neither masculine nor feminine.
#3 BI-GENDER
A bi-gender person identifies as two genders.
It doesn’t even have to be binary of genders, such as man or a woman.
But just that there are two distinct genders with which you identity.
You may identify as two genders at the same time or sometimes flow between the two.
#4 GENDER-FLUID
Gender-fluid individuals have gender or genders, that change.
That’s because you don’t experiences your gender as statics.
And can move between genders fluidly.
To a gender-fluid person, gender is a dynamic experiences vs one set in stone.
Perhaps of all gender identities, gender-fluidity conveys a wide, flexible range of expressions.
#5 DEMI-GENDER, DEMI-FLUID, & DEMI-FLUX
If you identify as demi-gender, you tend to identify partially with one or more genders.
For example, a demi-girl or demi-femme identifies partially as a woman/girl/feminine, but not entirely.
A demi-gender person can also be identified as demi-fluid or demi-flux.
Indicating a part of gender identity remains stable while the other parts are fluid.
Now I know you may have noticed that some of these terms seem very similar in definitions, and they are.
That’s because we are only scratching the surface of possible gender identities and as more and more individuals explore their sense of Self in relationship to gender, the bigger our vocabulary of gender becomes.