Some of the Gender Identity Types on the Spectrum

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Some of the Gender Identity Types on the Spectrum

Cisgender

Refers to a person that has their gender align with their assigned sex at birth.

Cis-male

Men that identify with the sex they were assigned at birth.

Cis-female

Women the identify with the sex they were assigned at birth.

Transgender/Trans

A identity that can cover people that align with a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex at birth.

Non-Binary

A label that can umbrella anyone that identifies outside of the strict gender binary.

It is important to note that while some do, not all non-binary people that consider themselves as trans or transgender.

Genderfluid

Conveys a person that does not have a fixed gender. For instance their expression of and gender identity itself can change from time to time or even day to day.

Genderqueer

A non-binary identity that can align with anyone that can't be categorized as exclusively masculine or feminine. Tldr; someone who does not follow binary gender norms

Demigender

A non-binary hypernym, identifiable as anyone that experiences partial identification or connection to a particular gender

Demiboy

A person that partially identifies as a man, and or someone with masculine characteristics.

Demigirl

A person that partially identifies as a woman, and or someone with feminine characteristics.

Bigender

Implies someone who identifies with two defined genders. Furthermore, this term does no specify what are the two genders one may attribute to themselves or the level in which they identify with them (such as 50% cis female, 50% demiboy).

Agender

Denotes a person that doesn't have or align with the idea of having any gender at all.

Gender Binary

A classification system that sorts out gender identity into two black and white categories such as, male/female and masculine and feminine.

Transmasculine

A gender identity attributed to AFABs that relates to a person whose gender identity is in part or fully feminine.

AFAB

An acronym that means and refers to people "Assigned Female at Birth"

Transfeminine

A gender identity attributed to AMABs, that relates to a person whose gender identity is in part or fully masculine.

AMAB

An acronym that means and refers to people "Assigned Male at Birth"