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[[File:Agender flag.png|thumb|The agender flag.|alt=|220x220px]]
[[File:Agender flag citrus variant.jpg|thumb|The citrus agender flag (five stripes).]]
'''Agender''', also known as '''[[genderless]]''', is an identity to describe someone that entirely lacks a gender or with complete genderlessness.<ref name=":0">https://agender.info<br /></ref> It falls under the a [[Non-Binary|non-binary]] umbrella in which one is not [[Man|male]], [[Woman|female]], or any other gender. They may identify most strongly as just
Agender people/folken may also identify as non-binary, [[genderqueer]], or [[transgender]], though some choose to avoid these terms, as they can imply that they identify as a gender, when they in fact do not. As it is a lack of gender, some feel that it should not be labeled with the term "gender" at all.
==Other definitions==
While a complete lack of gender is the most common definition of agender, people/folken may call themselves agender for other reason, such as:
*Their gender is [[neutral]] or [[neutrois]].
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===Agender vs Gender Neutral===
There is little solid agreement about the exact difference between terms such as agender and gender neutral/[[neutrois]]. Some people/folken use these terms interchangeably, but for others, there is a difference between these terms. The most commonly sighted difference is that agender is the experience of having no gender at all, whereas gender neutral or neutrois is the experience of having a gender identity, but that gender identity is not masculine or feminine, but [[neutral]].
===Agender vs Gendervoid===
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==History==
The first recorded use of the word agender on the Internet appears to come from a post on the site UseNet, on July 28, 2000. It was used in a discussion thread titled "alt.messianic". The user Miriam Wolfe wrote "All I understand is that G-d is amorphous, agender, etc. so "image" can't be a physical or gender or sexual thing."<ref>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.messianic/Egv3-Fufvsw/FIGdiv-8z7AJ</ref> There were a few other instances of the word being used around the same time, but these also were either about God or were talking about people/folken presenting in a gender-neutral manner (not as specific gender identity).
The first instance where the word was used about people/folken as a specific identity seems to also come for UseNet, in a thread titled "alt.politics.democrats". The user man_in_black529 wrote "But despite this near-universality of gender, cultures can have transgender, agender, and hypergender individuals."<ref>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.politics.democrats/ZNxbzT3GPrg/hmVZJTBrlFkJ</ref>
In both these cases the word agender was not defined; presumably, the definition was already known at the time. The word ''agender'' probably existed before these posts, and possibly had a similar meaning to what it does now. However, earlier uses of the word are not recorded.
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The original agender flag was designed by the Tumblr user Transrants aka Salem in 2014.<ref>https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/147170289630/agender</ref> Black represents an absence of gender, grey represents those who have a partial gender, and green represents the non-binary nature of this gender because green is the inverse of lavender (a mixture of pink and blue, representing a mix of female and male). Variations on the agender flag usually include green and black.
An alternate agender flag was designed by Reddit user angerywaman on May 6, 2020<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/NonBinary/comments/geo2dx/i_redid_the_agender_flag_to_me_it_means_the_sun/</ref>, The colors are based on a sunset, representing the sun setting on gender. Purple represents androgynous presenting agender people/folken. Pink represents feminine presenting agender people/folken. Orange represents masculine presenting agender people/folken. Yellow represents all agender people/folken. The in between colors represent those who have a mix of presentations.
The "citrus agender" flag variants by Mars in 2021. Turquoise or dark green represents leaves and stands for working towards agender liberation. Green represents limes and stands for agender friendship, love, and community. Yellow represents lemons and stands for gender joy and celebration. Orange represents oranges and stands for gender artwork and creativity. Red represents blood oranges and stands for agender diversity and individual expression.
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