Androgyne or Androgynous is a identity under the non-binary umbrella. It is described as being in between masculine and feminine. Some androgynous people may identity as masculine and feminine at the same time or be bigender, while others may identify as neither male or female. Some people may use androgyne interchangeably with non-binary or genderqueer.
They do not necessarily have to feel equal amounts of masculinity and femininity. For example, one could feel 80% feminine and 20% masculine and still be androgynous. For some androgyne people the amount of masculinity and femininity they feel can be fluid.
Historically androgyne, or androgynous was used interchangeably with intersex, however it's now recognized that that is not accurate. Not all intersex identify as androgyne and vice verse.
Androgynous can be used as a gender identity on its own, but it is also frequently used to describe gender presentation where someone presents in a gender neutral way, or presents with a mix of masculine and feminine features.
Flag and Other Symbols
The androgynous flag has three vertical stripes, pink representing woman, blue representing men, and purple representing androgynous people, a mix of the two.
Other symbols of androgyny include the the Necker Cube. In was proposed as a symbol in 1996 by an androgyne person, Raphael Carter, due to it's ambiguous geometric shape. Carter says "because it is either concave or convex depending on how you look at it."[1]
Another androgyne symbol is a mix of the male (Mars) and female (Venus) gender symbols. It is used as symbol for androgyne as well as for intersex. Sometimes shown pointing in any different direction, to distinguish the two. It is also the alchemical symbol for iron sulfate.
Etymology
Androgyne is a combination of the Greek words "andr-" meaning male, and "-gyne", meaning female..