Gender Alignment is a term used by some non-binary individuals to describe the way their experiences and/or gender may intersect with the gender binary. Related terms include feminine aligned, masculine aligned, and sometimes neutral aligned or unaligned. There is no consistent definition of gender alignment. The term is intentionally vague and it can be used to describe several different things. Possible meanings can include:
- A non-binary people with some vague or partial connection to masculinity/femininity. (Such as in proxvir/juxera, as well as libragenders, or demigenders.)
- Someone who connects to manhood/womanhood through experiencing man/woman specific attraction. For example, someone may be feminine aligned because they are a lesbian.
- A genderfluid person who is sometimes a man/woman or partially a man/woman, but sometimes not.
- Someone who presents masculinely/femininely.
- Someone connected to manhood/womanhood through their experience with society. They may be treated as and/or have experiences similar to that of a man/woman. This includes interacting with the patriarchy as a man/woman.
Gender alignment is sometimes that one may identify as, but not all non-binary people use alignment. Just because someone identifies themself as masculine/feminine aligned doesn't mean that someone with a similar gender and/or experience will also identify with the same alignment or even be aligned at all.
Terms such as masculine aligned and feminine aligned as often misused and misunderstood by people who are not non-binary, and are sometimes use to imply that non-binary people are actually man or women. They are also misused as a way to try and associate non-binary people with the gender binary. The galactian alignment system was created as less easily misunderstood alternative to alignments based language.