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'''Genderfluid''' refers to someone whose [[gender]] identity changes over time. A genderfluid individual can identify as any gender, or combination of genders at any given time. Their gender can change at random or it may vary in response to different circumstances. One's gender can change over the course of hours, days, weeks, months, or years. For some individuals their gender changes on a somewhat consistent "schedule", for others their gender changes at random times. Some genderfluid individuals can be fluid between all genders, or a large amount of genders. Other genderfluid individuals are fluid between a small handful of genders.

==History==

In the 1990s and 2000s, it might have been more common for genderfluid individuals to call themselves bigender or genderqueer. Earlier than that, they may have called themselves cross-dressers. The word "genderfluid" has been in use since at least the 1990s, although with a different meaning. Transgender advocate Michael M. Hernandez wrote in 1996:

<blockquote>"Gender-fluid means that their gender identity and/or [[Gender Presentation|expression]] encompass both masculine and [[feminine]]. Gender fluidity is becoming commonly known as [[transgender]]ness: the ability to transcend gender, whether biological, emotional, political, or otherwise; truly mixing male and female."<ref>Hernandez, Michael M. (1996). "Boundaries: Gender and Transgenderism". ''The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader.''</ref></blockquote>The earliest recorded use of genderfluid, with a definition closer to the modern definition is in the Urban Dictionary "Gender Fluid" entry, which was added in 2007.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20161018191041/http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gender+fluid</ref>