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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. |
'''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. |
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Genderfluid can be a gender identity on its own or it can be used as an umbrella term to describe anyone whose gender changes. For example, a [[bigender]] individual who feels more strongly agender sometimes and more strongly xenic other times may identify as genderfluid. |
Genderfluid can be a [[Gender Identity|gender identity]] on its own or it can be used as an [[umbrella term]] to describe anyone whose gender changes. For example, a [[bigender]] individual who feels more strongly [[agender]] sometimes and more strongly [[xenic]] other times may identify as genderfluid. |
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Genderfluid individuals may also identify as [[multigender]], [[ |
Genderfluid individuals may also identify as [[multigender]], [[non-binary]] and/or [[transgender]]. Genderfluid individuals who feel as though only part of their gender is fluid may identify as [[demifluid]]. individuals who feel like the intensity of their gender changes or feel they are sometimes [[agender]] may identify as [[genderflux]]. Some individuals under the genderfluid umbrella may identify as [[genderfae]], individuals that are fluid in gender but never compasses [[masc]] genders. The opposite of genderfae is [[genderfaun]] and the [[neutral]] counterpart is [[genderflor]]. |
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==History== |
==History== |
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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: |
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 transgenderness: 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> |
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"Gender-fluid means that their gender identity and/or expression encompass both masculine and feminine. Gender fluidity is becoming commonly known as transgenderism: 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> |
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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> |
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==Flag and Symbols== |
==Flag and Symbols== |
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