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[[File:L2 A Six Non Binary Flag.png|thumb|200x200px|L2 A Six's alternate flag.]]
[[File:AltNonBinaryFlagByExnoticE.jpg|thumb|Alternate flag by user ExnoticE.]]
'''Non-Binary''' or '''nonbinary''' (sometimes shortened to '''NB''' or '''enby''') refers to someone whose [[gender]] does not fall strictly within the category of the [[Binary Genders|binary genders]] ([[male]] or [[female]]) that are used in western society. Anyone who is not always, solely, 100% male or always, solely, 100% female can be considered non-binary. Some non-binary may identify with one or both of the binary genders, at least in part, while others are completely unrelated to the binary genders.
Non-binary can be a gender identity on its own, or it can be used as an umbrella term for anyone whose gender is something other than male or female. Some people may also use the term [[genderqueer]] interchangeably with non-binary.
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Some non-binary can be partly connected to or [[Gender Alignment|aligned]] to one or both of the binary genders. For example, a man-aligned non-binary person ([[solarian]]) may have an experience similar to man or have some connection to manhood, but is not a man or is not fully a man. Non-binary people may also be connection to [[Masculine|masculinity]] and/or [[Feminine|femininity]], but they do not necessarily have to be connected to manhood or womanhood. These types of non-binary identities can be called [[viabinary]], [[ideobinary]], or aligned. Non-binary people who are in between or simultaneously experience masculinity and femininity, and/or maleness and femaleness can be called [[androgyne]], [[androgynous]], or [[mesobinary]].
Other non-binary genders are not connected to the binary genders at all. These genders are not connected to maleness, masculinity, femaleness, femininity, and they are not in between male and female or in between masculine and feminine. However, these genders are also not necessarily a [[Genderless|lack of gender]] or [[agender]]. These genders can be called [[abinary]], unaligned, [[neutral]], [[stellarian]] (neutral-aligned), [[epicene]], or [[exobinary]].
Non-binary people who are not female aligned, feminine aligned, male aligned, masculine aligned, or neutral aligned are called [[atrinary]], [[outherine]]. Many outherine genders are also [[xenogender|xenogenders]].
==Transition==
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*Across the Indian subcontinent there are several similar gender identities that are collectively known as [[hijra]] in English. Hijra is neither completely male nor female and they typically have a feminine gender expression.
* Jewish sacred texts recognize six genders: zachar (cisgender men), nekeivah (cisgender women), [[ay'lonit]] (transgender men), [[saris]] (transgender women), [[androgynos]] (someone with both male and female characteristics, roughly equivalent to [[androgyne]] or [[bigender]]), and [[tumtum]] (someone whose sex is indeterminate or obscured, roughly equivalent to [[agender]]).
*[[Bissu]] is a gender from the Bugis culture of southern Indonesia which represent all aspects of gender combined to form a whole. They play an important role in religious ceremonies
===Victorian Era (17th-19th Century)===
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==Flag and Symbols==
The non-binary flag was created by Kye Rowan in February of 2014. It was designed for non-binary people who felt the genderqueer flag did not represent them.<ref>[https://thejasmineelf-blog.tumblr.com/post/77007286542/after-counting-up-all-the-votes-for-each https://thejasmineelf.tumblr.com/post/77007286542/after-counting-up-all-the-votes-for-each]</ref> Yellow represents being outside the gender binary, as yellow is often used to distinguish something as its own. White is the presence of all colors, representing people who are [[Multigender|many]] or [[Pangender|all genders]]. Purple represents the fluidity and multiplicity of many gender experiences, the uniqueness and flexibility of non-binary people, as well as representing those whose gender experiences include being in between female (traditionally pink) and male (traditionally blue). Black is the absence of color and represents [[agender]] or [[genderless]] people.
The alternate non-binary flag was created on the LGBTA fandom by user [[User:Blueberryjello|Blueberryjello]] on December 17, 2020. The yellow signifies someone who is not cisgender, the white signifies those who identify as multigender, the black signifies being agender, and the green signifies someone who is without reference to binary<ref>https://lgbta.wikia.org/f/p/4400000000000051180</ref>.
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