Pangender
Encyclopedia
Pangender is a term used to describe people who feel that they cannot be labeled as male or female in gender
. As such it has a great deal of overlap with genderqueer
. Pangender people feel that they do not fit into binary genders
, instead identifying as mixed gender (both male and female) or as a third gender
ed. The term is sometimes used by some in the LGBT
community, such as the Radical Faeries
to be one that is inclusive, meaning "all genders".
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
. As such it has a great deal of overlap with genderqueer
Genderqueer
Genderqueer is a catch-all term for gender identities other than man and woman, thus outside of the gender binary and heteronormativity...
. Pangender people feel that they do not fit into binary genders
Gender binary
The gender binary is the classification of sex and gender into two distinct and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. It is one general type of a gender system. It can describe a social boundary that discourages people from crossing or mixing gender roles, or from creating other third ...
, instead identifying as mixed gender (both male and female) or as a third gender
Third gender
The terms third gender and third sex describe individuals who are categorized as neither man nor woman, as well as the social category present in those societies who recognize three or more genders...
ed. The term is sometimes used by some in the LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
community, such as the Radical Faeries
Radical Faeries
The Radical Faeries are a loosely-affiliated, worldwide network and counter-cultural movement seeking to reject hetero-imitation and redefine queer identity through spirituality. The Radical Faerie movement started in the United States among gay men during the 1970s sexual and counterculture...
to be one that is inclusive, meaning "all genders".
See also
- List of transgender-related topics
- Androgyne
- BissuBissuThe Bugis people of Indonesia divide their society into five separate genders. Two are analogous to male and female, and the remaining three are not easily comparable to Western ideas of gender.-Bissu:...
- GenderqueerGenderqueerGenderqueer is a catch-all term for gender identities other than man and woman, thus outside of the gender binary and heteronormativity...
- Heterosexual
- Homosexual
- Pansexual
- BigenderBigenderBigender, bi-gender or bi+gender describes a tendency to move between feminine and masculine gender-typed behaviour depending on context. Some bigendered individuals express a distinctly "en femme" persona and a distinctly "en homme" persona, feminine and masculine respectively; others have shades...
- TrigenderTrigenderSimilar to Bigender, Trigenderism is a gender identification or feeling that a person is moving between or among gender identities: male, female and a third gender...