Gender transition: gender diverse people

Gender diversity now includes a much larger range of identities.

Masculinity and femininity are two points on the gender spectrum, and people can exist anywhere along that spectrum, or even outside of it.

People who are not gender diverse are called cisgender people. Cisgender and transgender are two points on a spectrum, and people can exist or move anywhere along that spectrum, or even outside of it. While separatists in the trans community believe some of these people are not transgender, everyone, including transgender people, are gender diverse.

Most gender diverse people take social steps to express their gender identities.

Some gender diverse people also take legal or medical steps that overlap with transgender options. For instance, you can make a gender transition without taking hormones, or you can take hormones without making a gender transition. It is your body, and you can choose which things you want to do and do not want to do.

Identities

Possible identities include:

Androgynous

Both masculine and feminine in appearance and/or behavior

Genderqueer (GQ)

Reject expected gender roles

Non-binary (NB or enby)

Nonbinary people reject a strict male-female binary

Genderfluid

Identify as masculine, feminine, or gender diverse at different times

Neutrois

Neutral on gender

Amalgagender

Gender affected by people with differences of sex development

Demigender

A partial connection to a gender (like demigirl or demiboy)

Bigender

Having two gender identities either simultaneously or switching between the two

Third gender

Many cultures have a name for this, like mahu in Native Hawai’ian, hijra in India or two-spirit in some Native American cultures

Pangender

Identifying with most or all genders

Agender

Lacking gender, genderless, or not caring about gender identity.
Related terms include:
- Beyond the binary
- Gender-neutral
- Ungenderable
- Void of gender

Drag

Performance of gender expression, often for money

Eunuch

Eunuchs remove their testicles for personal or cultural reasons
- Related terms include
- Male to eunuch (MtE, M2E)
- Castrato

Cross-dresser

Crossdressers wear items of clothing not often associated with one’s assigned sex
- Related controversial terms include
- “Transvestite”

Transsexual

“Transsexual” is a controversial term now mainly associated with medical transition and disease models like “gender dysphoria”
- Related controversial terms include
- “Transmedicalist
- “Truscum”
- “HBSer” (“Harry Benjamin Syndrome”)

Sissy

“Sissy” is a controversial term for a feminine boy
It is also an erotic identity focused on feminization
- Related controversial terms include
- “Femboy”
- “Ladyboy”
- “Shemale”
- “Trap”
- Otokonoko

Tomboy