Agender
Agender (also known as genderless, gender-free, non-gendered, or ungendered)[1][2] is a gender identity where an individual has no gender at all.[3][4][5]
This group represents a spectrum of identities that diverge from conventional gender norms. According to scholar Finn Enke, not all agender individuals may self-identify as transgender.[6] While there is no universally accepted set of pronouns for agender people, singular they is commonly used.[7]
A 2017 analysis of surveys of gender identity found that, of the transgender participants, 14% identified as agender.[8]
History
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word was in 1996, as "A-gender", in an article in the Independent. The first use of the form without the dash was in the Usenet newsgroup alt.politics.democrats:[9]
Cultures can have transgender, agender, and hypergender individuals.
— Re: Homosexuality & Bible in alt.politics.democrats
The agender flag was created in 2014 by Salom X.[10]
In 2017, Judge Amy Holmes Hehn ruled that Patch, an agender resident of Portland, could be legally identified as agender.[11]
"Agender" and "Neutrois" were among the custom gender options added to Facebook in February 2014 and to OkCupid since November 2014.[12][13]
Types
- Agenderfluid: Identity where someone is both agender and genderfluid.
- Agenderflux: shifts between agender and masculine or feminine.
- Genderblank: gender identify that is indescribable that can best be described as a blank space.
- Genderfree: gender identity is ambiguous.
- Polyagender: gender identity that can relate to many aspects of agender.[10]
References
- ↑ "LGBTQ Needs Assessment" (PDF). Encompass Network. April 2013. pp. 52–53. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 24, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Gender alphabet" (PDF). Safe Homes. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 15, 2015. Retrieved October 18, 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Vargo, Marc E. (2011). "A Review of "Please select your gender: From the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism"". Journal of GLBT Family Studies. 7 (5): 493–494. doi:10.1080/1550428x.2011.623982. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Cronn-Mills, Kirstin (2014). Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices. Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 978-1-4677-4796-7. Archived from the original on December 2, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2016 – via Google Books. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Schorn, Johanna. "Taking the 'Sex' out of Transsexual: Representations of Trans Identities in Popular Media" (PDF). Inter-Disciplinary.Net. Cologne, Germany: University of Cologne. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 25, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
The term transgender is an umbrella term 'and generally refers to any and all kinds of variation from gender norms and expectations' (Stryker 19). Most often, the term transgender is used for someone who feels that the sex assigned to them at birth does not reflect their own gender identity. They may identify as the gender "opposite" to their assigned gender, or they may feel that their gender identity is fluid, or they may reject all gender categorizations and identify as agender or genderqueer.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Anne Enke, ed. (2012). "Note on terms and concepts". Transfeminist Perspectives In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies. Temple University Press. pp. 16–20 [18–19]. ISBN 978-1-4399-0748-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Sojwal, Senti (September 16, 2015). "What Does 'Agender' Mean? 6 Things to Know About People With Non-Binary Identities". Bustle. Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Morrison, Tessalyn; Dinno, Alexis; Salmon, Taurica (2021-12-01). "The Erasure of Intersex, Transgender, Nonbinary, and Agender Experiences Through Misuse of Sex and Gender in Health Research". American Journal of Epidemiology. 190 (12): 2712–2717. doi:10.1093/aje/kwab221. ISSN 0002-9262. PMID 34409983 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ "agender, adj.", Oxford English Dictionary (3 ed.), Oxford University Press, 2023-03-02, doi:10.1093/oed/1111057139, retrieved 2025-03-21
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Resources for the agender community". akt. 2023-07-27. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ↑ "Judge grants Oregon resident the right to be genderless". NBC News. 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
- ↑ Sparkes, Matthew (February 14, 2014). "Facebook sex changes: which one of 50 genders are you?". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on May 21, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "OkCupid expands gender and sexuality options". PBS NewsHour. November 17, 2014. Archived from the original on November 19, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2014. Unknown parameter
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