Bigender
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Bigender, bi-gender or dual gender is a gender identity that encompasses any two gender identities and associated behaviors. Some bigender individuals express two distinct personas, which may be feminine, masculine, agender, androgyne, or other gender identities; others identify as two genders simultaneously. A 1999 survey conducted by the San Francisco Department of Public Health observed that, among the transgender community, 3% of those assigned male at birth and 8% of those assigned female at birth identified as either "a transvestite, cross-dresser, drag queen, or a bigendered person".[1] A 2016 Harris poll conducted on behalf of GLAAD found that 1% of millennials identify as bigender.[2][3]
Description
Identifying as bigender typically means identifying as both male and female, or moving between masculine and feminine gender expression, having two distinct gender identities simultaneously or fluctuating between them.[4][5][6] This differs from identifying as genderfluid, as genderfluid individuals may not fluctuate between fixed gender identities and may experience a range or spectrum of identities over time.[7][8] The American Psychological Association considers the bigender identity part of the transgender umbrella.[9]
Legal recognition
In the state of Washington, adults can list a third gender on their birth certificate; the state's Department of Health specifies this option applies to bigender individuals.[10][11][12] This change took effect in January 2018.[13] In California, a third gender option is legally recognized under California Senate Bill 179, also known as the California Gender Recognition Act, and applies to bigender individuals.[14][15][16] In New Jersey, a third gender option is available for "intersex, agender, amalgagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, neutrois, nonbinary, pangender, third sex, transsexual, Two Spirit, or otherwise unspecified" people.[17]
See also
- Androgyny
- Dual-role transvestism
- Genderqueer
- Intersex
- List of transgender-related topics
- Trigender
- Two-spirit
References
- ↑ Clements, K. San Francisco Department of Public Health, 1999
- ↑ "EEOC now gives nonbinary people a way to be counted in workplace". Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Accelerating Acceptance 2017" (PDF). GLAAD.
- ↑ "Asexual, bigender, transexual or cis, can't we all just be kind to each other?". Independent.ie. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ EDT, Sofia Lotto Persio On 6/16/17 at 11:45 AM (2017-06-16). "Oregon becomes first state to allow option "X" to end gender binary". Newsweek. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Everything you ever wanted to know about being nonbinary". The Daily Dot. 2017-09-28. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Billy Dee Williams: What is gender fluid?". Monsters and Critics. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "This is the term for people who aren't exclusively male or female". PinkNews - Gay news, reviews and comment from the world's most read lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans news service. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Sexual orientation and gender identity". https://www.apa.org. Retrieved 2019-12-18. External link in
|work=(help) - ↑ "Sex Designation Change on a Birth Certificate :: Washington State Department of Health". www.doh.wa.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ CNN, Emanuella Grinberg. "Washington state offers third gender option on birth certificates". CNN. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Adding third-sex option on birth certificates is a start". The Seattle Times. 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Nonbinary? Intersex? 11 U.S. states issuing third gender IDs". Reuters. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Bill Text - SB-179 Gender identity: female, male, or nonbinary". leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ Dembroff, Robin (2018-01-30). "The Nonbinary Gender Trap". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ Caralle, Katelyn. "California legally recognizes third gender option on birth certificates and state ID cards". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ NJ.com, Kelly Heyboer | NJ Advance Media for (2019-02-06). "There's a new 'Gender X' option on N.J. birth certificates. How's it going to work? Your questions answered". nj. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
External links
- Invisibilia - Paige's Story (audio interview)
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