#gender modality

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🚨 My article finally came out in the McGill Law Journal, volume 69. It has been angering right-wing pundits since it was accepted, so you know it’s juicy!

In the article, which is full of sex jokes, I flesh out genderfucking as a legal methodology that emphasizes the messiness of gender life.

Writing the paper with quite possibly the most sex jokes in legal history for volume 69 was… noice.

(Listen to the audio version)

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Seeing as the last one did pretty well, let's see how things go with updated options.

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New gender term for me: Infracis

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Infracis is a identity for cisness that is queer in its cisness. It subverts traditional ideas of what 'cis' means, and/or it is being cis in such a way that identifying as cis, or as your AGAB/ASAB, is more abnormal or unexpected than identifying as trans would be.

Some reasons that someone would identify as infracis:

1. They are intersex and identify with intergender, and/or with "intersex" as their gender identity, and thus consider themselves cisgender. Because this is not the traditional image of an aptobinary, perisex cis person, they would be infracis

2. They are multigender and consider themselves at least partially cis, but since cisness usually refers to aptobinary cis people, they are infracis

3. They are nonbinary and don't want to transition, so they feel they relate more to cisness, but because they are nonbinary it is expected that they would identify with trans, and not cis, so they would be infracis

4. They identify with an identity that is close to their AGAB or aligned with it, but isn't exactly it (like an AMAB xenoboy).

5. They are transgender and cissexual, cisgender and transsexual, or any other cis-trans combo that makes their cisness queer, so they're infracis

6. They're gender non-conforming and their cisness is constantly called into question because of the way they subvert it.

Or any other queer experience with gender and sex that makes one feel like they're cis in a nonconformant way, or subverting cisness. I'm multigender (aporagender + girl), isocis, and a label collector. I've joked that I'm "the least cisgender cis person" and I feel like my cisness is both subversive to traditional cisness because of my queer gender identity, and queer in its cisness because most people would assume I'm under the trans umbrella or just fully iso, because how genderqueer I am doesn't usually fit the idea of what a cis person is.

Etymology: Infra- meaning "below" "beneath" or "under" and cis from "cisgender," meaning "identifying with one's assigned gender at birth." The prefix "Infra-" was chosen for a few reasons. First, because of the subversion aspect of infracis. Second, because in the color spectrum, infra-red is a shade of red that's just outside of the visible light spectrum, so it both explains the way infracis transcends and goes beyond traditional cisness, as well as paying homage to the relative invisibility of infracis people's inherently queer cisness.

Tagging @cisqueer-archive because you'll like this one and @genderstarbucks because you wanted to see what I would make

[your-bigender-big-brother]

Don't limit yourself to any binaries - male/female, AFAB/AMAB, cis/trans, man/woman, etc. are all very limiting and hardly encompass the entirety of the human experience. You don't have to force yourself to fit into any of these systems.

- Your Bigender Big Brother 💙💚

[multigenderswag]

Survey Results: Genders

Questioning

The first question asked participants to indicate whether they were multigender or were questioning. 1196 participants (81.03%) identified as multigender, while 280 (18.97%) were questioning whether they identified as multigender. 

Gender categories & combinations

Every gender given was sorted into one of five categories: Fully male, fully female, partially male, partially female, and not binary at all. The following data describes which combination of gender categories people had. 

Note on categorization:  Although not all people who are men or boys identify with the term “male,” and not all people who are women or girls identify with the term “female,” men and boys were categorized as fully male and women and girls were categorized as fully female for ease of simplicity. People who identified as “everything” or “all genders” were categorized as both fully male and fully female. Demiboys and demigirls, as well as other gender microlabels that were connected to maleness or femaleness, were categorized as partially male and partially female. Genders not at all connected to maleness or femaleness were categorized as “not binary.” It was impossible to know how each person considered themself beyond the options they selected and the labels written into the “other” option, but that information was used to find the closest likely option.  Every gender is unique, and it is very simplistic to divide gender into these categories, but this simplicity is necessary for useful data. Otherwise, I would have nearly 1500 different categories.

All participants were divided into one of the following nine categories:

Fully male and fully female (532 participants, 36.04%)

Partially male and partially female (110 participants, 7.45%)

Fully male and partially female (134 participants, 9.08%)

Partially male and fully female (29 participants, 1.96%)

Fully male and not binary (288 participants, 19.51%)

Partially male and not binary (89 participants, 6.03%)

Fully female and not binary (68 participants, 4.61%)

Partially female and not binary (62 participants, 4.20%)

No binary genders at all (164 participants, 11.11%)

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To display the number of binary genders that each participant had, this data was divided into larger categories of “both binary genders,” “one binary gender,” and “neither binary gender.” This was done twice. In one version, “binary genders” only included people who were fully that gender. In the other, “binary genders” included people who were fully or partially that gender. 

Both binary genders, fully (532 participants, 36.04%)

1 binary gender, fully (540 participants, 36.59%)

Neither binary gender (404 participants, 27.37%)

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Both binary genders, partially or fully (805 participants, 54.54%)

1 binary gender, partially or fully (507 participants, 34.35%)

Neither binary gender at all (164 participants, 11.11%)

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Multigender people who were, in some capacity, both male and female made up the majority of respondents, but it was not a very strong majority. This is an indication that multigender identities not composed of a male/masculine gender and a female/feminine gender are more common than many people would likely expect, based on an informal tumblr poll.

Gender modality

Gender modality refers to the relationship between someone’s gender identity and what they were assigned at birth. The most common gender modalities are cisgender and transgender, but for many multigender people, it is more complicated than that. This question asked “Which of these gender modality terms do you identify with?” and allowed for participants to select multiple options.

A majority of participants identified as trans, with 1197 people selecting that option (81.10%). Additionally, 90 participants (6.10%) identified as cis. 

Gender modality terms beyond trans and cis were also popular among participants. The most common of these terms was transfemmasc, an identity referring to people who identify as both transmasculine and transfeminine. 212 participants (14.36%) identified as transfemmasc. 70 participants (4.74%) identified as isogender, an identity referring to people who are neither transgender nor cisgender, and 82 participants (5.56%) identified as both transgender and cisgender. 164 participants (11.11%) did not identify with any gender modality terms.

An “other” option allowed for participants to write additional gender modality terms they identified with. 15 participants (1.02%) wrote in “genderqueer” as their gender modality. Additionally, 6 participants stated that their intersex identity factored into their gender modality.

[crowdsourcedgender]

may i please request label for a lable were one is both cismasc and transmasc (due to being Intersex) and also nither all at ones

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Name: Trisdoxic / Cistransdoxic / Transcisdoxic

A gender modality where one is both cisgender, transgender, and neither at the same time. The requester clarified that xe did not intend for the label to be intersex exclusive, that's just a reason someone might identify with the term.

From trans + cis + paradoxical (tris is a preexisting word too)

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Name: Doxmasculine / Doxmasc

A gender modality where one is both cismasculine, transmasculine, and neither at the same time.

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Name: Doxfeminine / Doxfem

A gender modality where one is both cisfeminine, transfeminine, and neither at the same time.

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Distogender

(pt: Distogender /end pt)

Distogender; a term for being one gender modality but considering oneself a different modality (example; being trans but considering oneself cis)!

etymology; “disto” latin for “be different”, gender

for anon!

tagging; @radiomogai

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Ipsoultergender/Ulteripsogender, Ipsotergender, Ultersogender

Ipsoultergender/Ulteripsogender - Being both ipsogender and ultergender for any reason. This term is meant to be analogous to cistrans/transcis(tris).

Ipsotergender - Being ipsoultergender/ulteripsogender and being more ipsogender than ultergender

Ultersogender - Being ipsoultergender/ulteripsogender and being more ultergender than ipsogender

[These labels are intersex exclusive!]

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Intergender ( Gender Modality )

Requested by multiple anons, a flag for those who use Intergender as a gender modality!

( One could also call this Intergenmodal if they want a single term )

The flag is based of of the 5 stripe format used by many gender modality flags. The colors and general layout are inspired by the Intergender flag, as well as the Intermodal flag ( seeing as it's a related / sibling term. )

First flag follows the Intergender flag layout more closely with the thicker outer stripes and the second has equally sized stripes to match flags like the Genderqueer ( gender modality ) flag for combos / icons / etc.

Free for anyone to use anywhere! Perisex people this is not for you so please be respectful.

Taglist - @radiomogai, @revenant-coining, @interarchive

[neopronouns]

flag id: a flag with 6 stripes, which are dull medium dark purple, faded green, light green-grey, cream, yellow-orange, and warm grey. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

pargender: one who is definitely not trans, but is not entirely cis either

[pt: pargender: one who is definitely not trans, but is not entirely cis either. end pt]

for anon! this term is similar to isogender, but has more emphasis placed on not being trans and can include partial cis experiences, neocis experiences, etc. i took inspiration from the cis, isogender, intragender, and transn't flags, and the term uses 'par' from 'pari', a similar prefix to 'iso'!

tags: @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @macchiane, @genderstarbucks, @sugar-and-vice-mogai

tags cont: @prettypinknarc, @skrimbliest

dni link

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i love ur article on gender modality btw 🩵🐬

awww tyyyyy!

For those who haven’t seen it:

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TRISGENDER FLAG

Trisgender is being transgender and cisgender at the same time (cistrans/transcis).

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Examples (but not limited to that): cismasc + transmasc ; transfem + cisfem ; transfem + cismasc ; transmasc + cisfem ; etc.

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Flag meaning:

> 💙 (1) cismasc/cisman ; (2) masculinity ; (3) transmasc/transman

> 🤍 (1) genders outside of masc/fem, some cultural genders, some non-binary genders, etc ; (circle) being trisgender/cistrans/transcis outside masc/fem.

> 🩷 (1) cisfem/ciswoman ; (2) femininity ; (3) transfem/transwoman

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Cis+

(note: this was originally coined by pawkips/rotcoric, on a blog which has since been terminated. the archive is here. this post will only contain plaintext.)

A term for to those who identify completely as cisgender, plus additional genders. One doesn’t feel partially cis, one isn’t fluid - one is entirely cis, plus more. One may not know specifically what the additional gender / genders are, so cis+ may be the best way to describe it. Or, one may have a lot of genders, but they all feel like they are simply additional to one’s cis identity.

credit: group project with moots

[your-bigender-big-brother]

Demimodal: umbrella for demicis, demitrans, etc

Demiamodal: partly amodal

Demimodal flag for you! - 💙💚

[multigenderswag]

If you're multigender, reblog and say what gender modality you identify with! I'm trying to get a sense of what the most common ones are.