Intergender
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Intergender is a term which intersex individuals have been defining as an intersex-exclusive gender for intersex individuals who feel that being intersex has influenced their gender[1].[2]
Some intersex intergender individuals describe their gender as intergender; others use it as a modifier (e.g. intergender demigirl)[4][3].
A 2023 Tumblr poll asking intersex people how much being intersex affected their gender yielded approximately 20% saying "it is my gender identity", 25% saying "a lot", 25% saying "fluidly", 10% saying "a little", and 10% saying "not at all"[5]. The term "demi-intergender" has been coined for those who would respond to such a question with "a little"[6].
History
The term has an older meaning of having a gender that is in between masculine and feminine[7][8]. This original coining was not intersex exclusive. The intersex-exclusive sense has since become a more common use of the term[9]
The intersex-exclusive version of the term emerged later, with an intersex-exclusive flag being posted by Tumblr user pride-color-schemes in 2016[8].
Another intersex-exclusive flag design, by Tumblr user interpunked, featuring a white ring on a purple background with a horizontal yellow stripe along the middle, was posted in 2020[10]. A simplified flag design was posted by Tumblr user ipso-faculty in 2024, which has the intergender flag take the form of the intersex flag but with the colours swapped[3].
References
- ↑ Intersexfairy. Intersex Terminology Masterpost. 2021. https://www.tumblr.com/intersexfairy/640221404033384448/intersex-terminology-masterpost
- ↑ Astle, Shelby, Katrina Pariera, Kristin M. Anders, Bria Brown-King, and Marissa Adams. "Growing Up Intersex: A Thematic Analysis of Intersex Emerging Adults’ Key Socialization Experiences in Childhood and Adolescence." Sex Roles (2024): 1-24.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ipso-faculty. New intergender flag design. 2024. https://www.tumblr.com/ipso-faculty/753937719317626880/new-intergender-flag-design
- ↑ Intersex Support. 2021. (No title). https://intersex-support.tumblr.com/post/647386592867139584/im-a-cis-perisex-person-so-im-sorry-if-anything
- ↑ Queercripintersex. 2023. Tumblr intersex polls without votes from non-intersex people https://www.tumblr.com/queercripintersex/728594211195207680/tumblr-intersex-polls-without-votes-from?source=share
- ↑ Ipso-faculty. 2024. Demi-intergender and inter-demigender. https://www.tumblr.com/ipso-faculty/754660821970419712/demi-intergender-and-inter-demigender
- ↑ Donna Lynn Matthews. Being Genderquer - What it Means for Me. 2006. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/genderqueer.html
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Pride-color-schemes. 2016. Intergender. https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/148276809390/intergender
- ↑ The Trans Language Primer. Intergender. https://translanguageprimer.com/intergender/
- ↑ Interpunked. 2020. Intergender flag updated design 1/17. https://web.archive.org/web/20211119105009/https://interpunked.tumblr.com/post/190315338222/intergender-flag-updated-design-117-this-flag-was
