Guest post by tiggerthewing.

Ophelia pointed out the strange gender-essentialist world of some millennials, as revealed by a Guardian article.

One of the commenters linked to a description by someone of their ‘gender fluidity’.

There was one comment in particular that showed that the idea of gender essentialism has bamboozled young people:

also, my gender fluidity seems a bit different than yours (I just want to point this out), for me, I don’t really have with my body, It’s with the way I feel, sometimes I feel boy-ish sometimes girly-ish, and isn’t really my body that’s that’s the problem.

Despite what these people might be reading and hearing, that isn’t a description of someone who is … Read the rest

There’s a Nonbinary Wiki.

There are many kinds of nonbinary gender identities. These include, but are not limited to:

• Agender people find that they have no inner sense of their gender identity. That is, they have no gender.
• Androgynes are a mix of female and male.
• Aporagender is separate from female, male, or anything in between, and isn’t an absence of gender. The basic definition of maverique is similar.
• Butch and boi are queermasculine genders, which some use as nonbinary identities. The same is true for a queer feminine gender, femme.
• Demigender identities, such as the partly female demigirl, and the partly male demiboy.
• Genderfluid people have different gender identities at different times.