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'''Gender modality''' refers to the correspondence or lack of correspondence between one's [[Assigned Gender|assigned gender at birth]] and one's actual [[gender identity]]. The two primary, and most well known gender modalities are [[cisgender]] and [[transgender]]. However, those are not the only possible modalities one can have.
While the term "trans" may by defined as
Gender modality has, in some cases, been expanded by [[LGBT+]] individuals to a more general relationship or directionality of one's gender irrespective of assigned gender, exemplified by [[adgender]] and [[genderqueer]].
== Modalities ==
=== Umbrella Terms ===
These modalities can be used as umbrella terms or may be as labels themselves.
* [[Sensgender]]: When one relating to the trans experience, but only sometimes, temporarily, or not completely.▼
* [[
* [[Transn't]]: Describes any modalities or individuals who are not transgender.
* [[Utrinquegender]]: Someone who experiences aspects of both trans and cis experiences.▼
* [[Centrgender]]: Describes any modalities or individuals who are neither cisgender nor transgender (combines cisn't and transn't).
* [[Integragender]]: Someone who has multiple genders and one of them matches their gender assigned at birth, being cis, but also trans as a result.▼
=== General Identities ===
* [[Ultergender]]: Intersex people who identify as a gender other than their assigned gender at birth, but do not feel the term “transgender” describes them.▼
These identities are not [[Exclusive Identities|exclusive]] to certain individuals.
* [[Demicisgender]]: Identifying partially as your assigned gender/sex at birth, and partially not.▼
* [[Demitransgender]]: Identifying partially, but not completely as transgender.▼
* [[Cisgender]]: An individual who always completely identifies with their assigned gender.
**[[Demicisgender]]: An individual who identifies partially as cisgender.
**[[Hypercisgender]]: Someone who is both cisgender and [[hypergender]].
* [[Transgender]]: An individual who identifies with a different gender identity than their assigned gender.
▲** [[Demitransgender]]:
▲* [[Integragender]]:
* [[Trisgender]]: Being both cis and trans (but not necessarily being [[multigender]]).
*[[Intragender (Modality)|Intragender]]: An individual who has similar experiences to those of cisgender individuals. Examples include:
▲*
**Identifying with a gender identity similar to their assigned gender.
**Feeling that their gender identity is heavily influenced by their assigned gender.
*[[Absgender]]: An individual who is beyond, between, or removed from trans/cis dichotomy, or who is neither cis nor trans.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20201231191637/https://gender-resource.tumblr.com/post/624951702581362688/absgender-a-genderedness-that-is-between-beyond</ref>
* [[Isogender]] or [[Metagender]]: Someone who is not cis, but also does not identify as transgender for whatever reason. Examples include:
**Identifying with multiple gender identities most of which strongly resemble their assigned gender.
**Identifying with a gender identity closely resembling or related to their assigned gender.
**Feeling fluctuating gender incongruence.
**Being genderless or agender and thus not having a gender identity.
**Being fluid between gender identities, one of which is their assigned gender.
▲* [[Sensgender]]:
**Identifying with the trans experience only sometimes due to fluid or fluctuating gender identities.
**Identifying with multiple gender identities, only some of which are different from their assigned gender.
**Feeling that transitioning has nothing to do with their gender identity, but relates to their [[Gender Presentation|presentation]].
**Feeling that their gender identity and how they want to transition don't "match up" with how they are perceived.
*[[Adgender]]: Someone who wants to/is/has transitioned towards a particular gender identity or presentation, including those who are not transgender. Examples include:
**Being transgender.
**Being a system where some headmates have to dress as another gender than the body to feel as themselves.
**Being a system where a transgender headmate's gender identity matches the body.
**Transitioning to a gender identity which is similar to their assigned gender.
**Transitioning from intersex but not necessarily considering themselves trans.
* [[Genderqueer]]: As a modality, someone who queers gender; subverting and challenging common expectations related to gender.<ref>Andrew Pegoda (15 July 2020). Not cis. Not trans. Genderqueer.https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/not-cis-not-trans-genderqueer</ref><ref name=":0">queeranarchism (16 February 2014). [https://queeranarchism.tumblr.com/post/76889334992/yeah-but-can-you-explain-the-cis-gender-thing "Yeah, but can you explain the cis gender thing?"]. ''Tumblr''. Retrieved 28 January 2021</ref>
=== Intersex/AIAB Exclusive ===
These are identities that are exclusive to [[intersex]] individuals or those who are [[AIAB]].
* [[Ipsogender]]: Intersex individuals who identify as their assigned gender at birth, but do not feel the term “cisgender” describes them due to being intersex. A “cis intersex” individual.
▲* [[Ultergender]]: Intersex
▲* [[Utrinquegender]]: Someone who
*[[Exparium]]: An identity label for intersex people who identify as [[transmasculine]], [[transfeminine]], or another trans/non-binary gender, despite it corresponding to their assigned gender.
=== Neurodivergent Exclusive ===
These identities are exclusive to [[neurodivergent]] individuals.
* [[Obligender]]: Having a [[Demigender|partial]] connection to one's [[Assigned Gender|AGAB]] because of coercion or abuse, as well as the presence of gender uncertainty.
====System Exclusive====
These identities are exclusive to [[system]]s.
* [[Afficgender]]: Someone who is a system member, whose gender identity is the same as the body's AGAB.
* [[Detragender]]: Someone who is a system member, whose gender identity is different from the body's AGAB.
* [[Utrinquegender]]: Someone who has aspects of both trans and cis experiences due to being AIAB or being part of a system.
* [[Azonosgender]]: Someone who is a system member and is transgender in the innerworld, however shares the same gender as the body's AGAB.
* [[Confudirgender]]: Someone who is a system member and is cisgender in the innerworld, however does not share the same gender as the body's AGAB.
* [[plural:Levian|Levian]] or [[plural:Levigender|Levigender]]: An [[umbrella term]] for [[plural:Headmate|headmates]] who are a different type of trans/cis/etc. from the body, due to their appearance in headspace, memories, or otherwise.
** [[plural:Azlian|Azlian]] or [[plural:Azligender|Azligender]]: A headmate that cis in headspace and/or their memories, but would be considered trans if going by the system’s body.
** [[plural:Eclian|Eclian]] or [[plural:Ecligender|Ecligender]]: A headmate that is trans in headspace and/or their memories, but would be considered cis if going by the system’s body.
*[[plural:Fulgurmasc|Fulgurmasc]]: System members who are transmasculine in a transfeminine body.
*[[plural:Lapisfem|Lapisfem]]: System members who are transfeminine in a transmasculine body.
== History ==
Gender modality was a term created by Florence Ashley, a [[transfeminine]] jurist and bioethicist, some time around February 28, 2019.<ref>Ashley Florence (2019-04-08). [https://medium.com/@florence.ashley/gender-modality-proposal-for-new-terminology-d78df51b299f "Gender modality: Proposal for new terminology."] ''Medium''. Retrieved 2020-08-02.</ref> The term was coined
The benefits of using gender modality as a concept include:
# Moves away from the othering nature of using the term "gender identity" when trans
# Enhances our vocabulary when discussing the various aspects of gender (e.g. gender assigned at birth, gender identity, gender expression, and now gender modality).
# Resolves controversies surrounding appropriate terminology when referring to the fact of being trans, with terms such as “transsexuality”, “transgenderism”.
# Opens the door to gender modalities outside of a cis/trans binary, by enabling us to talk about ones “gender modality” instead of one “being cis or trans” (in the same way that “sexual/romantic orientation” gives us conceptual tools to avoid reproducing a “straight/gay” binary).
Ashley advocates for the usage of gender modality in the WPATH Standards of Care version 8 and has written several essays on the topic of gender modality.<ref>Ashley, Florence. (2021). 'Trans' is my gender modality: a modest terminological proposal. In Laura Erikson-Schroth (Eds.), ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves'', 2nd ed., Oxford University Press (forthcoming). https://www.florenceashley.com/uploads/1/2/4/4/124439164/florence_ashley_trans_is_my_gender_modality.pdf Accessed 2020-08-02</ref> The term has since been used in research about transgender health.<ref>Felt, Dylan; Xu, Jiayi; Floresca, Ysabel B.; Fernandez, Ella S.; Korpak, Aaron K.; Phillips, Gregory; Wang, Xinzi; Curry, Caleb W., and Beach, Lauren B. (30 November 2021). [https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/trgh.2021.0129 "Instability in Housing and Medical Care Access: The Inequitable Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on U.S. Transgender Populations"]. Transgender Health. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2021.0129</nowiki> (forthcoming)</ref><ref>Phillips, Gregory II; Xu, Jiayi; Ruprecht, Megan M.; Costa, Diogo; Felt, Dylan; Wang, Xinzi; Glenn, Erik Elías; Beach, Lauren B. (30 Jun 2021). [https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/lgbt.2021.0002 "Associations with COVID-19 Symptoms, Prevention Interest, and Testing Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults in a Diverse National Sample"]. LGBT Health. 8 (5): 322-329. <nowiki>http://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2021.0002</nowiki> (online)</ref>
The need for a categorical term of one's relationship to one's assigned gender had been explored prior to Florence's coining as early as 2014.<ref name=":0" />
== Flag ==
The -modal flag was designed by Tumblr user queer-coining and posted on August 13, 2023.<ref>https://archive.is/nTnBI</ref> The first stripes, colored with black, represents lack of modality or amodal, blue for [[masculine]]/[[man]] gender modality, pink [[feminine]]/[[woman]] gender modality, white having all gender modalities (panmodal/omnimodal), orange, [[intersex]] gender modality (intermodal), red gender neutral or not fem/masc modalities, and the last stripe, colored with black, lack or [[Gender Apathetic|indifference]] or [[Uingender|doubt]] in gender modality.
== Resources ==
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