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'''Gender
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 relates to the trans experience, but only sometimes, temporarily, or not completely.▼
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* [[Transn't]]: Describes any modalities or individuals who are not transgender.
* [[Centrgender]]: Describes any modalities or individuals who are neither cisgender nor transgender (combines cisn't and transn't).
* [[Utrinquegender]]: Someone who has aspects of both trans and cis experiences.▼
* [[Integragender]]: Someone who has multiple genders and one of them matches their gender assigned at birth, maing them both cis and trans as a result.▼
=== General Identities ===
* [[Ipsogender]]: Intersex people who identify as their assigned gender at birth, but do not feel the term “cisgender” describes them due to being intersex. A “cis intersex” person.▼
These identities are not [[Exclusive Identities|exclusive]] to certain individuals.
* [[Ultergender]]: Intersex people who identify as a gender other than their assigned gender at birth, but do not feel the term “transgender” describes them due to being intersex. A “trans intersex” person.▼
* [[Demicisgender]]: Identifying partially as your assigned gender/sex at birth, and partially not.▼
* [[
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**[[Hypercisgender]]: Someone who is both cisgender and [[hypergender]].
* [[Transgender]]: An individual who identifies with a different gender identity than their assigned gender.
** [[Demitransgender]]: An individual who identifies partially as transgender.
▲* [[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
▲* [[Ultergender]]: Intersex
▲* [[Utrinquegender]]: Someone who has aspects of both trans and cis experiences due to being AIAB or being part of a system.
*[[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 because Ashley noted that the notion of ‘gender identity’ as used in law, perpetuates the idea that ‘gender identity’ is something only used by trans
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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