Ipsogender is a gender modality for “cis intersex” individuals. It refers to intersex individuals who identify with the gender assigned to them at birth- either because they were coercively assigned a gender, or because it was not known they were intersex until later in life, making them "cis". However, they recognize that cis-ness does not apply to intersex individuals in the same ways it applies to perisex individuals, and so a cis intersex idividual may identify with ipsogender to underline the fact that they are not empowered by or protected under cissexism.
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For the complementary term, see Ipsosex. For the opposite term, see Ultergender.
History
Ipsogender was coined on June 30, 2015 by Dr. Cary Costello[1], an intersex trans male sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He specializes in identity, sexuality, privilege, and marginalization, and advocates for transgender and intersex rights.
Flag
The ipsogender flag was designed by 1nklash on DeviantArt on July 9, 2016.[2] The flag uses the inverted colors of the intersex flag and uses the symbol for the Earth, which is sometimes used to represent intersex individuals.