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Nonbinary

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Introduction

Nonbinary is an umbrella term used to refer to those who do not strictly adhere to the traditional gender binary (the traditional gender binary refering to the dichotomy of male and female). As implied by the nature of being an umbrella term, being "nonbinary" is a vast and varied experience. The genders and experiences within the nonbinary community are unique and diverse. The nonbinary community has a rich and varied history across the world. Many indigenous cultures have 3rd (or more) genders, such as the Native Americans' "Two-Spirit" gender role.

Some nonbinary people use broad, vague labels to define their gender identities. Others seek out precise labels to explain their experiences in detail to others. There is a lot of overlap between nonbinary identities, and you can easily find various nonbinary people who have nothing in common with one another (gender wise, though I assume if you grabbed a bunch of random people, they would have other traits that are unrelated other than gender). Particularly online, some nonbinary people will search for (or simply coin) hyperspecific terms to describe their own unique experiences with gender; in an effort to seek out others with the same experience.

Some nonbinary people present androdgynous, while others prefer to lean into their masculinity or femininity. The styles of hair and clothes worn by nonbinary people will vary wildly from person to person. Everyone has their own journey to explore their gender presentation; playing with aesthetics to best communicate their inner selves to the world. To be nonbinary is to find your own unique combination to satistfy the conditions of gender euphoria.

Some nonbinary people use gender-neutral pronouns as a method of gender-affirmation, however some still use he or she. Others still use their own unique combinations. They/them pronouns are commonly associated with nonbinary people in the english language, but it is all down to personal preference and how everyone chooses to socially communicate their gender identities. Some nonbinary people will keep the names that they were born with. Others will choose new names to better represent themselves.

There are numerous terms used for and by those who are nonbinary across cultures and languages. Though not considered mainstream, finding your identity as a non-binary person can be freeing. Like any gender journey, to discover that you are nonbinary is to defy gender roles. Defy the expectations. To simply be as you are without adhering to what was expected of you when you were born. To reach out to what was truly inside of you, waiting to be nurtured.

While there are some binary transgender people who try on the nonbinary experience as a stepping stone of their gender transitions; for countless people to be nonbinary is the destination. The end result. The ideal result. The best case scenario. Most nonbinary people are typically read as either male or female to the general public (who make assumptions about anyone they come across and assume that they must be correct) but the assumptions of others don't have to define who a person is. To be gender diverse is to be yourself, even when things seem against you.

Discrimination against nonbinary people is known as binarism.

General Information

While the term "nonbinary" is included under the transgender umbrella, not all people who identify as nonbinary also identify as transgender. Many nonbinary people also identify as being transgender.

Some people who identify as nonbinary will undergo hormonal transition such as taking estrogen or testosterone. Some do not. Some nonbinary people pursue gender affirming surgeries. Some nonbinary people identify with ideas such as nullification or salmacian, and obtain non-traditional gender affirming surgeries accordingly. Some nonbinary people identify under the labels of transfeminine or transmasculine to define their identities. What labels a nonbinary does or does not use is down to the individual person.

Being nonbinary is not the same thing as being intersex. Animals cannot be "biologically nonbinary" but they can be intersex. Nonbinary is a human gender identity, not a biological variation.

Some Common Nonbinary Identities

The Nonbinary Flag

The non-binary flag has four stripes in four colors.

The top yellow stripe represents individuals whose genders do not exist within the traditional gender binary.

The second stripe is white, representing individuals who identify with multiple genders.

The third stripe is purple, representing individuals who identify as a blend of male and female.

The fourth and final stripe is black, represending agender individuals.

The yellow in the abinary flag is a reference to the yellow in the nonbinary flag.

Gender - Fandom - Wiki - Abinary
New LGBTQIA - Wiki - Abinary
Nonbinary Wiki - Abinary
Pride Flag - Fandom - Wiki - Abinary
Queerdom - Fandom - Wiki - Abinary

The black and white stripes in the agender flag represent a lack of gender.

The gray in the agender flag represents semi-genderless.

The green in the agender flag represents nonbinary genders.

Flag Color Codes - Agender
Flags For Good: Michael Green: 05/17/2023: Agender Pride Flag - Meaning and History
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Agender
Good Good Good: Kamrin Baker: 01/04/2024: What Is the Agender Pride Flag & What Does It Mean?
Healthline: Sian Ferguson & Janet Brito, Ph.D., LCSW, CST-S: 01/20/2021: What Does It Mean to Be Agender?
Into More: Eloisa De Farias: The Agender Pride Flag
LGBTI News: Selin: 12/23/2024: Agender Pride Flag
New - LGBTQIA - Wiki - Agender
Nonbinary Wiki - Agender
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Does Agender Mean? + Other Agender Information To Help You Be A Better Ally!
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Exactly Is The Agender Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean?
Salford Journal: Runa Khan: 10/09/2024: The Agender Flag: A Symbol of Identity and Inclusivity
Sexual Diversity: 12/17/2022: Agender Pride Flag
Trans Language Primer - Agender
Tumblr: transrants: 01/04/2019: my name is salem and i created the agender flag.
Wikipedia - Agender Pride Flag

The pink in the androgyne flag represents the spectrum of femininity.

The purple in the androgyne flag represents androgyny.

The blue in the androgyne flag represents the spectrum of masculinity.

androgynes - carrd
Flag Color Codes - Androgyne
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Androgyne
Good Good Good: Kamrin Baker: 01/04/2024: What Is the Androgyne Pride Flag & What Does It Mean?
LGBTQIA - Fandom - Wiki - Androgyne
Nonbinary Wiki - Androgyne
Pride Flag Guide - Androgyne
Pride Planet - Androgyne
Proud Zebra: 01/06/2021: Androgynous Pride Flag and Its Meaning
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Exactly Is The Androgyne Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean?
Trans Language Primer - Androgyne
Tumblr: saveferris-blog: 03/29/2011: Voilà. Androgynous flag.
Wikipedia - Androgyne

The blue stripe in the aporagender flag represents masculinity.

The pink stripe in the aporagender flag represents femininity.

The purple stripe in the aporagender flag represents feeling between male and female.

The yellow stripe in the aporagender flag represents a strong connection to experiencing gender.

Flag Color Codes - Aporagender
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Aporagender
LGBTQIA - Fandom - Wiki - Aporagender
Nonbinary Wiki - Aporagender
Orientando - Aporagendero
Pride Flag - Fandom - Wiki - Aporagender Flag
Pride Planet - Aporagender
Spectrum Id - Aporagender
Trans Language Primer - Aporagender

The pink stripes in the bigender flag represent the spectrum of femininity.

The purple stripes in the bigender flag represent androgyny.

The white stripe in the bigender flag represents nonbinary identities.

The blue stripes in the bigender flag represent the spectrum of femininity.

bigenders - carrd
Flag Color Codes: Bigender
Gayety: 08/02/2022: Everything You Need To Know About The Bigender Pride Flag
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Bigender
Into More: Eloisa De Farias: What Does It Mean to be Bigender?
LGBTQIA - Fandom - Wiki - Bigender
New - LGBTQIA - Wiki - Bigender
Nonbinary Wiki - Bigender
Pride Flag Guide - Bigender
Proud Zebra: 01/06/2021: Understanding Bigender: Its Pride Flag and Meaning
Queer In The World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Exactly Is The Bigender Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean?
Sexual Diversity: 11/22/2022: Bigender Pride Flag
Symbol Sage: Dani Rhys: 01/21/2024: The Bigender Flag: Exploring its History and Representation
Symbols and Meanings - Bigender Flag Meaning, Origin And Colors
Them: Erika Owen: 09/27/2023: What Does It Mean to Be Bigender?
Trans Language Primer - Bigender / Trigender / etc.
Wikipedia - Bigender

The blue stripes in the demiboy flag represent the spectrum of manhood and masculinity.

The white stripe in the demiboy flag represents nonbinary and agender identities.

The grey stripes in the demiboy flag represent partial connections with genders apart from male, or a lack of gender.

The yellow stripes in the demigender flag represent the spectrum of nonbinary and genderqueer identities and individuals.

The white stipe in the demigender flag represents the experience of partial identification with a specific gender.

The grey stripes in the demigender flag represent the absence of gender both the spectrum of agender identities and the diversity among those who identify as demigender.

The pink stripes in the demigirl flag represent the spectrum of womanhood and femininity.

The white stripe in the demigirl flag represents nonbinary and agender identities.

The grey stripes in the demigirl flag represent partial connections with genders apart from female, or a lack of gender.

Boutique LGBTQIA: Marie: 06/26/2023: The Meaning of the Demiboy Flag : Symbolizing Gender Identity
Flag Color Codes - Demiboy
Flag Color Codes - Demigirl
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Demiboy
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Demigender
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Demigirl
Good Good Good: Kamrin Baker: 01/04/2024: What Is the Demigender Pride Flag & What Does It Mean?
Heckin Unicorn: 09/16/2021: What is the Demiboy pride flag and what does it mean?
Heckin Unicorn: 09/16/2021: What is the Demigirl pride flag and what does it mean?
LGBTQIA - Fandom - Wiki - Demigender
LGBTQ Nation: 06/11/2022: What does it mean to be demigender?
New - LGBTQIA - Wiki - Demigender
Nonbinary Wiki - Demigender
Pink News: Emily Maskell: 09/27/2024: What does demigender mean – and what are demiboys and demigirls? Key LGBTQ+ terms explained
Pride Flag Guide - Demiboy
Pride Flag Guide - Demigirl
Pride Planet - Demiboy
Pride Planet - Demigender
Proud Zebra: 01/06/2021: What Does It Mean To Be Demigirl or Demiboy?
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 12/29/2023: What Does Demigender Mean? + Other Demigender Information To Help You Be A Better Ally!
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 12/03/2023: What Does Demigirl Mean? + Other Demigirl Information To Help You Be A Better Ally!
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Exactly Is The Demiboy Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean?
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Exactly Is The Demigender Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean?
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Exactly Is The Demigirl Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean?
Queerty - The demiboy identity: 6 questions you always wanted to ask
Trans Language Primer - Demigender
WikiHow: Inge Hansen, PsyD & Glenn Carreau: 04/17/2025: What It Means to Identify as a Demigirl & How to Tell If You Are One
Wikipedia - Demigender

The pink stripe in the genderfluid flag represents femininity.

The white stripe in the genderfluid flag represents a lack of gender.

The purple stripe in the genderfluid flag represents a combination of femininity and masculinity.

The black stripe in the genderfluid flag represents all other genders that are not related to femininity or masculinity.

The blue stripe in the genderfluid flag represents masculinity.

Dictionary: 03/12/2018: gender-fluid
Flag Color Codes - Genderfluid
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Genderfluid
Good Good Good: Kamrin Baker: 01/04/2024: What Is the Genderfluid Pride Flag & What Does It Mean?
Harvard Health: Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD: 12/03/2020: Gender fluidity: What it means and why support matters
Healthline: Sian Ferguson: 06/11/2020: What Does It Mean to Be Gender-Fluid?
Into More: Eloisa De Farias: The Genderfluid Pride Flag
LBGTQIA - Fandom - Wiki - Genderfluid
LGBTQ Nation: 06/25/2022: The genderfluid flag: Here’s everything you need to know
Medical News Today: Francis Kuehnle, MSN, RN-BC & Beth Sissons: 12/19/2023: What does it mean to be genderfluid?
Merriam Webster - gender-fluid
New LGBTQIA - Wiki - Genderfluid
Nonbinary Wiki - Genderfluid
Pink News: Emma Powys Maurice: 08/28/2024: What genderfluid and genderqueer mean, how the terms differ, and how you can be a great ally
Pride Flag Guide - Genderfluid
Psych Central: Francis Kuehnle, MSN, RN-BC & Sonya Matejko: 05/24/2033: What Does It Mean to Be Genderfluid?
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Exactly Is The Genderfluid Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean?
Trans Language Primer - Genderfluid / Genderflux
Very Well Mind: Wendy Rose Gould: 02/14/2023: What Does It Mean to Be Gender Fluid?
WikiHow: Lauren Urban, LCSW: 03/10/2025: How to Know if You Are Genderfluid
Wikipedia - Gender Fluidity

The lavender stripe in the genderqueer flag represents androgyny, and the combination of both masculine and feminine characteristics.

The white stripe in the genderqueer flag represents being agender, genderless, having no gender, or having a neutral gender.

Symbolizing growth and renewal, the green stripe in the genderqueer flag represents those who identify as nonbinary or outside the gender binary.

baike baidu - genderqueer
Britannica: Genny Beemyn: 04/07/2025: Genderqueer
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Genderqueer
Good Good Good: Kamrin Baker: 01/04/2024: What Is the Genderqueer Pride Flag & What Does It Mean?
Healthline: KC Clements: 02/01/2024: What Does It Mean to Be Genderqueer?
Heckin Unicorn: 09/16/2021: What is the Genderqueer pride flag and what does it mean?
LGBTQIA - Fandom - Wiki - Genderqueer
Nonbinary Wiki - Genderqueer
Psych Central: Francis Kuehnle, MSN, RN-BC & Zuri White-Gibson: 05/17/2022: What Does It Mean to Be Genderqueer?
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Does Genderqueer Mean? + Other Genderqueer Information To Help You Be A Better Ally!
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Exactly Is The Genderqueer Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean?
Reddit - r/Genderqueer
Sexual Diversity: 11/08/2022: Genderqueer Pride Flag
Trans Language Primer - Genderqueer
USA Today: Clare Mulroy: 06/05/2024: Pride flag colors: What genderqueer, gender-fluid and nonbinary flags represent
Very Well Health: S. Nicole Lane & Lauren Schlanger, MD: 12/02/2024: What Is Genderqueer?
Very Well Mind: Elizabeth Boskey, PhD & Sean Blackburn: 02/14/2023: What Does It Mean to Be Genderqueer or Nonbinary?
Wikipedia - Gender Queer

Dictionary - Gendervoid
Enviroliteracy: 04/06/2025: What is Gendervoid?
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Gendervoid
New LGBTQIA - Wiki - Gendervoid
Nonbinary Wiki - List of Uncommon Nonbinary Identities - Gendervoid
Prideer - Fandom - Wiki - Gendervoid

The white stripe in the neutrois flag represents being unidentified, gender neutral, or undecided.

The dark chartreuse green stripe was chosen for the neutrois flag as it is the opposite of lavender (a color typically representing a mix of masculinity and femininity) to represent being neither masculine nor feminine.

The black stripe in the neutrois flag represents being agender or genderless.

Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Neutrois
Harmless Personal Identity - Neutrois
LGBTQIA - Fandom - Wiki - Neutrois
LGBTQ Nation: 05/28/2022: What it means to identify as neutrois
neutrois.com
Nonbinary Wiki - Neutrois
Pride Corner: Robin Hunt: What Does Neutrois Mean? Understanding This Non-Binary Identity
Pride Flag Guide - Neutrois
Queer in the World: Cecilia Miller: 10/14/2023: What Is The Neutrois Pride Flag, And What Does It Stand For?
Saga Tuscon: Stephanie Marchand: 12/27/2024: What Is Neutrois? Gender Identity Beyond the Binary
Spectrum ID - Neutrois
Trans Language Primer - Neutrois
Wikipedia - Neutrois

The colored stripes - red (life), orange (healing), yellow (sunlight), green (nature), blue (serenity), purple (spirit) - of the two-spirit flag have the same meanings as they do in the original rainbow flag.

The two feathers in the two-spirit flag represent man and woman.

The circle in the two-spirit flag represents unity.

Canadian Encyclopedia: Michelle Filice: 10/29/2015: Two-Spirit
Good Good Good: Kamrin Baker: 01/04/2024: What Is the Two-Spirit Pride Flag & What Does It Mean?
HRC: 12/23/2020: Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ Identities: Today and Centuries Ago
HSLIC: Jonathan Pringle: 10/11/2021: Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Five learnings honoring the healing power of two-spirit identity
Indian Health Service - Two-Spirit
Pink News: Michele Theil: 10/14/2024: Are Two-Spirit people part of the LGBTQ+ community? Here’s what the term means
Point of Pride: 01/25/2024: What does it mean to identify as Two-Spirit?
Pride Flag Guide - Two Spirit
Sexual Diversity: 11/14/2022: Two Spirit Pride Flag
Trans Language Primer - Two-Spirit (2spirit)
Wikipedia - Two Spirit
YouTube Video: them: 12/11/2018: What Does "Two-Spirit" Mean? | InQueery | them.

The symbol at the center of the xenogender flag is the astronomical sign for the asteroid Iris. This asteriod was named after the greek goddess of rainbows.

Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki - Xenogender
LGBTQIA - Fandom - Wiki - Xenogender
LGBTQ Nation: 03/02/2022: What you need to know about xenogender
New LGBTQIA - Wiki - Xenogender
Nonbinary Wiki - Xenogender
Pride Flag - Fandom - Wiki - Xenogender Flag
Spectrum Id - Xenogender
WikiHow: Aly Rusciano: 04/17/2024: Xenogender, Explained
Wikipedia - Iris (mythology)

Bustle: Suzannah Weiss: 06/11/2016: These Things Don't Mean You Aren't Non-Binary
Deconforming: Adrien Converse: Gender pride flags and what they mean
Gender - Fandom - Gender Wiki
itch.io - 404luxio - tiny pixel pride flags
Making Queer History - Zinaida Gippius
My Gender Is X: 07/21/2019: The Ultimate Guide to Non-Binary Gender Identity Flags
NonBinary Wiki
OutrightInternational - Flags - LGBTIQ Community
Pink News: Jess Glass: 06/04/2024: Every LGBTQ+ flag you might see at Pride and what they all mean
Pride Flags
Web Queer Achives - LGBTQIA+ Pride flags
Reddit - r/NonBinary
San Francisco Gay Man's Chorus: 04/17/2023: Get to Know the Meaning Behind the Colors of Major Pride Flags
Transgender Map - Gender transition: gender diverse people
Transgender Teen Survival Guide - Nonbinary Flowchart
Transgender Teen Survival Guide - Non-binary Resources
Trans Language Primer - Genderless
Trans Language Primer - Indigender
Trans Language Primer - Multigender / Polygender
Trans Language Primer - NB / NBi / Enby
Trans Language Primer - Non-Binary
Trans Language Primer - Pangender / Omnigender
Trans Language Primer - Third Gender
Wikipedia - Non-Binary Flag
YouTube Playlist - 1989 - An Interview with intersex and nonbinary people

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