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How Many Genders Are There In 2024?

How Many Genders Are There In 2024?

Gender identity is a multifaceted aspect of human identity that encompasses a person’s deeply-held sense of their own gender, which may or may not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. While traditionally, gender has been viewed through a binary lens, acknowledging only male and female identities, contemporary understanding recognizes a spectrum of gender identities that extend beyond this binary framework.

At the core of gender identity is the recognition that one’s sense of self, including their psychological, emotional, and social experiences, may be distinct from societal expectations based on biological sex. This realization has sparked significant discourse and activism, leading to greater awareness and acceptance of diverse gender identities.

In recent years, conversations around gender identity have become increasingly prominent, challenging outdated norms and advocating for inclusivity and respect for all individuals regardless of their gender expression or identity. Understanding and respecting gender diversity is not only a matter of social justice but also crucial for promoting mental health, well-being, and equality for all members of society.

Gender identity in 2024 is taken more seriously and Tumblr has a list of total 112 genders currently.

Here is the full list of genders listed alphabetically with a description:

  1. Abimegender: a gender that is profound, deep, and infinite; meant to resemble when one mirror is reflecting into another mirror creating an infinite paradox.
  2. Adamasgender: a gender that refuses to be categorized.
  3. Aerogender: a gender that is influenced by your surroundings.
  4. Aesthetigender: a gender that is derived from an aesthetic; also known as videgender.
  5. Affectugender: a gender that is affected by mood swings.
  6. Agender: the feeling of no gender/absence of gender or neutral gender.
  7. Agenderflux: being mostly agender except having small shifts towards other genders making them demigenders (because of the constancy of being agender).
  8. Alexigender: a gender that is fluid between more than one gender but the individual cannot tell what those genders are.
  9. Aliusgender: a gender that is removed from common gender descriptors and guidelines.
  10. Amaregender: a gender that changes depending on who you’re in love with.
  11. Ambigender: defined as having the feeling of two genders simultaneously without fluctuation; meant to reflect the concept of being ambidextrous, only with gender.
  12. Ambonec: identifying as both man and woman, yet neither at the same time.
  13. Amicagender: a gender that changes depending on which friend you’re with.
  14. Androgyne: sometimes used in the case of “androgynous presentation”; describes the feeling of being a mix of both masculine and feminine (and sometimes neutral) gender qualities.
  15. Anesigender: feeling like a certain gender yet being more comfortable identifying with another.
  16. Angenital: a desire to be without primary sexual characteristics, without necessarily being genderless; one may be both angenital and identify as any other gender alongside.
  17. Anogender: a gender that fades in and out but always comes back to the same feeling.
  18. Anongender: a gender that is unknown to both yourself and others.
  19. Antegender: a protean gender which has the potential to be anything, but is formless and motionless, and therefore, does not manifest as any particular gender.
  20. Anxiegender: a gender that is affected by anxiety.
  21. Apagender: a feeling of apathy towards one’s gender which leads to them not looking any further into it.
  22. Apconsugender: a gender where you know what it isn’t, but not what it is; the gender is hiding itself from you.
  23. Astergender: a gender that feels bright and celestial.
  24. Astralgender: a gender that feels connected to space.
  25. Autigender: a gender that can only be understood in the context of being autistic (POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING).
  26. Autogender: a gender experience that is deeply personal to oneself.
  27. Axigender: when a person experiences two genders that sit on opposite ends of an axis; one being agender and the other being any other gender; these genders are experienced one at a time with no overlapping and with very short transition time.
  28. Bigender: the feeling of having two genders either at the same time or separately; usually used to describe feeling “traditionally male” and “traditionally female”, but does not have to.
  29. Biogender: a gender that feels connected to nature in some way.
  30. Blurgender: the feeling of having more than one gender that are somehow blurred together to the point of not being able to distinguish or identify individual genders; synonymous with genderfuzz.
  31. Boyflux: when one feels mostly or all male most of the time but experience fluctuating intensity of male identity.
  32. Burstgender: and gender that comes in intense bursts of feeling and quickly fades back to the original state.
  33. Caelgender: a gender that shares qualities with outer space or has the aesthetic of space, stars, nebulas, etc.
  34. Cassgender: the feeling of gender is unimportant to you.
  35. Cassflux: when the level of indifference towards your gender fluctuates.
  36. Cavusgender: for people with depression; when you feel one gender when not depressed and another when depressed.
  37. Cendgender: when your gender changes between one and its opposite.
  38. Ceterofluid: when you are ceterogender and your feelings fluctuate between masculine, feminine, and neutral.
  39. Ceterogender: a nonbinary gender with specific masculine, feminine, or neutral feelings.
  40. Cisgender: the feeling of being the gender you were assigned at birth, all the time (assigned (fe)male/feeling (fe)male).
  41. Cloudgender: a gender that cannot be fully realized or seen clearly due to depersonalization/derealization disorder.
  42. Collgender: the feeling of having too many genders simultaneously to describe each one.
  43. Colorgender: a gender associated with one or more colors and the feelings, hues, emotions, and/or objects associated with that color; may be used like pinkgender, bluegender, yellowgender.
  44. Commogender: when you know you aren’t cisgender, but you settled with your assigned gender for the time being.
  45. Condigender: a gender that is only felt during certain circumstances.
  46. Deliciagender: from the Latin word Delicia meaning “favorite”, meaning the feeling of having more than one simultaneous gender yet preferring one that fits better.
  47. Demifluid: the feeling your gender being fluid throughout all the demigenders; the feeling of having multiple genders, some static and some fluid.
  48. Demiflux: the feeling of having multiple genders, some static and some fluctuating.
  49. Demigender: a gender that is partially one gender and partially another.
  50. Domgender: having more than one gender yet one being more dominant than the others.
  51. Duragender: from the Latin word dura meaning “long-lasting”, meaning a subcategory of multigender in which one gender is more identifiable, long-lasting, and prominent than the other genders.
  52. Egogender: a gender that is so personal to your experience that it can only be described as “you”.
  53. Epicene: sometimes used synonymously with the adjective “androgynous”; the feeling of either having or not displaying characteristics of both or either binary gender; sometimes used to describe feminine male-identifying individuals.
  54. Espigender: a gender that is related to being a spirit or exists on a higher or extradimensional plane.
  55. Exgender: the outright refusal to accept or identify in, on, or around the gender spectrum.
  56. Existigender: a gender that only exists or feels present when thought about or when a conscious effort is made to notice it.
  57. Femfluid: having fluctuating or fluid gender feelings that are limited to feminine genders.
  58. Femgender: a nonbinary gender which is feminine in nature.
  59. Fluidflux: the feeling of being fluid between two or more genders that also fluctuate in intensity; a combination of genderfluid and genderflux.
  60. Gemigender: having two opposite genders that work together, being fluid and flux together.
  61. Genderblank: a gender that can only be described as a blank space; when gender is called into question, all that comes to mind is a blank space.
  62. Genderflow: a gender that is fluid between infinite feelings.
  63. Genderfluid: the feeling of fluidity within your gender identity; feeling a different gender as time passes or as situations change; not restricted to any number of genders.
  64. Genderflux: the feeling of your gender fluctuating in intensity; like genderfluid but between one gender and agender.
  65. Genderfuzz: coined by lolzmelmel; the feeling of having more than one gender that are somehow blurred together to the point of not being able to distinguish or identify individual genders; synonymous with blurgender.
  66. Gender Neutral: the feeling of having a neutral gender, whether somewhere in between masculine and feminine or a third gender that is separate from the binary; often paired with neutrois.
  67. Genderpunk: a gender identity that actively resists gender norms.
  68. Genderqueer: originally used as an umbrella term for nonbinary individuals; it may be used as an identity; it describes a nonbinary gender regardless of whether the individual is masculine or feminine leaning.
  69. Genderwitched: a gender in which one is intrigued or entranced by the idea of a particular gender, but is not certain that they are actually feeling it.
  70. Girlflux: when one feels mostly or all female most of the time but experiences fluctuating intensities of female identity.
  71. Glassgender: a gender that is very sensitive and fragile.
  72. Glimragender: a faintly shining, wavering gender.
  73. Greygender: having a gender that is mostly outside of the binary but is weak and can barely be felt.
  74. Gyragender: having multiple genders but understanding none of them.
  75. Healgender: a gender that once realized, brings lots of peace, clarity, security, and creativity to the individual’s mind.
  76. Heliogender: a gender that is warm and burning.
  77. Hemigender: a gender that is half one gender and half something else; one or both halves may be identifiable genders.
  78. Horogender: a gender that changes over time with the core feeling of remaining the same.
  79. Hydrogender: a gender that shares qualities with water.
  80. Imperigender: a fluid gender that can be controlled by the individual.
  81. Intergender: the feeling of gender falling somewhere on the spectrum between masculine and feminine; note: do not confuse with intersex.
  82. Juxera: a feminine gender similar to girl, but on a separate plane and off to itself.
  83. Libragender: a gender that feels agender but has a strong connection to another gender.
  84. Magigender: a gender that is mostly gender and the rest is something else.
  85. Mascfluid: A gender that is fluid in nature, and restricted only to masculine genders.
  86. Mascgender: a non-binary gender which is masculine in nature.
  87. Maverique: taken from the word maverick; the feeling of having a gender that is separate from masculinity, femininity, and neutrality, but is not agender; a form of a third gender.
  88. Mirrorgender: a gender that changes to fit the people around you.
  89. Molligender: a gender that is soft, subtle, and subdued.
  90. Multigender: the feeling of having more than one simultaneous or fluctuating gender; simultaneous with multigender and omnigender.
  91. Nanogender: feeling a small part of one gender with the rest being something else.
  92. Neutrois: the feeling of having a neutral gender; sometimes a lack of gender that leads to feeling neutral.
  93. Nonbinary: originally an umbrella term for any gender outside the binary of cisgenders; may be used as an individual identity; occasionally used alongside of genderqueer.
  94. Omnigender: the feeling of having more than one simultaneous or fluctuating gender; simultaneous with multigender and polygender.
  95. Oneirogender: coined by anonymous, “being agender, but having recurring fantasies or daydreams of being a certain gender without the dysphoria or desire to actually be that gender day-to-day”.
  96. Pangender: the feeling of having every gender; this is considered problematic by some communities and thus has been used as the concept of relating in some way to all genders as opposed to containing every gender identity; only applies to genders within one’s own culture.
  97. Paragender: the feeling very near one gender and partially something else which keeps you from feeling fully that gender.
  98. Perigender: identifying with gender but not as a gender.
  99. Polygender: the feeling of having more than one simultaneous or fluctuating gender; simultaneous with multigender and omnigender.
  100. Proxvir: a masculine gender similar to a boy, but on a separate plane and off to itself.
  101. Quoigender: feeling as if the concept of gender is inapplicable or nonsensical to one’s self.
  102. Subgender: mostly a gender with a bit of another gender.
  103. Surgender: having a gender that is 100% one gender but with more of another gender added on top of that.
  104. Systemgender: a gender that is the sum of all the genders within a multiple or median system.
  105. Tragender: a gender that stretches over the whole spectrum of genders.
  106. Transgender: any gender identity that transcends or does not align with your assigned gender or society’s idea of gender; the feeling of being any gender that does not match your assigned gender.
  107. Trigender: the feeling of having three simultaneous or fluctuating genders.
  108. Vapogender: a gender that sort of feels like smoke; it can be seen on a shallow level but once you go deeper, it disappears and you are left with no gender and only tiny wisps of what you thought it was.
  109. Venngender: when two genders overlap creating an entirely new gender; like a Venn diagram.
  110. Verangender: a gender that seems to shift/change the moment it is identified.
  111. Vibragender: a gender that is usually one stable gender but will occasionally change or fluctuate before stabilizing again.
  112. Vocigender: a gender that is weak or hollow.

how many genders are there

 

However, this list is non-exhaustive, because Tumblr further says that:

All types of attractions may be used as suffixes along with ‘-fluid’ and ‘-flux.

Feel free to mix and match your own prefixes and suffixes to create the orientation that best describes you.

  1. A- : lack of attraction
  2. Abro- : having an orientation or feelings about it that constantly change and cannot be pinned down for this reason
  3. Aceflux: similar to genderflux where the intensity of sexual attraction you feel fluctuates; asexual to demisexual to allosexual and back
  4. Aego- : feeling attraction or desire only for situations that does not involve oneself; previously known as autochoris-
  5. Akoi- : the feeling of attraction but not wanting it reciprocated or losing it when it is reciprocated; used as an alternative and potentially less problematic form of lithosexual/lithromantic
  6. Aliqua- : not normally feeling attraction, but feeling it on occasion under specific circumstances
  7. Amicus- : when you’re attracted to people you’re platonically attracted to
  8. Amorplatonic: experiencing romantic attraction but only wanting to be in queerplatonic/quasiplatonic relationships
  9. Apothi- : being aromantic/asexual and not experiencing any romantic/sexual feelings in any shape or form; aromantic/asexual individuals who are romance/sex repulsed
  10. Aromantic: feeling no romantic attraction regardless of gender or situation
  11. Aroflux: similar to genderflux where the intensity or romantic attraction you feel fluctuates; aromantic to demiromantic to alloromantic and back
  12. Arospike/Acespike: feeling no attraction except in occasional bursts of intense attraction and then plummeting back to no attraction
  13. Asexual: feeling no sexual attraction regardless of gender or situation
  14. Auto- : the feeling of attraction only towards oneself
  15. Bellusromantic: having interest in conventionally romantic things yet not desiring a relationship; part of the aro spectrum
  16. Bi- : the feeling of attraction towards two or more genders, generally your own gender and other(s)
  17. Borea- : having an exception to your usual orientation
  18. Burst- : having spikes in attraction that fade away after a while
  19. Cass- : feeling utterly indifferent towards attraction and believing its not important
  20. Cease- : usually beeing allo- yet occasionally feeling a sudden loss of attraction and then returning to normal
  21. Cetero- : the feeling of attraction towards nonbinary people; replaces skolio- because “skolio” means bent or broken and implies that nonbinary people must be fixed; this is reserved for trans/nonbinary individuals because cis people were judging nonbinary people based off of presentation alone
  22. Culparomantic: feeling romantic and platonic attraction at the same time
  23. Cupio- : the feeling of having no attraction towards any gender yet still desiring a sexual or romantic relationship
  24. Demi- : not feeling attraction towards someone until a certain closeness or bond has been formed
  25. Desinoromantic: when one does not experience full-on romantic attraction, but experiences “liking” someone instead of loving them romantically, at which point the attraction goes no further
  26. Duo- : having two or more well defined orientations that you switch between
  27. Ficto- : only felling a certain type of attraction towards fictional characters
  28. Fin- : feeling attraction to fem(me) identifying people
  29. Fray- : only experiencing attraction towards those you are less familiar with; the feeling is lost when they become closer or more familiar; the opposite of demi-
  30. Grey- : the feeling of usually not having any attraction except occasionally depending on the situation; typically paired with asexual and aromantic
  31. Heteroflexible: the feeling of having mostly hetero- attraction yet having an openness for other genders
  32. Hetero- : the feeling of being attracted to a gender other than your own
  33. Homoflexible: the feeling of having mostly homo- attraction yet having an openness for other genders
  34. Homo- : the feeling of being attracted to your own gender
  35. Iculasexual: being asexual but open to having sex
  36. Idemromantic: being able to categorize others as having either a platonic or romantic attraction based on outside factors yet feeling no difference in the type of attraction
  37. Kalossexual: the desire to have a sexual relationship yet never feeling sexual attraction; part of the ace spectrum
  38. Lamvano- : feeling no desire to do sexual/romantic things to someone, but wanting to be on the receiving end; opposite of placio-
  39. Lesbian: someone who identifies fully or partially as a woman who is attracted to other fully or partially identified women
  40. Limno- : experiencing attraction towards depictions of attraction (writing or drawings) but not the physical acts
  41. Ma- : feeling attraction to men
  42. Min- : feeling attraction to masculine identifying people
  43. Multi- : attraction to more than one gender
  44. Neu- : feeling attraction towards people who are genderless
  45. Nin- : feeling attraction towards androgynous identifying people
  46. Nocisma- : feeling attraction to everyone except cis men because of associated oppression
  47. Noma- : experiencing attraction to every gender except for self identifying men
  48. Novi- : feeling complicated attraction or lack thereof in such a way that it is difficult or impossible to fit into one word or term
  49. Novo- : when one’s orientation changes with gender
  50. Nowo- : experiencing attraction to every gender except for self identifying women
  51. Omni- : the feeling of a lack of preference in gender and may be attracted to all genders equally; similar to pan-
  52. Pan- : the feeling of attraction towards any gender or all genders; similar to omni-
  53. Penulti- : feeling attraction towards every gender except your own
  54. Platoniromantic: feeling no difference between platonic and romantic attraction
  55. Polar- : feeling either extreme attraction or intense repulsion
  56. Poly- : the feeling of attraction towards most or several genders (but not all)
  57. Pomo- : the feeling of having no orientation
  58. Pre- : a placeholder term for someone who doesn’t think they’ve experienced enough attraction to know their orientation
  59. Proqua- : feeling attracted to feminine people when you yourself are feminine
  60. Proquu- : feeling attracted to masculine people when you yourself are masculine
  61. Queer: the feeling of not being hetero- yet not wanting to further identify with any conventional sexuality
  62. Quoiromantic: from the French word quoi meaning “what”; the feeling of not being able to distinguish romantic from platonic attraction and therefore being unsure if one has experienced it; used to replace wtfromantic because of vulgarity
  63. Recip- : the feeling of only experiencing attraction once someone else has experienced it towards them first
  64. Requies- : not feeling attraction when emotionally exhausted
  65. Sans- : when there’s no trend line in the attraction one feels, it just does what it does
  66. Sensu- : an orientation that is based off of sensuality as opposed to romance, sexuality, etc; different from sensual orientation; when romantic or sexual type pleasure is derived from sensual acts or situations
  67. Skolio- : the feeling of attraction towards nonbinary genders; replaced by cetero- because of problematic wording
  68. Specio- : feeling attraction towards someone based off of specific traits, not gender
  69. Thym- : feeling attraction which varies depending on emotional state
  70. Volit- : feeling attraction that is not directed at anyone in particular.
  71. Woma- : feeling attraction to women.

Final Words

In conclusion, the exploration of gender identity reveals a rich tapestry of experiences and expressions that extend far beyond traditional binary understandings. As we navigate the complexities of gender, it becomes evident that individual identities are deeply personal and diverse, shaped by a multitude of factors including culture, society, and personal introspection.

The evolving discourse around gender identity challenges outdated norms and emphasizes the importance of inclusivity and respect for all individuals, regardless of their gender expression or identity.

Platforms like Tumblr provide a space for individuals to explore and express their identities, offering a vast array of terms and descriptions to help people articulate their experiences. The extensive list of genders and orientations showcased on Tumblr serves as a testament to the intricacy and nuance of human identity, highlighting the fluidity and complexity of our understanding of gender and attraction.

As we move forward, it’s essential to continue fostering dialogue and education around gender diversity, promoting acceptance and understanding within our communities and institutions. By embracing the diversity of gender identities and experiences, we can create a more inclusive and equitable society where everyone’s identity is affirmed and respected.

Ultimately, by celebrating the richness of gender diversity, we can work towards building a world where everyone can live authentically and thrive.

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