Question:Consider the following :
(1)Agender: Someone who identifies as not belonging to any gender.
(2)Androgynous: Someone who identifies as neither man nor woman.
(3)Bigender: Someone who identifies as both man and woman.
Which is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1,2 and 3
Answer:(d)
Context:
- Last month, Hollywood actor William Shatner took offence to being called ‘CIS’, short for ‘cisgendered’.
- Facts:
- The term cisgendered is used to define people whose gender identity matches the identity assigned to them at birth.
- For transgender people, their sense of gender identity does not match the one assigned to them at birth.
- The latin prefix ‘cis’ literally means ‘on the same side of’, while ‘trans’ means on the other side.
- Why the word is important? Quite simply, if there are ‘transgendered’ people, there should be a word for those who are not. Having distinct words for transgendered and cisgendered people denotes that both are equally valid, neutral experiences, with neither being an aberration.
- Additional Fact:
- Some identity labels in use?
- Agender: Someone who identifies as not belonging to any gender.
- Androgynous: Someone who identifies as neither man nor woman.
- Bigender: Someone who identifies as both man and woman.
- Non-binary: Someone who rejects the binaries of male and female.
- Genderfluid: Someone whose gender identity changes.
- Genderquestioning: Someone who is exploring which gender they identify as.
- Genderqueer: An umbrella term for people not subscribing to traditional genders.
- AFAB, AMAB: Assigned Female At Birth, Assigned Male At Birth.
- Intersex: Those who do not possess the physical characteristics of either males or females.
- Third Gender: Those who have a gender identity beyond man or woman.
By:Arpit Mishra
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