I am agender because I do not identify as being any specific gender. I am not an 'it' and I am not 'broken,' just neutral in the gender game! Even though I may choose to dress traditionally 'masculine' one day and 'feminine' the next, it does not determine my gender. Gender roles and the concept of heteronormativity is outdated and harmful to non binary people.

Androgynous, I equate with androgyne, which is my gender. It's a mix of masculine and feminine qualities that stands alone as its own gender. If genders were colors, it would be purple. Most people listen to my explanations and say, "Oh, so you're just a tomboy." No, I'm not just a girl who likes video games and eschews pink and glitter - I am too masculine to be female at all, yet too feminine to consider myself a man. And, most importantly, this is all by my own definition, not anyone else's.

Bigender: I identify as both male and female. Gender is fluid. It isn't set in stone. I'm not sure who I am. Please don't make assumptions.

I am comfortable with the gender assigned to me at birth—woman—but I recognize gender as culturally determined and dependent, and I swing back and forth between a masculine and a feminine personal expression

Cis woman - a person who is born with the biological characteristics that are attributed to women (ex: chromosomes XX, vagina, uterus, ovaries, etc.), is thus labeled a female (in both sex and gender) and grows up to be comfortable with the label. Someone who is not comfortable with the scientific and mainstream stereotyping of biological sex equaling a socialized gender would then explore the other classifications (such as trans*, genderqueer, etc.)

I was born female-sexed and feeling internally like a female too. I don't always dress or act like the typical feminine ideal. I think "masculine" and "feminine" as rigid concepts are outdated, but I also understand wanting to feel more femme, butch, androgyne, etc.

Genderqueer means that I don't always feel like I have the same gender. Probably at least half the time I don't think about gender at all, an additional 40-45% I feel masculine, and occasionally I feel feminine. ...gender and sexuality can interact in complicated ways, making labels inadequate.

In retrospect, I rejected "womanhood" and what it means/looks like to be a woman in society due to how I saw women were treated around me. I thought the only way to be taken seriously was to act like a boy/man. I learned this at a young age and it was only recently that I realized what had happened. My parents were not happy I never acted "lady-like"- I am *not* a lady. I am most comfortable having my gender confused. I realize this is horrible and traumatic to transfolk, and I probably should correct them. I respond to any pronoun. They all feel correct. Biologically, I never felt like a woman- though I have large breasts, I do not see my body as feminine, if not more masculine or in between. I have more hair than the average female for example. I've always kept my hair short. Hobbies of mine are very masculine, and even the feminine ones (sewing, knitted) are masculine in result. I have no wish to be a man, but I always feel in between. I accept my body, but resent "girliness" nor feel a connection to the typical woman experience. Genderqueer fits me best, though I will dress feminine from time to time. I mostly look and dress like a young man.

Genderqueer: synonymous with my usage of queer. Queer: connotes both a non-binary gender identity, and potential attraction to people regardless of their position on the gender spectrum. This is important too, because how I am perceived as a lover matters (e.g. straight women may want me to "be the man", but that dog don't hunt).

Genderqueer - I believe it's a general term for those who do not fit a distinct gender binary (male/female). For me personally, it means that I do not consider gender a prominent, indispensable part of me; I think of it as secondary. I do not have a wish to change my biological sex (of female) but I do not feel like "woman" (or "man", for that matter) fit me wholly. I recognize I might act in feminine ways more often because of my socialization. I may also act in masculine or non-gendered ways naturally and without qualms.

I'd like the world to be genderless but i allow for concessions to be made to the status quo by allowing the world to identify me as female to simplify.

Categories just make things more confusing. I like it when people are aloud to think about what their authentic selves are and then to be able to enact that without censorship.

My issue is that i feel gender-nonconforming, which to me means the same as genderqueer: i am female but do not feel like a woman. A binary division may largely be possible biologically, but socially when i'm with people i just don't care if they're male or female or gay or straight etc; and least of all do i feel like a woman, or worse, one of "the girls". People are just people to me; i like to be treated, and treat others, as merely human. All the office talk of 'men' v 'women' tires me enormously and just distracts us from so many much more useful topics of conversation.

I do, however, sometimes find myself dividing up humanity myself; and i put this down to the going genderclimate around me.

Gender non-conforming: broad term for everybody that transgresses gender norms regularly including cross-dressers, androgynes, trans folk, third genders, etc.

My gender identifiers fit based on the definitions of the words - My sex is female, I am a woman; I am not feminine, I dress in mens clothing exclusively, and present a masculine (or confusing, andro) appearance. One might also consider me fluid, because I don't actively avoid behaviors considered feminine.

I merely look how I look attractive to me, and act however I am comfortable.

That gender is completely arbitrary; that you can have the body you have, love it, or change it if you need to, present it however you want, and act like the person you want to be. The rules were made up. Nothing's stopping us but shame. As long as we're only trying to fit in with ourselves, we all win.

Being a man is something that simply fits, something I do not have to think about, that I do not have to prove, I do not have done anything for.

A man is genetically someone with an Y chromosome, biologically (regarding sex) someone with testicles and penis but without vagina and uterus. Socially a man is someone with certain attributes like strength which have to be consistent with biological attributes like sex and secondary ones like beard growth. On the other hand one may identify itself as man as one feels fitting for whatever reasons. And as this self-identification is important we should respect it.

For sexuality, I'm just attracted to people and the terms I use to describe it are really for communicating to others. I don't really have an internal sexual identity related to my patterns of attraction beyond just not being heterosexual.

[These] are labels that society has forced living things to conform to. its a state of mind and a state of being. I am a person that identifies female and I am proud to be a functional woman in society. It hurt to be labeled as an it, i am a human being. also why would somebody take years of therapy and medication if it was a phase or a stage in life. all of the transphobia and violence to wards transwomen in general scares me every day

Non-binary: I don't believe I can be defined by a simple male-female dichotomy. I guess this is also a large belief (I think almost no people can be meaningfully defined by gender).

I identify as agender non-binary personally because my dysphoria makes me desire an asexed body. I identify as a woman politically due to certain lived experiences and the way I experience gender under patriarchy.

I view transgender as a process I'm going through rather than an identity label. I will always be transgender, because that process will always be a part of my personal history, but it's a set of experiences rather than an internal understanding of myself. The others, gender is complex. I believe everyone's gender is complex and few people really meet societal norms for gender perfectly, but understanding my gender outside of the traditional labels and categories simply makes the most sense to me. I can't explain why so much, it just resonates on a level that few things have before I found the trans community. I use as many labels as I do because none really fit 100%.

I am not doing this for attention, or as part of some fad or fashion. This is me living my life the way that makes the most sense to me.

I love having the identities 'transgender' and 'woman' as two separate entities. Yes, I am transgender; but I'm also a woman. Having just one 'trans woman' tag invalidates my womanhood and puts me in a separate category than 'real (cis) women'. Being transgender is still an important aspect of my life, and I believe that it should be reflected in my identity; but it should not separate or invalidate me.

1) That there is a a strong link between gender identity and sexuality. Who I like and who I am are two very different things.

2) gender identities outside of the binary are no less valid than those within the traditional cis-male or cis-female identities. Media seems to portray transgender identities as 'fake': the long shots of a trans woman applying makeup, or putting on hosiery in a news story. It implies that our identities are somehow less valid, and constructed than traditional identities.

Transsexual = Taking hormones/HRT or surgical intervention to align ones body with their internal feelings/offsets/identity. Hormone therapy is the usual norm although some transsexuals undergo simple little surgical alterations or major sexual organ reconstruction. With this label I generally expect someone whom is on HRT at a minimum.

Trans Women means that I am dealing with crossing over a few gender divides in my identity as female. My birth certificate says male (though, I do have a few questions to ask my parents as a few oddities have appeared since then)... but I've kind of always been a girl. The most male I've been was when I was known as "the crazy lesbian who always wears a strapon to school"... uh yeah, I don't really pass for male. ... gender and sexuality are separate things. My gender is who I am. My sexuality is who I want to have sexy fun time with--or rather who I find myself attracted to having sexy fun time with. I find it irritating that many people think you have to change yourself in order to get into a relationship. Dress a certain way to get guys; dress a certain way to get girls. Honestly, I'd still dress the way I would even if it meant being forever alone. I'd rather be alone and be myself... than to have a relationship built entirely on a foundation and five room house with a finished basement of lies. The gazeebo may or may not also be built of lies... haven't figured it out--but I don't trust that gazeebo all the same. That gazeebo... what is it planning--it has to be not trustworthy, next to this house of lies--what trustworthy gazeebo would be next to this house of lies... But my general annoyance is that people think I dress like this to try to get with others. No, I mostly dress like this because my mother was terrible and I learned how to cloth myself from Tumblr and Pinterest... which are a better Daddy and Mommy than my real ones any day of the week. The other annoyance is the fucking constant suggestions I get on the matters of better getting into people's pants via being dishonest about myself. How about fuck getting into their pants... and just do things my way and whatever pants I find myself in... are whatever pants I find myself in?

Being a trans woman is no different from being a women, it's just on dating sites people tend to want to know if you're trans or not. Really, I identify as a woman, and I happen to be trans.

Transitioning means a lot. It means that I actually start living for the first time. I'm a woman and I've always been. I didn't 'become' a woman. I just happen to be born in the wrong body.

Trans Woman is just an acknowledgment that I was born with the wrong anatomy. This is unfortunately relevant to potential partners. Otherwise I just consider myself a woman.

Transgender + Trans Woman = Transgender is like a class, Trans Woman is a subclass of Transgender. Pretty simple. What's it mean? Assigned male at birth, and welp, inside I never was.

Though I have been presented as a male for nearly 3 decades of my life and now seek to be the woman I always felt I was supposed to be, I am still the same person with the same interests and hobbies either way. I haven't actually changed.

... 2spirit is First Nations exclusive, and exists in the context of indigenous culture, not settler culture, and is not just a term that settlers should appropriate to feel more spiritual about their identities.

Woman = I have never liked this word, but this is what I've identified as for most of my life. I used to think it was related to your genitalia, but now I know better. If I'm going to put myself in this box, I'd rather say girl/chick/female.

Demigirl means I identify partially as a girl and partially as agender, so it's a fluid identity. A gender like demigirl isn't as commonly discussed compared to other identities, so I wish that I could be open about it and respected for it without being doubted or dismissed because of appearance, or the way I express that identity.

I am asexual because I do not experience sexual attraction. I also recently wondered if I may instead be demisexual, and that's okay too because sexuality is a fluid thing that often changes. Just because I'm Ace and don't experience sexual attraction in the conventional way, it doesn't mean that there's something wrong with my brain. For me personally, I favour romance and kinship greatly over sex. But please know that just because it's not important in my life, it doesn't mean that I think any less of someone else for wanting it. There is such a thing as a sex-positive asexual, and I am one! We all just want to be respected.

... asexuals and aromantics are real and people with emotions and needs. Those needs might not be typical but they are there. I do not need to be fixed or cured of my asexuality.

Asexual is someone who is not sexually attracted to other people, but I do experience romantic attraction and desire romantic relationships with people who are more masculine than me - which does not necessarily have a lot to do with their gender. I wish people knew that asexuality existed, and that it is a healthy sexual orientation to have, to the point where I no longer need to defend it.

I'm a bisexual homoromantic asexual. I feel romantic attraction only to women, and sexual attraction to all genders. However, due to trauma and dysphoria reasons I have no interest in sex or anything to do with it. Hence asexual.

Asexualilty is lack of sexual attraction to people or absent interest in sexual activity. Asexuality is a spectrum. I wish more people knew the difference between sexual, romantic, and aesthetic attraction. In addition, I wish more folks could understand that sex is a social construct assigned to you at birth and that there are more than two genders. I also wish people could understand that nothing traumatic happened to make me this way.

Bisexual: I'm open to sex with men or women (the term is less descriptively useful, though, because it doesn't acknowledge the people in the middle of the gender spectrum to whom I'm most drawn).

... genuine bisexuality exists; it is not and never will be a phase; that when I am with a woman, I am not "gay," just as when I am with a man I am not "straight,"; and that I do not have to have a certain number of partners of the same gender to be "gay enough" to be bisexual. I also recognize in myself the ability to be attracted to people from every different gender presentation and sex. Hence the blanket "queer," and the wider definition of "bisexual" as "attracted to same genders and different genders."

By "bisexual" I technically mean people of my gender and others. Pansexual means the same thing. I additionally identify as "Queer" as a sort of catch-all.

I describe my demisexuality as something like "asexual with exceptions." I'm asexual by default, but can become sexually attracted to someone once I've developed a close emotional relationship with them.

Demisexual = I have to have a connection with you in order to be aroused. This is generally true for me...I rarely just see someone and want to fuck them. Unless it's Angelina Jolie or Channing Tatum.

Demisexual means that I rarely feel sexual attraction towards people I don't know, and that romantic and intellectual attraction nearly always precede it.

Heteroflexible: only different-sex relationships, but not because of a lack of interest in females - they're just not interested in me. So male lovers only so far; never kissed a female. And frankly losing interest over time in doing so. But: dreams, fantasies, a few crushes, and even one full-blown one-year infatuation with a female colleague. So it's mostly on the emotional level. Sexually, though, I am as said heterosexual, and I have absolutely no issues here.

Heteroflexible = I'm mostly straight, but I'm not gonna put myself in a box. If I wanna get with you, I don't care if you're the same gender as me.

Lesbian: an individual who identifies as a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted almost exclusively toward other self-identified women

I strongly believe in the spectrum of human sexuality. I also know that I have a personal range of attraction. My personal baseline is probably bisexual or heteroflexible, but there are times when I'm only interested in male identified partners or female identified partners or genderqueer identified partners.

Pansexual: an individual who does not believe in gender binaries and feels they can be romantically and sexually attracted to anyone on the spectrum

Pansexual does not mean attracted to your kitchen ware. Pansexual does not mean "flowery word for bisexual." Pansexuality is more about finding the person, and inclusive to Trans and intersex folk as well.

Pansexual means sex/gender is not a criteria for whom I find attractive, sexually or romantically.

It's not about who I (want to) have sex with but who I am, and it's not about my body.

Pansexual: I'm open to sexual relations with people regardless of their position on the gender spectrum. I'm more interested in whether you're a dick than whether you have one.

Pansexual - interested in people without taking into consideration their sex/gender/sexuality (not ignoring or erasing it; but it isn't important in your attraction to another person). --side note, omnisexual is similar but means that you *do* take into account sex/gender/sexuality in your attraction to another - you're attracted (or have the possibility of being attracted) to all sexes/genders/sexualities.

I like queer because it covers pretty much everything other than cis/hetero attraction. The more specific terms tend to have too many connotations that don't fit me and make me feel uncomfortable using.

I prefer queer over any other identity. It's concise and open. I feel that 'bisexual' reinforces the gender binary, and 'pansexual' implies that I don't have any sort of sexual preference whatsoever.

I am a woman who is transgender. I'm attracted primarily to other women, but I like the ambiguity of "queer", as I am somewhat open to men or non-binary/genderqueer/etc folks. ... being trans doesn't make me different from other women, and that being included in queer community, especially queer women's community, is really important to me.

Queer: connotes both a non-binary gender identity, and potential attraction to people regardless of their position on the gender spectrum. This is important too, because how I am perceived as a lover matters (e.g. straight women may want me to "be the man", but that dog don't hunt).

I consider myself queer in the sense of identifying somewhere outside of the heterosexual "norm." However, as a primarily heteroromantic demisexual person, I have straight passing privilege, which means I do not experience oppression in the same way as many queer people do.

Queer = I don't solely think of this as a sexual adjective. It can mean anything. I think it means that I refuse to let myself be defined by society.

Queer - a general, catch-all term that identifies a person as non-mainstream (specifically in the area of sex/gender/sexuality). A reclaimed term that empowers those who were and are ostracized by the mainstream that considers only one way of existing to be "normal" (and thus acceptable).

I prefer women, but in terms of queer, I am open and attracted to many different presentations across the gender spectrum. It is not a choice, it's just who I am, who I am attracted to, and what I am comfortable with.

Queer = Overall flexibility, different levels sexual/emotional/personal engagement with different people. Basically a grab bag of "I'm basically not heteronormative and I can like or not like many things" It's saying nothing by saying everything.

Being straight means to be attracted solely by members of the opposite sex. For me it means that I unfortunately am not really interested in sexual interaction with other men.

I'm attracted to different people regardless of what they have on the outside or what they feel on the inside about their sexes and genders. However, that does not mean I am attracted to every single living person.

Being omnisexual doesn't make me a nymphomaniac. Nor does it make me indecisive or opportunistic. I am more than my parts and far more than whom I love and/or whom I take to bed.