Emily Clarke

What Is The Difference Between Bigender and Genderfluid

As more and more people continue to find old labels too limiting to define their gender identity, more and more newer terms for these other gender identities are joining the vernacular. Without clarity, it can be confusing to discern the distinctions between them all, and with that in mind, here are the distinctions between two of the most commonly confused: bigender and genderfluid.

Meaning of Non-binary

To explain the meaning of bigender and genderfluid, it is necessary to first explain the meaning of non-binary. Male and female genders are binary distinctions. Some people, however, feel neither male nor female. These people, therefore, fall into the non-binary spectrum. Bigender and genderfluid are parts of the non-binary spectrum. To know about the meaning of bigender, visit this website.

Meaning of Bigender

Bigender means to identify as two genders. Those two genders can be male and female, but they need not necessarily be. Bigender people can be, for example, male and a drag queen or female and a drag king. Not all drag queens and kings identify as bigender, however. Another possibility may be that a bigender person identifies as male or female sometimes and as agender or gender-neutral at other times.

Meaning of Genderfluid

Genderfluid is a broader term that encompasses the larger group of non-binary folks who, rather than identify as having no gender (ie agender or genderless) or a singular neutral gender (ie non-binary on neutrosis,) identify as having two or more genders. As such, a genderfluid person may be multi-gender, trigender or, even bigender.

A genderfluid person may, for example, feel male sometimes and female at other times and another gender at other times altogether.

Note as well that it is possible for a genderfluid person to identify sometimes by a binary gender and sometimes by a non-binary gender.

Caveat: No Hard, Fast Rules Apply

What's most important to understand about these distinctions is that they, too, are fluid, quite personal to the individual and ever-evolving. That means any given person or group at any time might defy or reject any of the notions suggested in this piece.

It is, therefore, always better to ask a person your questions about their gender expression than to presume anything about it.

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Emily Clarke writes about social networking apps and LGBT community. You can find her thoughts at lesbian ally blog.