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Gender, in common usage, refers to the differences between men and women. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that gender identity is "an individual's self-conception as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex."[1] Although gender is commonly used interchangeably with sex, within the social sciences it often refers to specifically social differences, known as gender roles in the biological sciences. Historically, feminism has posited gender roles to be socially constructed, independent of any biological basis. People whose gender identity feels incongruent with their physical bodies may call themselves transgender or genderqueer.
Many languages have a system of grammatical gender, a type of noun class system - nouns may be classified as masculine or feminine (for example Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and French) or may also have a neuter grammatical gender (for example Sanskrit, German and Polish). In such languages, this is essentially a convention, which may have little or no connection to the meaning of the words. Likewise, a wide variety of phenomena have characteristics termed gender, by analogy with male and female bodies (such as the gender of connectors and fasteners) or due to societal norms.
Genderqueer or intergender is a gender identity of both, neither or some combination of "man" and/or "woman". In relation to the gender binary (the view that there are only two genders), genderqueer people generally identify as more "both/and" or "neither/nor," rather than "either/or." Some genderqueer people see their identity as one of many different genders outside of man and woman, some see it as a term encompassing all gender identities outside of the gender binary, some believe it encompasses binary genders among others, some may identify as a-gender and some see it as a third gender in addition to the traditional two. The commonality is that all genderqueer people reject the notion that there are only two genders in the world. The term genderqueer is also occasionally used more broadly as an adjective to refer to people who are in some way gender-transgressive, and could have any gender identity (see Alternative Meanings, below).
Bigender (bi+gender) is a tendency to move between masculine and feminine gender-typed behaviour depending on context, expressing a distinctly "en femme" persona and a distinctly "en homme" persona, feminine and masculine respectively. It is a subset of transgender.While an androgynous person retains the same gender-typed behaviour across situations, the bigendered person consciously or unconsciously changes their gender-role behaviour from primarily masculine to primarily feminine, or vice versa. It is worth noting that this concept emerged from within the transgender community itself, rather than being adopted after it was created by another sub-culture (for example, transsexual was defined first by the mental health community).
Expression Some express their bigender identity through crossdressing or performing as a drag king/drag queen; others may adopt a strictly masculine, feminine, or androgynous appearance and experience the shift between genders on a purely mental, or only subtly physical, level.
I wish i could go more in depth with this post but alas i feel like i couldn't fully explain why without rambling and i would rather not ramble on this subject...gender is a very real battle for me and has been for a while... however intuitive i may be to the world around me with its gender binary and gender idenity assignment i will never fully understand the awkwardness of my own body... i feel like i'm this messed up mesh of all sorts of gender and like persona i dont' want to be a female with the whole i have to portray this whole feminine bullshit and inhance those parts of the body i lack and then try and deminish those i have protruding groteskly off my body....so i like to hide but i'm not hiding i feel comfortable without the curves being visiable and being judged i feel more confident and i beleive that its my fullest heart that identity shouldn't be measured by the clothing i wear...my "issue" as some of you may view it is none of such that it can't be easily taken the wrong way but i assure you that threw this whole period of life and awkwardness i am still the same person you all know and love so if you could please respect my decision to be classifide as neither or i would appriciate it more then you would know and as for pronouns...... cer, che, cher's, cherself.... please do ur best to respect what i have decided and if u need any furthre information on my decision please feel free to comment and i will do my best to explain i hope i haven't rambled too badly but if i have i apologize.....later dayz
-C