bigender

American  

[bahy-jen-der] / baɪˈdʒɛn dər /

adjective

1. Also bigendered noting or relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.

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noun

1. a person who is bigender.

Usage

What does bigender mean? Bigender refers to a person who has two gender identities or a combination of two gender identities (e.g., identifying as both male and female or identifying as agender and female).It's not to be confused with bisexuality, where a person experiences romantic, emotional, or sexual attraction to two genders.

Etymology

Origin of bigender

bi- ¹ + gender ¹

Example Sentences

The Health Department defines X as “a gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, agender, amalgagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender, female-to-male, genderfluid, genderqueer, male-to-female, neutrois, nonbinary, pangender, third sex, transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, and unspecified.”

From Seattle Times

Agender, bigender, and gender-fluid people all technically fall under the “nonbinary” umbrella.

From Slate

The state of Washington defines X as “gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, amender, amalgagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender, female-to-male, genderfluid, genderqueer, male-to-female, neutrois, nonbinary, pangender, third sex, transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, and unspecified.”

From Seattle Times

The health department defines X as a “gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, agender, amalgagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender, female-to-male, genderfluid, genderqueer, male-to-female, neutrois, nonbinary, pangender, third sex, transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, and unspecified.”

From Seattle Times

Yet in this way, in its yoking of different sympathies between male and female characters, “Love” stands as a model of a new trend in TV: the bigender sitcom.

From Salon