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

Carson Rapp, a Wichita-area 15-year-old who identifies as bigender or embracing “both more masculine and more feminine traits,” said people expressing their gender identities don’t harm others.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2023

According to the Human Rights Campaign, the term can also encompass agender, bigender, genderqueer and gender-fluid.

From Fox News • Feb. 18, 2022

Facebook, which is as reliable a social barometer as any, now offers users more than 70 gender options, including bigender, pangender, non-binary and two spirit.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2019

Sarah—which is this client’s femme name, but not her legal one—was assigned male at birth and identifies as bigender, meaning she sometimes feels like a man and sometimes feels like a woman.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2019

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 • Apr. 1, 2017