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Genderfluid vs Pangender - What's the difference?

genderfluid | pangender |

As adjectives the difference between genderfluid and pangender

is that genderfluid is not conforming to fixed gender roles while pangender is encompassing or including all genders.

genderfluid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
  • * 2009 , Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (page 346)
    • Another way that one can be “transgressively gendered” is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid —i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.
  • * 2011 , Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users (page 29)
    • A slightly newer term, genderqueer is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid , who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.

    Derived terms

    * genderfluidity

    Related terms

    * transgender * bigender * agender * third gender * genderqueer * cisgender * genderfuck

    pangender

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pan-gender

    Adjective

    (wikipedia pangender) (en adjective)
  • Encompassing or including all genders.
  • * 1988 , Catherine Lutz, Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll & Their Challenge to Western Theory , University of Chicago Press (1988), ISBN 9780226497211, page 234:
    • These critiques distort Gilligan's thesis, it seems to me; she can be read as arguing that the morality of women is currently undervalued culturally and as calling for its reintegration into pangender morality, not for its use as a universal standard.
  • * 1996 , Gaylyn Studler, This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age , Columbia University Press (1996), ISBN 9780231103213, unknown page:
    • On one level, these changes many have served as a defensive maneuver to tone down some of the actor's pangender sexual magnetism and the homoeroticized responses associated with him as a male theatrical idol.
  • * 2002 , James Wagner, Patrick Picciarelli, My life in the NYPD: Jimmy the Wags , Onyx (2002), ISBN 9781101219782, unnumbered page:
    • Then came the tidal wave of drugs, specifically heroin, and what had once been a haven for male alcoholics became a pangender hole-in-the-wall hideout for depraved junkies.
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  • Identifying as all genders.
  • * 2012 , Alessandra Robertson, " Trans Stories", Sex and the Steel City'' (''The Silhouette special edition), page 14:
    • Born as a physical male, she now identifies as transfeminine, or pangender .
  • * 2012 , Harrison Vaporciyan, " Tumbling into Trouble", The Oracle (Stratford High School, Houston, Texas), Volume 41, Issue 4, 16 November 2012, page 8:
    • Just don't be surprised if you meet someone who identifies as a "non-binary neutrois pangender genderpunk autistic aspiequeer queer lithsexual punk anti-kyriarchist anarchist."
  • * 2014 , Aysha Mahmood, " Media companies take a more progressive stance on gender", The Daily Campus (University of Connecticut), Volume 120, Issue 92, 25 February 2014, page 4:
    • Ranging from pangender to genderqueer and even intersex, the choices Facebook has included accurately reflects the diversity and differences of this day and age.