AG Headcount 2010-2011

[no_id]

Bloody hell did it take me long to put this poll together.

The last Headcount thread was launched around three years ago (2007). I can tell you for sure that within those few years a lot of new 'labels' appeared in the Andro-sphere. I decided to include a bunch of them since it seems we have a pretty versatile community at the moment.
Of course there'll still be some folk who will feel that none of the above applies to them, but no shooting no_id for feeling left out - after all, there's always three years from now...

Below a list of definitions of the options included in this poll. The definitions are based on some google searches, Emerald's AG Glossary blog entry, and my own mind & experience.

1. Androgyne: neither male or female.
2. Genderqueer: not completely male and not completely female.
3. Intergender: between male and female.
4. Bigender: both male and female at seperate occasions.
5. Trigender: both male, female and neither at seperate occasions.
6. Ambigender: both male and female.
7. Nullgender/Agender: no gender/genderless/non-gendered.
8. Neutrois: non-gendered with body dysphoria.
9. Third gender: a third gender to male and female.
10. Genderfluid: fluxuating between male and female.


I'm pretty sure most of you are aware how hard it is to distinguish all these 'labels' from each other (especially with all of them evolving). Therefore I'd like to ask you not to pick 'other' when you feel like one of the options doesn't completely correspond with you, but to pick the option that mostly corresponds with you and then further elaborate in a reply.

Also, I allowed users to change their vote for this one but not to vote for more than one option since that would make the whole 'headcount' part a tad confusing.
Enough babbling from my side though. Get to voting! And thanks for participating.

[Crow]

I'm going to go with "other" because I'm kind of a hybrid. I suppose I would describe myself as something of an even three-way split between genderqueer, female-to-male, and genderfluid (between male and rather-effeminate-androgyne, rather than between male and female).

[no_id]

I chose Nullgender since I simply don't feel like I have a gender (not female, not male, not something else)... It's kind of like I view the gender realm from an underwater world - it's all just one big blur... I experience some body dysphoria but not to the extend where I'd consider myself Neutrois. It took me quite some time but I managed to make peace with my body and the individual that lives within it. It works for me.

[Constance]

Genderfluid

[Pica Pica]

I always said pregender because I feel like I am as gendered as a toddler allowed to go their own way and so will blithely take part in any which one. I put down androgyne, my conception seems to fit in their comfortably.

[no_id]

I always said pregender because I feel like I am as gendered as a toddler allowed to go their own way and so will blithely take part in any which one.

If my memory isn't failing I think there was a really old thread on that... I think Reeb started it.. Might look it up...

edit eureka... Found two threads, you started one actually:
Epiphany 6:4
Is Androgyne an adult? whats an androgyne child?

[rejennyrated]

Sorry No_ID

I had to choose other - please don't hit me! I am a female chameleon.

I am basically single gendered and female - (which doesn't seem to be an option unless I missed it) but I can camouflage myself at will and "appear" to be any other gender possibility.

I suppose in a way that is a bit like Crows Hybrid description - only difference is that I do not feel that I AM any of the other genders, merely that I can appear to be them convincingly when I want to do so.

For me it's kind of like gender as a performance art! 

[Pica Pica]

'Course I did - epiphany was my big idea that month. This month I'm planning my wedding to...someone.

[Shang]

Umm...I put "don't know" because I don't really know.  I mean, I'm neither fully male or female at anytime but then I also have that "feeling" of being male (albeit very feminine).  It's pretty confusing.

[ZaidaZadkiel]

common androgyne represent.

SO I'm in some way between male and female, I'm also at some point between "male-female" AND nongender/third gender whatever that is.

Also, I think via the Zen & bikes book, that there has to be probably a certain "above/beyond gender" quality to androgyny, so that attempting to define what it truly is, is bound to fail due to language constraints.

Because, how would we know life without gender ?

[no_id]

Sorry No_ID

I had to choose other - please don't hit me! I am a female chameleon.

Oh no worries, it's not like I keep track of the IP adresses of everyone who voted other and have a missile set ready to launch once the traces are complete!

... I'm just going to edit a file now, brb...

[Emerald]

Androgyne

'Course I did - epiphany was my big idea that month. This month I'm planning my wedding to...someone.

Wow, really? A wedding Pica Pica?!! Congratulations!!! 
-Emerald 

[SnailPace]

I said "I don't know". 

I tell some people that I'm FTM and some that I'm androgyne.  Whatever they will understand best.  At times I am so sure that I am male, I have intense body dysphoria.  At other times I want to dress up my female-ness, although I hardly identify with that part of me.  Most of the time I wish that gender didn't exist so that I wouldn't have to think of a label for myself.  I feel like a third gender at times as well.  Maybe I am trigenderfluid?  I'll think about it.

[Flan]

headcount: 1, usually


as far as myself, Genderqueer with a touch of Neutrois for the times when I feel like throwing "gender" out the window and focus on being me.

[Pica Pica]

Androgyne
Wow, really? A wedding Pica Pica?!! Congratulations!!! 
-Emerald 

Not at all, am just daydreaming.

[Bombi]

Lately I have been trying on the term bigender and I have been spending so much time in the middle that the scale is tipping back to androgyne. It is like a moving target. If there was multiple choice I would have checked three boxes, including genderfluid. Kind of like a movie where the ending keeps changing.

[Eva Marie]

Lately I have been trying on the term bigender and I have been spending so much time in the middle that the scale is tipping back to androgyne. It is like a moving target. If there was multiple choice I would have checked three boxes, including genderfluid. Kind of like a movie where the ending keeps changing.

It's difficult, isn't it?

I see several of those terms that seem to fit me to some degree or another depending on what phase/mode/cycle of the moon it is 

1. Androgyne: neither male or female.
2. Genderqueer: not completely male and not completely female.
4. Bigender: both male and female at seperate occasions.
5. Trigender: both male, female and neither at seperate occasions.
6. Ambigender: both male and female.
9. Third gender: a third gender to male and female.
10. Genderfluid: fluxuating between male and female.

Ultimately, i settled on genderfluid.

[no_id]

It's difficult, isn't it?

Imagine the headache I got when putting the poll together...
... and then I still had to vote! 

[icontact]

nada gender, ie. nullgender. i want a minimalist body, ie, the FtM body, no breasts, no penis, [no strange lumps sticking out anywhere is how i like to refer to it ] minimal hair. gender seems to me just a label of how you dress and hold yourself, it doesn't seem to go beyond that. i'm just a person. that's all.

however nobody ever gets it, so irl i am just a guy.

[ativan]

Because, how would we know life without gender ?

As life without gender. I don't think it's a necessary component. We would just understand it as that. Which when I think about that, it would eliminate a large amount of cowcrap in just about everything.

Androgyne...and maybe a couple other ones, or maybe not. Wait....I'm still thinking about it.......