Gender identity is a person’s internal sense of being male, female, or any number of newly defined genders regardless of what biological sex a person was born with. With gender identity, people will express their internal sense of gender in various ways. So, males may wear makeup, dress in girls’ clothes, express feminine body language, etc. Females may act in masculine manners. Or, people may try to dress, speak, and act in a ‘non-binary’ manner.

Following is a list of many of the gender terms floating around. There is a total of 64 at my latest research count. But, many of them are confusing. So, I have reproduced about half of them since they are, in my opinion, more important.

I compiled this list from different websites.

• https://www.healthline.com/health/different-genders
• http://en.protothema.gr/the-full-list-of-genders-in-lgbtq/
• https://walkerart.org/magazine/7-genders-7-typographies-hacking-the-binary

 

A list of different gender types

1. Agender – Someone who does not identify with the idea of having gender
2. Androgyne – Someone who presents a gender-neutral identity
3. Bigender – Someone who identifies with two distinct genders out of many possibilities
4. Binarism – Reference to the sexist system of classifying genders as male-female
5. Boi – In the LGBTQ community, someone who presents a gender considered boyish
6. Butch – In the LGBTQ community, someone that presents a gender considered masculine
7. Cisgender – Identifying with your biological gender.
8. Cisnormative – The idea that it is normal to identify with your birth sex
9. Cissexism – Discrimination against those who are not cisgender, who don’t affirm the biological sex of their birth.
10. Demigender – A person with non-binary gender identity who partially identifies with gender categories: demigirl, demiboy, demitrans, etc.
11. Demigirl – Someone who partially identifies with being female
12. Feminine-of-center – A person who identifies with a feminine gender but doesn’t convey any information about their biological sex
13. Feminine-presenting – Behavior that others categorize as feminine.
14. Female-to-male (FTM) – Refers to people who were born female but transition to male.
15. Gender Expression – The way someone expresses gender through appearance, behavior, body language, etc.
16. Gender Identity – A person’s personal concept of having a particular gender that may or may not match biological gender
17. Gender-Neutral Pronouns – Pronouns that are used that do not contain gender: they, them, theirs, hir, hirs, xem,
18. Gender Normative – Gender traits and behaviors that are considered to be normal in a particular society.
19. Gender Presentation – The way a person uses behavior, appearance, and mannerisms to present a gender to others
20. Gender Queer – A general term for gender identifies that are not typically masculine or feminine.
21. Gender Questioning – The attitude of questioning a person’s gender identity
22. Gender Roles – Normative behaviors and expectations that a society has regarding particular genders
23. Gender Fluid – The expression of moving between genders over a period of time that can be daily, monthly, or yearly.
24. Intergender – Having gender that is between male and female or a mix of both.
25. Masculine of Center – A person who identifies with a masculine gender but doesn’t convey any information about their biological sex
26. Misgender – Using a gender pronoun that is not preferred by the person referenced.
27. Male-to-female (MTF) – Refers to people who were born male but transition to female.
28. Mult-gender – Refers to people who identify with more than one gender.
29. Nonbinary (enby) – A term used for gender identities that are not exclusively male or female
30. Non-Conforming – Not conforming to gender, refusing to identify as a gender.
31. Pangender – Experiencing all or many gender identities at the same time.
32. Third gender –  Having a gender that cannot be categorized as male or female or is different from both.
33. Transgender (trans) – Identifying with a gender that is different from the sex assigned at birth
34. Transitioning – The procedure of making physical changes to conform to a person’s gender identity regardless of biological sexual identity
35. Transsexual – Relating to a transgender person who seeks medical alteration of their birth gender and achieves the appearance of a different gender.
36. Trigender – Identifying with having three genders simultaneously or over time.

 

The Biblical Response

Biblically speaking, God created male and female (Genesis 1:27). The resultant fracturing of gender classifications within the social justice movement is a result of sin in the world. It manifests physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. This proliferation of gender types is a manifestation of people’s rebellion against God. We should pray for them, for their repentance, and for their salvation.

Please understand that I in no way consider myself superior to anyone who identifies themselves with any of the multitudinous so-called genders that have manifested in the past few years. I am what I am by the grace of God, and He has condescended to show me his kindness and His redemptive work upon my soul. Therefore, because I’m a new creature (2 Cor. 5:17) and I submit myself to the truth of God’s word, I see the rebellion against God all around me.

Nevertheless, we are to pray for the lost and seek their redemption. We ought to love them yet not participate in their sin. So, as the Scripture says…

“For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith,” (Romans 12:3).