Androgyne

Not to be confused with androgynous.

Androgyne

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Gender(s):	male, female
Alignment(s):	masculine, feminine

Androgyne is a gender that describes an individual whose gender identity is simultaneously or in between masculine and feminine.

Related Terms

Term	Relationship	Description	Difference
Androgynous	Counterpart	A gender quality used to describe those who present a specific set of traits that is traditionally associated with both femininity and masculinity, or someone that is neither specifically/solely masculine nor feminine	Androgynous is a gender quality whilst Androgyne is a gender identity.
Bigender	Similar	Bigender refers to an individual who identifies with two genders simultaneously.	Androgyne refers to those whose gender is simultaneously male/masculine and female/masculine, someone who is bigender may not necessarily be those two genders.

Subgenders

Term	Flag	Description	Creator
Femandrogyne1		An individual who is androgyne but is more feminine than masculine	Unknown PaulSimcn
Mascandrogyne2		An individual who is androgyne but is more masculine than feminine	Unknown PaulSimcn

¹Also known as Femandrogyny, Femandrogynous

²Also known as Mascandrogyny, Mascandrogynous

History

The history of the term Androgyne is relatively unknown, the first known mention of the term was in 1918 with the book Autobiography of an Androgyne published by Earl Lind.

Androgyne was further defined in the 1980s as:

"person who can comfortably express either alternative gender role in a variety of socially acceptable environments"

When this particular definition was created or who it was created by is unknown.

The Tumblr blog Pride Archive on July 24th 2014, posted the androgyne flag and attached the definition of the term as:

"Androgyne is a gender identity in which one does not fit neatly into masculine or feminine categories.  They are in between those two"

Flags and Symbols

The most well known and the first known flag created for the term was made by Tumblr user Saveferris on March 29th 2011. A meaning was attached to it by Pride Archive, but the meaning is unknown:

Here’s what the flag colours (supposedly) mean:

Pink: Femininity

Purple: A combination of femininity and masculinity

Blue: Masculinity

An alternate flag was made by an anonymous submitter to the Tumblr blog Pride-Flags-For-Us on or before March 24th 2015.

The meaning of the flag is:

Black and White: Represent how androgyne, while non-binary, is somewhat a more binary identity than others. It weaves between male and female comfortably, and doesn’t tend to stray beyond the binary, unlike other identities (Agender, for example), not that this is a bad thing. It works in suitable harmony.

Blue: Represents masculinity, be it identity-wise and aesthetically. It represents the masculine traits that androgyne people possess, as well as those who are on the more masculine side of the identity.

Pink: Represents femininity, again, identity-wise and aesthetically. It represents the feminine traits that androgyne people possess, as well as those who are on the more feminine side of the identity.

Purple: Represents a comfortable blending of masculinity and femininity to make the unique identity that androgyne people are. With equal amounts of pink and blue, purple is for those who are completely androgynous in their appearance and/or identity. Purple represents androgyne being a non-binary identity.

An alternate flag was made by Milith Rusignuolo on July 2nd 2015. They described the flag as such:

• Raspberry and Green: androgynes whose position on the gender spectrum changes, or who use the term interchangeably with others
• Mulberry: femandrogynes, or androgynes who are more feminine than masculine
• Purple: versandrogynes or neutrandrogynes, who are neither more feminine nor more masculine
• Blue: butchandrogynes, or androgynes who are more masculine than feminine

An alternate flag was made by Reddit user wrennnnnnnnn and posted on June 19th 2020, they described the flag as such:

Orange is a lesser known masculine color, one that doesn't play off of the whole Pink Vs. Blue aesthetic, such as the currently accepted Androgyne flag. Purple, similarly, is a low key feminine color, despite being a mix of masculine colors (red and blue.) The white in the middle represents an absence of gender, same as on the Genderqueer and Nonbinary flags. The symbol in the middle is a Necker Cube, an optical illusion that can look both concave and convex, first proposed as a symbol for androgynes in 1996 by Raphael Carter. The teal is a mixture of two colors, both gendered on opposite sides of the binary.

An alternate flag was made by FANDOM user Someone you dont know so don't ask on January 3rd 2021, the meaning of the flag is unknown.

An alternate flag was made by an unknown individual but was posted in the Androgyne comments by user CODACODACODACOD- on November 11th 2021, the meaning is unknown.

One of the symbols of Androgyne is the Necker Cube, it was proposed c1996 as a Androgyne symbol by Raphael Carter in The Angel's Dictionary.

Gallery

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  Femandrogyne Alternate (Paul Simcn)

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  Mascandrogyne Alternate (Paul Simcn)

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  Androgyne Alternate (Unknown)

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  Androgyne Alternate (Milith Rusignuolo)

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  Androgyne Alternate (Unknown)

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  Androgyne Alternate (Someone you dont know so dont ask)

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  Androgyne Alternate (wrennnnnnnnn)

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  Necker Cube (Louis Albert Necker)