Sensgender
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Sensgender
| Prefix: | Sens- |
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| Main Umbrella: | Gender Modality |
| Gender(s): | Not always or completely transgender |
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Sensgender is a gender modality characterized by only sometimes, temporarily, not completely relating the transgender experience. Sensgender is also an umbrella term for genders such as sensmasculine, sensfeminine, and sensxenine.
Examples of individuals who may identify as sensgender include[1]:
- a genderfluid or genderflux individual who is only sensgender during certain genders or only feels connected to transgender or adgender, but shortly or temporarily;
- a genderless individual who feels that their transition only has do with their presentation, but not their gender;
- anyone who feels that their gender and their transition goals don't match with how others perceive them.
History
Sensgender, sensmasculine, sensfeminine, sensmascfem, sensneutral, and sensxeno/sensother were coined by former Tumblr user wavership on November 4th, 2018. The sensmasculine, sensfeminine, sensmascfem, sensneutral, and sensxeno/sensother flags were coined by the same user on the same date.[1]
Similar Terms
| Label | Relationship | Description | Difference |
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| Adgender | Similar | A gender modality for individuals who transition or move toward a certain gender or gender presentation. | A sensgender individual may only be sometimes adgender. |
| Transgender | Similar | A gender modality for individuals that identify as a gender differing from their assigned-sex-at-birth. | A sensgender individual is not always or completely related to the transgender experience. |
Subgenders
| Label | Suffix | Flag | Description | Creator(s) |
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| Sensfeminine[1] | feminine | Only sometimes, temporarily, not completely relating the transfeminine experience | Wavership | |
| Sensmascfem[1] | mascfem | Only sometimes, temporarily, not completely relating the transmascfem experience | Wavership | |
| Sensmasculine[1] | masculine | Only sometimes, temporarily, not completely relating the transmasculine experience | Wavership | |
| Sensneutral[1] | neutral | Only sometimes, temporarily, not completely relating the transneutral experience | Wavership | |
| Sensxeno / Sensother[1] | xeno / other | only sometimes, temporarily, not completely relating the transxeno experience | Wavership |
