Binary gender identities
Gender identity that lines up with the sex assigned at birth. Cis is a description, not a default.
- Two identities
- none with a settled flag
Cisgender women and cisgender men: people whose gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth. They are on this site for the same reason as every other identity — the word has a meaning, a history and an everyday reality, and most people who use it have never been asked to describe it. Cis is a description, not a default setting.
Two identities sit under Binary here: Cisgender Male and Cisgender Female.
Each has its own page: what it feels like day to day, how it differs from the ones next to it, and honest reasons it might not be you. The cards below are the short version. It suggests. You decide.
The Binary identities
Flag, name, one line. The full description is one click away.
Flags in this category
None of the two Binary identities has a settled community flag, so each shows as a hatched swatch. Inventing a flag for someone else’s identity isn’t ours to do.
Compare within Binary
The distinction is the useful part. Side by side, the difference stops being abstract.
Not sure where you fit?
Forty-eight questions across six dimensions, about ten minutes, then a ranked shortlist rather than a verdict. Scoring runs on your device; nothing you answer leaves it.
Other categories
Eight more categories, 136 more identities. See all 138 in one place →
Transgender
Gender identity that differs from the sex assigned at birth. An umbrella, not a single experience.
Non-Binary
Identities outside the man/woman binary. Both, neither, in between, or something else entirely.
Demigender
A partial connection to a gender. Some of it fits, and the rest is something else.
Fluid
Gender that moves. The identity itself shifts, or its intensity does, or both.
Agender
The absence of gender, in its various shapes — none, null, void, or simply not applicable.
Xenogender
Genders described through things other than man and woman: light, sound, weather, growth, colour.
Cultural
Third and other genders recognised within specific cultures, most of them older than the word "transgender".
Exploring
Working it out, or deliberately declining to. Both are places to stand, not waiting rooms.
