English

Alternative forms

• pan-gendered

Adjective

pangendered ‎(not comparable)

1. Having or pertaining to mixed or fluid gender identity.
   • 1999, Allison Cope, Trans Accessibility Project: Making Women's Shelters Accessible to Transgendered Women:

     If a pre op transsexual, a post op transsexual, a butch lesbian, and a person who identifies as pangendered are all kicked out of the same washroom on the same day because a non-trans woman has complained to security that there are men in the washroom, should all of them be able to file a human rights complaint?

   • 2006, Krista Scott-Dixon, Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans/feminist Voices Speak Out, ISBN 1894549619, page 187:

     In an effort to make the case for Nixon's womanhood, her council erases any idea of gender identity as fluid, the existence of intersex individuals as well as the realities of pangendered individuals (those that move back and forth or along a gender continuum throughout their lives).

   • 2007, Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings: A Novel, page 59:

     "But I did!" Manda said, pushing her way past her pangendered partner in crime.

   • 2015, A. Brunneis, The Boulevards of Extinction, ISBN 1498229999, page 235:

     What if truth is a woman no longer, but a trans woman, an androgyne, pangendered— even all of these and more: “genderqueer,” a catch-all phrase for everything not status quo?

   • 2016, Tom Pollard, Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession, ISBN 1476624305, page 62:

     The seeming contradictions of conventional gender roles disappear if we regard vampirism as a “pangendered construct in which traditional male and female genders are combined to form a whole.

Usage notes

Some people prefer this term to the synonym bigendered because of its implicit acknowledgement that there can be more than two genders.