Libramasculine & Librafeminine

Partial-gender identities in which a person is mostly agender but feels a small, secondary attachment to masculinity (libramasculine) or femininity (librafeminine).

Definition

Partial-gender identities in which a person is mostly agender but feels a small, secondary attachment to masculinity (libramasculine) or femininity (librafeminine). The agender component outweighs the gendered one - the defining feature that distinguishes libra- identities from demigender.

Etymology

Latin libra (a balance, scales) + masculine/feminine, evoking a scale tipped mostly toward "none" with a small weight toward one gender. Coined in online non-binary communities; flags documented by July 4, 2015.

History

Emerged from the mid-2010s wave of microlabel coinage that refined the non-binary umbrella into finer-grained experiences. Libra- identities sit alongside demigender as ways of naming partial gender, and most people who use them also identify as non-binary or agender.

Common myths

  • "This is identical to demiboy/demigirl." The balance is reversed: a demiboy is partially male and partially something else with no claim about which dominates, while libramasculine is specifically mostly agender with only a small masculine attachment.
  • "Partial genders aren't real genders." Partial identification is a consistently reported experience; naming where the "weight" of one's gender sits is exactly what this vocabulary is for.

See also