When someone experiences a gender, but that gender is unexplainable and can only be identified as "gender" and nothing else.
Definition
Not to be confused with GenderGender, the shop this guide belongs to.
When someone experiences a gender, but that gender is unexplainable and can only be identified as "gender" and nothing else. The person knows they have a gender and experiences it - but cannot describe, name, or characterize what it actually is beyond the bare fact of its existence.
Created by Tumblr user imoga-pride and posted on 30 November 2018 (Tumblr post 180661610901). The flag exists, but no reliable published source for its stripe layout or colour values was available when this record was written, so no HEX, RGB or CMYK codes are held here and no image is shown. See the Gendergender profile for context.
Coined on or before July 27, 2014, by an anonymous user via the now-deleted Tumblr blog mogai-archive.
History
Originated on MOGAI-archive, a Tumblr blog (2013-2015) dedicated to coining and collecting microlabel identity terms. The flag was created by Tumblr user imoga-pride on November 30, 2018. Gendergender is distinct from related identities: it is not about complexity (comgender) but essential inexplicability; unlike xenogender, gendergender people cannot gesture at their gender at all; unlike agender, the gender is present but cannot be named.
Because mogai-archive was deleted, the original coining post cannot be retrieved. The July 2014 date rests on secondhand community records rather than on a primary source that can still be checked.
Common myths
"Gendergender is a joke label." The reduplicated name is unusual, but the experience it names - a felt, definite gender that resists all description - is consistently reported and meaningfully distinct from agender, quoigender, and xenogender.
"If you can't describe your gender, you don't have one." Describability and existence are separate. Many internal experiences are real but resist language.
