Multigender

An umbrella term for anyone who experiences more than one gender identity - simultaneously, alternately, or fluidly. Encompasses bigender (two), trigender (three), polygender (several), and pangender (all), as well as people with multiple genders who use no more specific label.

Latin multi- (many) + gender.

Multigender vocabulary developed alongside bigender and trigender in genderqueer communities from the 1990s onward, with the umbrella term consolidating in online non-binary spaces in the 2010s. Multigender experiences also connect to many culturally specific identities (see Third Gender) that involve embodying more than one gender role.

• "You can only have one gender." Multigender people consistently report experiencing more than one gender; gender identity is an internal experience, not an externally imposed category limit.
• "Multigender is the same as genderfluid." Genderfluid describes change over time; multigender describes plurality, which may be entirely stable and simultaneous.