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What Is Intergendered?

By: Donna Lynn Matthews, October 1998Society openly recognizes two gendered states with which people may identify:man and woman. We are born, a doctor looks at our genitalia and declares us aboy or a girl. We are gendered at birth in a way which alignswith our sex. This alignment of sex and gender has becomeaccepted as a given, creating two valid gendered states. This is a binaryclassification system and as such, allows two and only two validstates. In a binary system, there are no exceptions.Now, there are two main groups of individuals out there in gender land. On theone hand, you have the cisgendered, who align their sex and gender as describedabove in what can be considered a traditional way (male/man -female/woman). For most people, this is fine and they feel little or no anxietywith this identity.Then there are the transgendered (in the true sense of the word) who cross-aligntheir sex and gender (male/woman - female/man). While they violate the acceptedtraditional sex-gender link, they still adhere to the construct that gender is abinary system and feel that they are men or women, but their morphology iswrong.The former accounts for what is the majority of the population. The cisgenderedare the normal people (from the point of view of society as a whole.)The latter make up (almost) everyone else.Now, this is all well and good. Society does it's best to see that we allare cisgendered, so as to not upset the apparent 'natural' order of things.There is some validity to the point that being cisgendered makes one's life mucheasier to deal with in so far as one is subjected to the stigma of not feelinglike a real man or real woman. But despite allof the socialization, there are people who wind up realizing that they justdon't fit the cisgendered mold.What seems to happen here is that they feel that they are of a genderopposite to that which there were assigned. As a result, you wind upwith people who were gendered at birth as men realizing that they really feelmore like women, and people who were gendered at birth as women realizing thatthey really feel more like men. This comes to be because of the assumption thatgender is really is a binary system: There are only two genders and youmust be one or the other.But is this really the case? Are there only two gendered states?There are many in the gender community who subscribe to the construct that thereis a gender spectrum and we all fall somewhere between the polarendpoints of man and woman. All of the aforementioned people cluster around the endpoints. They are all either men orwomen, regardless of their sex. While some may be more masculine or femininethan others, they all primarily place themselves firmly at one end or the other.I said that the assumptions here are that only two and only two genders and youmust be one or the other. This is the binary gender model and themajority of the aforementioned all subscribe to it. It makes no provision foranything other than man and woman. Yes, one can argue that there arefeminine men and masculine women, but they are still gendered and men andwomen.In order for the construct of a gender spectrum to work, one must bewilling to let go of the notion that gender is a binary system. Thereis no room for a third state, let alone a multitude of intermediatestates, in a binary system. So, if there is a gender spectrum,then there has to be some group of people filling in the middle, right?Who then are the people between the endpoints?Meet the intergendered. simply stated, intergendered is a gendered statebetween the polar endpoints of man and woman.Intergendered is *not* identifying primarily as a woman or a man. It amounts toa wholesale rejection of the binary gender system and declaring that there ismore than just man or woman. It comes down to stating that there are as manyvalid gendered states as there are people. Some may feel strong (or weak)masculine and feminine qualities all at the same time. Some may not seethemselves on the gender spectrum at all, describing what amounts to anull gendered state.[An aside for a moment. All my life I've never felt comfortable as a man.I've always had this feeling that I was something else. Raised in a prettytraditional way, I concluded that if I didn't feel like a man, than it followsthat the way I feel must be a woman. I held this belief for quite a longtime. After much more introspection, I had a realization: I don'tfeel like a woman. This put me in a difficult position: I knowI don't feel like a man, and I don't really feel like a woman. Well, whatam I? After kicking this around a bit, I've become comfortablewith the notion that I do not have any gender in particular. In the framework ofthe binary gender system, I'm both and neither at the same time.]In any case, intergendered people live a life somewhere between the traditionalextremes of man and woman. As we do not gender ourselvesalong the either/or lines of the binary gender system, we often choose not topresent along these lines. Given that, our presentation can be confusing and itwould seem, at times, unsettling. As we present a mixed set of signal, there isoften confusion in others as to whether we are a men or women.Well, that's the point. We are neither and both at the same time. We haverejected the notion that one needs to be at either end of the genderspectrum and live and present accordingly. We are not really interested inpassing as women or men. We want nothing more than to be ableto simply be who we are without having choose between two extremes. Thisdoes not invalidate those who feel most comfortable at the end of the genderspectrum, it is simply expands the options one has. For us, it amounts tonothing more than being honest about who we are.We have, for a long time, been ridiculed for being who we are (as have many inthe gender community.) The thing about it is that we have gotten it from allsides. Anyone who holds on the notion of gender as a binary system,anyone who has places themselves at one end of the gender spectrum orthe other, has seen us and our lifestyle as a threat to that which they havemade a core part of their identity.The cisgendered tend to look at us as like we're just plain weird; that there ismore than man and woman simply does not register for them. The transgendereddon't quite know what to make of us, as they tend to view us as an anomaly. Thetransexuals, much like the cisgendered, simply can not accept the construct thatthere is more than just man and woman. The (m2f) crossdressers think we make amockery of the ideal of femininity because we don't care if we are clocked asmen or women.We are the outermost fringe of the so called transgender community, daring tolive in what amounts to the gender wasteland. We have no problem with presentingas openly trans. None the less, our identities are as valid as anyoneelse's and we deserve the same respect and consideration as any other memberof society.Please Note:The information here is copyright protected and is the exclusive propertyof Donna Matthews. Opinions presented here are entirely my own and do not represent the opinions orpolicy of any other corporate entity.

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