# How do you identify, gender-wise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004 "2021-08-04T00:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/41 "2021-08-06T17:08:32Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > NB at the other extreme. AMAB NB? AMAB? Good God, people, what do those terms mean? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/42 "2021-08-06T17:13:03Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > AMAB Assigned Male At Birth. NB in this context? No clue. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/43 "2021-08-06T17:19:59Z")
Non-Binary ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/44 "2021-08-06T17:33:10Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > White, CIS-male, heterosexual, educated, middle class, able bodied, American citizen by birth. > > I got me so much privilege its coming out of my ears. This is me as well and today I learned that that’s privilege that’s coming out of my ears; all this time I thought it was hair. ---
**Author:** ![stardust\_melody](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stardust_melody/32/7934_2.png) [@stardust\_melody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stardust_melody)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/45 "2021-08-06T17:47:03Z")
I identify as a woman ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/46 "2021-08-06T18:01:10Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Non-Binary 🤦🏼 Thanks. I’m a retired neonatal nurse and all I could think of was NB ~ newborn and I was sure _that_ wasn’t it. Sadly, I will probably forget NB~non binary by the time it next rolls around, but I’ll try. The rest of you, stay out of my newborn nursery. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/47 "2021-08-06T18:08:44Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Non-Binary Okay, what does _that_ mean? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/48 "2021-08-06T18:20:31Z")
> [@stardust\_melody](#): > > I identify as a woman Welcome aboard, @stardust_melody! Stay out of the BBQ Pit until you feel more comfortable. Or forever. They use rough language there. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/49 "2021-08-06T18:43:45Z")
I was factory issued with female-type bits. I’m not especially attached to being female as an identity, but I don’t feel strongly enough about it to object. There’s probably a word for that, but I don’t feel strongly enough about it to look it up either. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/50 "2021-08-06T19:09:07Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I was factory issued with female-type bits. My factory-issued male-type bits are all worn out now, and sadly I’m out of warranty. Happily, my husband will love me no matter how many feet (and other body parts) I have in the grave. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/51 "2021-08-06T19:24:11Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Okay, what does _that_ mean? Analog. He’s old. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/52 "2021-08-06T19:26:51Z")
I am a cisgender male. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/53 "2021-08-06T19:37:34Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Analog. Oh. Normal. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/54 "2021-08-06T22:15:09Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Assigned Male At Birth. > > NB in this context? No clue. Non-binary. Nonbinary mostly means the same thing as “genderqueer” — “An identity vocabulary of only two possibilities is insufficient to explain someone like me” in the case of non-binary, and “queer, instead of normative, gender-wise” in the case of genderqueer. Edited to Add: In other words, “etcetera”. Those of us who choose either of those identifiers (yeah, I do, for the benefit of those who aren’t well aware) do not necessarily have an immense amount in common with others who do likewise. I can give you a brief rundown Subtypes: agender = not into any gender identity thank you very much demigirl = I got times when I’m kinda femme and days when I’m more agenderish or neuter-ish demiboy = same idea except kinda masc genderfluid = my gender identity shifts… it may mean I have boy days and girl days but it may mean instead that I am demigirl some of the time and agender at other times. Or it may mean that for seven years at a stretch I was a boy-person and for the last three I’ve been more of a girl-person. bigender = not BIG ENDER but rather Bi-GENDER, two gender identities coexisting somehow gender invert = not so fluid, this would be male girls and female boys, gender not matching sex butch = masc but not (necessarily) identifying as man or male femme = feminine but not (necessarily) identifying as woman or female ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/55 "2021-08-06T22:27:35Z")
hetero-manvestite ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/56 "2021-08-06T22:39:15Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > bigender = not BIG ENDER but rather Bi-GENDER Computer programming humor I get. The rest of your post not so much, and I will need to work on it if I get curious. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/57 "2021-08-06T22:43:18Z")
I identify as male. Not that I’m getting much use out of it these days. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/58 "2021-08-07T00:01:51Z")
Male, cis, het. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/59 "2021-08-07T00:21:53Z")
After reading this, I feel farther from understanding anything. ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004/60 "2021-08-07T00:33:18Z")
The doctor looked at my naughty bits on that long-ago December morning and said “It’s a girl!” He was right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-identify-gender-wise/948004.md?page=4)