Multitransitional

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Multitransitional or multitrans describes someone who uses various terms between transandrogynous, transfeminine, transmasculine, transneutral, transoutherine, transxenine and similar.

Someone may use more than one of these terms for a number of reasons, including:

  • Being someone with multiple genders whose gender experience fits more than one of these terms. For example, a trigender maverique/woman/neutrois person may see themselves as transmaverine, transfeminine, and transneutral;
  • Being someone whose experienced or desired gender transition and/or expression is related to more than one of these terms. For example, someone who wants to have a body with parts interpreted as "man's" but who also wants it in search of expressing androgyny may see himself as transdrogynous and transmasculine;
  • Being someone who, even if they have a single gender identity and/or a single goal regarding gender transition and/or expression, consider their experience ambiguous enough to fit more than one term, and use these to have greater possibilities for community. For example, someone who aspires to have a gender expression whose purpose is to hide any signs seen as associated with a binary gender may see themselves as both transneutral and transnull;
  • Being someone whose day-to-day experience and internal feeling about which of these labels is best suited to their gender identity and desired expression diverge. For example, a person may be transxenine because they want to have a body considered alien and monstrous, but also transandrogynous because, among the options offered by medicine and gender stereotypes in an exorsexist society, they prefer to try to be perceived as androgynous.[2]
  • Being a plural system with members who fit different gender experiences. For example, one headmate may be transxenine, but another transfeminine, so collectively they identify as multitrans.

Since most of the terms that multitrans covers are open to people who are not non-binary, multitrans does not necessarily describe someone who is non-binary. A gender-nonconforming woman may see herself as transnull and transmasculine, just as a trans man who wishes to have both penis and vagina may see himself as transmasculine and transandrogynous. Even so, this term is more likely to be more common among people who are neither 100% male nor 100% female, since very few binary people describe themselves with transitional terms other than transfeminine or transmasculine.[3]

These experiences may also include those who are both transmasculine and transfeminine (transmascfem), fitting AGAB non-conformity.[4]

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