Can Pangendered encompassed people who identify as Gender Queer or is it a separate term?

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Luis - These people feel that they are; mixed gender, identify equally with "both" genders, are both male and female, feel that they are genderless or feel that they are some other gender all together. The term is used by the LGBT community to be one that is inclusive and means "all genders". from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangender not saying they are right or wrong just came here to get more oppinoins ;-)

ddias001 - thank you, that's what I was thinking. Like some Transgendered folk aren't all Pangendered but some Pangendered folk might identify as Transgendered due to how they feel or because of their birth sex (as in hermaphrodite).

Answer 1

I think they are both seperate valid labels. I think the main difference has to do with the meanings of the words themselves. Pangendered seems to imply all genders while genderqueer is more of a break from the two gender system. Some could argue that both fit for a certain individual, but which label a person chooses would/could be different depending on their background and thoughts on gender.

Answer 2

First of all, "gender" is an idea, not something that can be measure. It's a vague idea. The biological part seems straightforward, but the "head" part is complicated.

Pangendered. Can someone be all genders? Sounds like a term from a college sociology class. Unless you're a hermaphrodite, physically, can you be *all* genders?

Psychologically, still -- can you be a man and a woman simultaneously? Sorry, it just seems a kind of pretentious term. Anyway, "Pan" means "all".

Gender Queer, on the other hand, means more like: my gender's vague, and I'm okay with that vagueness, it doesn't bother me. "Vague" (some days I feel more like a girl) is not the same as "all" (I feel like a girl and a boy, and everything else I can imagine, at the same time.)

No personal offense meant to any particular pangender-identified individual, of course. I just think the term's a little ... academic, clinical, overbearing.

Answer 3

Those who see themselves as pangendered usually see themselves as having the qualities of all genders, whereas those who identify a queer usually see themselves as rejecting existing genders. To answer you question, it can, depending on the context in which it is used, but I think its an overly philosophical distiction.