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Other could be somewhere on the spectrum between male and female without quite feeling comfortable calling yourself either. (Transgender, maybe even pre-op or post-op gender change.) Or it could mean asexual.


"Asexual" isn't the term you're looking for -- asexuality has no more to do with what gender you identify as than heterosexuality, bisexuality, etc. do. The concepts might be related for some people, but they aren't inherently so.


OK, what's the term for someone of no gender?


I believe it is simply "agender". I've also heard the word "neutrois" for a third gender neither male nor female, but that's not quite the same as no gender.


You are correct. Agender or nongendered are both fine (with me, anyway, but I think generally too).




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