According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ), gender is the group to which a person belongs according to their sex , but not from a biological criterion, but taking into account a sociocultural perspective . Gender identity is known, in this framework, as a subject's perception of himself in relation to gender : said appreciation is subjective and may or may not coincide with sexual characteristics.
With these ideas clear, we can move forward with the definition of pangender . This is the name given to the group of individuals who have various gender identities . Expressed another way: the gender identity of someone pangender contemplates a multiplicity of gender identities.
This means that the pangender human being can feel like any gender or even all genders . These people do not go from one gender identity to another (as in the case of fluid gender ), but rather they identify with different identities simultaneously and permanently.
There is a flag that identifies people who feel framed within the term pangender. It is made up of seven horizontal stripes of equal size that, from top to bottom, are these colors: dark gray, light gray, yellow, white, yellow, light gray and dark gray.
Cisgender is used to refer to someone who is identified with their biological gender (their sexual phenotype ). Cisnormativity , therefore, implies a binary reality : it only contemplates the male gender and the female gender. Pangender, in this way, is outside the binary genders.
Like agender , bigender , trigender , and fluid gender , pangender is part of the idea of non-binary gender . This implies the existence of identities that are not framed in the masculine or the feminine, but in other categories that exceed that duality.
We must indicate that agender refers to people who, regardless of the body in which they were born, do not consider themselves male or female. They bet on a null one.
The person who uses the term bigender to refer to themselves is one who identifies equally with both genders. What's more, you can adapt your perception to one or the other based on the circumstances in which you find yourself.
We can establish trigender as the term used to refer to people who not only identify with the female and male genders but who can also perceive a third gender. This third gender can be a null one or even a mixture of all three.
For its part, fluid gender is that of people who, sometimes, feel like men and other times, however, feel like women. This "feeling" is considered to be one or the other based on the context in which they can be found.
In addition to the gender identities mentioned, there are others that have also gained prominence in recent times: variant gender, questioned gender, intergender or polygender.