Gender trinary

Gender trinary or ternary refers to three primary preexisting gender identities accessible within ones own culture. This gender arity usually includes binary genders and a tertiary gender. This tertiary identity can be a third gender or other abinary identity, such as neutrois/neutral, or liaspec centrigender, such as androgyne generally monogender, not necessarily allogender.

Gender trinarism is often considered a form of exorsexist discrimination towards non-trinary individuals, including those who are midtrinary or atrinary, reinforcing an extension of gender binarism. It could be either in ways of language or identity. It may also affect non-binary/binaryn't and gender/pronoun non-conforming individuals, such as enforcing trinary expectations of men using he/him pronouns and having masculine presentation, women using she/her pronouns and being feminine, or non-binary individuals using they/them and looking androgynous or neutral.

Gender trinary may also be known as gender trichotomy, gender trifecta, or gender triform.

History

The first mention of gender trinary is recorded since 2011 in the book named The Lives of Transgender People. It was then conditionally used interchangeably with gender quaternary, as both and neither or none can be two tertiary identities.

In June 2018, Tumblr user exorsexistbullshit defines gender trinarism as the idea that all non-binary people are just a separate gender from women and men. The term is later used in some academic articles.