Intergender is a gender identity that has two contradictory opinions on how it should be used.
- Intergender can be used by both dyadic people and intersex people who feel between male and female.
- Intergender is inappropriate for dyadic people and is to be used only by intersex people. This is because the term is used to describe a gender identity that is directly related to a person's experience being intersex. There is no other term that refers to this that is as widely known and used, while there are many terms for a gender identity between or both male and female. Dyadic people should use a different word such as androgyne.
As an identity, intergender can be considered to be between male and female , or to be a combination of the two. Within the intersex community it is used as an umbrella term to refer to a number of identities that are directly tied to a person's intersexuality. Intergender people may also identify as nonbinary, genderqueer and/or transgender. However, some intergender people consider themselves cisgender, as their gender is reflective of their sex characteristics at birth.
Intergender people can have any gender expression or sexual orientation.
Intergender is different from Ipso gender which is intersex people agreeing with the sex they were assigned at birth.