genderfluid

See also: gender-fluid

English

WOTD – 19 October 2025

Alternative forms

• gender-fluid

Etymology

From gender +‎ fluid.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

genderfluid (not comparable)

1. (LGBTQ) Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.
   • 2009, Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, page 346:

     Another way that one can be "transgressively gendered" is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid—i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.

   • 2011, Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users, page 29:

     A slightly newer term, genderqueer […] is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid, who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.

   • 2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:

     For example, "queer" would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the "opposite sex," sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.

   • 2020 October 28, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020:

     "I'm genderfluid! Sometimes a guy, sometimes a girl. Sometimes, I guess, confused shrug? Anyway, I have a spell that lets me change my default form, so my feminine form is not an enchantment."

Synonyms

• fluid (rare)
• genderflux

Derived terms

• gender fluidity

Related terms

• bigender
• genderqueer
• genderfuck, genderfucker

Translations

not conforming to fixed gender

• Dutch: genderfluïde (nl)
• Finnish: sukupuolijoustava
• French: genre-fluide, genderfluid (fr)
• Georgian: გენდერფლუიდი (genderpluidi)
• German: genderfluid, geschlechtsflüssig
• Icelandic: kynsfljótandi
• Irish: solúbtha ó thaobh inscne de
• Japanese: 不定性 (ふていせい, futei sei)
• Luxembourgish: geschlechtsflësseg
• Polish: genderfluid (pl)
• Portuguese: gênero-fluido
• Spanish: de género fluido

Noun

genderfluid (plural genderfluids)

1. (rare) A genderfluid person.

See also

• agender
• cisgender
• non-binary
• non-cisgender
• trans*
• transgender
• third gender
• queer
• genderless

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English genderfluid, interpreted as Gender +‎ fluid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛndɐfluˌiːt/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndɐˌfluːɪt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adjective

genderfluid (strong nominative masculine singular genderfluider, not comparable)

1. genderfluid
   • 2025 December 27, Annina Metz, “Kleidung für Männer, Frauen und alle dazwischen”, in Der Spiegel‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Designer Jonas Stickann macht »genderfluide« Mode, um die Welt zwischen den Geschlechtern auszuloten. Das weicht gesellschaftliche Grenzen auf und provoziert Kommentare. Aber verkauft es sich auch?

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Declension

Positive forms of genderfluid (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist genderfluid	sie ist genderfluid	es ist genderfluid	sie sind genderfluid
strong declension (without article)	nominative	genderfluider	genderfluide	genderfluides	genderfluide
	genitive	genderfluiden	genderfluider	genderfluiden	genderfluider
	dative	genderfluidem	genderfluider	genderfluidem	genderfluiden
	accusative	genderfluiden	genderfluide	genderfluides	genderfluide
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der genderfluide	die genderfluide	das genderfluide	die genderfluiden
	genitive	des genderfluiden	der genderfluiden	des genderfluiden	der genderfluiden
	dative	dem genderfluiden	der genderfluiden	dem genderfluiden	den genderfluiden
	accusative	den genderfluiden	die genderfluide	das genderfluide	die genderfluiden
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein genderfluider	eine genderfluide	ein genderfluides	(keine) genderfluiden
	genitive	eines genderfluiden	einer genderfluiden	eines genderfluiden	(keiner) genderfluiden
	dative	einem genderfluiden	einer genderfluiden	einem genderfluiden	(keinen) genderfluiden
	accusative	einen genderfluiden	eine genderfluide	ein genderfluides	(keine) genderfluiden

Further reading

• “genderfluid” in Duden online
• “genderfluid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache