Post-Genderists (who use other terms to describe their gender identities)
Ingrid Sell, a philosopher of transpersonal psychology, interviewed, recognize the fallacy of the gender binary and refuse to live within it. Although they do not use the term they could be considered post-genderists. Sell’s participants created gender labels for themselves and some of them altered their appearance so other could not compartmentalize them as either male or female. Examples of the labels they gave themselves were androgyne, butch dyke boy, polygendered, pangendered and bigender (Sell 258-261) .
Most of Sell’s participants did not shed the labels of male or female to make a statement about society as a whole; but rather to make one about their personal lives. As a result of the discrimination they face, many have come to see themselves as role models and voices for those who feel they do not belong in the binary but do not have the courage to speak up. Some believe they have “to point out how coercive society is…to be a leader, a pathfinder, to a way out of this coercive gendered society…[they believe they are] the ones who are probably more aware of how damaging gender can be…and [they think they are] put here to make this a more gender friendly society (Sell 208).” Most of participants in Sell’s study embraced and felt a kinship with all those who did not fit within the gender dichotomy, no matter what new label they created to describe their gender identity.
Sell, Ingrid. "Not-Man, Not-Woman: The Third Gender Research Study." .
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