Mick Hartley

As the Scottish Endarkenment gathers pace, star signs will follow. As a Nont*, I expect all 336** astro-identities to be recognised.

* Person whose astro-identity doesn’t match the sign they were assigned at birth (NON-Twelver)
** Number may change ***
*** Upwards, obviously pic.twitter.com/454FSIMryo

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 21, 2024

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Article here:

In official guidance, the devolved administration clarified a list of two dozen terms it said the gender identity of members of the public could be recorded by public bodies.

They include “gender fluid”, meaning how a person identifies regularly changes and “genderqueer”, a term for those who believe they are something “other than male or female” or a “combination” of both.

People may also be “pangender”, documents issued by the Scottish Government’s chief statistician states, meaning a person feels that “their identity encompasses all possible genders at once.”

Those genders in full:

Cisgender
Trans man
Trans woman
Non-Binary
Trans – not otherwise specified
Agender
Trans masculine
Trans feminine
Genderfluid
Genderqueer
Questioning
Intersex
Assigned female at birth – not specified
Assigned male at birth – not specified
Pangender
Bigender
Autigender
Androgynous
Gender non-conforming
Detransitioned
Neutral
Demigender – female
Demigender – male
Demigender – not otherwise specified

The list of 24 genders was added last week to formal guidance first issued to public bodies in 2021 about how information on sex and gender should be recorded and published. The guidance says that those in surveys who say that they are transgender or have a “trans history” should then be asked to describe their status in their own words. Public bodies are then advised to categorise their response as one of the possible gender identity options. These include agender, described by the government as “a person who does not identify as having a gender”, or “bigender” meaning they have two genders at once. The list includes “autigender”, a term reserved for autistic people who “think about and relate to their gender label – or lack of a gender label – in the context of autism”. A University of Cambridge study has found that transgender people are three to six times more likely to be autistic, compared to those whose gender identity matches their biological sex.

Antigender? Is there an antigender?

And bigender? Is that bi-gender or big-ender?