Astralgender
A gender that space describes better than man, woman or neither — not one star, the whole dark field of them.
- One of twenty-seven Xenogender identities
- No settled flag
- 4 min read
A shorter entry: the essentials, written to the same standard. The fuller guides are on the main identities.
What it is
Astralgender is a xenogender. That means the nearest honest word for your gender is not man, woman, or a point between them — it is something people do not usually think of as a gender at all. Here, space: stars, the dark between them, the whole thing at once.
The record on this word is thin and the page says so up front. The LGBTQIA+ Wiki describes it as a xenogender that feels connected to space, stars and the universe, lists it beside stargender and other space genders, and records that nobody knows who coined it or exactly when in 2016. There is no survey, no history, no elder generation to ask. What follows describes the shape of an experience, not a documented community.
What it is not: a love of astronomy. Plenty of people have posters of nebulae and a settled gender. Astralgender is for when the word "space" is the answer to "what is your gender", not a hobby sitting on top of one. It is also not astrology — no sun sign, no chart, no sky that changes what you are.
Pronouns
No pronoun set comes with this. People who use space words for their gender often use they/them, and some use neopronouns — xe/xem, star/stars, it/its — or several sets at once. Pronouns and gender are separate decisions; nobody would guess this about you from your email signature, and they are not meant to.
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Nearby identities
The distinction is the useful part.
The better-documented cousin and the one with a real paper trail. Stargender is one star, or being like one. Astralgender is the whole sky. If one burning point describes you better than the field it sits in, read that page first.
Compare Astralgender and Stargender →Another star word, thinner on record than stargender, used by some as a synonym for it. Closer to a single object than to space as a whole.
Compare Astralgender and Stellargender →Space too, but the record describes it as connection to what is in a galaxy — planets, moons, black holes — and it comes with masculine and feminine versions. Astralgender has no gendered variants on record.
Compare Astralgender and Galaxygender →It might not be you if…
- You love space and "woman", "man" or "non-binary" already describes you accurately. That is a person with a good interest.
- The image keeps swapping — ocean this month, forest next. A metaphor that moves is describing your mood, not your gender.
- What you feel is nothing where gender should be. Agender and gendervoid describe absence far better than a sky does.
- You mean it literally — that you came from elsewhere. That is kin language, a different shelf with a different vocabulary.
Questions people ask
What does astralgender mean?
A xenogender best described through space — stars, the dark between them, the universe as a whole — rather than through man, woman or a midpoint. The LGBTQIA+ Wiki records it as a gender that feels connected to space, stars and the universe. There is no settled definition beyond that.
Is astralgender the same as stargender?
Often used interchangeably, and some people say so outright. Where they are distinguished: stargender is a single star or being like one; astralgender is the wider field. Stargender is also the older and better-documented term, which is worth knowing before you build a lot on the other.
Is astralgender a real gender?
Every gender word was made up by someone. The fair question is whether it describes something real, and the honest answer is that a small number of people report an experience it fits and there is very little written evidence beyond that. If the description matches you, the word is doing its job.
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