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Xenogender

Galaxygender

A gender that feels like what fills a galaxy — planets, moons, black holes, the lot — with a masculine and a feminine version on offer.

  • One of twenty-seven Xenogender identities
  • No settled flag
  • 4 min read
A character among stars and crystals

A shorter entry: the essentials, written to the same standard. The fuller guides are on the main identities.

What it is

Galaxygender is a xenogender. The nearest honest word for the gender is not man, woman or a point between them, but something people do not usually treat as a gender at all — here, a galaxy and everything in it. The LGBTQIA+ Wiki describes it as feeling connected to stars, planets, moons, black holes, the Milky Way and anything else that is part of a galaxy.

Two things set it apart from the other space words. First, on the record it is neutral by default and open to anyone, with two named leanings: galaxygirl or galaxyfeminine, where the connection feels feminine, and galaxyboy or galaxymasculine, where it feels masculine. Second, its history is unusual and worth being honest about: the same record says the word had been an internet joke for some time before a Twitter user reclaimed it and coined it as a term in June 2020. If you have seen it used as mockery, that is why. It does not make the people using it seriously any less serious.

What it is not: a love of astronomy, an aesthetic, or astrology. If the galaxy is decoration on top of a gender that already has a name, the name underneath is doing the work.

Pronouns

No pronoun set comes with this. Galaxygirl and galaxyboy people often use she/her or he/him alongside they/them, and the neutral version leans they/them or neopronouns. Pronouns are a separate decision from gender; one is not evidence of the other.

Does this sound like you?

Asked what your gender is, the honest answer is a place, not a person — and the place is crowded, not empty.
One star is too small. The whole sky is too much. What fits is a system: things orbiting things.
You feel a lean — towards the masculine, or the feminine — inside something that is still plainly not a man or a woman.
You saw the word used as a joke first and hated how much it fitted anyway.
Words like orbit, pull, dense, distant and lit describe your gender better than masculine, feminine or neutral do.
You tried non-binary. It was not wrong. It was a form with the interesting fields left blank.
You can say "non-binary" to a colleague and cannot say this one to anyone who might laugh, because you know exactly how it sounds out loud.

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Nearby identities

The distinction is the useful part.

Astralgender

Space too, but wider and without gendered variants: stars, the dark, the universe as a whole. Galaxygender is what is inside a galaxy, and it comes in boy and girl versions. If the masculine or feminine lean matters to you, galaxygender is the better fit; if the lean is beside the point, astralgender is.

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Stargender

One star, or being like one. The best-documented space word. If a single burning point describes you better than a system of objects, start there.

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Spacegender

Another space word in the same cluster, with its own thin record. The cluster overlaps heavily and people pick by which image lands first.

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Cosmicgender

Described as a gender too vast to take in at once. A galaxy is large but has edges. If the defining feature is that yours does not, that is the other word.

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Xenogender

The umbrella. Galaxygender is one specific answer inside it. If you know the gender is not people-shaped but the image has not settled, read the umbrella first.

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It might not be you if…

  • You love space and "man", "woman" or "non-binary" already describes you accurately. That is a person with a good interest.
  • You are using it as the joke. That is fine as a joke; it is not this page.
  • The lean is the whole story — you are simply a man or a woman who likes the imagery. Then the lean is the gender, and the galaxy is decoration.
  • What you feel is nothing where gender should be. Agender describes absence far better than a galaxy does.

Questions people ask

What does galaxygender mean?

A xenogender felt as a connection to what makes up a galaxy — stars, planets, moons, black holes — rather than to man, woman or a midpoint. On the LGBTQIA+ Wiki record it is neutral by default, with galaxyfeminine (galaxygirl) and galaxymasculine (galaxyboy) as its leaning versions.

Isn't galaxygender a meme?

It was, and the record says so: the wiki notes the word had been an internet joke before a Twitter user reclaimed and coined it in June 2020. A word can be a punchline in one place and a real description in another. Whether it fits you is the only test that matters here.

What is the difference between galaxygender and astralgender?

Scope and structure. Astralgender is space as a whole, with no gendered variants on record. Galaxygender is the contents of a galaxy, and comes with masculine and feminine versions. Many people would fit either; pick the image that arrives first.

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Last updated · How these pages are written and checked

No flag is shown because none is settled. Text: written from how people who use the word Galaxygender describe it.

Sources:

  • Galaxygender — LGBTQIA+ Wiki — Definition, galaxyfeminine/galaxymasculine variants, and the record that the word was an internet joke before being reclaimed and coined on Twitter on 27 June 2020. Fetched and read.

This is not a clinical instrument, not a diagnosis, and not evidence of anything about anyone. It describes experiences so you can recognise your own — or rule them out.