Demigender identities

A partial connection to a gender — enough to be real, not enough to be the whole answer.

Demigirl means being partly a woman — a real connection to womanhood that only goes so far, with the rest being some other gender or none at all.

A demiboy is partly a boy or a man and partly something else, and the partial bit is the point, not a stage on the way to the whole thing.

Part of you sits outside man and woman — clearly, steadily, and not all of you.

Part of your gender is bolted down and never moves. Another part keeps changing. Both of those are permanent.

Part of your gender holds still, and it was never a whole gender to begin with. Another part rises and falls in strength — loud some weeks, barely there in others.

Mostly one gender, permanently short of all of it — standing beside a gender rather than inside it.

Your gender isn't partial and it isn't missing. It's too much for the word that's meant to hold it.

Mostly a girl or a woman, and not entirely. The girl part outweighs the rest; the rest is usually nothing in particular.