What Gender-Fluid Is and What It Means to Be Gender-Fluid

A person who is gender fluid, also called fluid, is a person whose gender identity isn’t fix. It can change from day to day, month to month or over a longer period of time. Gender fluid is not a sexual orientation it’s a gender expression or gender identity. A person that is gender fluid can have any sexual orientation including but not limited to bisexual, heterosexual, lesbian, homosexual and pan sexual.

The term genderqueer is also sometimes used to describe a person who is gender fluid. A gender fluid person doesn’t agree or follow the fixed binary genders of male or female.A gender fluid person is related to how the person presents themselves to the world. They may identify as female one day and male the next or neither gender. They can either be feminine, masculine, neither or both.

Some of the other terms for someone who presents themselves as fluid are agender, bigender, demigender or nonbinary.A person who is gender fluid will likely use the pronouns they/them/their instead of her/she/hers and his/him/he. Gender fluid is not the same as gender neutral. A person that is gender fluid embraces and relates to all genders and will switch between them. Gender neutral means they prefer not to identify with any gender. They remain neutral on the matter.

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Psychologist and a Sex and Relationships Advisor at shopgiejo.com

Ieva Kubiliute is a psychologist and a sex and relationships advisor and a freelance writer. She's also a consultant to several health and wellness brands. While Ieva specialises in covering wellness topics ranging from fitness and nutrition, to mental wellbeing, sex and relationships and health conditions, she has written across a diverse range of lifestyle topics, including beauty and travel. Career highlights so far include: luxury spa-hopping in Spain and joining an £18k-a-year London gym. Someone’s got to do it! When she’s not typing away at her desk—or interviewing experts and case studies, Ieva winds down with yoga, a good movie and great skincare (affordable of course, there’s little she doesn’t know about budget beauty). Things that bring her endless joy: digital detoxes, oat milk lattes and long country walks (and sometimes jogs).

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