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my alarm earlier so I have time to get ready. If I feel like a girl several days in a row, the upkeep is hard. I need to shave my face, chest and legs every day, wash my hair and keep my make-up in place. I feel like I prefer to be female but I’m much more relaxed in what I look like when I feel like a man,” said a 22 year old British student Ryan for the website Mirror *. Again, we can spot a mix of two traditional man and woman genders, but one seems to be a boy today, but may look like a girl tomorrow. When talking about a gender fluid, we do not take into consideration neither genitalia nor sexual orientation. Androgyne The concept of third gender is currently legally accepted in certain societies such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Balkans, India or Polynesia. An individual is considered neither man nor woman, but belongs to a separate group which goes beyond these two gender identities – third gender. For referring to such a person should be used gender-neutral pronouns such as one, ze, sie, hir or ey based on a culture. The first European country which officially recognizes babies with ambiguous genitals as a third gender is Germany. Parents are free to determine a baby´s gender and will have to wait till sexual characteristics appear. This is a non-binary gender identity, straight opposite to bigender. An individual does not feel any physical or internal connection with neither male nor female, which are according to this gender very limited, he just thinks of himself as “a human”. Most androgynes look like a regular man or woman. The only difference is visible in how they think and behave, as they seek to free themselves from societal expectations of how a man or a woman should act. We can call it universal behavior suitable for every person, not making distinctions what is feminine and what masculine. Gender fluid I do not feel like a boy, but I do not feel like a girl either. What am I? A gender fluid. This gender identity is very dynamic in its nature. Third gender In conclusion, it is important to reckon a transgender upon feelings on the inside, as it is not gender that defines you, but your feelings towards the gender. You can feel male or female or both and that would be totally fine. Let’s start accepting the world how it is, and not how people want it to be. References http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx http://www.pflagnyc.org/support/transgenderquestions http://web.uvic.ca/~ahdevor/HowMany/HowMany.html http://www.isna.org/faq/transgender http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/15/the-complete-glossary-of-facebook-s-51-genderoptions.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/it-hit-two-genders-bizarre-4545477 https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php?topic=14219.0 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gender+fluid 15