Agender
absence of a gender identity
Agender is a gender identity where an individual has no gender and does not necessarily follow gender roles. It can also be known as genderless, gender-free, non-gendered, or ungendered. Agender represents a variety of identities that differ from conventional gender norms. Identities that fall under the agender label include demiagender and gendervoid, among others. The A in LGBTQIA+ stands for agender, alongside asexual and aromantic.
The identity of agender people, like other queer identities, are not universally accepted, and agender people can face discrimination. The first person to be legally recognized as agender was recognized in Oregon in 2017. In 2025, Gender Census, a global survey of non-binary people, found that 25% of participants identified as agender.
Identity
Agender people identify as having no gender. Agender people may choose to not follow traditional gender roles.
“Agender” enters the record as absence of a gender identity. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Agender, absence and gender can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Agender” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Agender, absence and gender provides the most credible route into that argument.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q505371. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2025.
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