A TikToker who came out as trigender in 2022 has detailed what it means.
In 2022, content creator Emily Skvarch revealed to their TikTok followers that they identified as trigender.
However, such a label now won’t be accepted by the Trump administration, with President Donald Trump having recently signed a controversial executive order that states that there are only two genders – male and female.
The order titled ‘Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’ says: “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders in his first week in office – including one that only recognise male and female as ‘two genders’ (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
Since the order was signed, transgender women will no longer be housed in female prisons, while Trump has also halted all ‘X’ passport applications; an option which allowed intersex and non-binary people to mark their sex as X rather than male or female.
While the government now only accept that there are two genders, it can’t and won’t change people like Emily from identifying differently.
Emily uses the pronouns she, he, and they, and recently shared a video to TikTok explaining what it means to be trigender in the wake of her original 2022 video doing the rounds online again.
In the newly shared clip, Emily said: “A little birdie told me that Facebook trumpets have come to my comment section yet again and it’s all based on that same two-and-a-half-year-old video of me first coming out on the internet.”
For those who haven’t seen the original video, Emily proceeded to reintroduce herself.
Emily Skvarch identifies as trigender (@future4caster/Instagram)
“Hi, I’m Emily and I go by any pronouns because I am trigender. Sort of like triangle, I am trigender: it means three,” they said.
“I am a man, a woman, and non-binary, all at once [and] all the time.”
Going on to explain further, Emily continued: “I would suppose that it’s similar to gender fluid and that you feel a range of gender, and for me I feel a large portion of that range at all times rather than flowing through that range like a gender fluid person would.”
According to VeryWellMind, trigender comes under the category of people who identify with more than one gender, which also includes bigender, pangender or gender fluidity.
Emily says a lot of people have been trying to antagonise her by calling her ‘triangle’, however, they think it’s the ‘cutest thing ever’ and she’s ‘all for it’.
“I kinda like who am I as a person,” Emily continued. “So I am not planning on changing my triangleness anytime soon and you will never be able to take that away from me.”
People have since applauded Emily for their explainer video and for addressing their critics.
One person commented: “Your trigender video when you uploaded it made me really sit and think about my own gender identity. So thank you for that!”
A second added: “I don’t understand why people care so much how other people live their life.. why not focus on promoting happiness instead of conformity.”
While a different person wrote: “Never change! You’re amazing!”
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