Androgyny

Androgyny has both biological and psychological meanings and has been defined as a third category of gender for a person who is neither clearly male nor female. Biological androgyny is associated with intersex, which is a broad term that encompasses many medical diagnoses, but generally refers to individuals whose bodies do not clearly fall into the biological categories of male and female, including individuals born with both male and female genitalia, also called hermaphroditic. Psychological androgyny is the inability to identify one as either masculine or feminine, either because a person exists in the center of the continuum between masculinity and femininity, has an absence of either masculinity or femininity, or the presence of both. Moving beyond the definition of androgyny, there is debate about how to reliably measure and test it. Different measurement instruments are discussed as well as the potential for computer‐mediated interactions and visualization techniques to further explore aspects of gender while controlling for other factors.