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{{Copied|original=LGBTA Wiki}}[[File:Melangender flag.jpg|thumb|The melangender flag.|alt=|257x257px|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Melangender_flag.jpg]][[File:Melangender 2 flag.jpg|thumb|Alternate melangender flag.|alt=|257x257px|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Melangender_2_flag.jpg]][[File:Melangender 3 flag.jpg|thumb|Alternate melangender flag.|alt=|257x257px|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Melangender_3_flag.jpg]]'''Melangender''' (not to be confused with [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Melagender melagender], [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Melgender melgender] or [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Melogender melogender]) is a mixture of [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Squashgender squashgender], [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Genderfocus genderfocus], [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Gendersoup gendersoup] & [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Plaisgender plaisgender]. Melangender is a subset of [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Multigender multigender]. Melangender can have multiple definitions, one may identify with all of these definitions, or a multitude of them:▼
[[File:Melangender.png|thumb|198x198px|Melangender flag.]]
▲{{Copied|original=LGBTA Wiki}}[[File:Melangender flag.jpg|thumb|The melangender flag.|alt=|257x257px|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Melangender_flag.jpg]][[File:Melangender 2 flag.jpg|thumb|Alternate melangender flag.|alt=|257x257px|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Melangender_2_flag.jpg]][[File:Melangender 3 flag.jpg|thumb|Alternate melangender flag.|alt=|257x257px|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Melangender_3_flag.jpg]]'''Melangender''' (not to be confused with [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Melagender melagender], [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Melgender melgender] or [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Melogender melogender]) is a mixture of [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Squashgender squashgender], [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Genderfocus genderfocus], [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Gendersoup gendersoup] & [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Plaisgender plaisgender]. Melangender is a subset of [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Multigender multigender]. Melangender can have multiple definitions, one may identify with all of these definitions, or a multitude of them:
*One who is melangender may feel as if they have a more prominent gender at times rather than constantly being multiple genders at once. (These prominent genders could also be any of the mixture of genders: squashgender, genderfocus, gendersoup & plaisgender.)
*One may feel like their multiple gender labels have been ‘squashed’ together but are still able to distinguish their multiple labels.
The aligned counterparts of melangender are [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Mefangender mefangender] (feminine aligned), [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Memangender memangender] (masculine aligned), [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Menangender menangender] (neutral aligned), [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Mexangender mexangender] (xenic aligned) and [./https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Mebangender mebangender] (androgynous aligned).[[File:Melangender alt.jpg|thumb|Alternate melangender flag.|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Melangender_alt.jpg]]
==History==
Melangender was coined on the 5th of May 2021 by Reddit user u/hiitsyaz. The name for melangender comes from the word ‘melange’, which means ‘a varied mixture’.