Cassgender

Cassgender is a Gender Identitiy where one feels indifferent or unconcerned with their gender; their gender is unimportant. This is not to be confused with agender, an identity that lacks gender entirely. Cassgender individuals may have a gender that they feel unbothered to explore or care about and has no real influence in their real life experiences. Cassgender people, similar to agender people, do not identify with a specific gender. They may or may not believe they have a gender but do not care or wish to understand it or make it apart of their identity. Gender may be seen as meaningless to cassgender individuals.

To expand on the understanding and differences between cassgender and agender people: the gender that they are perceived by people does not bother cassgender individuals, neither does using “incorrect” pronouns considering cassgender people have no incorrect yet neither correct pronouns for their identity. Agender people usually have a preference for they/them/it pronouns and often take some care in how people perceive them gender-wise. These are the important differences that separate these identities.

History
The term “cassgender” was coined by Tumblr user okaygender in a post to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.

Interestingly, while those who identify as cassgender are very rare, they have appeared on past surveys focusing on non-binary identities. In the 2016 NB/GQ survey, according to the Non-binary wiki, a single individual out of 3055 respondents over the period of 8 days identified as cassgender. In the 2019 Gender Census: Worldwide Report, 4 people out of 11,242 respondents identified as cassgender. Lastly, in the 2020 Gender Census - The Full Report (Worldwide), 8 people out of 24,576 respondents identified as cassgender. Sadly, cassgender people don’t seem to have been growing much in numbers over the past few years. Though, it is interesting to see a presumably very unique identity appear multiple times throughout a number of surveys, going as far back as 2016. A more optimistic perspective may be to compare these numbers to the 7 billion humans currently on earth, that’s a lot of cassgender people.