Xenogender

Xenogender is a gender that can be under the non binary umbrella that goes beyond binary and non binary genders. Xenogenders tend to relate to things, being, or certain concepts that most people don't think of as having to do with gender. It is sometimes described as any gender that "cannot be contained by human understandings of gender", it is a gender that relates to things that go beyond the general understanding of gender.

Often xenogenders are like the below:

 * Nouns and Archetypes: Instead of saying how one's gender relates to masculinity and femininity, one says one's gender is, or is like, a kind of animal, an imaginary being, a part of nature, an abstract concept, or a symbol. These are called noungenders. In basic explanation, it is about relating to certain things such as animals into their gender, such as catgender, feeling as though the gender is in context of a cat, such as small and fluffy or like that of a cat.
 * Aesthetics and Synaesthetic Perceptions: When a gender is described using things like texture, size, shape, time, light, sound, or other sensory characteristics. These can often overlap with noungenders. These are called aesthetigenders. In simplicity, it uses basic senses that feel as though has to do with gender.
 * Neurotypes: When a neurodivergent person's neurotype(s) is/are an inseparable part of their gender identity. These genders are exclusive to people of the neurotype(s) associated with them. These are called neurogenders. In simplicity, people with a neurotype feel as though their gender is affected by it, such as an individual feeling as though their ADHD affects their gender in some way.

Other categories of xenogenders include:

 * Situations: When one's gender changes based on the situation. These are called mutogenders. These genders typically get affected by certain things, such as location changing or affecting a gender.
 * Kintypes: When an otherkin person's kintype(s) is/are an inseparable part of their gender identity. These genders are exclusive to people of the kintype(s) associated with them. These are called kingenders. Those who are otherkin may identify with a binary gender but some believe their kintype affects their gender, thus kingender.
 * Oneself: When one's gender is so much just them that no one else can even experience it. These are called nominalgenders. This gender is when they feel their gender is when it relates to the individual themselves, in the sense that the gender feels like themselves.

Breaking Xenogenders Down
Xenogenders are, as stated above, a descriptor for gender experience. However, xenogenders do not state something to be a gender but use an object or entity in context of gender to better describe it.

Example of a xenogender:
Catgender is a well known xenogender, but it is not a gender that states cats being your gender but uses the context of cats and cat behavior and uses it metaphorically to better understand one's gender experience. In a way, uses cats, the fact they are fluffly, maybe a loner or soft and incorperates those features into gender experience saying their gender does not have feminine or masculine qualities but a more soft and fluffy quality, and using cats is better able to simplify or explain the identity.

History
The term xenogender was coined by Tumblr user Baaphomett in 2014.