The Leptral Gender Graphing System

Purpose

The Leptral Gender Graphing System is a system for graphing gender, based on Leptrois, or the Leptive/Leptral Gender System. This system uses a multidimensional graph that allows for users to graph their genders however they deem necessary.

This system may use as many or as few axes as a user may need to describe their gender. It allows for any gender descriptor that a person may wish to use.

A one-dimensional graph is best when describing how intensely one may feel gender as a whole, while adding more dimensions allows one to be more specific.

Quick Notes

Note, this system is not made for the explanation of one's gender identity to others, but rather as a way for one to explore their own gender identity with themselves. Although it can be used to explain your identity, you would need to explain what each axis means, and also how gender leptivity/leptrality works.

This system works great if you are trying to figure out what terminology you may want to use for yourself, whether it be gender leptivity based terms, or other terms you may want to use. It is completely up to you as to how you choose to use this system. Feel free to extend it or alter it as necessary for your needs. Again, this is for personal exploration. It is not meant as a rigid ruleset, or as a strict explanation of gender as a whole (especially seeing as my gender through this system breaks all sorts of conceptions of gender). You may even map this system to sexuality if you wish. The choice is yours!

Notes on Gender Fluidity

Some people's genders also have fluidity. However, this would require more in depth linear algebra, which can be tricky, especially in multiple dimensions, and I personally don’t understand linear algebra outside of a 2-dimensional graph. If you wish to represent gender fluidity, however, you may do so using this system. I would suggest you do this through linear algebra, creating a line, region, vector, etc. that goes through the points your gender may fall into. I unfortunately am not a mathematician, and don’t want to figure this out myself. However, this system is absolutely meant to be used for gender-fluidity as well.

Explanation

To use this system, you first need to decide on the axes you wish to use to describe your gender, as well as a range from a negative number to a positive number for each axis. You can have as many axes as you feel is necessary to describe your own gender. It is important that each axis both has a negative range and a positive range so that it is possible to distinguish between negatrois and positrois on the graph, as anything in the negative range is negatrois, and anything in the positive range is positrois.

From there, you simply decide where on each axis your gender best fits, then note it down on the graph as a point, or as coordinates if your graph is more than 3-dimensions.

If you feel that you need multiple points, lines, or regions in order to plot your gender and how it works, feel free to do that! The point is for this to allow you to express your gender in any algebraic manner.

Personal Example

My gender is somewhat complex, which makes it great to use for an example of how the system works. As such, for this example, I will be explaining my own gender using multiple graphs to represent multiple different aspects of my gender identity.

I’m going to use Four different axes to describe my gender. They will be:

M: Masculinity

F: Femininity

C: Cisgender-ness

Q: Queergender-ness

I will order the axes on my graph like so: (M, F, C, Q).

As I have previously stated, you may use any axes you need to describe your gender. For me, I am choosing to have an axis on cisgender-ness, as I have had such a long history with my gender that I’ll never be able to fully consider myself cisgender, while still aligning closely to my AGAB. For me, the aspect of cisgenderness is separate to masculinity and femininity.

I also have an axis for queergender-ness, which I have chosen to include, since I verbally call myself queergender. Along with this, I see it as separate to my cisgender-ness, as I feel both intensely cisgender and genderqueer. My queergender identity doesn’t make me less cisgender.

Let's look at where I place on the two different graphs I have created to show my identity.