"Crossgender" refers to an image featuring a character depicted in any biological gender that is not their default/original (e.g. A male version of a female character or vice versa.).

Based off of the Rule 63 Internet meme, but as a tag is inclusive to intersex characters and versions as well.

• Please note that this tag does not apply to generalized genderswaps of species that are normally composed of a single gender (ex: Chakat). It only applies based on the character's own "original" gender (e.g. A established normally male Chakat character depicted as a herm version of themselves.).

Related:

• alternate_species
• gender_transformation

See also:

• altered_reflection
• alternate_form
• alternate_hairstyle
• alternate_universe
• on_model

Forum Discussion:

• e621 topic 31169 - crossgender into lore tag (2021) [reversed tag type change]
• e621 topic 37640 - Tag alias: crossgender -> crossgender_(lore) (2023) ^{~ 2nd discussion on changing crossgender to lore; pending tag creation: crossgender_(lore)}
• e621 topic 62928 - It's Time To Retire Intersex (2026) ^{~ related discussion on suspected issues of the Intersex tag.}
• e621 topic 63283 - change "crossgender" to "different_sex" (2026) ^{~ name change discussion}