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The days in the below table are commonly observed holidays, memorial days, days of awareness, and otherwise important days for people who are [[transgender]], [[genderqueer]], [[nonbinary]], [[intersex]], or [[gender-variant identities worldwide|members of traditional gender identities that do not fit into the Western gender binary]].
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!Name
!Date
!Region
!Description
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|Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity
|22nd January
|International<ref>https://transprisoners.net/about/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20221221113601/https://transprisoners.net/about/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|National Transition Week
|The last full week (Monday - Friday) in January
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|First observed on January 24th-28th of 2022. "This week was created to spread awareness, share information, and share personal experiences/stories about transition for transgender and nonbinary people."<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Transition Week |url= https://nationaltransitionweek.wordpress.com/ |archive-url=https://archive.is/D1mSq |archive-date=9 July 2022}}</ref>
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|LGBT History Month
|February
|UK<ref>[https://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/about https://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220815155604/http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/about Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, Hungary<ref>http://www.lmbttortenetihonap.hu/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230305223819/https://lmbttortenetihonap.hu/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|Femminiello Pride<ref name="RoadsAndKingdoms">Danielle Oteri. "Femminiello Pride." ''Roads and Kingdoms'' (magazine). December 30, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2020. https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/femminiello-pride/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230604205411/http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/femminiello-pride/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
|2nd February
|Montevergine, Italy
|Since the thirteenth century CE, the Catholic festival of Candlemas on February 2 also honors the [[gender-variant identities worldwide#femminiello|femminiello]], a traditional gender-variant role in Italy. Pilgrims make their way to the remote mountain church at Motevergine, whose icon, the Madonna of Transformation, Mamma Schiavona, is said to have miraculously saved the lives of victims of homophobic violence in 1256 CE. The festival is celebrated with the long and energetic tammurriata dance, and a candle-lit procession, by pilgrims who are visibly gender nonconforming. Historically, this has been called ''juta dei femminielli.'' Since 2002, it has also been called Femminiello Pride.<ref name="femminiello huffpost">Giuseppe Melillo. "Una storia antica: Napoli, i femminielli e la figliata." ''Huffington Post'' (magazine). January 24, 2018. Retrieved July 28, 2020.  https://www.huffingtonpost.it/giuseppe-melillo/una-storia-antica-napoli-i-femminielli-e-la-figliata_a_23339374/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20211020140835/https://www.huffingtonpost.it/giuseppe-melillo/una-storia-antica-napoli-i-femminielli-e-la-figliata_a_23339374/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name="RoadsAndKingdoms" />
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|[[Transmasculine]] Visibility Day/Transmasculine Pride and Visibility Day
|20th February
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|Established to commemorate the ENAHT (Encontro Nacional de Homens Trans, "National Meeting of Trans Men") organized by Ibrat (Instituto Brasileiro de Transmaculinidades, "Brazilian Institute of Transmaculinities") which took place on 20 February 2015.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/festivaltransarte/posts/1433114963780391</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/gaavahbrasil/posts/pfbid0UMwZnrrrwJ9uRkrwrgcrmYf6GCMGKaRBqf78B2jRgHiEFhppYSvaFys1qPWdZx95l</ref>
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|''Dies Sanguinis'' (Day of Blood)
|24th March
|Originating in Phrygia (where Turkey is today), spreading across the ancient Roman empire, as far as Roman London
|From 2,300 years ago to the 6th century CE, this was celebrated by the gender-variant [[gender-variant identities worldwide#Gallae|Gallae]] priests of the goddess Cybele and the god Attis. The Day of Blood was celebrated by dancing around a felled and decorated pine tree, symbolizing the death and rebirth of Attis. As part of this ritual, any new Gallae initiates would voluntarily castrate themselves, as part of transitioning to a feminine appearance.<ref name="kaldera 174">Raven Kaldera. ''Hermaphrodeities: The Transgender Spirituality Workbook.'' Hubbardston, Massachusetts: Asphodel Press, 2008. P. 174-179.</ref><ref name="seabrook gallae about">Laura Anne Seabrook, "About this comic." ''Tales of the Gallae.'' http://totg-mirror.thecomicseries.com/about/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20221202095758/https://totg-mirror.thecomicseries.com/about/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|Trans Day of Visibility
|31st March
|International<ref>http://www.transstudent.org/tdov [https://web.archive.org/web/20230627112448/https://transstudent.org/tdov Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|Day of Silence
|Various days in April
|Originated in Virginia, USA, has since spread internationally<ref name="DayofSilenceFaq">{{Cite web|url=http://www.dayofsilence.org/faqs/|title=FAQs|website=www.dayofsilence.org|access-date=2016-04-01|archive-date=March 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329112528/http://dayofsilence.org/FAQs/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|A student-led observance to take a day-long vow of silence in protest of the harassment and discrimination of LGBTQ+ people in schools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.glsen.org/day-of-silence|title=Join Us for Day of Silence on April 23, 2021 and Support LGBTQ Students!|website=GLSEN|language=en|access-date=2021-10-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304093322/https://www.glsen.org/day-of-silence|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
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|Nonbinary Parents Day
|3rd Sunday in April
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|Created by educator and nonbinary parent Johnny Blazes.<ref name="fami_Cele">{{Cite web |title=Celebrating Nonbinary Parents Day with Parent & Educator Johnny Blazes |author= |work=Family Equality |date=16 April 2021 |access-date=3 May 2021 |url= https://www.familyequality.org/2021/04/16/celebrating-nonbinary-parents-day-with-founder-johnny-blazes/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605072918/https://www.familyequality.org/2021/04/16/celebrating-nonbinary-parents-day-with-founder-johnny-blazes/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| National Transgender HIV Testing Day
| 18th April
| USA
| A day focused on HIV testing, prevention, and treatment among transgender and nonbinary people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Talking with Carter Brown about National Transgender HIV Testing Day |author= |work=ACHIEVING TOGETHER |date=14 April 2019 |access-date=27 October 2022 |url= https://achievingtogethertx.org/2019/04/14/talking-with-carter-brown-about-national-transgender-hiv-testing-day/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131171959/https://achievingtogethertx.org/2019/04/14/talking-with-carter-brown-about-national-transgender-hiv-testing-day/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=National Transgender HIV Testing Day – April 18 |author= |work=cdc.gov |date= |access-date=27 October 2022 |url= https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/awareness/nthtd.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221042610/https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/awareness/nthtd.html|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
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| [[Xenogender]] Visibility Day
| 15th May
| International
| First celebrated in 2021.<ref name="redd_r/Xe">{{Cite web |title=Happy Xenogender Visibility Day! |author=Great_White_Wrym |work=reddit - r/XenogendersAndMore |date=15 May 2021 |access-date=22 June 2021 |url= https://www.reddit.com/r/XenogendersAndMore/comments/nd5ycb/happy_xenogender_visibility_day/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123171423/https://www.reddit.com/r/XenogendersAndMore/comments/nd5ycb/happy_xenogender_visibility_day/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|user=lotusflwrbunny |number=1393693536588025858 |date=15 May 2021 |title=apparently it’s the first xenogender visibility day ever so qrt with ur xenogenders!!}} </ref>
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|International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
|17th May
|International<ref>https://may17.org/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230305044751/https://may17.org/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|[[Agender]] Pride Day
|19th May<ref>{{Cite web |title=Important LGBT Dates |author= |work=LGBTLifeWestchester.org |url= https://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/important_lgbt_dates |archive-date=18 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918193711/https://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/important_lgbt_dates}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Agender Pride Day |last=Ohene |first=Benjamin |work=Believe Out Loud |date= |access-date=11 November 2021 |url= https://www.believeoutloud.com/voices/article/agender-pride-day/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531145919/http://www.believeoutloud.com/voices/article/agender-pride-day/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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|[[Maverique]] Visibility Day
|31st May<ref>{{Cite web |archive-url=https://archive.ph/76hEF |archive-date=21 December 2023 |url=https://www.tumblr.com/themaveriqueagenda/737235999462129664/the-31st-may-2024-is-the-10-year-anniversary-of |title=hey maveriques and allies! |date=20 December 2023}}</ref>
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|LGBT History Month
|June
|Italy<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Month#In_Italy [https://web.archive.org/web/20230601225929/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Month Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|Queer History Month
|June
|Berlin<ref>http://queerhistory.de/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230702041709/https://www.queerhistory.de/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|[[International Nonbinary Day]]
|14th July
|International<ref>https://femmesblackmarket.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/calling-for-an-international-non-binary-gender-day/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230407161627/https://femmesblackmarket.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/calling-for-an-international-non-binary-gender-day/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|LGBT History Month
|October
|USA<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Month#In_the_United_States [https://web.archive.org/web/20230601225929/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Month Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|National Nonbinary Kids Day
|1st October
|USA
|First observed in 2021, started by PFLAG Jacksonville & Professor Sex.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CUd1r38tG4G/ |title=PFLAG of Jacksonville and Professor Sex are excited to announce tomorrow October 1, 2021 is the first National Nonbinary Kids Day! |work=Instagram |date=30 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719210015/https://www.instagram.com/p/CUd1r38tG4G/ |archive-date=19 July 2023 |access-date=9 July 2022 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
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|National Coming Out Day
|11th October
|USA<ref>https://www.hrc.org/resources/national-coming-out-day [https://web.archive.org/web/20230306000644/https://www.hrc.org/resources/national-coming-out-day Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, International
|"National Coming Out Day was created in 1988 to commemorate the 1987 March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights, which reportedly drew over 200,000 protesters to the nation's capital that Oct. 11."<ref name="Lavietes">{{Cite web |title=National Coming Out Day: 21 people who have come out in 2021 |last=Lavietes |first=Matt |work=NBC News |date=11 October 2021 |access-date=15 October 2021 |url= https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/national-coming-day-21-people-come-2021-rcna2839|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217220525/https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/national-coming-day-21-people-come-2021-rcna2839 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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|[https://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/166404257550 Cake for Trans Friends Day, or Trans Cake Day]
|14th October
|International<ref name="cassolotl_cake_tumblr">October 14, 2017. https://cassolotl.tumblr.com/post/166404257550</ref><ref>https://cybre.space/@cassolotl/98826563853949635 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230207184031/https://cybre.space/@cassolotl/98826563853949635 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
|Established by cassolotl in 2017, who wrote that in response to how most days about trans people "involve marginalised people doing yet more work to draw attention to themselves in a dangerous environment [...] Those days can be (and always are, for me) scary and sad. [...] So I declared [this] the first annual Cake For Trans Friends Day. I ended up shortening it to Trans Cake Day [...] Basically, instead of us doing all the work, people (especially cis people, I feel!) give cake to their trans friends and family to show them how appreciated they are. There’s so much anger and violence surrounding trans people, but I think we should be celebrated and loved. [...] a bit like Mother’s Day - a birthday for every trans person to celebrate together at the same time, and be showered with goodness by people who care about us."<ref name="cassolotl_cake_tumblr" />
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|[[International Pronouns Day]]
|3rd Wednesday of October
|International<ref name="pronounsday_faq">https://pronounsday.org/faqs [https://web.archive.org/web/20230406152958/https://pronounsday.org/faqs/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
|Established in 2018.<ref name="pronounsday_faq" /> Ways to participate include using the #PronounsDay hashtag, telling about your pronouns on social media and on name badges, distributing leaflets, setting up a photo booth in public for people to take selfies with their pronouns, and other efforts to creatively raise awareness.<ref>https://pronounsday.org/participating [https://web.archive.org/web/20221017202730/https://pronounsday.org/participating Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|[[Genderfluid]] Visibility Week
|Third full week of October
|International
|First observed from Oct 17-24 of 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LGBTQIA Awareness Dates |author= |work=On Trend Shirts |date= |access-date=4 September 2022 |url= https://ontrendshirts.com/pages/lgbtqia-awareness-dates|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322131300/https://ontrendshirts.com/pages/lgbtqia-awareness-dates|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> The dates for 2022 will be October 16-22.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=4 September 2022 |title= Prideraiser Awareness Observances|url=https://www.prideraiser.org/awareness-calendar/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007152505/https://www.prideraiser.org/awareness-calendar/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
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|[[Intersex]] Awareness Day
|26th October
|International<ref>https://intersexday.org/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230601130115/http://intersexday.org/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
|Started in 2003 by Betsy Driver and Emi Koyama.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The origins of Intersex Awareness Day |last=Driver |first=Betsy |work=Intersex Day |date=14 October 2015 |access-date=15 October 2021 |url= https://intersexday.org/en/origin-intersex-awareness-day/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221222441/https://intersexday.org/en/origin-intersex-awareness-day/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> October 26 is the anniversary of a protest that took place in Boston by the Intersex Society of North America.<ref>{{Cite web |title=When Max Beck and Morgan Holmes went to Boston |last=Holmes |first=Morgan |work=Intersex Day |date=17 October 2015 |access-date=15 October 2021 |url= https://intersexday.org/en/max-beck-morgan-holmes-boston-1996/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601131513/https://intersexday.org/en/max-beck-morgan-holmes-boston-1996/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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|National Transgender Children Day
|26th October<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Transgender Children Day |work=National Today |date= |access-date=15 April 2023 |url= https://nationaltoday.com/national-transgender-children-day/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402061413/https://nationaltoday.com/national-transgender-children-day/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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|Trans Parent Day
|1st Sunday in November
|USA<ref>http://www.transparentday.org/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20211226051527/http://transparentday.org/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
|Established in 2009 to celebrate "the love between transgender parents and their children and transgender children and their parents".<ref>{{Cite web |title=TransParent Day 2014 |author= |work=Transgender Law Center |date=3 November 2014 |access-date=8 November 2021 |url= https://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/11184|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323021706/https://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/11184 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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|Intersex Day of Solidarity ''or'' Intersex Day of Remembrance
|8th November
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|This date was the birthday of Herculine Barbin (also variously known as Alexina Barbin or Abel Barbin), a French intersex person whose memoirs were later published by the philosopher Michel Foucault. The event was first celebrated in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Intersex Day of Solidarity |work=Intersex Day |date=30 May 2011 |access-date=15 October 2021 |url= https://intersexday.org/en/intersex-day-of-solidarity/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422003348/https://intersexday.org/en/intersex-day-of-solidarity |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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|Transgender Awareness Week
|13th - 19th November
|USA
|"Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transgender Awareness Week |author= |work=GLAAD |date= |access-date=22 October 2022 |url= https://www.glaad.org/transweek|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307183148/https://www.glaad.org/transweek|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
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|[https://trans-rite.tumblr.com/ Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation]
|12 - 20 November
|International<ref name="trans-rite-faq">"The Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation: FAQ." November 11, 2017. ''Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation.'' https://trans-rite.tumblr.com/post/167382057159/the-transgender-rite-of-ancestor-elevation-faq [https://web.archive.org/web/20211215210635/http://trans-rite.tumblr.com/post/167382057159/the-transgender-rite-of-ancestor-elevation-faq Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
|A 9-day non-denominational ritual ending with the Trans Day of Remembrance, honoring the spirits of trans people past and future. Each night, participants add a book to a stack on the floor, with a cup of water and a candle, forming a memorial altar that rises taller each night. Established 2014.<ref name="trans-rite-faq" />
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|Trans Day of Remembrance
|20th November
|International<ref>https://tdor.info/about-2/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230701010218/https://tdor.info/about-2/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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|Gender Expansive Parents' Day
|6th December
|Official holiday in North Carolina, USA<ref name="news_Aday">{{Cite web |title=A day to celebrate all parents, including LGBTQ parents, in NC |last=Vaughan |first=Dawn Baumgartner |work=The News & Observer |date=4 December 2020 |access-date=4 January 2021 |url= https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article247605375.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115202935/https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article247605375.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
|Formally created in 2020
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|[[Demigender]]s Awareness and Pride Day
|15th December
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|Created in 2021 by bluebolt712 to raise awareness about demigenders.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CXgI9g6umH1/ |author=Bluebolt712 |date= 15 December 2021|access-date=15 December 2021 |title=(Post 1/4) Today is Demigenders Awareness and Pride Day. This is a day I created because I noticed the sharp increase in the number of people claiming these labels as their own in the past few years. Yet, the awareness of demigenders remains quite low.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607220235/https://www.instagram.com/p/CXgI9g6umH1/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Demigenders Resources |author=Bluebolt712 |work=Bluebolt712's LGBT+ Resources |date= |access-date=15 December 2021 |url= https://bluebolt712.wordpress.com/demigenders-resources/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607194426/https://bluebolt712.wordpress.com/demigenders-resources/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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|[[IAmNonbinary]]
|date varies each year
|International
|Observed by using the #IAmNonbinary hashtag on social media.
|}

==See also==
* [[History of nonbinary gender]]
* [[Gender variance in spirituality]]

== References ==
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