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[[File:X-gender.png|thumb|A proposed X-gender pride flag, created in 2016 by a tumblr user under the pseudonym "xgen".<ref>https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/154655970879/image-white-background-with-a-large-x-over-it, 19 December 2016 | [[File:X-gender.png|thumb|A proposed X-gender pride flag, created in 2016 by a tumblr user under the pseudonym "xgen".<ref>https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/154655970879/image-white-background-with-a-large-x-over-it, 19 December 2016</ref> The design arranges the colors of the nonbinary flag into an X shape.]] | ||
'''X-gender''' (Xジェンダー ''x-jendā'', or エックスジェンダー ''ekkusu-jendā'') is a common [[transgender]] identity that isn't [[female]] or [[male]].<ref name="RoxieSelected">Marilyn Roxie. "Selected links on nonbinary gender in Japan." March 28, 2013. [http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan] | '''X-gender''' (Xジェンダー ''x-jendā'', or エックスジェンダー ''ekkusu-jendā'') is a common [[transgender]] identity that isn't [[female]] or [[male]].<ref name="RoxieSelected">Marilyn Roxie. "Selected links on nonbinary gender in Japan." March 28, 2013. [http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan]</ref> The word X-gender is used in Japan in the same way that [[genderqueer]] and [[nonbinary]] are used in English. According to a 2019 online survey conducted by the Japan LGBT Research Institute, 8,700 out of of 348,000 respondents aged 20 to 69 identified themselves as X-gender.<ref>"Most people in Japan know LGBT but understanding limited." ''Kyodo News.'' December 11, 2019. Accessed July 5, 2020. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/12/bf50b5f548d5-most-people-in-japan-know-lgbt-but-understanding-limited.html </ref> | ||
==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
The term "X-gender" began to be used in the queer communities of Kansai, in Osaka and Kyoto, during the latter half of the 1990s, when it appeared in writings published by queer organizations in those regions.<ref>http://rainbowaction.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.html | The term "X-gender" began to be used in the queer communities of Kansai, in Osaka and Kyoto, during the latter half of the 1990s, when it appeared in writings published by queer organizations in those regions.<ref>http://rainbowaction.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.html</ref><ref name="Dale">S.P.F. Dale. "An Introduction to X-Jendā: | ||
Examining a New Gender Identity in Japan." ''Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific'' Issue 31, December 2012. http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dale.htm | Examining a New Gender Identity in Japan." ''Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific'' Issue 31, December 2012. http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dale.htm</ref> Later Chinese queer community borrowed the terms "FtX" and "MtX". | ||
There is a widespread practice of [[Binary genders#Transgender women|trans women]] and people on the trans-feminine spectrum abbreviating their transition direction, "male-to-female", as "MtF". Meanwhile, [[Binary genders#Transgender men|trans men]] and people on the trans-masculine spectrum abbreviating "female-to-male" as "FtM". Following this, trans people who don't identify as male or female substitute an X for their transition direction. X-gender and other nonbinary people have described their transition direction as "male-to-X" as "MtX", and "female-to-X". The term "XtX" is also used by people who were born with an [[intersex]] condition and have a gender identity that is neither male nor female.<ref> http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dale.htm#n12 | There is a widespread practice of [[Binary genders#Transgender women|trans women]] and people on the trans-feminine spectrum abbreviating their transition direction, "male-to-female", as "MtF". Meanwhile, [[Binary genders#Transgender men|trans men]] and people on the trans-masculine spectrum abbreviating "female-to-male" as "FtM". Following this, trans people who don't identify as male or female substitute an X for their transition direction. X-gender and other nonbinary people have described their transition direction as "male-to-X" as "MtX", and "female-to-X". The term "XtX" is also used by people who were born with an [[intersex]] condition and have a gender identity that is neither male nor female.<ref> http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dale.htm#n12</ref> | ||
==Characteristics== | ==Characteristics== | ||
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X-gender is a gender identity, not a [[romantic orientation|romantic]] or [[sexual orientation|sexual]] orientation. X-gender people may feel attraction to men, women, both, and/or other X-gender people, or they may be [[asexual]] (feeling no sexual attraction to anybody). | X-gender is a gender identity, not a [[romantic orientation|romantic]] or [[sexual orientation|sexual]] orientation. X-gender people may feel attraction to men, women, both, and/or other X-gender people, or they may be [[asexual]] (feeling no sexual attraction to anybody). | ||
Sonja Dale, a researcher of gender issues at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University, says that X-gender people often suffer from discrimination, abuse, and pressure to conform to gender norms.<ref name="miyuki">Tokoi Miyuki and Mochizuki Mami. "Pushing for 'X-gender' recognition." June 11, 2019. Accessed October 5, 2020. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/576/ | Sonja Dale, a researcher of gender issues at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University, says that X-gender people often suffer from discrimination, abuse, and pressure to conform to gender norms.<ref name="miyuki">Tokoi Miyuki and Mochizuki Mami. "Pushing for 'X-gender' recognition." June 11, 2019. Accessed October 5, 2020. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/576/</ref> This makes them "almost twice as likely to suffer from depression or anxiety disorders as those who identify as male or female," according to a survey conducted by Tokyo's International Christian University.<ref name="miyuki" /> | ||
==Online communities== | ==Online communities== | ||
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* [[M A Joy]] is a manga artist and illustrator working in Tokyo. [https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/14/then-i-saw-rupauls-drag-race-coming-out-as-x-gender-in-tokyo-a-manga They made this comic about how they realized they were x-gender]. | * [[M A Joy]] is a manga artist and illustrator working in Tokyo. [https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/14/then-i-saw-rupauls-drag-race-coming-out-as-x-gender-in-tokyo-a-manga They made this comic about how they realized they were x-gender]. | ||
* [[Yuhki Kamatani]] (鎌谷 悠希) (b. 1983) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, best known for their first serialized series ''Nabari no Ou'', published by Square Enix.<ref>https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4757515626 リベラメンテ―鎌谷悠希短編集 | * [[Yuhki Kamatani]] (鎌谷 悠希) (b. 1983) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, best known for their first serialized series ''Nabari no Ou'', published by Square Enix.<ref>https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4757515626 リベラメンテ―鎌谷悠希短編集</ref> Having come out in a 2012 tweet,<ref>{{cite tweet|number=199640030942208000|user=yuhkikamatani|title=隠すことでもわざわざ言うことでもカテゴライズするようなことでもないと分かっているけど、無難に生きようと、へらへら誤魔化している自分に対して無性に腹立たしく思う時があります。誤魔化したくない。私はXジェンダーでアセクシャルなセクシュアルマイノリティです。そんな程度の人間です。|date=May 7, 2012}}</ref> Kamatani identifies as X-gender and asexual. In their Twitter profile,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/yuhkikamatani/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308012056/https://twitter.com/yuhkikamatani/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 8, 2016|title=鎌谷悠希 (@yuhkikamatani) {{!}} Twitter|date=March 8, 2016|accessdate=May 1, 2018}}</ref> Kamatani notes their gender as "toX"—following the tradition of transgender individuals identifying as FTM or MTF—which conceals their assigned at birth gender. | ||
* [[Morita Shinichi]] is one of the founding members of an LGBT rights group in the 1990s called G-Front. Morita describes themself as ''jenda-furi'' ([[genderfree]]), x-gender, and "MTFTX gay." Morita said, "there exists no word for transsexual or transgendered individuals who do not clearly aim to be distinctly male or female. As such, I just use the term 'x-jendā' to talk about my way of being."<ref name="Dale" /> | * [[Morita Shinichi]] is one of the founding members of an LGBT rights group in the 1990s called G-Front. Morita describes themself as ''jenda-furi'' ([[genderfree]]), x-gender, and "MTFTX gay." Morita said, "there exists no word for transsexual or transgendered individuals who do not clearly aim to be distinctly male or female. As such, I just use the term 'x-jendā' to talk about my way of being."<ref name="Dale" /> | ||
* [[Wikipedia:Yuu Watase|Yuu Watase]] (渡瀬 悠宇) (b. 1970) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist, known for creating comics such as ''Fushigi Yūgi''. Watase received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for ''Ceres, Celestial Legend'' in 1997. In May 2019, Watase came out as x-gender.<ref>https://twitter.com/wataseyuu_/status/1130461270358908928 ブログでもここでも呟いたけど、再度。 漫画にも影響してると思うから。 私はXジェンダーと医師に診断されてて、中身は、男にも女にも寄れるし男でも女でもない。 見た目はちゃんと(20代後半から社会に合わせて)どうせやるならやるでメイクもオシャレもする、それだけ。 女性の身体は否定しないが→ I blogged here and again, but again. I think it also affects manga. I have been diagnosed by X-gender and a doctor, and the contents are neither men nor women, nor men or women. It looks just fine (according to society from the late 20s), and if you do it, you can make and be fashionable. I do not deny the female body カンガタリ:リマスター｣⑪発売中 渡瀬悠宇:新刊｢アラタ date 2019-05-20 @wataseyuu_ access-date=2019-08-16 | * [[Wikipedia:Yuu Watase|Yuu Watase]] (渡瀬 悠宇) (b. 1970) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist, known for creating comics such as ''Fushigi Yūgi''. Watase received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for ''Ceres, Celestial Legend'' in 1997. In May 2019, Watase came out as x-gender.<ref>https://twitter.com/wataseyuu_/status/1130461270358908928 ブログでもここでも呟いたけど、再度。 漫画にも影響してると思うから。 私はXジェンダーと医師に診断されてて、中身は、男にも女にも寄れるし男でも女でもない。 見た目はちゃんと(20代後半から社会に合わせて)どうせやるならやるでメイクもオシャレもする、それだけ。 女性の身体は否定しないが→ I blogged here and again, but again. I think it also affects manga. I have been diagnosed by X-gender and a doctor, and the contents are neither men nor women, nor men or women. It looks just fine (according to society from the late 20s), and if you do it, you can make and be fashionable. I do not deny the female body カンガタリ:リマスター｣⑪発売中 渡瀬悠宇:新刊｢アラタ date 2019-05-20 @wataseyuu_ access-date=2019-08-16</ref> | ||
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