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[[File:Gender Identity Mapping by Ant Smith.jpg|thumb|450px|A multi-axial gender map created in 2016 by photographer Ant Smith.]] | [[File:Gender Identity Mapping by Ant Smith.jpg|thumb|450px|A multi-axial gender map created in 2016 by photographer Ant Smith.]] | ||
'''Gender spectrum''' or '''gender continuum'''<ref name="Keig">{{Cite web |title=Gender Continuum |last=Keig |first=by Zander |work=Campus Pride |date=27 September 2012 |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://www.campuspride.org/resources/gender-continuum/|quote=because now I feel able to express myself, along the gender continuum, without reservation | '''Gender spectrum''' or '''gender continuum'''<ref name="Keig">{{Cite web |title=Gender Continuum |last=Keig |first=by Zander |work=Campus Pride |date=27 September 2012 |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://www.campuspride.org/resources/gender-continuum/|quote=because now I feel able to express myself, along the gender continuum, without reservation}}</ref><ref name="psyc_Work">{{Cite web |title=Working with LGBTQ Patients |author=Cabaj, Robert Paul |work=psychiatry.org |date= |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/best-practice-highlights/working-with-lgbtq-patients |quote=The gender continuum breaks down into separate, but not mutually exclusive masculine and feminine continuums. }}</ref> is a term often used as a metaphor to help explain [[nonbinary]] identities. | ||
In its most simplistic form, the gender spectrum is a line going from [[male]] on one end to [[female]] on the other end. However, this | In its most simplistic form, the gender spectrum is a line going from [[male]] on one end to [[female]] on the other end. However, this does not fully adequately include all genders; many nonbinary genders are not "between male and female" (for example [[maverique]], [[agender]], or | ||
The phrase "on the gender spectrum" is sometimes used as a synonym for "nonbinary" or "[[gender nonconforming]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=Women and Prison|chapter=Sexuality and Gender: Locked in, and Out|year=2020|page=90|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Women_and_Prison/RdfsDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA90|quote=While prisoners who identify on the gender spectrum overwhelmingly say that their gender is not affirmed how they would identify, there are some that note being on the gender spectrum is easier than being transgender. | The phrase "on the gender spectrum" is sometimes used as a synonym for "nonbinary" or "[[gender nonconforming]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=Women and Prison|chapter=Sexuality and Gender: Locked in, and Out|year=2020|page=90|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Women_and_Prison/RdfsDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA90|quote=While prisoners who identify on the gender spectrum overwhelmingly say that their gender is not affirmed how they would identify, there are some that note being on the gender spectrum is easier than being transgender.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Gender Creative Child|page=106|last=Ehrensaft |first=Diane|year=2016|quote=...the jury is still out as to exactly why we are seeing this high incidence of children on the autism spectrum showing up also as children on the gender spectrum...}}</ref> | ||
[https://genderspectrum.org/ Gender Spectrum] is also the name of a USA-based gender inclusion organization. | [https://genderspectrum.org/ Gender Spectrum] is also the name of a USA-based gender inclusion organization. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The phrase "gender spectrum" dates back at least to the 1980s. For example, in a 1985 issue of the [[crossdressing]]/[[transsexual]]ism magazine "Tapestry", a listing for a therapy group is described as including "transsexuals, transvestites and persons who are trying to find themselves on the gender spectrum."<ref>"Tapestry Issue 46 (1985)." Periodical. ''Digital Transgender Archive'', https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/6682x4006 (accessed October 02, 2020).</ref> | |||
The phrase "gender spectrum" | |||
==References== | ==References== |