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'''Polygender''', '''poly-gender''', or '''polygendered''' (from Greek ''poly'' "many" + gender)<ref>"Poly-" ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poly-</ref> is a [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] in which a person feels that they have more than one gender identity, or that they express "characteristics of multiple genders, deliberately refuting the concept of only two genders,"<ref name="FTM International">Gary Bowen. "A Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women." May 15, 1995. Retrieved November 5, 1996. http://web.archive.org/web/19961105010926/http://www.ftm-intl.org/Wrtngs/ftm-words.gary.html</ref> as it was described in 1995, so it was in use by at least that year, if not earlier.<ref name="FTM International" /> Polygender is one of [[list of nonbinary identities|the common nonbinary identities today]]. In 1998, the word polygender was used in a transgender community on the Internet called [[Sphere]] as an umbrella term for trans people whose genders were outside the binary: | |||
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'''Polygender''', '''poly-gender''', or '''polygendered''' (from Greek ''poly'' "many" + gender)<ref>"Poly-" ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poly- | |||
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== Demographics == | == Demographics == | ||
In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 7 of the respondents (0.23%) were polygender.<ref name=NBGQ2016>"NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results." ''Gender Census.'' March 19, 2016. http://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results | In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 7 of the respondents (0.23%) were polygender.<ref name=NBGQ2016>"NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results." ''Gender Census.'' March 19, 2016. http://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 24 of the respondents (0.21%) were polygender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">"Gender Census 2019 - The Worldwide tl;dr." ''Gender Census'' (blog). March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2020. https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr</ref> In the 2020 Gender Census, 48 people (0.20%) were polygender.<ref name="GC2020">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j7mwkZVtQYHxNlgS2J8onVCpVz-l1aJbBzG7msN5rxs/edit#gid=260963482 GC2020 Public Copy], 1 November 2020</ref> | ||
== See also == | == See also == |