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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.]]
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    '''Gender spectrum''' is a term often used as a metaphor to help explain [[nonbinary]] identities.
    '''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 does not fully adequately include all genders; many nonbinary genders are not "between male and female".
    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".

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    A multi-axial gender map created in 2016 by photographer Ant Smith.

    Gender spectrum or gender continuum[1][2] 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 does not fully adequately include all genders; many nonbinary genders are not "between male and female".

    The phrase "on the gender spectrum" is sometimes used as a synonym for "nonbinary" or "gender nonconforming".[3]

    Gender Spectrum is also the name of a USA-based gender inclusion organization.

    History

    The phrase "gender spectrum" dates back at least to the 1980s. For example, in a 1985 issue of the crossdressing/transsexualism 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."[4]

    References

    1. Keig, by Zander (27 September 2012). "Gender Continuum". Campus Pride. Retrieved 8 October 2020. because now I feel able to express myself, along the gender continuum, without reservation
    2. Cabaj, Robert Paul. "Working with LGBTQ Patients". psychiatry.org. Retrieved 8 October 2020. The gender continuum breaks down into separate, but not mutually exclusive masculine and feminine continuums.
    3. "Sexuality and Gender: Locked in, and Out". Women and Prison. 2020. p. 90.
    4. "Tapestry Issue 46 (1985)." Periodical. Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/6682x4006 (accessed October 02, 2020).