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    '''Metagender''' is a term that has been coined multiple times with varying definitions, including as multiple [[nonbinary]] [[Gender identity|gender identities]], a [[Romantic and sexual orientation|sexual orientation]], a [[Gender Modality|gender modality]], and a description for [[Gender nonconformity|gender-nonconforming behavior]]. Different definitions have been used as a self-identifier or in academic settings.  
    '''Metagender''' is a term that has been coined multiple times with varying definitions, including as multiple [[nonbinary]] [[Gender identity|gender identities]], a [[Romantic and sexual orientation|sexual orientation]], a [[Gender Modality|gender modality]], and a description for [[Gender nonconformity|gender-nonconforming behavior]]. Different definitions have been used for LGBTQ+ self-identifiers and in academic settings.  


    ==History==
    ==History==


    In a 1999 interview, musician/poet/filmmaker [[Phoebe Legere]] said that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/Femme_Fatales_v08n04/page/n39/mode/2up| p=40-41|journal=Femme Fatales|volume=8|number=4|date=September 10, 1999| title=Mighty Aphrodite}}</ref>
    In a 1999 interview, musician/poet/filmmaker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Legere Phoebe Legere] said that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/Femme_Fatales_v08n04/page/n39/mode/2up| p=40-41|journal=Femme Fatales|volume=8|number=4|date=September 10, 1999| title=Mighty Aphrodite}}</ref>


    The term was coined again in the 2000s by Rook Thomas Hine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805111854/http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-date=5 August 2004|title=Metagender|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip}}</ref> This coining's definition is given as "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither [[neuter]] nor [[feminine]] nor [[masculine]]. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or [[androgyne]], and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."<ref>{{cite book|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip|chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|editors=O'Keefe, Tracie & Fox, Katrina |publisher=Jossey-Bass|title=Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity|year=2003|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/findingrealmetru00trac/page/76/mode/2up}}</ref> The metagender identity was further developed as "a social gender that comes into play in a spiritual and religious context" inside a neopagan context.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psufenasviriuslupus.wordpress.com/home/metagender/|title=Metagender|date=2016-12-14|website=P. SUFENAS VIRIUS LUPUS|language=en|access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref>  
    The term was coined again in the 2000s by Rook Thomas Hine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805111854/http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-date=5 August 2004|title=Metagender|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip}}</ref> This coining's definition is given as "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither [[neuter]] nor [[feminine]] nor [[masculine]]. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or [[androgyne]], and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."<ref>{{cite book|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip|chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|editors=O'Keefe, Tracie & Fox, Katrina |publisher=Jossey-Bass|title=Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity|year=2003|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/findingrealmetru00trac/page/76/mode/2up}}</ref> The metagender identity was further developed as "a social gender that comes into play in a spiritual and religious context" inside a neopagan context.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psufenasviriuslupus.wordpress.com/home/metagender/|title=Metagender|date=2016-12-14|website=P. SUFENAS VIRIUS LUPUS|language=en|access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref>  


    Maxfield Sparrow wrote in 2018 that metagender "expresses feeling outside the entire paradigm of gender."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Challenging genders: non-binary experiences of those assigned female at birth|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|date=2018|publisher=Boundless Endeavors, Inc|year=|isbn=978-0-9968309-6-6|editor-last=Brown|editor-first=Michael Eric|location=Miami, AZ|pages=}}</ref> Sparrow has claimed on social media to be out as metagender since 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/FTMOver30/comments/d98wwv/tell_me_about_your_nonbinary_transition/f1nlfli|title=r/FTMOver30 - Comment by u/MaxfieldSparrow on ”Tell me about your "non-binary transition"?”|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|date=2019-09-27|website=reddit|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Maxfield Sparrow on Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/UnstrangeMind/status/1337887769511612417|website=twitter|access-date=2020-12-24|language=en-US|date=2020-12-12|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>
    Maxfield Sparrow, who came out as metagender in 1992,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/FTMOver30/comments/d98wwv/tell_me_about_your_nonbinary_transition/f1nlfli|title=r/FTMOver30 - Comment by u/MaxfieldSparrow on ”Tell me about your "non-binary transition"?”|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|date=2019-09-27|website=reddit|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Maxfield Sparrow on Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/UnstrangeMind/status/1337887769511612417|website=twitter|access-date=2020-12-24|language=en-US|date=2020-12-12|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref> wrote in 2018 that metagender "expresses feeling outside the entire paradigm of gender."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Challenging genders: non-binary experiences of those assigned female at birth|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|date=2018|publisher=Boundless Endeavors, Inc|year=|isbn=978-0-9968309-6-6|editor-last=Brown|editor-first=Michael Eric|location=Miami, AZ|pages=}}</ref>


    In June 2014 "metagender" was suggested as an alternative word for [[pangender]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Pangender Without the 'Pan'|date=23 June 2014|url=https://collectivetey.tumblr.com/post/89664280616/pangender-without-the-pan}}</ref>
    In June 2014 "metagender" was suggested as an alternative word for [[pangender]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Pangender Without the 'Pan'|date=23 June 2014|url=https://collectivetey.tumblr.com/post/89664280616/pangender-without-the-pan}}</ref>

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    Metagender is a term that has been coined multiple times with varying definitions, including as multiple nonbinary gender identities, a sexual orientation, a gender modality, and a description for gender-nonconforming behavior. Different definitions have been used for LGBTQ+ self-identifiers and in academic settings.

    History

    In a 1999 interview, musician/poet/filmmaker Phoebe Legere said that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."[1]

    The term was coined again in the 2000s by Rook Thomas Hine.[2] This coining's definition is given as "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither neuter nor feminine nor masculine. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or androgyne, and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."[3] The metagender identity was further developed as "a social gender that comes into play in a spiritual and religious context" inside a neopagan context.[4]

    Maxfield Sparrow, who came out as metagender in 1992,[5][6] wrote in 2018 that metagender "expresses feeling outside the entire paradigm of gender."[7]

    In June 2014 "metagender" was suggested as an alternative word for pangender.[8]

    "Metagender" was independently coined again in 2014 by Tumblr users keyblademastercecilpalmer, agenderchrismclean, and lordmoriarty by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog, and the definition was: "To identify around or beyond a gender. Where your gender identity is almost that gender, but not quite, and also extends beyond that. Imagine that —- is you, and | is the gender identity (and identifying fully with a gender is —-|), then metagender is —- | —-" For example, meta-boy, meta-girl, meta-nonbinary, and so on.[9]

    In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent called themselves metagender.[10] In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents called themselves metagender.[11]

    References

    1. ↑ "Mighty Aphrodite". Femme Fatales. 8 (4): 40-41. September 10, 1999.
    2. ↑ Bernhardt-House, Phillip. "Metagender". Archived from the original on 5 August 2004.
    3. ↑ Bernhardt-House, Phillip (2003). "So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender". Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity. Jossey-Bass. p. 76. Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (help)
    4. ↑ "Metagender". P. SUFENAS VIRIUS LUPUS. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
    5. ↑ Sparrow, Maxfield (2019-09-27). "r/FTMOver30 - Comment by u/MaxfieldSparrow on "Tell me about your "non-binary transition"?"". reddit. Retrieved 2020-12-24. Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
    6. ↑ Sparrow, Maxfield (2020-12-12). "Maxfield Sparrow on Twitter". twitter. Retrieved 2020-12-24. Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
    7. ↑ Sparrow, Maxfield (2018). Brown, Michael Eric (ed.). Challenging genders: non-binary experiences of those assigned female at birth. Miami, AZ: Boundless Endeavors, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9968309-6-6.
    8. ↑ "Pangender Without the 'Pan'". 23 June 2014.
    9. ↑ http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender [Dead link]
    10. ↑ "Gender Census 2019: Worldwide Summary". Gender Census. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
    11. ↑ "Gender Census 2020: Worldwide Summary". Gender Census. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-12-24. "metagender: 2; metagender!: 1; meta-girl: 1"
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