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{{uncommon identity}} | |||
{{infobox identity | |||
| related = [[Bigender]], [[Boi]], [[Gender nonconforming]], [[Butch]], and [[Androgyne]] | |||
| frequency = <0.1% | |||
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'''Birl''' is an identity often considered as a nonbinary gender.<ref>{{cite web|last=Davidson|first=Skylar|date=February 2016|title=Gender Inequality: Nonbinary Transgender People in the Workplace|url =https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1331&context=masters_theses_2}}</ref><ref name="Solovitch">{{Cite web |title=Medical field plays catch-up with trans kids |last=Solovitch |first=Sara |work=Chicago Tribune |date=23 January 2018 |access-date=26 June 2020 |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-medical-field-trans-kids-20180123-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102221029/https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-medical-field-trans-kids-20180123-story.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> The word is made by mixing the words "boy" and "girl". | |||
The term has multiple and overlapping definitions: | |||
* "a girl and a boy [...] a girl-boy."<ref name="Schneider">Schneider, Sandra B. "Producing Homeplace: Strategic Sites and Liminoid Spaces for Gender-Diverse Children". In ''Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices'', 2013, edited by F. J. Green. ISBN 9781927335567.</ref> | |||
* "boyish girls [...] who enjoy riding the gender wave and don’t let their gender dictate how to look and act. Birls include the range from [[heterosexual|hetero]] [[tomboy]]s to [[trans men|FTMs]] and everyone in between." Also includes [[drag]] kings.<ref name="BirlZine!">{{Cite web |title=birlzine - Profile |author= |work=BirlZine! |date= |access-date=26 June 2020 |url= https://birlzine.livejournal.com/profile|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526204605/https://birlzine.livejournal.com/profile|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
* "[[androgynous]]/boyish/[[masculine]] females and those who don't let the stereotypes surrounding their [[sex]] define who they are. Whether you're a [[tomboy]] or a [[butch]] [[dyke]], a [[boi]], [[genderqueer]], or an [[androgyne]], [[trans men|FTM]] or [[transgender]]ed, or simply refuse to put a label on your [[identity]]".<ref name="Birls">{{Cite web |title=birls - Profile |author= |work=Birls LJ community |date= |access-date=26 June 2020 |url= https://birls.livejournal.com/profile|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807201649/https://birls.livejournal.com/profile|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
In the 2018 [[Gender Census]], one respondent identified themself as a birl.<ref name="Gender Census 2018">{{Cite web |title=Gender Census 2018 Identity words (public) |author= |work=Google Docs |date=21 June 2018 |access-date=26 July 2020 |url= https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12cN-ooc5EuLIaqbmfqbjZffYldTzWRAHc-qZaRJ2xsQ/edit#gid=1402706910|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521064702/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12cN-ooc5EuLIaqbmfqbjZffYldTzWRAHc-qZaRJ2xsQ/edit |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> There was also one birl among the respondents of the 2019 Gender Census. | |||
==Further reading== | |||
*The 2007 book ''Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media'' (by Susan Driver) includes a chapter detailing online birl communities. | |||
==References== | |||
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[[Category: Nonbinary identities]] | |||