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'''Polygender''', '''poly-gender''', or '''polygendered''' (from Greek ''poly'' "many" + gender)<ref>"Poly-" ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poly- [https://web.archive.org/web/20230330215225/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poly- Archived] on 17 July 2023</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. https://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''', '''poly-gender''', or '''polygendered''' (from Greek ''poly'' "many" + gender)<ref>"Poly-" ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poly- [https://web.archive.org/web/20230330215225/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poly- Archived] on 17 July 2023</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. https://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" /> | ||
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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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As of 2025, the Livejournal community had 115 members; the last post was in 2011.<ref name=":0" /> | As of 2025, the Livejournal community had 115 members; the last post was in 2011.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
An analysis of journal entries and comments from the genderqueer Livejournal community, conducted by linguists Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth, found that "polygender" was the least common term for a person outside the binary in the dataset. The term only appeared in the first few years of data.<ref>Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "How we got here: Short-scale change in identity labels for trans, cis, and non-binary people in the 2000s". 2020. Proc Ling Soc Amer 5(1). 499–513. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4728</nowiki></ref> | An analysis of journal entries and comments from the genderqueer Livejournal community, conducted by linguists Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth, found that "polygender" was the least common term for a person outside the binary in the dataset (which included content from 2001-2008). The term only appeared in the first few years of data.<ref name=":1">Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "How we got here: Short-scale change in identity labels for trans, cis, and non-binary people in the 2000s". 2020. Proc Ling Soc Amer 5(1). 499–513. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4728</nowiki></ref> The researchers observed a similar pattern for uses of "polygender" in their dataset from the ftm Livejournal community (which had many members whose genders fell outside the binary).<ref name=":1" /> | ||
== Demographics == | == Demographics == | ||