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 | meaning = Pink: femininity; White: all genders; Purple: combination of masculinity and femininity; Black: lack of gender; Blue: masculinity
 | related = [[Genderflux]], [[Fluidflux]], and [[Demifluid]]
-| umbrella = [[Nonbinary]]
+| umbrella = [[Nonbinary]], [[Transgender]], [[Genderqueer]]
 | frequency = 25.5%
 | gallery_link = Pride Gallery/Genderfluid, genderflux and fluidflux
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 == History == <!--T:7-->
-Kate Bornstein mentioned gender fluidity in 1994, in the book ''Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us'', "and then I found that gender can have fluidity, which is quite different from ambiguity. If ambiguity is a refusal to fall within a prescribed gender code, then fluidity is the refusal to remain one gender or another. Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change. Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender-fluid|title=gender-fluid|website=Merriam Webster|access-date=18 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508024304/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender-fluid|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
+[[Kate Bornstein]] mentioned gender fluidity in 1994, in the book ''Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us'', "and then I found that gender can have fluidity, which is quite different from ambiguity. If ambiguity is a refusal to fall within a prescribed gender code, then fluidity is the refusal to remain one gender or another. Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change. Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender-fluid|title=gender-fluid|website=Merriam Webster|access-date=18 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508024304/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender-fluid|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
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 In the 1990s and 2000s, it might have been more common for genderfluid people to call themselves [[bigender]] or [[genderqueer]]. Earlier than that, they may have called themselves [[cross-dresser]]s.
+Linguistic research by Zimman and Hayworth suggests that the term "genderfluid" appeared the discourse of gender-related [[Livejournal]] communities in the '00s. The term "genderfluid" was present in entries and comments from the "ftm" and "genderqueer" communities, though it was less common than "genderqueer" or "genderfuck".<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><ref>Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "Lexical Change as Sociopolitical Change in Trans and Cis Identity Labels: New Methods for the Corpus Analysis of Internet Data". ''Selected Papers from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 47)''. January 15 2020. <nowiki>https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/45253</nowiki></ref>
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 The earliest extant entry for "gender fluid" in the Urban Dictionary was added in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gender+fluid |title=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gender+fluid |access-date=2016-10-13 |archive-date=2016-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013063943/http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gender+fluid |url-status=live }}</ref>
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+Also in 2007, the first issue of the Masculine Femininities [[Zines|zine]] series featured some contributors who described a fluid sense of gender identity and/or expression, such as Sabri Clay Sky and Jin Haritaworn.<ref name=":0">Haritaworn, Jin. Interviewed by Misster Raju Rage in ''Masculine Femininities'', issue 1. <nowiki>https://masculinefemininities.wordpress.com/category/issue-1/</nowiki></ref>
 In 2010, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013063943/http://gender-fluid.livejournal.com/ Gender-Fluid community] was created on LiveJournal.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gender-fluid.livejournal.com/profile |title=http://gender-fluid.livejournal.com/profile |access-date=2016-10-13 |archive-date=2016-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013063943/http://gender-fluid.livejournal.com/profile |url-status=live }}</ref>
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 Some genderfluid people ask to be called by a different [[Names|name]]<ref name=":2">Kat. "Hi I'm new." ''Bigender'' (blog/forum). [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013063943/http://bigender.livejournal.com/64281.html http://bigender.livejournal.com/64281.html]</ref> and [[pronouns]] depending on what gender they feel at a certain time. For people who switch between only two genders, this can mean switching between two names. These may be feminine and masculine versions of the same name<ref>Leo/Leann. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013063943/http://bigender.livejournal.com/65263.html?thread=269551#t269551 http://bigender.livejournal.com/65263.html?thread=269551#t269551]</ref> or names that don't sound similar at all.<ref name=":3">DamianBella. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013063943/http://bigender.livejournal.com/65619.html?thread=265811#t265811 http://bigender.livejournal.com/65619.html?thread=265811#t265811]</ref> They may also take a gender-neutral name that works for them at any time, either in addition to these names, or instead of them.
+== Gender fluidity and dissociative identity disorder == <!--T:30-->
+Genderfluid people usually don't think of themselves as having alters. Most genderfluid people feel like the same person all the time, with the same likes and dislikes but a different gender.  However, some genderfluid people switch between specific personas as they change genders, and each persona has their own likes and dislikes.  This is different from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), which is a disorder characterized by dissociation and the existence of alters.  DID is frequently caused by traumatic abuse that happens early in childhood and almost always exists alongside PTSD or cPTSD.  Gender fluidity is not caused by abuse and is not more common in people with PTSD or cPTSD.
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+Multiple/plural systems where some alters have different genders from the others are not automatically genderfluid.  However, an individual alter can be genderfluid.
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-*''[https://tapastic.com/episode/212183 Tattoo'd]'' by Antonia Bea features an [[intersex]], genderfluid protagonist.
+*''[https://tapastic.com/episode/212183 Tattoo'd]{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}'' by Antonia Bea features an [[intersex]], genderfluid protagonist.
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 * Recurring character Puck/Owen Burnett in the 1994-1997 Disney show ''Gargoyles'' was confirmed to be genderfluid and [[polysexual]] by a 2014 interview with the creative team.<ref name="insider-database">{{Cite web |title=We created the first-ever searchable database of 259 LGBTQ characters in cartoons that bust the myth that kids can't handle inclusion |author= |work=insider.com |date=June 2021 |access-date=5 July 2021 |url= https://www.insider.com/lgbtq-cartoon-characters-kids-database-2021-06?page=explore-database}}</ref>
+== Research ==
+The informal [[Gender Census]] survey, which asks respondents "How do you describe your gender?" (among other questions), included a checkbox option for "fluid gender" in its first year (2013), finding that 31% of around 2000 respondents identified with the term. In 2024, 12,011 (24.07%) respondents selected "genderfluid/fluid gender". <ref>2024 Results Spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EJXhTOLDdgsv8hQcBc9gStKV-BrInUdF8ZtuObp9x38/edit?gid=779426998#gid=779426998</ref>
+== Quotes ==
+<blockquote>  I identify as a switch, or a pendulum, and my masculinity and femininity are very related. When I present masculine for a while, my femininity comes back with a vengeance (laughs). I get depressed when I feel stuck in one mode. If I present just masculine for too long, I end up feeling grey, lifeless, like all the colour has been drained from my life. You know how boys grunt and move their bodies very sparsely, their shoulders and hips. This is the most, and the longest I have stayed in predominantly masculine mode. There are times I have to remind myself that I am entitled to express myself, express femininity, to switch and change.</blockquote>- Jin Haritaworn<ref name=":0" />
+<blockquote> I never know how long it's going to be where the sort of thing changes. And sometimes it would  be, like, very, like, in the day, like, my gender changes, like, three times. And then sometimes it's, like, you know, for, like, weeks at a time, I'm, like, sort of, like, oh, this is my gender right now. </blockquote>
+- Gage Spex<ref>Spex, Gage. Interview with Aviva Silverman. NYC Trans Oral History Project. December 2, 2022. <nowiki>https://nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/gage-spex/</nowiki></ref>
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