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    | name = Cogender
    | flag = Cogender-Cofluid flag concept.png
    | related = [[Bigender]], [[Multigender]]
    | related = [[Bigender]] and [[Multigender]]
    | umbrella = [[Multigender]]
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    Cogender is an inclusive [[gender identity]] that is the union of two or more gender identities. A cogender person is okay being identified as any of the genders included in their identity. You can be cogender and not know it at first if your gender happens to include the [[Assigned Sex|gender you were assigned at birth]]. The difference between a cogender person whose gender happens to include the gender they were assigned at birth and a [[cisgender]] person is that the cogender would okay with being identified as another gender.
    '''Cogender''', or '''co-gender''' (from Latin ''co'' ("with, together") + ''gender'') is a word that has been used with a few different meanings. It has been coined independently at different times. Cogender can mean:
    * Cogender as a term for gender inclusion: Inclusion of people of different genders in a community, as opposed to a men-only or women-only community. This is the most common way this word is used. When used in print, it's usually in reference to a co-gender school (also called co-education)<ref>For example, "Single-gender classrooms are better for middle school students than co-gender classrooms." Katie Rogers, Julia A. Simms. <nowiki>''</nowiki>Teaching Argumentation: Activities and games for the classroom.<nowiki>''</nowiki> Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research Laboratory, 2015. Unpaged.</ref> or to a co-gender [[LGBT]] activist group (as opposed to a lesbian-only activist group).<ref>For example, "Lesbians ... joined the new direct-action groups ... despite their overwhelmingly male membership. One of the bases for the new cogender identity was the commonality of concerns between lesbians and gay men and the power of cogender organizing. New theorizing about the movement began to assume the participation of both lesbians and gay men, and agendas no longer focused on the specific needs and concerns of lesbians alone." Moira Kenney, <nowiki>''</nowiki>Mapping Gay L.A.: The Intersection of Place and Politics.<nowiki>''</nowiki> Page 140. <nowiki>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jClBq04FbDoC&lpg=PA140&dq=%22cogender%22&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q=%22cogender%22&f=false]</nowiki></ref><ref>For example, "[Latino Gay Men of New York] was organized by Latino men who believed that cogender Latino queer organizations could not be sustained because of the differences between queer men and women." Andrés Torres and José Emiliano Velázquez. <nowiki>''</nowiki>The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora.<nowiki>''</nowiki> Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. Page 307.</ref>
    * [[#use in anthropology|Cogender as an umbrella term in anthropology]]: a term that some anthropologists as a synonym for [[third gender]], that is to say, as an umbrella term for [[Gender-variant identities worldwide|gender variant and LGBT roles and identities in various cultures]].
    * [[#Cogender as a gender identity|Cogender as a gender identity]]: a specific type of nonbinary identity.<ref>This disambiguation is derived from that on the Gender Wiki, retrieved March 23, 2019. http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Cogender</ref>


    One format of expressing this identify is ''X coY'' where X and Y are genders. Example: ''girl coboy''.
    The latter two meanings are explored further below.


    A cogender person may want parts they don't have that are associated with their cogenders, but they don't need them. This doesn't mean they don't experience dysphoria, just that they are fine with the parts included in their gender identity. Example: an&nbsp;agender cogirl person assigned male at birth may feel dysphoria over their genitals (and the reactions thereof) and may want breasts but doesn't need breasts.
    ==In anthropology==
    ==Cofluid==
     
    Some anthropologists use cogender as a synonym for third gender, that is to say, as an umbrella term for gender variant and LGBT roles and identities in various cultures. Some examples of how anthropologists have used the word "co-gender:"
     
    * When anthropologists write about shamanic traditions among the indigenous Mapuche (Araucana) people of Chile, they use co-gender to talk about roles that the ''machi'' (shamans) take on during their spiritual practice. Historically, as well as today, machi can have had any gender assigned at birth, and their practice involves ritual cross-dressing in order to communicate with certain aspects of their Creator as needed. At different times, they dress to take on a wife role for a male aspect of that deity, or to take on a husband aspect for a female aspect of that deity. The machi becomes part of a male-female pair with the Creator.<ref>Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, ''Shamans of the Foye Tree.'' University of Texas Press. 2007.</ref> As concerning "co-gendered identities"<ref>Bacigalupo, 2007. pp. 131-133</ref> of "''machi'' as co-gender specialists",<ref>http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exbacsha.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20230624060703/https://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exbacsha.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>, the machi themselves have often been categorized as ''[[Two-Spirit]],'' meaning indigenous gender roles that don't correspond to Western ideas of the strictly cisgender, heterosexual [[gender binary]].
    * Anthropologists writing about cosmologies in which everything is characterized as having female and male aspects have referred to this as a co-gendered cosmos. Based on the primordial male-female deity couple, "in highland Guatemala, husbands and wives are trained together as shamans by a shaman couple. [They are taught to] recognize both cosmic co-gendering and their own co-gendered nature [...] they learn how to properly balance the feminine and masculine dimensions both within their own bodies and the cosmos."<ref>Mariko Namba Walter and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman. ''Shamanism : an Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture.'' Santa Barbara, California. 2004. Page 134.</ref><ref>This summary is derived that on the Gender Wiki, retrieved March 23, 2019. http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Cogender_(Anthropology)</ref>
     
    In this capacity, it's far less common for anthropologists to use the term "cogender" than "third gender."
     
    ==Cogender as a gender identity==
     
    A post from August 25th, 2016 titled "[https://cogender.tumblr.com/post/149490281241/introducing-cogender Introducing Cogender]" on the "[http://cogender.tumblr.com Ask A Cogender]" blog independently coined another idea of cogender: