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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}}</ref> The word is made by mixing the words "boy" and "girl".
    {{infobox identity
    | related = [[Bigender]], [[Boi]], [[Gender nonconforming]], [[Butch]], and [[Androgyne]]
    | frequency = <0.1%
    }}
    '''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:
    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>
    * "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}}</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}}</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}}</ref> There was also one birl among the respondents of the 2019 Gender Census.
    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==
    ==Further reading==

    Latest revision as of 09:47, 17 July 2023

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    Birl
    Related identities Bigender, Boi, Gender nonconforming, Butch, and Androgyne
    Frequency <0.1%

    Birl is an identity often considered as a nonbinary gender.[1][2] The word is made by mixing the words "boy" and "girl".

    The term has multiple and overlapping definitions:

    In the 2018 Gender Census, one respondent identified themself as a birl.[6] There was also one birl among the respondents of the 2019 Gender Census.

    Further reading[edit | edit source]

    • The 2007 book Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media (by Susan Driver) includes a chapter detailing online birl communities.

    References[edit | edit source]

    1. Davidson, Skylar (February 2016). "Gender Inequality: Nonbinary Transgender People in the Workplace".
    2. Solovitch, Sara (23 January 2018). "Medical field plays catch-up with trans kids". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
    3. 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.
    4. "birlzine - Profile". BirlZine!. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
    5. "birls - Profile". Birls LJ community. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
    6. "Gender Census 2018 Identity words (public)". Google Docs. 21 June 2018. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2020.