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    ==History==
    ==History==
    The term "ambigender" as a gender identity dates back at least to the mid-1990s; for example, it was mentioned in a list of terms in ''Cross-Talk'', a transgender community magazine.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Cogito Ergo Fem|journal=Cross-Talk: The Transgender Community News & Information Monthly |date=March 1993 |issue=41 |last=Blackwood |first=Anne |pp=4 |url=https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/gh93gz622 |quote=[[Bigender]], ambigender, [[transgender]], contragender, femmiphile, gendervert ... makes no difference what you call the greater communities so long as everyone knows what the term means.}}</ref>
    The term "ambigender" as a gender identity dates back at least to the mid-1990s; for example in 1993, it was mentioned in a list of terms in ''Cross-Talk'', a transgender community magazine.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Cogito Ergo Fem|journal=Cross-Talk: The Transgender Community News & Information Monthly |date=March 1993 |issue=41 |last=Blackwood |first=Anne |pp=4 |url=https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/gh93gz622 |quote=[[Bigender]], ambigender, [[transgender]], contragender, femmiphile, gendervert ... makes no difference what you call the greater communities so long as everyone knows what the term means.}}</ref>


    In a 2010 encyclopedia, ambigender is listed as a type of "[[androgyne]]" gender.
    In a 2010 encyclopedia, ambigender is listed as a type of "[[androgyne]]" gender.

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    Ambigender

    Ambigender is a static bigender identity in which two genders are experienced simultaneously with no fluidity or shifting. In addition to being a type of bigender identity[1], ambigender also falls under the multigender umbrella term.[2]

    History

    The term "ambigender" as a gender identity dates back at least to the mid-1990s; for example in 1993, it was mentioned in a list of terms in Cross-Talk, a transgender community magazine.[3]

    In a 2010 encyclopedia, ambigender is listed as a type of "androgyne" gender.

    « Androgyne identities include pangender, bigender, ambigender, nongendered, agender, gender fluid, or intergender.[4] »

    References

    1. bigendering (7 March 2018). "Anonymous asked: What is the difference between ambigender and bigender?". Retrieved 24 May 2020.
    2. Jakubowski, Kaylee (4 March 2014). "Too Queer for Your Binary: Everything You Need to Know and More About Non-Binary Identities". Everyday Feminism. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
    3. Blackwood, Anne (March 1993). "Cogito Ergo Fem". Cross-Talk: The Transgender Community News & Information Monthly (41): 4. Bigender, ambigender, transgender, contragender, femmiphile, gendervert ... makes no difference what you call the greater communities so long as everyone knows what the term means.
    4. Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies, page 894, SAGE Publications, 2010.