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'''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<ref name="bigendering">{{Cite web |title=Anonymous asked: What is the difference between ambigender and bigender? |author=bigendering |work= |date=7 March 2018 |access-date=24 May 2020 |url= https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/171646247101/what-is-the-difference-between-ambigender-and}}</ref>, ambigender also falls under the [[multigender]] umbrella term.<ref name="Jakubowski">{{Cite web |title=Too Queer for Your Binary: Everything You Need to Know and More About Non-Binary Identities |last=Jakubowski |first=Kaylee |work=Everyday Feminism |date=4 March 2014 |access-date=24 May 2020 |url= https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/03/too-queer-for-your-binary/}}</ref> | '''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<ref name="bigendering">{{Cite web |title=Anonymous asked: What is the difference between ambigender and bigender? |author=bigendering |work= |date=7 March 2018 |access-date=24 May 2020 |url= https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/171646247101/what-is-the-difference-between-ambigender-and}}</ref>, ambigender also falls under the [[multigender]] umbrella term.<ref name="Jakubowski">{{Cite web |title=Too Queer for Your Binary: Everything You Need to Know and More About Non-Binary Identities |last=Jakubowski |first=Kaylee |work=Everyday Feminism |date=4 March 2014 |access-date=24 May 2020 |url= https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/03/too-queer-for-your-binary/}}</ref> | ||
Just like any other gender identity, ambigender people can use any set of [[pronouns]] they like, or even use multiple sets of pronouns. | Just like any other gender identity, ambigender people can use any set of [[pronouns]] they like, or even use multiple sets of pronouns. | ||
In the 2020 [[Gender Census]], 4 respondents were ambigender.<ref name="GC2020">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j7mwkZVtQYHxNlgS2J8onVCpVz-l1aJbBzG7msN5rxs/edit#gid=260963482 GC2020 Public Copy], 1 November 2020</ref> | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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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> | 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> | ||