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    == In Academia and Gender Analysis ==
    == In Academia and Gender Analysis ==
    Metagender (sometimes meta-gender or meta-gendered) has been used to describe "the academic engagement with or the theorizing of gender,"<ref>{{Cite book|title=Africa after gender?|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=2007|location=Bloomington, IN|isbn=978-0-253-34816-6|editor-first=Catherine M.|editor-last=Cole|editor-first2=Takyiwaa|editor-last2=Manuh|editor-first3=Stephan|editor-last3=Miescher}}</ref> and dynamics that "impact men and women and those who don’t identify in the binary, without particular discrimination."<ref>{{Cite book|title=How not to be a hot mess: a semi-Buddhist guide for surviving modern life|url=https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=BFBB0679-884D-4AB3-9A4B-8E9F89EA5615|date=2020|isbn=978-0-8348-4269-4|oclc=1151626639|language=English|first=Craig|last=Hase|first2=Devon|last2=Hase}}</ref>
    Metagender(ed) (sometimes meta-gender(ed)) has been used to describe "the academic engagement with or the theorizing of gender,"<ref>{{Cite book|title=Africa after gender?|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=2007|location=Bloomington, IN|isbn=978-0-253-34816-6|editor-first=Catherine M.|editor-last=Cole|editor-first2=Takyiwaa|editor-last2=Manuh|editor-first3=Stephan|editor-last3=Miescher}}</ref> and dynamics that "impact men and women and those who don’t identify in the binary, without particular discrimination."<ref>{{Cite book|title=How not to be a hot mess: a semi-Buddhist guide for surviving modern life|url=https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=BFBB0679-884D-4AB3-9A4B-8E9F89EA5615|date=2020|isbn=978-0-8348-4269-4|oclc=1151626639|language=English|first=Craig|last=Hase|first2=Devon|last2=Hase}}</ref>


    ==References==
    ==References==

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    Metagender is a term that has been coined multiple times with varying definitions, including as multiple nonbinary gender identities, a sexual orientation, a gender modality, and a description for gender-nonconforming behavior. Different definitions have been used for LGBTQ+ self-identifiers and in academic settings.

    History

    In a 1999 interview, musician/poet/filmmaker Phoebe Legere said that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."[1]

    The term was coined again in the 2000s by Rook Thomas Hine.[2] This coining's definition is given as "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither neuter nor feminine nor masculine. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or androgyne, and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."[3] The metagender identity was further developed as "a social gender that comes into play in a spiritual and religious context" inside a neopagan context.[4]

    Maxfield Sparrow, who came out as metagender in 1992,[5][6] wrote in 2018 that metagender "expresses feeling outside the entire paradigm of gender."[7]

    In June 2014 "metagender" was suggested as an alternative word for pangender.[8]

    "Metagender" was independently coined again in 2014 by Tumblr users keyblademastercecilpalmer, agenderchrismclean, and lordmoriarty by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog, and the definition was: "To identify around or beyond a gender. Where your gender identity is almost that gender, but not quite, and also extends beyond that. Imagine that —- is you, and | is the gender identity (and identifying fully with a gender is —-|), then metagender is —- | —-" For example, meta-boy, meta-girl, meta-nonbinary, and so on.[9]

    In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent called themselves metagender.[10] In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents called themselves metagender.[11]

    In Academia and Gender Analysis

    Metagender(ed) (sometimes meta-gender(ed)) has been used to describe "the academic engagement with or the theorizing of gender,"[12] and dynamics that "impact men and women and those who don’t identify in the binary, without particular discrimination."[13]

    References

    1. "Mighty Aphrodite". Femme Fatales. 8 (4): 40-41. September 10, 1999.
    2. Bernhardt-House, Phillip. "Metagender". Archived from the original on 5 August 2004.
    3. Bernhardt-House, Phillip (2003). "So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender". Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity. Jossey-Bass. p. 76. Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (help)
    4. "Metagender". P. SUFENAS VIRIUS LUPUS. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
    5. Sparrow, Maxfield (2019-09-27). "r/FTMOver30 - Comment by u/MaxfieldSparrow on "Tell me about your "non-binary transition"?"". reddit. Retrieved 2020-12-24. Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
    6. Sparrow, Maxfield (2020-12-12). "Maxfield Sparrow on Twitter". twitter. Retrieved 2020-12-24. Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
    7. Sparrow, Maxfield (2018). Brown, Michael Eric (ed.). Challenging genders: non-binary experiences of those assigned female at birth. Miami, AZ: Boundless Endeavors, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9968309-6-6.
    8. "Pangender Without the 'Pan'". 23 June 2014.
    9. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender [Dead link]
    10. "Gender Census 2019: Worldwide Summary". Gender Census. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
    11. "Gender Census 2020: Worldwide Summary". Gender Census. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-12-24. "metagender: 2; metagender!: 1; meta-girl: 1"
    12. Cole, Catherine M.; Manuh, Takyiwaa; Miescher, Stephan, eds. (2007). Africa after gender?. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34816-6.
    13. Hase, Craig; Hase, Devon (2020). How not to be a hot mess: a semi-Buddhist guide for surviving modern life. ISBN 978-0-8348-4269-4. OCLC 1151626639.