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    A 2010 post by Stana of Femulate praised Genderfork as "provid[ing] an outlet for the young gender variant crowd".<ref>Stana. "genderfork and the boy-chick". Femulate. January 18, 2010. <nowiki>http://www.femulate.org/2010/01/genderfork-and-boy-chick.html</nowiki></ref>  
    A 2010 post by Stana of Femulate praised Genderfork as "provid[ing] an outlet for the young gender variant crowd".<ref>Stana. "genderfork and the boy-chick". Femulate. January 18, 2010. <nowiki>http://www.femulate.org/2010/01/genderfork-and-boy-chick.html</nowiki></ref>  


    Creator Sarah Dopp received comments from Genderfork users who said that the site helped them feel it was okay to be non-binary and taught them about how others related to and described their genders.<ref>Dopp, Sarah. "The Genderfork Effect". Dopp Juice Archive. March 31 2010. https://sarahdopp.com/blog/2010/the-genderfork-effect/</ref> One user credited profiles on Genderfork with teaching them vocab like [[neutrois]] and "[[Agender|agendered]]" [sic]. <ref>Anonymous. Comment on "Rally Up! Tell me your fave Genderfork posts!". Genderfork. April 25th, 2010.https://web.archive.org/web/20210119082500/http://genderfork.com/2010/rally-up-tell-me-your-fave-genderfork-posts/#comment-8810</ref>
    Creator Sarah Dopp received comments from Genderfork users who said that the site helped them feel it was okay to be non-binary and taught them about how others related to and described their genders.<ref>Dopp, Sarah. "The Genderfork Effect". Dopp Juice Archive. March 31 2010. https://sarahdopp.com/blog/2010/the-genderfork-effect/</ref> One user credited profiles on Genderfork with teaching them vocab like [[neutrois]] and "[[Agender|agendered]]" [sic]. <ref>Anonymous. Comment on "Rally Up! Tell me your fave Genderfork posts!". Genderfork. April 25th, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119082500/http://genderfork.com/2010/rally-up-tell-me-your-fave-genderfork-posts/#comment-8810</ref>


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    White text on olive background readsː "Genderforkː Beauty in ambiguity".
    Genderfork's header.
    Person with a short pink undercut in a crowd holding a sign that says "binaries are for computers". The colors of the letters come from the trans, genderqueer, and rainbow pride flags (e.g. "binaries" is in alternating pink and blue).
    Picture posted to Genderfork in October 2014 of an anti-gender binary sign.

    Genderfork was a blog/online community started by Sarah Dopp in 2007 that remained active until 2018.[1] It is described as "a supportive community for the expression of identities across the gender spectrum".[2] Originally,

    Content for the blog is mainly contributed by users, who "may submit their thoughts about gender, questions, a personal profile, a picture, a video, a web link or recommendations for a book, film or work of art."[3] It is also possible to leave comments on individual posts.[3]

    As of 2025, Genderfork is no longer online, but exists in an archived form.[1]

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    Genderfork became wildly successful, getting 540,362 visits from 180 countries during the year 2010.[3]

    A 2010 post by Stana of Femulate praised Genderfork as "provid[ing] an outlet for the young gender variant crowd".[4]

    Creator Sarah Dopp received comments from Genderfork users who said that the site helped them feel it was okay to be non-binary and taught them about how others related to and described their genders.[5] One user credited profiles on Genderfork with teaching them vocab like neutrois and "agendered" [sic]. [6]

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    1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 The Genderfork Archives. Accessed March 2 2025.
    2. "Frequently Asked Questions about Genderfork". Genderfork. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
    3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 3.2 Pearce, Ruth (2012). "Inadvertent Praxis: What Can "Genderfork" Tell Us about Trans Feminism?". MP: An Online Feminist Journal. 3 (4). https://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/MP0304_06Genderfork.pdf
    4. Stana. "genderfork and the boy-chick". Femulate. January 18, 2010. http://www.femulate.org/2010/01/genderfork-and-boy-chick.html
    5. Dopp, Sarah. "The Genderfork Effect". Dopp Juice Archive. March 31 2010. https://sarahdopp.com/blog/2010/the-genderfork-effect/
    6. Anonymous. Comment on "Rally Up! Tell me your fave Genderfork posts!". Genderfork. April 25th, https://web.archive.org/web/20210119082500/http://genderfork.com/2010/rally-up-tell-me-your-fave-genderfork-posts/#comment-8810