Metagender

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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) or metagenderism) has been used to describe "the academic engagement with or the theorizing of gender,"[12][13] spiritual identities that transcend gender,[14][15][16][17] systems of gender,[18][19] applying regardless of gender or to all genders equally,[20][21][22] and otherwise being about gender.[23][13]

    Examples:

    "These dynamics are meta-gendered, in that they impact men and women and those who don’t identify in the binary, without particular discrimination, putting all of us at risk for weirdly pervasive and unexamined suffering."[22]

    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. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-253-34816-6.
    13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Boyce, Paul; Gonzalez-Polledo, E. J; Posocco, Silvia (2020). Queering knowledge: analytics, devices and investments after Marilyn Strathern. pp. Note 20. ISBN 978-1-138-23098-9. OCLC 1137077647. Note 20.
    14. ↑ Scherer, Burkhard. (2006). ‘Gender Transformed and Meta-gendered Enlightenment: Reading Buddhist Narratives as Paradigms of Inclusiveness’ Revista de Estudos da Religião – REVER 6(3), pp. 65-76.
    15. ↑ Szarmach, Paul (2019). Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England. ISBN 978-1-4426-6457-9. OCLC 1091659301.
    16. ↑ McDaniel, Rhonda L. (2018). The third gender and Ælfric's Lives of saints. Richard Rawlinson Center series. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University. ISBN 978-1-58044-309-8.
    17. ↑ al-Khawaldeh, Samira (2015-05-06). ""The One Raised in Ornament?" Gendering Issues in the Qurʾan". Hawwa. 13 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1163/15692086-12341271. ISSN 1569-2078.
    18. ↑ Beckett, Clare; Heathcote, Owen; Macey, Marie (2009). Negotiating Boundaries? Identities, Sexualities, Diversities. ISBN 978-1-4438-1092-0. OCLC 953860344.
    19. ↑ Queering Paradigms II. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-0295-1.
    20. ↑ Kolin, Philip C (2017). Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991): an Annotated Bibliography and Commentary. ISBN 978-1-351-98403-4. OCLC 1052448663.
    21. ↑ Ackerly, Brooke A; True, Jacqui (2010). Doing feminist research in political and social science. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-05442-5. OCLC 1203336058.
    22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 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.
    23. ↑ Devlin-Glass, Frances (1998). "'Teasing the audience with the play': feminism and Shakespeare at the Melbourne Theatre Company, 1984-93". Australasian Drama Studies (33): 21–39. ISSN 0810-4123 – via https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=200000904;res=IELAPA.
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