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Removed uncommon identity templare, since "a sizeable community has been organised around the identity" in LiveJournal
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{{infobox identity | {{infobox identity | ||
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|meaning=This identity has no flag yet | |meaning=This identity has no flag yet | ||
|related= | |related=[[bigender]], [[tomboy]], [[gender nonconforming]], [[boi]] | ||
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'''Birl''' is a | '''Birl''' is an identity often considered as a nonbinary gender.<ref>{{cite web|last=Davidson|first=Skylar|date=February 2016|title=Gender Inequality: Nonbinary Transgender People in the Workplace|url =https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1331&context=masters_theses_2}}</ref><ref name="Solovitch">{{Cite web |title=Medical field plays catch-up with trans kids |last=Solovitch |first=Sara |work=Chicago Tribune |date=23 January 2018 |access-date=26 June 2020 |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-medical-field-trans-kids-20180123-story.html}}</ref> The word is made by mixing the words "boy" and "girl". | ||
The term has multiple and overlapping definitions: | |||
* "a girl and a boy [...] a girl-boy."<ref name="Schneider">Schneider, Sandra B. "Producing Homeplace: Strategic Sites and Liminoid Spaces for Gender-Diverse Children". In ''Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices'', 2013, edited by F. J. Green. ISBN 9781927335567.</ref> | |||
* "boyish girls [...] who enjoy riding the gender wave and don’t let their gender dictate how to look and act. Birls include the range from [[heterosexual|hetero]] [[tomboy]]s to [[trans men|FTMs]] and everyone in between." Also includes [[drag]] kings.<ref name="BirlZine!">{{Cite web |title=birlzine - Profile |author= |work=BirlZine! |date= |access-date=26 June 2020 |url= https://birlzine.livejournal.com/profile}}</ref> | |||
* "[[androgynous]]/boyish/[[masculine]] females and those who don't let the stereotypes surrounding their [[sex]] define who they are. Whether you're a [[tomboy]] or a [[butch]] dyke, a [[boi]], [[genderqueer]], or an [[androgyne]], [[trans men|FTM]] or [[transgender]]ed, or simply refuse to put a label on your [[identity]]".<ref name="Birls">{{Cite web |title=birls - Profile |author= |work=Birls LJ community |date= |access-date=26 June 2020 |url= https://birls.livejournal.com/profile}}</ref> | |||
==Further reading== | |||
*The 2007 book ''Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media'' (by Susan Driver) includes a chapter detailing online birl communities. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category: Nonbinary identities]] | [[Category: Nonbinary identities]] | ||