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'''Polygender''', | '''Polygender''', '''poly-gender''', or '''polygendered''' (from Greek ''poly'' "many" + gender)<ref>"Poly-" ''Dictionary.com.'' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poly-</ref> is a [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] in which a person feels that they have more than one gender identity, or that they express "characteristics of multiple genders, deliberately refuting the concept of only two genders,"<ref name="FTM International">Gary Bowen. "A Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women." May 15, 1995. Retrieved November 5, 1996. http://web.archive.org/web/19961105010926/http://www.ftm-intl.org/Wrtngs/ftm-words.gary.html</ref> as it was described in 1995, so it was in use by at least that year, if not earlier.<ref name="FTM International" /> Polygender is one of [[list of nonbinary identities|the common nonbinary identities today]]. In 1998, the word polygender was used in a transgender community on the Internet called [[Sphere]] as an umbrella term for trans people whose genders were outside the binary: | ||
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In this definition, polygender was an umbrella term that included a variety of kinds of people who identify outside the gender binary, even those who are genderless, who could be transitioning (or not) by a variety of different methods. During the 1990s, any genders outside the binary were not widely recognized. The same article also used the word "queergendered" interchangeably with "polygendered" as umbrella terms for people who identify outside the gender binary in any way, which seems to have been an early permutation of the now widely-known word "[[genderqueer]]." | In this definition, polygender was an umbrella term that included a variety of kinds of people who identify outside the gender binary, even those who are genderless, who could be transitioning (or not) by a variety of different methods. During the 1990s, any genders outside the binary were not widely recognized. The same article also used the word "queergendered" interchangeably with "polygendered" as umbrella terms for people who identify outside the gender binary in any way, which seems to have been an early permutation of the now widely-known word "[[genderqueer]]." | ||
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In the 2016 Nonbinary/Genderqueer Survey, 7 of the respondents (0.23%) were polygender.<ref name=NBGQ2016>"NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results." ''Gender Census.'' March 19, 2016. http://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 24 of the respondents (0.21%) were polygender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">"Gender Census 2019 - The Worldwide tl;dr." ''Gender Census'' (blog). March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2020. https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr</ref> | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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* [[Bigender]] | * [[Bigender]] | ||
* [[Genderfluid]] | * [[Genderfluid]] | ||
* [[List of nonbinary identities]] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||