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'''Agender''' (also called '''genderblank'''{{citation needed}}, '''genderfree''', '''genderless''', '''gendervoid'''{{citation needed}}, '''non-gendered,''' '''ungendered'''<ref name="Eyler">{{cite journal|last1=Eyler |first1=A.E.|last2=Wright |first2=K.|year=1997|url=https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm|title=Gender Identification and Sexual Orientation Among Genetic Females with Gender-Blended Self-Perception in Childhood and Adolescence.|journal=International Journal of Transgenderism|quote=An individual of any genetic sex may also regard him-herself as neither a woman nor a man, but a member of some other gender, as is common in non-Western cultures (and is becoming increasingly recognized in the West as well), or as an ungendered person, who does not or will not identify with any conventional gender.}}</ref>, or '''null gender'''{{citation needed}}) is an identity under the [[nonbinary]] and [[transgender]] [[umbrella terms]]. Agender individuals find that they have no [[gender identity]], although some define it more as having a gender identity that is neutral. (See [[gender neutral]] for a related identity.)

Agender Pride day is celebrated on the 19th of May.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Important LGBT Dates |author= |work=LGBTLifeWestchester.org |date= |access-date=11 November 2021 |url= https://www.lgbtlifewestchester.org/important_lgbt_dates}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Agender Pride Day |last=Ohene |first=Benjamin |work=Believe Out Loud |date= |access-date=11 November 2021 |url= https://www.believeoutloud.com/voices/article/agender-pride-day/}}</ref>

A 1997 paper in ''International Journal of Transgenderism'' states that "An individual of any genetic [[sex]] may also regard him-herself as [...] an ungendered person, who does not or will not identify with any conventional gender."<ref name="Eyler" />

The 1998 book ''Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators'' lists "ungendered" as a label used by some transgender people.<ref>{{cite book|title=Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators|year=1998|editor=Sanlo, Ronni |page=37|quote=Transgender persons are those who are not comfortable living within the confines of the social stereotype of gender as applied to themselves. Labels used include cross-dresser, drag king, drag queen, intersexed, transsexual, butch, femme, ungendered, androgynous, and more. The labels are many and changing, and they are not always accepted by the people to whom they are applied. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Working_with_Lesbian_Gay_Bisexual_and_Tr/vD2dAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0}}</ref>

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A 2000 post on Usenet described the Christian God as agender. In 2005, another Usenet user wrote that "cultures can have [[transgender]], agender, and [[hypergender]] individuals."<ref name="them2018">{{Cite web |title=What Does It Mean to Be Agender? |work=them. |date=7 August 2018 |access-date=13 June 2020 |url= https://www.them.us/story/inqueery-agender |quote=sj Miller }}</ref>

"Non-gendered", "genderless", and "agender" were mentioned in a list of valid nonbinary identities in the 2013 text ''Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide''.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=9781446293133|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide|last1=Richards|first1=Christina|last2=Barker|first2=Meg|year=2013|publisher=SAGE Publications}}</ref>

Salem X (also known as "Ska" or as their Tumblr user name "transrants") created the agender flag in 2014, sharing the design on Feb 18th.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://majesticmess.com/encyclopedia/agender-flag/ |title=Agender Flag – Majestic Mess Designs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612222135/https://majesticmess.com/encyclopedia/agender-flag/ |archive-date=12 June 2022 |date= |website=Majestic Mess |access-date=24 March 2023}}

</ref> In reference to the colors chosen, they said "The black and white stripes represent an absence of gender, the gray represents semi-genderlessness, and the central green stripe represents nonbinary genders." In 2014, they also created the demiboy, demigirl and deminonbinary flags.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://majesticmess.com/2018/12/16/interview-creator-of-the-agender-flag/ |title=Interview: Creator of the Agender Flag – Majestic Mess Designs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228183501/https://majesticmess.com/2018/12/16/interview-creator-of-the-agender-flag/ |archive-date=28 February 2022 |date= |website=Majestic Mess |access-date=24 March 2023}}

In 2014, agender was one of the 56 genders made [[Gender and social media sites|available on Facebook]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Shapira|first=Eve|title=Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age}}</ref>

In 2015, Dictionary.com added an entry for "agender,"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.dictionary.com/2015-new-words/ |title=New words added to Dictionary.com |date=May 6, 2015 |website=Dictionary.com |access-date=24 March 2023}}

</ref> which it defined as "a person who does not have a specific gender identity or recognizable gender expression."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agender?s=t |title=Agender |date= |website=Dictionary.com |access-date=24 March 2023}}

On March 10 2017, a resident of Portland, Oregon, USA requested in court to be legally agender, and the request was approved.<ref name="Ohara">{{Cite web |title=Judge grants Oregon resident the right to be genderless |last=O'Hara |first=Mary Emily |work=NBC News |date=23 March 2017 |access-date=1 June 2020 |url= https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/judge-grants-oregon-resident-right-be-genderless-n736971}}</ref>

A 2018 survey of "Attitudes to Gender", ran by the Britain-based "Future of Legal Gender" project, asked people if they agree or disagree with the statement "More people will identify as agender (not having a gender) in the future." 32.4% selected "agree" and 13.7% selected "strongly agree". 20.6% selected "neither agree nor disagree" and 19.7% "don't know", compared to a mere 6.6% "disagree" and 7% "strongly disagree". (71% of nonbinary respondents agreed or strongly agreed.)<ref name="FLG">{{Cite web |title=Survey Findings |author= |work=The Future of Legal Gender |date= |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/gender-in-everyday-life/}}</ref>

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As some agender people have no gender identity, it is important to not talk about nonbinary or transgender people's experiences ''only'' in the sense of gender identity.

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It is often said that non-gender or genderlessness is the experience of having ''no'' gender identity at all, whereas gender neutral or neutrois is the experience of ''having'' a gender identity, a gender identity which is not male or female, but neutral.{{citation needed}} However, these statements don't match the experiences of everyone who has taken up these identities as their own. This is a result of a disagreement between word definitions that are ''prescriptivist'' (telling everyone how they ''should'' use a word, and saying that many people use it wrong) and ''descriptivist'' (describing how people have actually been ''using'' a word, without telling them to change).

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Some activists, such as [[Christie Elan-Cane]], use '''non-gendered''' to mean all gender outside of the [[gender binary]].{{citation needed}} This use comes from several years before the term '''nonbinary''', but is seen as problematic because it gives the idea that nonbinary gender identities don't exist, or that all nonbinary people are genderless.{{citation needed}} Nonetheless this usage is in some official organisations' documents and resources as the term to cover all nonbinary people. This is most common in the United Kingdom, for example throughout the 2011 [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transgender-action-plan UK Government Transgender Action Plan].

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It can be difficult to describe and name a gender identity that involves a lack of inner gender identity. In order to do so, some people see the need to make new names for that gender identity, or to distinguish between different but similar genderless identities. A list of these names, in alphabetical order:

'''anongender.''' "A gender that is unknown to you and others".{{citation needed}}

'''apogender.''' Coined by queerspike. "Greek prefix apo, meaning away from, separate, at the farthest point; a subset of agender in which you feel not only genderless but entirely removed from the concept of gender."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95723127519/genders-coined-by-queerspike|title=genders coined by queerspike|date=25 August 2014}}</ref>

'''agenderfluid.''' Coined by pleurocarpus. Basically agender, but also [[genderfluid]]. Synonym cancegender.{{citation needed}}

'''[[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#agenderflux|agenderflux]].''' Coined by perfectlybrokenbones. "Where you identify as agender but have fluctuations where you feel feminine or masculine but not male or female. ".{{citation needed}}

'''[[agenderfluix]].''' A cross between agenderfluid and agenderflux; "a gender identity that is predominantly agender, but is fluid in nature and fluctuates in intensity over time." May also be called gxnderfluix, agxnderfluix, afluidflux, or flxidflux.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Agenderfluix| work=Gender Wiki |title=Agenderfluix|access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref>

'''cancegender.''' coined by prideful-concerto. "An individual is agender as their “base” gender but experiences fluid/fluxing gender feelings in tandem with their emotions. These gender feelings may confuse or upset the individual and cause their emotional state to go haywire, which causes more gender changes."{{citation needed}} Synonym agenderfluid.

'''genderblank.''' As described by Damloz: Having no gender.{{citation needed}} Also, as described by anonymous: "a gender so indescribable that the only thought one gets when trying to describe it is a blank space"{{citation needed}}

'''[[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#gender-free|genderfree]].''' As described by polyamaesthetic, "someone whose gender is not present; someone who feels their gender is insignificant or irrelevant; someone whose gender is kind of ambiguous, but definitely queer; someone whose gender feels blurry, cloudy, whimsical, and free"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://polyamaesthetic.tumblr.com/post/183876471860/genderfree-flowers-genderfree-someone-whose|title=genderfree + flowers|website=Tumblr|date=1 April 2019}}</ref> Caution: sometimes used by [[Cissexism#Transgender-exclusionary_feminists|trangender-exclusionary feminists]] to identify themself as someone who rejects the concept of [[gender identity]].<ref name="medi_CanY">{{Cite web |title=Can You Actually Be #Genderfree? |last=Williams |first=Rachel Anne |work=Medium |date=25 April 2019 |access-date=4 April 2020 |url= https://medium.com/@transphilosophr/can-you-actually-be-genderfree-b38fe95a0cd7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://terflies.tumblr.com/post/184414453101/heads-upgenderfree-is-the-new-gender-critical|title=Queerios on Tumblr|website=Tumblr}}</ref>

'''gendernull.''' As described by Baaphomett, "A gender like gendervoid but without the void."{{citation needed}}

'''gendervoid.''' As described by Baaphomett, "A gender consisting of the void (also/originally used to mean the same thing as genderless)."<ref name="Masterpost">{{cite web|title=masterpost of genders coined by baaphomett|archive-url=https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95720973644/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett|author=mogai-archive|url= http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett|archive-date=25 August 2014}}</ref>

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'''librafluid.''' Coined by otterlyradical and pride-flags-for-us. "Mostly agender, but has a strong connection that fluctuates between masculinity, femininity and/or androgyny."{{citation needed}} See also [[libragender]].

'''[[list of uncommon nonbinary identities#null gender|null gender]].''' Coined by dieselwolfe. "Undefinable, intangible, the uncreation of gender. Its taking everything everyone throws at you, saying male, female, pick one, pick this, pick that, and taking it in, only to expel it, poisonous crystals erupting from your skin, armor against those who don’t listen. A 'I don’t want a label because labels don’t fit but they help shut people up sometimes, so here have a label' gender label. A fall-back plan, a red herring to give people who can’t conceptualize the absence, void, nullification of gender. It is, and is not. All and none. Nonexistant but present."{{citation needed}}

'''oneirogender.''' Coined by anonymous. "Being agender, but having recurring fantasies or dreams  of being a certain gender without the actual dysphoria or desire to actually be that gender day-to-day. e.g. oneiroboy, oneirogirl, oneirononbinary, etc."{{citation needed}}

'''polyagender.''' Someone who experiences multiple types of agender-spectrum identities; for example they could be a combination of agender, null gender, and gendervoid.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.deviantart.com/silencethefox/art/Polyagender-Stamp-736330258|title=Polyagender stamp by SilenceTheFox|website=DeviantArt|date=20 March 2018|access-date=24 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://nonbinaryresource.tumblr.com/post/154766502356/confused-agender-anon-from-a-while-ago-i-have|title=nonbinary resource|website=Tumblr|access-date=24 March 2023}}</ref>

 

==Notable people== <!--T:33-->

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[[File:Angel Haze live at Øyafestivalen 2013.jpg|thumb|200px|Angel Haze livenä Øyafestivalenilla vuonna 2013.]]

[[File:Andrej.jpg|thumb|200px|Andre J. Dick's Bar:ssa East Village:ssa, maaliskuuta 2007.]]

[[File:Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Becoming Interplanetary.jpg|thumb|200px|Chanda Prescod-Weinstein "Becoming Interplanetary" -esitelmässä Kongressin kirjastossa (Yhdysvallat), 2018.]]

 

''Englannin kielinen pidempi artikkeli henkilöistä: [[Notable nonbinary people]]''

 

Tämän listan lisäksi on vielä paljon tunnettuja muunsukupuolisia ihmisiä. Seuraavassa listassa onkin vain jotkut noista ihmisistä, jotka tarkemmin käyttävät sanaa "sukupuoleton" tai sen tarkempia serkkuja.  

 

* Christie Elan-Cane on sukupuoleton aktivisti Iso-Britanniasta. "Taistelen laillisen tunnustuksen puolesta myös niille, jotka ovat yhteiskunnan määrittelemän sukupuolijaon ulkopuolella."

 

* Tyler Ford (s. 1990) on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja julkinen puhuja sekoittuneella mustalla ja valkoisella juutalaisella etnisellä taustalla. Ford esiintyi ensimmäisenä transsukupuolisena kilpailijana "The Glee Project":ssa vuonna 2012. Hän on sukupuoleton.

==Sukupuolettomia hahmoja fiktiossa===

 

''Englannin kielinen pidempi artikkeli hahmoista'': [[Nonbinary gender in fiction#Nonbinary genders in fiction|Nonbinary gender in fiction]]''

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Buddy "Half Life AR":sta, mutta tekoäly on kykenevä ajattelemiseen.

* Omalaatuisessa kuvallisessa romaanissa "My Cup of Coffee: Earl Grey Forever After" päähenkilö voi olla mies, nainen tai sukupuoleton. Pelaaja voi itse tehdä kaikki hahmot sukupuolettomiksi, jos haluaa. Tällöin peli käyttää sukupuolineutraalia kieltä.

==Lue myös==

<br />{{Pride flags|category=Agender pride flags|image=Agender}}

Alla olevat linkit vievät englannin kielisiin artikkeleihin, jotka kertovat tarkemmin linkeissä kerrotuista aiheista. (Artikkelien käännökset suomeksi eivät taattuja.)

*[[Gender Neutral]] (sukupuolineutraali)

*[[List of nonbinary identities]] (lista muunsukupuolisista identiteeteistä)

*[[Nonbinary celebrities]] (muunsukupuoliset julkkikset)

==Ulkoiset linkit==

Ulkoiset linkit löydät alkuperäisestä englanninkielisestä artikkelista "[[Agender]]".

==Lähteet==

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