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{{disclaimer|This article contains terminology from the 19th and 20th centuries which some may consider outdated, insensitive, and/or offensive depending on their context or usage.}} | {{disclaimer|This article contains terminology from the 19th and 20th centuries which some may consider outdated, insensitive, and/or offensive depending on their context or usage.}}{{Personal story | ||
| quote = I am a complete Weibling. I prefer to do female handicrafts, and if it was possible, I would also dress feminine... To the world however, I have to show myself in the customs of men. | |||
<p style="font-size:10px">(Ich bin vollkommen Weibling. Am liebsten beschäfftige ich mich mit weiblichen Handarbeiten. Ginge es nur an, so würde ich mich weiblich auch kleiden... Der Welt gegenüber muss ich mich ja in den Gebräuchen der Männer zeigen.)</p> | |||
| name = Unknown | |||
| age = 27 | |||
| identity = Uranian | |||
|ref=<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tZ9kAAAAcAAJ|title=Prometheus|last=Ulrichs|first=Karl Heinrich|publisher=Serbe'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung|year=1870|volume=10|location=Leipzig|pages=14|language=de}}</ref>}} | |||
'''Uranian''', or '''Urning''', was a term used during the 19th and early-20th Centuries, which Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, who is believed to have coined the term, divided into separate sub-classifications, with ''Mannling'' Uranians generally describing effeminate homosexual men, and ''Weibling'' Uranians being used to describe people, who were not [[Sexes|assigned female at birth]], who identify and act female in all regards.<ref name="Ulrichs1">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bAkQAAAAYAAJ|title=Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe|last=Ulrichs|first=Karl Heinrich|date=|publisher=C. Hübscher'sche Buchhandlung (Hugo Heyn)|others=|year=1868|location=Leipzig|pages=10}}</ref> Although this distinction originally existed, by the early-20th century Uranian had become an umbrella term for effeminate, homosexual men, third gender people, and assigned men at birth who identified themselves as female, with few using Ulrichs' original sub-classifications. | '''Uranian''', or '''Urning''', was a term used during the 19th and early-20th Centuries, which Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, who is believed to have coined the term, divided into separate sub-classifications, with ''Mannling'' Uranians generally describing effeminate homosexual men, and ''Weibling'' Uranians being used to describe people, who were not [[Sexes|assigned female at birth]], who identify and act female in all regards.<ref name="Ulrichs1">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bAkQAAAAYAAJ|title=Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe|last=Ulrichs|first=Karl Heinrich|date=|publisher=C. Hübscher'sche Buchhandlung (Hugo Heyn)|others=|year=1868|location=Leipzig|pages=10}}</ref> Although this distinction originally existed, by the early-20th century Uranian had become an umbrella term for effeminate, homosexual men, third gender people, and assigned men at birth who identified themselves as female, with few using Ulrichs' original sub-classifications. | ||
In Ulrichs' work, where he first uses the term Urning (a German word from which the English "Uranian" is said to have derived), the separate term [[Urningin]] was proposed for homosexual, assigned female at birth people who identify and/or act in a generally-masculine way.<ref name="Ulrichs2">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bAkQAAAAYAAJ|title=Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe|last=Ulrichs|first=Karl Heinrich|date=|publisher=C. Hübscher'sche Buchhandlung (Hugo Heyn)|others=|year=1868|location=Leipzig|pages=6}}</ref> Urningin was very rarely used (if at all) in English language publications however, and its meaning was considered by some to fall within the range of meanings of Uranian on its own. | In Ulrichs' work, where he first uses the term Urning (a German word from which the English "Uranian" is said to have derived), the separate term [[Urningin]] was proposed for homosexual, assigned female at birth people who identify and/or act in a generally-masculine way.<ref name="Ulrichs2">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bAkQAAAAYAAJ|title=Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe|last=Ulrichs|first=Karl Heinrich|date=|publisher=C. Hübscher'sche Buchhandlung (Hugo Heyn)|others=|year=1868|location=Leipzig|pages=6}}</ref> Urningin was very rarely used (if at all) in English language publications however, and its meaning was considered by some to fall within the range of meanings of Uranian on its own. | ||
By the 1920s or 1930s, the term Uranian had fallen out of usage in English, most likely due to the lack of definition and general impreciseness it had acquired during the decades prior. | By the 1920s or 1930s, the term Uranian had fallen out of usage in English, most likely due to the lack of definition and general impreciseness it had acquired during the decades prior. | ||
==Terminology== | ==Terminology == | ||
Uranian is believed to be an English adaptation of the German word ''Urning'', which was first published by activist [[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]] (1825–95) in a series of five booklets (1864–65) that were collected under the title ''Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe'' ("Research into the Riddle of Man-Male Love"). Ulrich developed his terminology before the first public use of the term "homosexual", which appeared in 1869 in a pamphlet published anonymously by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–82). | Uranian is believed to be an English adaptation of the German word ''Urning'', which was first published by activist [[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]] (1825–95) in a series of five booklets (1864–65) that were collected under the title ''Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe'' ("Research into the Riddle of Man-Male Love"). Ulrich developed his terminology before the first public use of the term "homosexual", which appeared in 1869 in a pamphlet published anonymously by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–82). | ||
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b) '''Weibling:''' [Womanling] all of the above-mentioned aspects are female; and (one is) masculine therefore only the in the sex of the body. | b) '''Weibling:''' [Womanling] all of the above-mentioned aspects are female; and (one is) masculine therefore only the in the sex of the body. | ||
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File:Ludwig Frey charts - original.png|Three charts featured at the end of an 1898 book written by Ludwig Frey. The middle chart, Schema II., depicts the "Position of the Uranians within the sequence of sexes" (''Stellung des Urningtums in der Geschlechtsreihe'') | |||
File:Ludwig Frey charts - translated.png|Translated and digitally-restored versions of Frey's charts, which (as the German did) use the terms "muliebrity" to refer to female attributes and identity, while "virility" refers to male ones. | |||
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== History== | ==History== | ||
===Rights=== | ===Rights=== | ||
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This can be made possible by declaring Urning love to be free from punishment, punished no more and no less than any case of general love.}} | This can be made possible by declaring Urning love to be free from punishment, punished no more and no less than any case of general love.}} | ||
===Individuals=== | ===Individuals=== | ||
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====Dudley Ward Fay and Adolf==== | ====Dudley Ward Fay and Adolf==== | ||
[[File:Uranian drawing.PNG|thumb|311x311px|A drawing made by Adolf, a schizophrenia patient who identified himself as Uranian, when explaining his gender identity to the psychoanalyst Dudley Ward Fay in 1922.]] | |||
In 1922, Dudley Ward Fay, a psychoanalyst, visited a hospital for mental illnesses where he came into contact with a person, diagnosed with schizophrenia, who identified himself as a Uranian. (Fay uses he/him pronouns in his work to refer to the individual.) As part of an agreement reached concerning publication, Fay refers to the individual as Adolf, withholding his true identity.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=67BIAAAAYAAJ|title=The Psychoanalytic Review|date=1922|publisher=National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis|year=1922|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=267|language=en|volume=9}}</ref> There was no correlation between Adolf's schizophrenia diagnosis and his gender identity, with both relating to Adolf simply being a coincidence. Both before experiencing any symptoms of schizophrenia, and being released from the hospital, Adolf is reported to have made remarks and conducted himself in ways not traditionally seen as completely masculine. | In 1922, Dudley Ward Fay, a psychoanalyst, visited a hospital for mental illnesses where he came into contact with a person, diagnosed with schizophrenia, who identified himself as a Uranian. (Fay uses he/him pronouns in his work to refer to the individual.) As part of an agreement reached concerning publication, Fay refers to the individual as Adolf, withholding his true identity.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=67BIAAAAYAAJ|title=The Psychoanalytic Review|date=1922|publisher=National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis|year=1922|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=267|language=en|volume=9}}</ref> There was no correlation between Adolf's schizophrenia diagnosis and his gender identity, with both relating to Adolf simply being a coincidence. Both before experiencing any symptoms of schizophrenia, and being released from the hospital, Adolf is reported to have made remarks and conducted himself in ways not traditionally seen as completely masculine. | ||