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|ref=<ref>Original untranslated quote: ''"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."'' from {{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>}} | |ref=<ref>Original untranslated quote: ''"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."'' from {{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 | '''Uranian''', or '''Urning''', was a term used during the 19th and early-20th Centuries referring to gender and sexual identities, originally 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 express themselves as female.<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 the original sub-classifications of the term were rarely used, and Uranian on its own had broadened into an umbrella term for effeminate, homosexual men, third gender people, nonbinary people, among others. | |||
By the 1920s or 1930s, the term Uranian had fallen out of usage | In Karl Heinrich 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 express themselves 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 rarely used however, and its meaning was (by the early-20th century) generally considered to fall within the range of meanings of Uranian on its own. | ||
By the 1920s or 1930s, the term Uranian had fallen out of common usage, most likely due to the lack of definition and general impreciseness it had acquired during the decades prior. | |||
==Terminology== | ==Terminology== |