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{{ | {{content warning|terminology which may be outdated and/or insensitive, references to homophobia and anti-nonbinary statements and actions, as well as references to mental illness and conversion therapy}}{{notice|text='''Note to editors:''' Uranian is often used as an umbrella term, and can relate to many different groups of people during different eras. In order to keep the wiki accurate to the lived experiences of nonbinary people, attention should be paid to keeping this article (and those mentioned in it) within the scope of gender identity, rather than sexuality.}}{{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. | | 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. | ||
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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''', is a term used during the 19th and early-20th | '''Uranian''', or '''Urning''', is a term used during the 19th and early-20th centuries for a varying set of gender and sexual identities, originally with ''Mannling'' Uranians generally describing effeminate homosexual men, and ''Weibling'' Uranians describing people who were not [[Sexes|assigned female at birth]] but whose gender identity and expression is 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 the distinction between ''Mannling'' and ''Weibling'' Uranians 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 homosexual men, third gender people,<ref name="Lewis">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-3d4PKb3_NkC&newbks=0&redir_esc=y|title=Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Inversion|last=Ellis|first=Havelock|publisher=F. A. Davis Company|year=1901|location=Philadelphia|pages=227-231|language=en}}</ref> nonbinary people, among others. | Although the distinction between ''Mannling'' and ''Weibling'' Uranians 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 homosexual men, third gender people,<ref name="Lewis">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-3d4PKb3_NkC&newbks=0&redir_esc=y|title=Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Inversion|last=Ellis|first=Havelock|publisher=F. A. Davis Company|year=1901|location=Philadelphia|pages=227-231|language=en}}</ref> nonbinary people, among others. | ||
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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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Later in his work, Ulrichs provides supposed specific homosexual preferences to which (according to him) all ''Mannling'' and ''Weibling'' Uranians are said to adhere. It must be remembered however | Later in his work, Ulrichs provides supposed specific homosexual preferences to which (according to him) all ''Mannling'' and ''Weibling'' Uranians are said to adhere. It must be remembered however that at the time of Ulrichs' coining of the term "''Urning''", the word "homosexual" did not yet exist. With the term first appearing one year after the publication of Ulrichs' work in 1869 within a pamphlet published anonymously by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–82). Because Ulrichs' terms like homosexuality did not yet exist, he resorted to using terms at his disposal, which in his case were terms he himself created (in this case also used to refer to gender identity), leading to sweeping generalizations such as these. Aside from ''Mannling'' and ''Weibling'' though, both of which could be used in the sense of gender identity, Ulrichs also defined several more sub-classifications of Uranians solely related to sexuality.<ref>{{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=18}}</ref> | ||
Some authors such as Havelock Ellis took issue with Ulrichs' terminology | Some authors such as Havelock Ellis took issue with Ulrichs' terminology. Ellis only accepted Uranian as a term to describe third gender people and specific groups of homosexual men, refusing to acknowledge nonbinary people in general (other than those of a third gender).<ref name="Lewis" /> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||