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{{infobox identity
{{infobox identity
| flag = Otherkin.jpg
| flag = Acute heptagram.svg.png
| meaning = The sunrise/sunset colors are an embodiment of the new beginnings, ends, and ones deepest sense of self. The variety of colors represents otherkin diversity, and the seven-pointed star is the classic Otherkin seven-pointed star that's been used for decades. Designed by soporine on Tumblr!
| meaning = A heptagram, also called the ''Elven Star'' or ''Fae Star'', the most common symbol to represent otherkinity.
| name = Otherkin
| name = Otherkin
}}'''Otherkin''' are a subculture of people who identify as something other than human. Each individual discovers for themself how and why they are otherkin.<ref name="scribner simple">{{Cite web|url=https://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/708359714734489600/simpleintro|title=A Simple Introduction to Otherkin and Therianthropes|last=Scribner|first=Orion|date=February 11, 2023|website=frameacloud.tumblr.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524164119/https://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/708359714734489600/simpleintro|archive-date=May 24, 2023|access-date=December 10, 2023}}</ref> Most otherkin believe they are nonhuman in a spiritual way, or otherwise somehow non-physical, such as from reincarnation, psychology, trans-species dysphoria, or metaphor.<ref name="fieldguide" /> All otherkin know that they are physically human, in that they look like humans, were born like humans, and live in the way that most humans do. However, some otherkin believe their own bodies are different from most human bodies, such as having genes from supernatural ancestors.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work |year=2004 |publisher=Weiser Books |isbn=1-57863-321-4 |author=Michelle Belanger |author2=Father Sebastiaan}}</ref>  
}}'''Otherkin''' are a subculture of people who identify as something other than human. Each individual discovers for themself how and why they are otherkin.<ref name="scribner simple">{{Cite web|url=https://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/708359714734489600/simpleintro|title=A Simple Introduction to Otherkin and Therianthropes|last=Scribner|first=Orion|date=February 11, 2023|website=frameacloud.tumblr.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524164119/https://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/708359714734489600/simpleintro|archive-date=May 24, 2023|access-date=December 10, 2023}}</ref> Most otherkin believe they are nonhuman in a spiritual way, or otherwise somehow non-physical, such as from reincarnation, psychology, trans-species dysphoria, or metaphor.<ref name="fieldguide" /> All otherkin know that they are physically human, in that they look like humans, were born like humans, and live in the way that most humans do. However, some otherkin believe their own bodies are different from most human bodies, such as having genes from supernatural ancestors.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work |year=2004 |publisher=Weiser Books |isbn=1-57863-321-4 |author=Michelle Belanger |author2=Father Sebastiaan}}</ref>  
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==Description==
==Description==


Otherkin may identify as real or mythical creatures,<ref>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/why-be-human-when-you-can-be-otherkin</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Vampires in Their Own Words: An Anthology of Vampire Voices |year=2007 |publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |isbn=0-7387-1220-5 |author=Michelle Belanger |page=25}}</ref> with others identifying as creatures from fantasy or popular culture. Examples include: angels, demons, dragons, elves, fairies, aliens,<ref name=reale>{{cite book |title=Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, And Substances to Heal, Change, And Grow |year=2007 |publisher=Career Press |isbn=1-56414-904-8 |author=Isaac Bonewits |author2=Phaedra Bonewits |pages=196–197}}</ref><ref name=villagevoice>{{cite news| title=Elven Like Me: Otherkin Come Out of the Closet |first=Nick |last=Mamatas |newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York |date=February 20, 2001 |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2001-02-13/news/elven-like-me/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522190012/https://www.villagevoice.com/2001-02-13/news/elven-like-me/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="ascensionmagic">{{cite book |first=Christopher |last=Penczak |title=Ascension Magick: Ritual, Myth & Healing for the New Aeon | publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |pages=416–417; 441 |year=2007 |isbn=0-7387-1047-4}}</ref> and cartoon characters.<ref name=kirby>{{cite book |title=Exploring Religion And The Sacred in A Media Age |year=2009 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |isbn=0-7546-6527-5 |author=Kirby, Danielle |editor=Christopher Deacy; Elisabeth Arweck |chapter=From Pulp Fiction to Revealed Text: A Study of the Role of the Text in the Otherkin Community |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/exploringreligio0000unse_q7d1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307225941/https://archive.org/details/exploringreligio0000unse_q7d1 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many otherkin believe in the existence of a multitude of parallel universes, and their belief in the existence of supernatural or sapient non-human beings is grounded in that idea.<ref name=questing />  
Otherkin may identify as real or mythical creatures,<ref>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/why-be-human-when-you-can-be-otherkin</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Vampires in Their Own Words: An Anthology of Vampire Voices |year=2007 |publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |isbn=0-7387-1220-5 |author=Michelle Belanger |page=25}}</ref> with others identifying as creatures from fantasy or popular culture. Examples include: angels, demons, dragons, elves, fairies, aliens,<ref name="reale">{{cite book |title=Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, And Substances to Heal, Change, And Grow |year=2007 |publisher=Career Press |isbn=1-56414-904-8 |author=Isaac Bonewits |author2=Phaedra Bonewits |pages=196–197}}</ref><ref name="villagevoice">{{cite news| title=Elven Like Me: Otherkin Come Out of the Closet |first=Nick |last=Mamatas |newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York |date=February 20, 2001 |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2001-02-13/news/elven-like-me/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522190012/https://www.villagevoice.com/2001-02-13/news/elven-like-me/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="ascensionmagic">{{cite book |first=Christopher |last=Penczak |title=Ascension Magick: Ritual, Myth & Healing for the New Aeon | publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |pages=416–417; 441 |year=2007 |isbn=0-7387-1047-4}}</ref> and cartoon characters.<ref name="kirby">{{cite book |title=Exploring Religion And The Sacred in A Media Age |year=2009 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |isbn=0-7546-6527-5 |author=Kirby, Danielle |editor=Christopher Deacy; Elisabeth Arweck |chapter=From Pulp Fiction to Revealed Text: A Study of the Role of the Text in the Otherkin Community |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/exploringreligio0000unse_q7d1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307225941/https://archive.org/details/exploringreligio0000unse_q7d1 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many otherkin believe in the existence of a multitude of parallel universes, and their belief in the existence of supernatural or sapient non-human beings is grounded in that idea.<ref name="questing" />  


With regard to their online communities, otherkin largely function without formal authority structures, and mostly focus on support and information gathering, often dividing into more specific groups based on kintype.<ref name=questing>{{cite book |title=Through a Glass Darkly: Collected Research |year=2006 |publisher=Sydney University Press |url=http://ojs-prod.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/SSR/article/view/259/238 |author=Kirby, Danielle |editor=Frances Di Lauro |chapter=Alternative Worlds: Metaphysical questing and virtual community amongst the Otherkin |isbn=1920898549|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622023520/http://ojs-prod.library.usyd.edu.au:80/index.php/SSR/article/view/259/238 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> There are occasional offline gatherings, but the otherkin network is mostly an online phenomenon.<ref name=questing />
With regard to their online communities, otherkin largely function without formal authority structures, and mostly focus on support and information gathering, often dividing into more specific groups based on kintype.<ref name="questing">{{cite book |title=Through a Glass Darkly: Collected Research |year=2006 |publisher=Sydney University Press |url=http://ojs-prod.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/SSR/article/view/259/238 |author=Kirby, Danielle |editor=Frances Di Lauro |chapter=Alternative Worlds: Metaphysical questing and virtual community amongst the Otherkin |isbn=1920898549|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622023520/http://ojs-prod.library.usyd.edu.au:80/index.php/SSR/article/view/259/238 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> There are occasional offline gatherings, but the otherkin network is mostly an online phenomenon.<ref name="questing" />


Some otherkin claim to be especially empathic and attuned to nature.<ref name=villagevoice /> Some claim to be able to shapeshift mentally or on the astral plane, meaning that they experience the sense of being in their particular form, while not changing physically.<ref name=fieldguide /><ref>{{cite book |title=Shadow Magick Compendium: Exploring Darker Aspects of Magickal Spirituality |year=2008 |publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |isbn=0-7387-1318-X |author=Raven Digitalis |page=178}}</ref>
Some otherkin claim to be especially empathic and attuned to nature.<ref name="villagevoice" /> Some claim to be able to shapeshift mentally or on the astral plane, meaning that they experience the sense of being in their particular form, while not changing physically.<ref name="fieldguide" /><ref>{{cite book |title=Shadow Magick Compendium: Exploring Darker Aspects of Magickal Spirituality |year=2008 |publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |isbn=0-7387-1318-X |author=Raven Digitalis |page=178}}</ref>


The therianthrope and vampire subcultures are related to the otherkin community, and are considered part of it by most otherkin, but are culturally and historically distinct movements of their own, despite some overlap in membership.<ref name=fieldguide />
The therianthrope and vampire subcultures are related to the otherkin community, and are considered part of it by most otherkin, but are culturally and historically distinct movements of their own, despite some overlap in membership.<ref name="fieldguide" />


==Etymology==
==Etymology ==
"Otherkin" as an adjective was defined in the ''Middle English Dictionary'' (1981) as "a different or an additional kind of, other kinds of".<ref>{{cite book |title=Middle English Dictionary: O.3, Volume 0 |year=1981 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=0-472-01153-7 |author=Sherman M. Kuhn |page=344}}</ref> The earliest recorded use of the term ''otherkin'', in the context of a subculture or people who identify as other than human, appeared in July 1990. The variant ''otherkind'' was recorded as early as April 1990.<ref name="fieldguide" /> The word "otherkind" was initially coined from the word "elfinkind", to refer to non-elf others who joined the communities.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web |url=https://frameacloud.com/nonfiction/otherkin-timeline-abridged/ |title=Otherkin Timeline: The Recent History of Elfin, Fae, and Animal People, Abridged Edition |last=Scribner |first=Orion |website=Orion Scribner |date=2013-02-27 |access-date=2020-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606093321/http://frameacloud.com/nonfiction/otherkin-timeline-abridged/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
"Otherkin" as an adjective was defined in the ''Middle English Dictionary'' (1981) as "a different or an additional kind of, other kinds of".<ref>{{cite book |title=Middle English Dictionary: O.3, Volume 0 |year=1981 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=0-472-01153-7 |author=Sherman M. Kuhn |page=344}}</ref> The earliest recorded use of the term ''otherkin'', in the context of a subculture or people who identify as other than human, appeared in July 1990. The variant ''otherkind'' was recorded as early as April 1990.<ref name="fieldguide" /> The word "otherkind" was initially coined from the word "elfinkind", to refer to non-elf others who joined the communities.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web |url=https://frameacloud.com/nonfiction/otherkin-timeline-abridged/ |title=Otherkin Timeline: The Recent History of Elfin, Fae, and Animal People, Abridged Edition |last=Scribner |first=Orion |website=Orion Scribner |date=2013-02-27 |access-date=2020-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606093321/http://frameacloud.com/nonfiction/otherkin-timeline-abridged/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>


==History==
==History==
The otherkin community has origins that go back to the 1960s, in Pagan spirituality groups of those who called themselves elves.<ref name="timeline"/> The word "otherkin" was created in 1990 by a group of people who identified as elves, to include people who identify as beings other than elves.<ref name="timeline"/> The otherkin subculture grew out of the elven online communities of the early-to-mid-1990s.<ref name="veilsedge">{{cite book |first=Willow |last=Polson |title= The Veil's Edge: Exploring the Boundaries of Magic |publisher=Citadel Press |page=95 |year=2003 |isbn=0-8065-2352-2}}</ref> The oldest Internet resource for otherkin is the ''Elfinkind Digest'', a mailing list started in 1990 by a student at the University of Kentucky for "elves and interested observers". Also in the early 1990s, newsgroups such as [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.horror.werewolves alt.horror.werewolves]<ref name="cursewere">{{cite book |title= The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within |author= Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray |publisher= I.B. Tauris |year= 2006 |isbn= 1-84511-158-3}}</ref> and [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.fan.dragons alt.fan.dragons] on Usenet, which were initially created for fans of these creatures in the context of fantasy and horror literature and films, also came to have participants who identified as mythological beings.<ref name="fieldguide" /><ref name="Cohen">{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=D. |year=1996 |title=Werewolves |location=New York |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-525-65207-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/werewolves00cohe_0/page/104 104] |url=https://archive.org/details/werewolves00cohe_0/page/104 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307234549/https://archive.org/details/werewolves00cohe_0/page/104 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
The otherkin community has origins that go back to the 1960s, in Pagan spirituality groups of those who called themselves elves.<ref name="timeline" /> The word "otherkin" was created in 1990 by a group of people who identified as elves, to include people who identify as beings other than elves.<ref name="timeline" /> The otherkin subculture grew out of the elven online communities of the early-to-mid-1990s.<ref name="veilsedge">{{cite book |first=Willow |last=Polson |title= The Veil's Edge: Exploring the Boundaries of Magic |publisher=Citadel Press |page=95 |year=2003 |isbn=0-8065-2352-2}}</ref> The oldest Internet resource for otherkin is the ''Elfinkind Digest'', a mailing list started in 1990 by a student at the University of Kentucky for "elves and interested observers". Also in the early 1990s, newsgroups such as [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.horror.werewolves alt.horror.werewolves]<ref name="cursewere">{{cite book |title= The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within |author= Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray |publisher= I.B. Tauris |year= 2006 |isbn= 1-84511-158-3}}</ref> and [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.fan.dragons alt.fan.dragons] on Usenet, which were initially created for fans of these creatures in the context of fantasy and horror literature and films, also came to have participants who identified as mythological beings.<ref name="fieldguide" /><ref name="Cohen">{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=D. |year=1996 |title=Werewolves |location=New York |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-525-65207-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/werewolves00cohe_0/page/104 104] |url=https://archive.org/details/werewolves00cohe_0/page/104 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307234549/https://archive.org/details/werewolves00cohe_0/page/104 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>


==Otherkin, transgender, and nonbinary identity==
==Otherkin, transgender, and nonbinary identity==


Otherkin is an identity, but not a [[gender identity]]. Much of the otherkin community is made up of folks who are [[transgender]], [[genderqueer]], or nonbinary. This has always been so, ever since the 1960s.<ref name="timeline"/> For this reason, the otherkin community has a tendency to be accepting of anyone who is transgender, genderqueer, or nonbinary.  
Otherkin is an identity, but not a [[gender identity]]. Much of the otherkin community is made up of folks who are [[transgender]], [[genderqueer]], or nonbinary. This has always been so, ever since the 1960s.<ref name="timeline" /> For this reason, the otherkin community has a tendency to be accepting of anyone who is transgender, genderqueer, or nonbinary.  


That said, some otherkin do think of their gender identity as part of, influenced, or best described with their otherkin identity. For example, a [[nonbinary]] person who has decided that the best way to describe their gender identity is to say, "My gender is elf." (There are also people outside of the otherkin community who use similarly non-gender-related concepts and archetypes to describe their nonbinary genders; see [[xenogender]].) The word "men" can mean people who are male, or it can mean humans, so some otherkin-- especially the earliest of them, the Silver Elves-- have enjoyed playing with denying that they are either of those things. An anecdote told before 2000 by the Silver Elves, who are an otherkin group which formed in the 1960s, and includes many transgender and gender nonconforming people, goes like this:  
That said, some otherkin do think of their gender identity as part of, influenced, or best described with their otherkin identity. For example, a [[nonbinary]] person who has decided that the best way to describe their gender identity is to say, "My gender is elf." (There are also people outside of the otherkin community who use similarly non-gender-related concepts and archetypes to describe their nonbinary genders; see [[xenogender]].) The word "men" can mean people who are male, or it can mean humans, so some otherkin-- especially the earliest of them, the Silver Elves-- have enjoyed playing with denying that they are either of those things. An anecdote told before 2000 by the Silver Elves, who are an otherkin group which formed in the 1960s, and includes many transgender and gender nonconforming people, goes like this:  
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| name = Kingender
| name = Kingender
| flag = Kingender.png
| flag = Kingender.png
| meaning = Kingender pride [[flags|flag]], for individuals whose gender identity is closely related to their otherkin type. Term and flag created by Tumblr user aroacehawkeye. The stripe color meanings follow the conventions of other pride flags: yellow for [[genderless]]ness, blue for [[male]], purple for mixed female/male nonbinary gender identities ([[androgyne]], etc), and pink for [[female]].<ref name="kingender pride archive">{{Cite web|url=https://pridearchive.tumblr.com/post/91215568026/kingender|title=Kingender Pride|authors=aroacehawkeye|date=Jul 8, 2014|website=tumblr|publisher=pridearchive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531074003/https://pridearchive.tumblr.com/post/91215568026/kingender|archive-date=May 31, 2022|access-date=December 10, 2023}}</ref> The seven-pointed star has been a symbol for otherkin since the 1990s, and for elf people since the 1960s.<ref name="fieldguide">{{cite book |author=Lupa | title=A Field Guide to Otherkin | publisher=Immanion Press | pages=25–26, 50, 52 | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-905713-07-3 }}</ref>]]
| meaning = Kingender pride [[flags|flag]], for individuals whose gender identity is closely related to their otherkin type. Term and flag created by Tumblr user aroacehawkeye. The stripe color meanings follow the conventions of other pride flags: yellow for [[genderless]]ness, blue for [[male]], purple for mixed female/male nonbinary gender identities ([[androgyne]], etc), and pink for [[female]].<ref name="kingender pride archive">{{Cite web|url=https://pridearchive.tumblr.com/post/91215568026/kingender|title=Kingender Pride|authors=aroacehawkeye|date=Jul 8, 2014|website=tumblr|publisher=pridearchive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531074003/https://pridearchive.tumblr.com/post/91215568026/kingender|archive-date=May 31, 2022|access-date=December 10, 2023}}</ref> The seven-pointed star has been a symbol for otherkin since the 1990s, and for elf people since the 1960s.<ref name="fieldguide">{{cite book |author=Lupa | title=A Field Guide to Otherkin | publisher=Immanion Press | pages=25–26, 50, 52 | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-905713-07-3 }}</ref><nowiki>]]</nowiki>
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* '''Name(s):''' Kingender (from otherkin + gender)  
*'''Name(s):''' Kingender (from otherkin + gender)


* '''Origin:''' Kingender was coined by Tumblr user SadVaporWaveBabe (who also posted under SSailorSenshi, and who deleted their blogs later that year), in a submission on or before July 25, 2014 to the [[MOGAI-Archive blog]] (which was also deleted later that year by one of its moderators).<ref name="SadVaporWaveBabe">{{Cite web|url=http://sadvaporwavebabe.tumblr.com/|title=ok ive though t about it more and i think this time i can make a better apology..|authors=ssailorsenshi|website=tumblr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812075603/http://sadvaporwavebabe.tumblr.com/|archive-date=August 12, 2014}}</ref><ref name="kingender coin">{{Cite web|url=https://littlebunnykin.tumblr.com/post/92885358913/kingender|title=kingender|authors=sadvaporwavebabe|website=tumblr|publisher=mogai-archive|archive-url=https://archive.is/E8V0G|archive-date=June 23, 2021|access-date=December 10, 2023}}</ref> The Pride Archive blog instead says that Tumblr user AroAceHawkEye coined the term kingender.<ref name="kingender pride archive" />
*'''Origin:''' Kingender was coined by Tumblr user SadVaporWaveBabe (who also posted under SSailorSenshi, and who deleted their blogs later that year), in a submission on or before July 25, 2014 to the [[MOGAI-Archive blog]] (which was also deleted later that year by one of its moderators).<ref name="SadVaporWaveBabe">{{Cite web|url=http://sadvaporwavebabe.tumblr.com/|title=ok ive though t about it more and i think this time i can make a better apology..|authors=ssailorsenshi|website=tumblr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812075603/http://sadvaporwavebabe.tumblr.com/|archive-date=August 12, 2014}}</ref><ref name="kingender coin">{{Cite web|url=https://littlebunnykin.tumblr.com/post/92885358913/kingender|title=kingender|authors=sadvaporwavebabe|website=tumblr|publisher=mogai-archive|archive-url=https://archive.is/E8V0G|archive-date=June 23, 2021|access-date=December 10, 2023}}</ref> The Pride Archive blog instead says that Tumblr user AroAceHawkEye coined the term kingender.<ref name="kingender pride archive" />


* '''Meaning:''' Kingender was defined by SadVaporWaveBabe as simply "the only thing defining your gender is your kintype (this gender is otherkin specific)."<ref name="kingender coin" /> SadVaporWaveBabe (or possibly someone else who took over their blog) later posted a note admitting that they had submitted this and other content to the MOGAI-Archive blog to make fun of trans, neurodivergent, and otherkin communities, which they later regretted, and apologized for doing.<ref name="SadVaporWaveBabe"/> The other person claiming to have coined it, AroAceHawkEye, defined kingender as "a catch-all term for individuals whose gender is closely related to their kintype."<ref name="kingender pride archive" />
*'''Meaning:''' Kingender was defined by SadVaporWaveBabe as simply "the only thing defining your gender is your kintype (this gender is otherkin specific)."<ref name="kingender coin" /> SadVaporWaveBabe (or possibly someone else who took over their blog) later posted a note admitting that they had submitted this and other content to the MOGAI-Archive blog to make fun of trans, neurodivergent, and otherkin communities, which they later regretted, and apologized for doing.<ref name="SadVaporWaveBabe" /> The other person claiming to have coined it, AroAceHawkEye, defined kingender as "a catch-all term for individuals whose gender is closely related to their kintype."<ref name="kingender pride archive" />


* '''Keywords:''' genders about things other than connection to female or male, nonbinary, otherkin, [[xenogender]]
*'''Keywords:''' genders about things other than connection to female or male, nonbinary, otherkin, [[xenogender]]


* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents called themselves kingender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2019-worldwide-summary/|title=Gender Census 2019: Worldwide Summary|authors=Cassian|date=March 31, 2019|website=Gender Census}}</ref>
*'''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, two respondents called themselves kingender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2019-worldwide-summary/|title=Gender Census 2019: Worldwide Summary|authors=Cassian|date=March 31, 2019|website=Gender Census}}</ref>


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==References==
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