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The first known Livejournal communities with a non-binary focus appeared in 2002. Non-binary people also participated in some general trans communities, such as a community for "FTMs".<ref name=":3">Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "Lexical Change as Sociopolitical Change in Trans and Cis Identity Labels: New Methods for the Corpus Analysis of Internet Data". ''Selected Papers from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 47)''. January 15 2020. https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/45253</ref> | The first known Livejournal communities with a non-binary focus appeared in 2002. Non-binary people also participated in some general trans communities, such as a community for "FTMs".<ref name=":3">Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "Lexical Change as Sociopolitical Change in Trans and Cis Identity Labels: New Methods for the Corpus Analysis of Internet Data". ''Selected Papers from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 47)''. January 15 2020. https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/45253</ref> | ||
Trans scholar Cassius Adair views the social networks of queer and trans young people that formed on Livejournal as a precursor to non-binary and transmasculine networking on [[Tumblr]].<ref>Adair, Cassius. "Delete Yr Account: Speculations on Trans Digital Lives and the Anti-Archival, Part I: Are You Sure?". Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory. 2019.</ref> | Trans scholar Cassius Adair views the social networks of queer and trans young people that formed on Livejournal as a precursor to non-binary and transmasculine networking on [[Tumblr]].<ref>Adair, Cassius. "Delete Yr Account: Speculations on Trans Digital Lives and the Anti-Archival, Part I: Are You Sure?". Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory. 2019.</ref> | ||
== Non-binary Communities == | == Non-binary Communities == | ||
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== Trans Communities == | == Trans Communities == | ||
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This community used "ftm" as an umbrella term referring to people who were assigned female at birth and who felt this assignment was "incorrect or incomplete".<ref>"Profile". FTM Livejournal Community. Livejournal.com.https://ftm.livejournal.com/profile/</ref> | |||
A linguistic analysis of entries and comments from the community conducted by Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth suggests that participants were more likely to use the term "genderqueer" than "non-binary", a term which gained popularity later.<ref name=":3" /> "Genderqueer" was also more commonly used by users than "agender", "genderfluid", "genderfuck", or "bigender".<ref name=":3" /> | |||
== Removal of "Unspecified" Gender Option == | == Removal of "Unspecified" Gender Option == | ||