Metagender

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    Metagender is a term that has been coined multiple times with varying definitions, including as multiple nonbinary gender identities, a sexual orientation, a gender modality, and a description for gender-nonconforming behavior.

    History

    In a 1999 interview, musician/poet/filmmaker Phoebe Legere said that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."[1]

    The term was coined again in the 2000s by Rook Thomas Hine.[2] This coining's definition is given as "someone who identifies as neither male nor female, neither woman nor man, neither neuter nor feminine nor masculine. [...] A metagender is less of a 'both/and' combination, 'all of the above' or androgyne, and more of a 'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh category, or 'none of the above'."[3]

    In June 2014 "metagender" was suggested as an alternative word for pangender.[4]

    "Metagender" was independently coined again in 2014 by Tumblr users keyblademastercecilpalmer, agenderchrismclean, and lordmoriarty by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog, and the definition was: "To identify around or beyond a gender. Where your gender identity is almost that gender, but not quite, and also extends beyond that. Imagine that —- is you, and | is the gender identity (and identifying fully with a gender is —-|), then metagender is —- | —-" For example, meta-boy, meta-girl, meta-nonbinary, and so on.[5]

    In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent was metagender.[6]

    References

    1. "Mighty Aphrodite". Femme Fatales. 8 (4): 40-41. September 10, 1999.
    2. Bernhardt-House, Phillip. "Metagender". Archived from the original on 5 August 2004.
    3. Bernhardt-House, Phillip (2003). "So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender". Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity. Jossey-Bass. p. 76. Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (help)
    4. "Pangender Without the 'Pan'". 23 June 2014.
    5. http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender [Dead link]
    6. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named 2019 Gender Census