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. Different definitions have been used as a self-identifier or in academic settings.
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] The metagender identity was further developed as "a social gender that comes into play in a spiritual and religious context" inside a neopagan context.[4]
Maxfield Sparrow wrote in 2018 that metagender "expresses feeling outside the entire paradigm of gender."[5] Sparrow has claimed on social media to be out as metagender since 1992.[6][7]
In June 2014 "metagender" was suggested as an alternative word for pangender.[8]
"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.[9]
In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent called themselves metagender.[10] In the 2020 Worldwide Gender Census, four respondents called themselves metagender.[11]
References
- ↑ "Mighty Aphrodite". Femme Fatales. 8 (4): 40-41. September 10, 1999.
- ↑ Bernhardt-House, Phillip. "Metagender". Archived from the original on 5 August 2004.
- ↑ 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) - ↑ "Metagender". P. SUFENAS VIRIUS LUPUS. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
- ↑ Sparrow, Maxfield (2018). Brown, Michael Eric (ed.). Challenging genders: non-binary experiences of those assigned female at birth. Miami, AZ: Boundless Endeavors, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9968309-6-6.
- ↑ Sparrow, Maxfield (2019-09-27). "r/FTMOver30 - Comment by u/MaxfieldSparrow on "Tell me about your "non-binary transition"?"". reddit. Retrieved 2020-12-24. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
|dead-url=(help) - ↑ Sparrow, Maxfield (2020-12-12). "Maxfield Sparrow on Twitter". twitter. Retrieved 2020-12-24. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
|dead-url=(help) - ↑ "Pangender Without the 'Pan'". 23 June 2014.
- ↑ http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender [Dead link]
- ↑ "Gender Census 2019: Worldwide Summary". Gender Census. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
- ↑ "Gender Census 2020: Worldwide Summary". Gender Census. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-12-24. "metagender: 2; metagender!: 1; meta-girl: 1"
