History of nonbinary gender: Difference between revisions

* '''Words for a person's gender, assigned and otherwise.''' It is disrespectful to label a person's gender otherwise than they ask for, but it's not always possible to do so. In the case of some historical people, history has recorded how they lived, and what [[gender assigned at birth|gender they were assigned at birth]], but not how they preferred to label their gender identity. For example, it's not known whether certain historical people who were assigned female at birth ([[AFAB]]) lived as men because they identified as men (were [[transgender men]]), or because it was the only way to have a career in that time and place (and were gender non-conforming [hi[cisgender women]]). This should be mentioned in the more respectful form of, for example, "assigned male at birth ([[AMAB]]), lived as a woman," rather than "really a man, passed as a woman." For another example, writing "a military doctor discovered Smith was AFAB" is more respectful than saying "a military doctor discovered Smith was really a woman." For people who lived before the word "transgender" was created, it may be more suitable to call them "gender variant" rather than "transgender." On the other hand, if we have enough information about such a person, we may do best by such people by describing them with the terminology that they most likely would have used for their gender identity if they lived in the present day, with our language.

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*A newer version of the handbook of psychiatry, the DSM-5, replaces the "gender identity disorder" diagnosis with "[[/wiki/Gender dysphoria|gender dysphoria]]," to lessen the pathologization of transgender people.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[[History of nonbinary gender#cite%20note-1|[1]]]</sup>

*In September 2013, a nonbinary tumblr user by the handle "revolutionator" coins the term "enby" as a short for "nonbinary person" or "NB".<sup id="cite_ref-enby_2-0" class="reference">[[History of nonbinary gender#cite%20note-enby-2|[2]]]</sup>

*On November 4, 2013 in the US, 18-year-old Sasha Fleischman was assaulted for wearing gender nonconforming clothing. Sasha identifies as [[/wiki/Genderqueer|genderqueer]] and [[/wiki/Agender|agender]], and goes by "they" pronouns. When they had fallen asleep on a public bus, a stranger lit Sasha's skirt on fire. Sasha survived, suffering second and third degree burns. In the following weeks, allies showed support by marching along that bus route, tying rainbow ribbons to poles, and writing letters. Several schools sponsored skirt-wearing days. The assailant was sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference">[[History of nonbinary gender#cite%20note-3|[3]]]</sup> The nonfiction book ''The 57 Bus'' explores the incident in detail.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[[History of nonbinary gender#cite%20note-4|[4]]]</sup>

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#<span class="mw-cite-backlink">[[History of nonbinary gender#cite%20ref-1|↑]]</span> <span class="reference-text">"History of transgenderism in the United States." ''Wikipedia.'' Retrieved November 29, 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_transgenderism_in_the_United_States</span>

#<span class="mw-cite-backlink">[[History of nonbinary gender#cite%20ref-enby%202-0|↑]]</span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web">[https://blog.sixy.name/2019/12/16/queer-etymology-enby/ "Queer Etymology: Enby"]. ''Androgyne of the Archeart''. 16 December 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 June</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Androgyne+of+the+Archeart&rft.atitle=Queer+Etymology%3A+Enby&rft.date=2019-12-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.sixy.name%2F2019%2F12%2F16%2Fqueer-etymology-enby%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fnonbinary.wiki%3AHistory+of+nonbinary+gender" class="Z3988"></span>[mw-data:TemplateStyles:r10505]</span>

#<span class="mw-cite-backlink">[[History of nonbinary gender#cite%20ref-3|↑]]</span> <span class="reference-text">Dashka Slater, "The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland." ''The New York Times Magazine.'' February 1, 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/the-fire-on-the-57-bus-in-oakland.html</span>

#<span class="mw-cite-backlink">[[History of nonbinary gender#cite%20ref-4|↑]]</span> <span class="reference-text">Slater, Dashka (October 17, 2017). ''The 57 Bus''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). ISBN 9780374303235.</span>

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