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 * '''[[bigender]], or bi-gender'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Bigender individuals have two gender identities, at the same time, or at different times.<ref>Schneider, M., et al, American Psychological Association, ''APA Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions'', 2008 [http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.pdf Answers to Your Questions About Transgender People, Gender Identity, And Gender Expression] (PDF), date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref> These two genders might be female and male, or they might be a different pair of genders.
-* '''[[butch]]'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> This term has its origins on lesbian people and is mostly used by lesbian women. However, some nonbinary or genderqueer people are known to use this term as well. This is the case for [[Leslie Feinberg]], author of the semi-autobiographical ''Stone Butch Blues,'' who defined butch as neither male nor female, and identified as butch.
+* '''[[butch]]'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Together with its queer feminine counterpart, femme, butch is a form of female masculinity that originated in working-class lesbian bar culture in the 1940s. The best-known touchstone of butch culture is that written by the revolutionary communist and transgender rights activist [[Leslie Feinberg]] (1949 - 2014), who was in it from the 1950s onward. Feinberg based the semi-autobiographical novel ''Stone Butch Blues'' on her experience as a butch. The novel explores the wide variety of kinds of butches that there are (soft butch, stone butch, those who transition and who don't, and so on). Feinberg defines butch as a category of gender identity itself, neither male nor female. Butch ''is'' genderqueer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Clarke|first1=Deborah|title=The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction|date=2011|publisher=Blackwell Publishing |url=http://www.literatureencyclopedia.com/subscriber/tocnode.html?id=g9781405192446_chunk_g978140519244635_ss1-5 |accessdate=31 July 2017|ref=10.1111/b.9781405192446.2011.x|chapter=Gender and the Novel}}</ref> Butch-femme couples are not an imitation of heterosexuality,<ref>Jack Halberstam, ''Female Masculinity'', Durham: Duke University, 2018. p. 122.</ref> nor is butch simply manhood or an imitation of it. In ''Female Masculinity,'' [[Jack Halberstam]] defines the indefinability of butch: "The butch is neither cis-gender nor simply transgender, the butch is a bodily catachresis. The Greek word, ''catachresis'', means the rhetorical practice of misnaming something for which there would otherwise be no words. Butch is always a misnomer-- not male, not female, masculine but not male, female but not feminine, the term serves as a placeholder for the un-assimilable".<ref>Jack Halberstam, ''Female Masculinity'', Durham: Duke University, 2018. p. xi.</ref> Butch is a broad category that has included many kinds of queer masculine people. Some other notable people who identify as butch as a gender outside the binary include [[Ivan E. Coyote]], [[Kelli Dunham]], and [[Sonalee Rashatwar]].
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