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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.
* '''[[bigender]], or bi-gender'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> A bigender person feels they have two gender identities,<ref name="Trans Bodies 612">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 612.</ref> 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> A bigender person may move between their gender expressions based on their situation or their feelings.<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> These two genders might be female and male, or they might be a different pair of genders.
* '''[[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]].
* '''[[butch]]'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Butch is a queer masculine identity<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> that began in working-class lesbian bar culture in the 1940s and 50s.<ref name=LevittSR>{{Cite journal|last=Levitt|first=Heidi|date=February 2003|title=The Misunderstood Gender: A Model of Modern Femme Identity|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225274019|journal=[[Sex Roles]]|volume=48|issue=3/4|pages=99–113|doi=10.1023/A:1022453304384|pmid=|access-date=May 2, 2016}}</ref><ref name=Kennedy1993_82>{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=Elizabeth Lapovsky|author2=Madeline D. Davis|title=Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community|year=1993|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=New York|isbn=0-415-90293-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bootsofleathersl00kenn_0/page/82 82–86]|url=https://archive.org/details/bootsofleathersl00kenn_0/page/82}}</ref> A butch of the 1950s onward and trans<ref name="trans warriors x">Leslie Feinberg, ''Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul.'' Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. p. x.</ref> person [[English_neutral_pronouns#Ze, hir|hirself]],<ref name=Tyroler>{{cite web |url= http://www.campkc.com/campkc-content.php?Page_ID=225 |title=Transmissions – Interview with Leslie Feinberg |date=28 July 2006 |work=CampCK.com |last=Tyroler |first=Jamie |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141123060911/http://www.campkc.com/campkc-content.php?Page_ID=225 |archive-date=November 23, 2014 |access-date=17 November 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> [[Leslie 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> The mid-20th century roles of queer butch-femme couples<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> are not an imitation of heterosexuality.<ref>Jack Halberstam, ''Female Masculinity'', Durham: Duke University, 2018. p. 122.</ref> Masculinity or butchness is neither the same as nor an imitation of manhood. As one trans man put it, the butch lesbian women he knew "were much more butch than me. But I was much more male than they were."<ref name="selfmade 24">Henry Rubin, ''Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men.'' Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. P. 24.</ref> Though butch most often means a lesbian woman,<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> not all are. Queer theorist [[Jack Halberstam]] defines the indefinability of butch: "The butch is neither [[cisgender|cis-gender]] nor simply transgender [...] Butch is always a misnomer-- not male, not female, masculine but not male, female but not feminine".<ref>Jack Halberstam, ''Female Masculinity'', Durham: Duke University, 2018. p. xi.</ref> Butch is a diverse category. Some people choose to call themselves butch.<ref name="Trans Bodies 612" /> Notable people who call themselves butch as an identity outside the gender binary include writer [[Ivan E. Coyote]],<ref>[https://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_coyote_why_we_need_gender_neutral_bathrooms/transcript Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms], Ivan Coyote, November 2015</ref><ref name="case_Gend">{{Cite web |title=Gender Landmines: Trans Masculinities, Femininities, and Binaries: A Review of Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon's Gender Failure |author= |work=Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian |date=7 July 2014 |access-date=3 April 2020 |url= https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.com/2014/07/07/gender-landmines-trans-masculinities-feminities-and-binaries-a-review-of-ivan-coyote-and-rae-spoons-gender-failure/}}</ref><ref>https://abcbookworld.com/writer/coyote-ivan-e/</ref> comedian [[Kelli Dunham]],<ref name="Guerrero">{{Cite web |title=Genderqueer Comic Kelli Dunham On Getting (Thee) Away From a Nunnery |last=Guerrero |first=Desirée |work=The Advocate |date=21 April 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2020/4/21/genderqueer-comic-kelli-dunham-getting-thee-away-nunnery}}</ref> and social worker [[Sonalee Rashatwar]].<ref name="IGbio">https://www.instagram.com/thefatsextherapist/</ref>


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