List of nonbinary identities: Difference between revisions

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* '''[[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>

* '''[[demiboy]]'''. A gender identity that expresses both male identity and [[Agender]] identity, or both male and genderless.<ref name"asexualityorgpromasterlist">[http://asexualityorg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gender&amp;action=print&amp;thread=9 Definitions Master List], asexualityorg proboards, posted August 2012, captured April 2016.</ref><ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref>

* '''[[demigirl]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A gender identity that expresses both female identity and [[Agender]] identity, or both female and genderless.<ref>[http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/55798-definitions-master-list/ AVEN: Definitions Master List]</ref>

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[[File:Auckland pride parade 2016 37.jpg|thumb|Fa'afafine banner at the Auckland pride parade in 2016.]]

* '''[[fa'afafine]]'''. In Samoa, the Fa'afafine are people who were [[Sexes#Assigned male at birth|assigned male at birth]], have a feminine gender expression, and don't think of themselves as female or male.<ref name="Kremer">{{Cite web |title=The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality |author=William Kremer |work=BBC News |date=18 February 2014 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26089486}}</ref>

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[[File:Anjali gopalan.jpg|thumb|Asia's first genderqueer pride parade in Madurai, 2012. The [[genderqueer flag]] can be seen here, with stripes of purple, white, and green.]]  

* '''[[genderless]].'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Having no gender identity. Syn. [[Agender|agender]].

* '''[[gender neutral]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> 1. That which has nothing to do with gender, or is inclusive of any gender. 2. Having no gender identity; [[agender]]. 3. Having a gender identity that is neutral: not female, not male, not a mix; compare [[neutrois]].

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* '''[[maverique]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined by Vesper H. (queerascat) in 2014. A specific nonbinary gender identity "characterized by autonomy and inner conviction regarding a sense of self that is entirely independent of male/masculinity, female/femininity or anything which derives from the two while still being neither without gender nor of a neutral gender."<ref>''[http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/89448452041/maverique-definition-reworded-06-21-14-a maverique]'', Vesper H. (queerascat), June 2014, captured April 2016.</ref>

[[File:Marche des Fiertés Paris 02 07 2016 06.jpg|thumb|200px|Photograph taken during the Paris Gay Pride March in 2016. The banner is printed with the colors of the nonbinary flag. The big letters say "My gender is nonbinary," with dozens of names of specific nonbinary identities listed in smaller letters in the background.]]

* '''[[neutrois]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined by a neutrois person named H. A. Burnham in 1995.<ref>Axey, Qwill, Rave, and Luscious Daniel, eds. “FAQ.” Neutrois Outpost. Last updated 2000-11-23. Retrieved 2001-03-07. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010307115554/http://www.neutrois.com/faq.htm]</ref> Having one non-binary gender identity that is neutral. Not female, not male, and not a mix. Some neutrois people are transsexual, experience gender dysphoria, and want to get a physical transition.<ref>''[http://neutrois.me/neutrois Define]'', Neutrois Nonsense, date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref>

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* '''[[queer]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A reclaimed slur for the LGBT+ community, and an umbrella term for identities that are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender. Some people use this as the name for their nonbinary gender identity.{{Citation needed}}

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[[File:SF Pride 2014 - Stierch 3.jpg|thumb|Two-spirited pride marchers at San Francisco Pride 2014.]]

* '''[[transgender]]'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> is an umbrella term that refers to people whose identity differs from their assigned gender at birth. Some nonbinary people also use this word to talk about their identity.

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