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* '''Name(s):''' metagender
* '''Name(s):''' metagender


* '''Origin:''' Coined by Tumblr users keyblademastercecilpalmer, agenderchrismclean, and lordmoriarty by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.  
* '''Origin:''' First coined in the 2000s by Rook Thomas Hine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805111854/http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-date=5 August 2004|title=Metagender|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip}}</ref> Independently coined again in 2014 by Tumblr users keyblademastercecilpalmer, agenderchrismclean, and lordmoriarty by submission to the MOGAI-Archive blog in 2014.  


* '''Meaning:''' "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.<ref>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender</ref>  
* '''Meaning:'''
** 2000s coining: "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'."<ref>{{cite book |chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|title=Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity|year=2003|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/findingrealmetru00trac/page/76/mode/2up}}</ref>
** 2014 coining: "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.<ref>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91734862699/metagender</ref>  


* '''Keywords:''' partial gender (demigender)
* '''Keywords:''' third gender, other gender, partial gender (demigender)


* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />
* '''Demographics:''' In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, one respondent.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />
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