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==History== | ==History== | ||
The term "X-gender" began to be used in Osaka | The term "X-gender" began to be used in the queer communities of Kansai, in Osaka and Kyoto, during the latter half of the 1990s, when it appeared in writings published by queer organizations in those regions.<ref>http://rainbowaction.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.html</ref><ref name="Dale">S.P.F. Dale. "An Introduction to X-Jendā: | ||
Examining a New Gender Identity in Japan." ''Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific'' Issue 31, December 2012. http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dale.htm</ref> | |||
==Characteristics== | ==Characteristics== | ||
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* M A Joy is a manga artist and illustrator working in Tokyo. [https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/14/then-i-saw-rupauls-drag-race-coming-out-as-x-gender-in-tokyo-a-manga They made this comic about how they realized they were x-gender]. | * M A Joy is a manga artist and illustrator working in Tokyo. [https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/14/then-i-saw-rupauls-drag-race-coming-out-as-x-gender-in-tokyo-a-manga They made this comic about how they realized they were x-gender]. | ||
* [[Wikipedia:Yuhki Kamatani|Yuhki Kamatani]] (鎌谷 悠希) (b. 1983) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, best known for their first serialized series ''Nabari no Ou'', published by Square Enix.<ref>https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4757515626 リベラメンテ―鎌谷悠希短編集</ref> Having come out in a 2012 tweet,<ref>{{cite tweet|number=199640030942208000|user=yuhkikamatani|title=隠すことでもわざわざ言うことでもカテゴライズするようなことでもないと分かっているけど、無難に生きようと、へらへら誤魔化している自分に対して無性に腹立たしく思う時があります。誤魔化したくない。私はXジェンダーでアセクシャルなセクシュアルマイノリティです。そんな程度の人間です。|date=May 7, 2012}}</ref> Kamatani identifies as X-gender and asexual. In their Twitter profile,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/yuhkikamatani/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308012056/https://twitter.com/yuhkikamatani/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 8, 2016|title=鎌谷悠希 (@yuhkikamatani) {{!}} Twitter|date=March 8, 2016|accessdate=May 1, 2018}}</ref> Kamatani notes their gender as "toX"—following the tradition of transgender individuals identifying as FTM or MTF—which conceals their assigned at birth gender. | * [[Wikipedia:Yuhki Kamatani|Yuhki Kamatani]] (鎌谷 悠希) (b. 1983) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, best known for their first serialized series ''Nabari no Ou'', published by Square Enix.<ref>https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4757515626 リベラメンテ―鎌谷悠希短編集</ref> Having come out in a 2012 tweet,<ref>{{cite tweet|number=199640030942208000|user=yuhkikamatani|title=隠すことでもわざわざ言うことでもカテゴライズするようなことでもないと分かっているけど、無難に生きようと、へらへら誤魔化している自分に対して無性に腹立たしく思う時があります。誤魔化したくない。私はXジェンダーでアセクシャルなセクシュアルマイノリティです。そんな程度の人間です。|date=May 7, 2012}}</ref> Kamatani identifies as X-gender and asexual. In their Twitter profile,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/yuhkikamatani/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308012056/https://twitter.com/yuhkikamatani/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 8, 2016|title=鎌谷悠希 (@yuhkikamatani) {{!}} Twitter|date=March 8, 2016|accessdate=May 1, 2018}}</ref> Kamatani notes their gender as "toX"—following the tradition of transgender individuals identifying as FTM or MTF—which conceals their assigned at birth gender. | ||
* Morita Shinichi is one of the founding members of an LGBT rights group in the 1990s called G-Front. Morita describes themself as ''jenda-furi'' ([[genderfree]]), x-gender, and "MTFTX gay." Morita said, "there exists no word for transsexual or transgendered individuals who do not clearly aim to be distinctly male or female. As such, I just use the term 'x-jendā' to talk about my way of being."<ref name="Dale" /> | |||
* [[Wikipedia:Yuu Watase|Yuu Watase]] (渡瀬 悠宇) (b. 1970) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist, known for creating comics such as ''Fushigi Yūgi''. Watase received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for ''Ceres, Celestial Legend'' in 1997. In May 2019, Watase came out as x-gender.<ref>https://twitter.com/wataseyuu_/status/1130461270358908928 ブログでもここでも呟いたけど、再度。 漫画にも影響してると思うから。 私はXジェンダーと医師に診断されてて、中身は、男にも女にも寄れるし男でも女でもない。 見た目はちゃんと(20代後半から社会に合わせて)どうせやるならやるでメイクもオシャレもする、それだけ。 女性の身体は否定しないが→ I blogged here and again, but again. I think it also affects manga. I have been diagnosed by X-gender and a doctor, and the contents are neither men nor women, nor men or women. It looks just fine (according to society from the late 20s), and if you do it, you can make and be fashionable. I do not deny the female body カンガタリ:リマスター｣⑪発売中 渡瀬悠宇:新刊｢アラタ date 2019-05-20 @wataseyuu_ access-date=2019-08-16</ref> | * [[Wikipedia:Yuu Watase|Yuu Watase]] (渡瀬 悠宇) (b. 1970) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist, known for creating comics such as ''Fushigi Yūgi''. Watase received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for ''Ceres, Celestial Legend'' in 1997. In May 2019, Watase came out as x-gender.<ref>https://twitter.com/wataseyuu_/status/1130461270358908928 ブログでもここでも呟いたけど、再度。 漫画にも影響してると思うから。 私はXジェンダーと医師に診断されてて、中身は、男にも女にも寄れるし男でも女でもない。 見た目はちゃんと(20代後半から社会に合わせて)どうせやるならやるでメイクもオシャレもする、それだけ。 女性の身体は否定しないが→ I blogged here and again, but again. I think it also affects manga. I have been diagnosed by X-gender and a doctor, and the contents are neither men nor women, nor men or women. It looks just fine (according to society from the late 20s), and if you do it, you can make and be fashionable. I do not deny the female body カンガタリ:リマスター｣⑪発売中 渡瀬悠宇:新刊｢アラタ date 2019-05-20 @wataseyuu_ access-date=2019-08-16</ref> | ||