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'''Amalgagender''' is a nonbinary identity defined as "A gender that is affected by, or mixed into one's [[intersex]] identity." It is a label intended for use by intersex people only.<ref name="nbn">{{Cite web |title=Amalgagender - A gender that is affected by, or mixed into one’s intersex identity. For use by intersex people only. |author= |work=Non-Binary Noise |date=7 January 2016 |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://nandbaremyfavouriteletters.tumblr.com/post/136829983857/amalgagender-a-gender-that-is-affected-by-or}}</ref><ref name="intermisogyny">{{Cite web |title=Amalgagender |author= |work=intermisogyny | '''Amalgagender''' is a nonbinary identity defined as "A gender that is affected by, or mixed into one's [[intersex]] identity." It is a label intended for use by intersex people only.<ref name="nbn">{{Cite web |title=Amalgagender - A gender that is affected by, or mixed into one’s intersex identity. For use by intersex people only. |author= |work=Non-Binary Noise |date=7 January 2016 |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://nandbaremyfavouriteletters.tumblr.com/post/136829983857/amalgagender-a-gender-that-is-affected-by-or}}</ref><ref name="intermisogyny">{{Cite web |title=Amalgagender |author= |work=intermisogyny |date=11 August 2015 |url= http://intermisogyny.tumblr.com/post/126478036199/amalgagender|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903012733/http://intermisogyny.tumblr.com:80/post/126478036199/amalgagender|archive-date=3 September 2015}}</ref> It was presumably coined from the word "amalgam" which means "a combination of different things". | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
"Amalgagender" seems to have been coined by Tumblr user intermisogyny in August 2015.<ref name="intermisogyny" /> | "Amalgagender" seems to have been coined by Tumblr user intermisogyny in August 2015.<ref name="intermisogyny" /> | ||
In 2017, a Bristol Post article about nonbinary terms included "amalgagender", though with a | In 2017, a Bristol Post article about nonbinary terms included "amalgagender", though with a wrong definition, saying that amalgagender people "Are intersex and identify as intersex".<ref name="Wood">{{Cite web |title=Mx, Ind and Misc: The new titles Bristol Water is giving its transgender customers |last=Wood |first=Alex |work=Bristol Post |date=26 May 2017 |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/mx-ind-misc-new-titles-55479}}</ref> | ||
In 2018, Washington state began to allow "X" gender markers on official documents<ref name="Jackman">{{Cite web |title=Washington to recognise third gender in groundbreaking move |last=Jackman |first=Josh |work=PinkNews |date=5 January 2018 |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/05/washington-to-recognise-third-gender-in-groundbreaking-move/}}</ref>, with the law stating that {{quote|"X" means a gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, [[agender]], [[amalgagender]], [[androgynous]], [[bigender]], [[demigender]], female-to-male, [[genderfluid]], [[genderqueer]], male-to-female, [[neutrois]], [[nonbinary]], [[pangender]], [[third gender|third sex]], [[transgender]], [[transsexual]], [[Two Spirit]], and unspecified.<ref name="washington">{{Cite web |title=WAC 246-490-075: Changing sex designation on a birth certificate. |author= |work=Washington State Legislature |date= |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-490-075}}</ref>}} | In 2018, Washington state began to allow "X" gender markers on official documents<ref name="Jackman">{{Cite web |title=Washington to recognise third gender in groundbreaking move |last=Jackman |first=Josh |work=PinkNews |date=5 January 2018 |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/05/washington-to-recognise-third-gender-in-groundbreaking-move/}}</ref>, with the law stating that {{quote|"X" means a gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, intersex, [[agender]], [[amalgagender]], [[androgynous]], [[bigender]], [[demigender]], female-to-male, [[genderfluid]], [[genderqueer]], male-to-female, [[neutrois]], [[nonbinary]], [[pangender]], [[third gender|third sex]], [[transgender]], [[transsexual]], [[Two Spirit]], and unspecified.<ref name="washington">{{Cite web |title=WAC 246-490-075: Changing sex designation on a birth certificate. |author= |work=Washington State Legislature |date= |access-date=14 May 2020 |url= https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-490-075}}</ref>}} | ||