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'''Gender spectrum''' or '''gender continuum'''<ref name="Keig">{{Cite web |title=Gender Continuum |last=Keig |first=by Zander |work=Campus Pride |date=27 September 2012 |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://www.campuspride.org/resources/gender-continuum/|quote=because now I feel able to express myself, along the gender continuum, without reservation}}</ref><ref name="psyc_Work">{{Cite web |title=Working with LGBTQ Patients |author=Cabaj, Robert Paul |work=psychiatry.org |date= |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/best-practice-highlights/working-with-lgbtq-patients |quote=The gender continuum breaks down into separate, but not mutually exclusive masculine and feminine continuums. }}</ref> is a term often used as a metaphor to help explain [[nonbinary]] identities.
'''Gender spectrum''' or '''gender continuum'''<ref name="Keig">{{Cite web |title=Gender Continuum |last=Keig |first=by Zander |work=Campus Pride |date=27 September 2012 |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://www.campuspride.org/resources/gender-continuum/|quote=because now I feel able to express myself, along the gender continuum, without reservation}}</ref><ref name="psyc_Work">{{Cite web |title=Working with LGBTQ Patients |author=Cabaj, Robert Paul |work=psychiatry.org |date= |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/best-practice-highlights/working-with-lgbtq-patients |quote=The gender continuum breaks down into separate, but not mutually exclusive masculine and feminine continuums. }}</ref> is a term often used as a metaphor to help explain [[nonbinary]] identities.


In its most simplistic form, the gender spectrum is a line going from [[male]] on one end to [[female]] on the other end. However, this does not fully adequately include all genders; many nonbinary genders are not "between male and female" (for example [[maverique]], [[agender]], or  
In its most simplistic form, the gender spectrum is a line going from [[male]] on one end to [[female]] on the other end. However, this does not fully adequately include all genders; many nonbinary genders are not "between male and female" (for example [[maverique]], [[agender]], [[aporagender]], or [[xenogender]]).


The phrase "on the gender spectrum" is sometimes used as a synonym for "nonbinary" or "[[gender nonconforming]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=Women and Prison|chapter=Sexuality and Gender: Locked in, and Out|year=2020|page=90|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Women_and_Prison/RdfsDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA90|quote=While prisoners who identify on the gender spectrum overwhelmingly say that their gender is not affirmed how they would identify, there are some that note being on the gender spectrum is easier than being transgender.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Gender Creative Child|page=106|last=Ehrensaft |first=Diane|year=2016|quote=...the jury is still out as to exactly why we are seeing this high incidence of children on the autism spectrum showing up also as children on the gender spectrum...}}</ref>
The phrase "on the gender spectrum" is sometimes used as a synonym for "nonbinary" or "[[gender nonconforming]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=Women and Prison|chapter=Sexuality and Gender: Locked in, and Out|year=2020|page=90|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Women_and_Prison/RdfsDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA90|quote=While prisoners who identify on the gender spectrum overwhelmingly say that their gender is not affirmed how they would identify, there are some that note being on the gender spectrum is easier than being transgender.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Gender Creative Child|page=106|last=Ehrensaft |first=Diane|year=2016|quote=...the jury is still out as to exactly why we are seeing this high incidence of children on the autism spectrum showing up also as children on the gender spectrum...}}</ref>
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