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'''Trigender''' people experience three [[gender]]s, at the same time, or moving between the three at different times.<ref name="feinberg trans lib">Leslie Feinberg, ''Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink Or Blue'', page 53-4, Beacon Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8070-7951-0, ISBN 978-0-8070-7951-5.</ref><ref>Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, "[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-18/news/0911180173_1_gender-born-layers For the young, gender is fluid]", ''Chicago Tribune'', November 18, 2009.</ref> These three genders can be any gender, either binary or nonbinary.<ref>Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin, ''Teaching for diversity and social justice'', page 224,CRC Press, 2007, ISBN 0-415-95200-X, 9780415952002.</ref> A trigender person may change from expressing one gender to another, depending on that person's mood or situation.<ref name="Herdt">Gilbert H. Herdt, ''Third sex, third gender: beyond sexual dimorphism in
culture and history'', Zone Books, 1996, ISBN 0-942299-82-5, ISBN 978-0-942299-82-3.</ref> Someone who identifies as trigender may feel that their gender is a combination of several genders happening at the same time.<ref>Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, "For the young, gender is fluid", ''Chicago Tribune'', November 18, 2009.</ref> Trigender falls under the general categories of [[multigender]] (having many genders) and sometimes [[genderfluid]] (having genders that change from time to time). It can also be considered a type of [[genderqueer]] or [[nonbinary]] identity, which goes beyond the Western [[binary gender]] system,<ref name="Herdt"/> much as can be seen in cultures that recognize individuals' right to define their own sense of self<ref name="Bentz">Leslie Bentz, "The Neurobiology of Gender Bending", Bryn Mawr , 2005.</ref>
In most Western societies, straying outside of the gender dichotomy is seen as socially unacceptable to the patriarchy.<ref name="Bentz"/><ref>Stephen Marc Beaudoin,  "And Another Barrier is Broken: Meet Silverton, Oregon’s Gender-Fluid, Trans-Identified Mayor-Elect, Stu Rasmussen", ''Just Out'', November 6th, 2008.</ref> The term [[third gender]] has been applied to to many kinds of people, even to white Westerners themselves, who do not conform into rigid categories of heterosexual roles and gender-conforming men and women. The phrase "third gender" has been used for a wide variety of meanings: [[intersex]] people whose bodies do not fit outdated Western medical concepts of binary sex, [[gender-variant identities worldwide|hundreds of indigenous societal roles]] as described (and often misrepresented) by Western anthropologists (including indigenous identities such as south Asian [[hijra]]s, Hawaiian and Tahitian [[māhū]], and Native American identities now called [[Two-Spirit]]s),<ref>Julia Serano, ''Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity.'' Unpaged.</ref> transgender people who are [[nonbinary]], homosexual people even in Western societies,<ref name="Trumbach">Trumbach, Randolph. (1998) ''Sex and the Gender Revolution. Volume 1: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London''. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society)</ref><ref name="The Social Studies C">{{cite book |last=Ross |first=E. Wayne |title=The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2006|isbn= 978-0-7914-6909-5 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4qFMqjxte9IC }}</ref><ref>Kennedy, Hubert C. (1980) ''The "third sex" theory of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs'', Journal of Homosexuality. 1980–1981 Fall–Winter; 6(1–2): pp. 103–1</ref> and women who were considered to be [[gender-nonconforming]] because they fought for [[feminism|women's rights]].<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=407320 | pages=582–599 | last1=Wright | first1=B. D. | title="New Man," Eternal Woman: Expressionist Responses to German Feminism | volume=60 | issue=4 | journal=The German Quarterly | year=1987 | doi=10.2307/407320  }}</ref> A significant number of nonbinary people have adopted "third gender" to describe themselves. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 2.17% (244) of the 11,242 respondants called themselves third gender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census">"Gender Census 2019 - the worldwide TL;DR." ''Gender Census.'' March 31, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2020. https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118084451/https://gendercensus.com/post/183843963445/gender-census-2019-the-worldwide-tldr</ref>
==History==
The word "trigender" was in use at least before 1999.<ref name="feinberg trans lib" /> Trigender was mentioned as one of many valid nonbinary identities in the 2013 text ''Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide''.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=9781446293133|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide|last1=Richards|first1=Christina|last2=Barker|first2=Meg|year=2013|publisher=SAGE Publications}}</ref> In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, 14 respondents called themselves trigender.<ref name="2019 Gender Census" />
== See also ==
* [[Multigender]]
* [[Genderfluid]]
* [[Bigender]]
== References ==
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[[Category:Nonbinary identities]]
[[Category:Nonbinary identities]]
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