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'''Metagender''' is a term that has been coined multiple times with varying definitions, including as multiple [[nonbinary]] [[Gender identity|gender identities]], a [[Romantic and sexual orientation|sexual orientation]], a [[Gender Modality|gender modality]], and a description for [[Gender nonconformity|gender-nonconforming behavior]]. Different definitions have been used as a self-identifier or in academic settings.  
'''Metagender''' is a term that has been coined multiple times with varying definitions, including as multiple [[nonbinary]] [[Gender identity|gender identities]], a [[Romantic and sexual orientation|sexual orientation]], a [[Gender Modality|gender modality]], and a description for [[Gender nonconformity|gender-nonconforming behavior]]. Different definitions have been used for LGBTQ+ self-identifiers and in academic settings.  


==History==
==History==


In a 1999 interview, musician/poet/filmmaker [[Phoebe Legere]] said that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/Femme_Fatales_v08n04/page/n39/mode/2up| p=40-41|journal=Femme Fatales|volume=8|number=4|date=September 10, 1999| title=Mighty Aphrodite}}</ref>
In a 1999 interview, musician/poet/filmmaker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Legere Phoebe Legere] said that she was "metagender, metasexual, not a man or a woman."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/Femme_Fatales_v08n04/page/n39/mode/2up| p=40-41|journal=Femme Fatales|volume=8|number=4|date=September 10, 1999| title=Mighty Aphrodite}}</ref>


The term was coined again 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> This coining's definition is given as "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|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip|chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|editors=O'Keefe, Tracie & Fox, Katrina |publisher=Jossey-Bass|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> The metagender identity was further developed as "a social gender that comes into play in a spiritual and religious context" inside a neopagan context.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psufenasviriuslupus.wordpress.com/home/metagender/|title=Metagender|date=2016-12-14|website=P. SUFENAS VIRIUS LUPUS|language=en|access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref>  
The term was coined again 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> This coining's definition is given as "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|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip|chapter=So, which one is the opposite sex?: the sometimes spiritual journey of a metagender|editors=O'Keefe, Tracie & Fox, Katrina |publisher=Jossey-Bass|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> The metagender identity was further developed as "a social gender that comes into play in a spiritual and religious context" inside a neopagan context.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psufenasviriuslupus.wordpress.com/home/metagender/|title=Metagender|date=2016-12-14|website=P. SUFENAS VIRIUS LUPUS|language=en|access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref>  


Maxfield Sparrow wrote in 2018 that metagender "expresses feeling outside the entire paradigm of gender."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Challenging genders: non-binary experiences of those assigned female at birth|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|date=2018|publisher=Boundless Endeavors, Inc|year=|isbn=978-0-9968309-6-6|editor-last=Brown|editor-first=Michael Eric|location=Miami, AZ|pages=}}</ref> Sparrow has claimed on social media to be out as metagender since 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/FTMOver30/comments/d98wwv/tell_me_about_your_nonbinary_transition/f1nlfli|title=r/FTMOver30 - Comment by u/MaxfieldSparrow on ”Tell me about your "non-binary transition"?”|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|date=2019-09-27|website=reddit|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Maxfield Sparrow on Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/UnstrangeMind/status/1337887769511612417|website=twitter|access-date=2020-12-24|language=en-US|date=2020-12-12|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>
Maxfield Sparrow, who came out as metagender in 1992,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/FTMOver30/comments/d98wwv/tell_me_about_your_nonbinary_transition/f1nlfli|title=r/FTMOver30 - Comment by u/MaxfieldSparrow on ”Tell me about your "non-binary transition"?”|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|date=2019-09-27|website=reddit|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2020-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Maxfield Sparrow on Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/UnstrangeMind/status/1337887769511612417|website=twitter|access-date=2020-12-24|language=en-US|date=2020-12-12|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref> wrote in 2018 that metagender "expresses feeling outside the entire paradigm of gender."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Challenging genders: non-binary experiences of those assigned female at birth|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|date=2018|publisher=Boundless Endeavors, Inc|year=|isbn=978-0-9968309-6-6|editor-last=Brown|editor-first=Michael Eric|location=Miami, AZ|pages=}}</ref>


In June 2014 "metagender" was suggested as an alternative word for [[pangender]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Pangender Without the 'Pan'|date=23 June 2014|url=https://collectivetey.tumblr.com/post/89664280616/pangender-without-the-pan}}</ref>
In June 2014 "metagender" was suggested as an alternative word for [[pangender]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Pangender Without the 'Pan'|date=23 June 2014|url=https://collectivetey.tumblr.com/post/89664280616/pangender-without-the-pan}}</ref>
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