Metagender: Difference between revisions

The term was coined again by 1997 by Rook Thomas Hine,<ref name=":14">{{cite web|url=http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040726170300/http://www.liminalityland.com/metagender.htm|archive-date=26 July 2004|title=Metagender|last=Bernhardt-House|first=Phillip|date=|access-date=|website=|dead-url=}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> an identity Hine characterized as being a "conscientious objector" in "the war of the sexes."<ref name=":6">{{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> This concept of metagender was further developed by Phillip Andrew Bernhardt-House. E defined the term in a 2003 anthology as a spiritual identity that was a "'wholly other' third/fourth/eighty-seventh"<ref name=":6" /> gender category that was not derived from any combination of [[woman]], [[man]], [[feminine]], [[masculine]], [[neuter]], or [[androgyne]]. E described being "a metagender" as similar to being a [[third gender]] with a spiritual component while being in a culture that lacked this concept.<ref name=":6" /> Metagender developed into a discrete identity as a spiritual functionary inside [[Pagan|neopaganism]], combining social gender and sexuality (latter being similar to [[pansexual]]), which it has remained since 2008 as described by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://psufenasviriuslupus.wordpress.com/home/metagender/|title=Metagender|date=14 December 2016|website=P. SUFENAS VIRIUS LUPUS|language=en|access-date=24 December 2020|last=Lupus|first=P. Sufenas Virius|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|publisher=Wordpress}}</ref>  

In 2012, metagender was defined in HaifischGeweint's Gender 101 as "a gender identity describing a person whose subjective experience of gender is not adequately described by any existing terminology (i.e., I never “met a” gender like you before)."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://haifischgeweint.wordpress.com/gender-101/|title=#Gender101|date=22 April 2012|website=HaifischGeweint|language=en|access-date=28 December 2020|last=|first=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|publisher=Wordpress}}</ref>

#In February, "meta-gender" was suggested by Tumblr user unquietpirate as the label for one's relationship to one's assigned gender at birth, similar to [[Gender Modality|gender modality]], to contrast with "experiential gender." Unquietpirate listed cisgender, transgender, and genderqueer as examples of meta-gender, last also being an "experiential gender."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://queeranarchism.tumblr.com/post/76889334992/yeah-but-can-you-explain-the-cis-gender-thing|title=Yeah, but can you explain the cis gender thing?|last=queeranarchism|first=|date=16 February 2014|website=Queer Anarchism|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=28 January 2021|publisher=Tumblr}}</ref>

#In June, metagender was suggested by Tumblr user collectivetey 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|access-date=21 December 2020|website=Collective Teleonomy|last=collectivetey|first=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|publication-place=Tumblr}}</ref>

#In July, metagender was coined by Tumblr users autisticlapis-blog, agenderchrismclean, and lordmoriarty. The definition was: "to identify around or beyond a gender. Where your gender identity is almost that gender, but not quite, and also extends beyond that. Imagine that — is you, and | is the gender identity (and identifying fully with a gender is —|), then metagender is — | —". For example, meta-boy, meta-girl, meta-nonbinary, and so on.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://autisticlapis-blog.tumblr.com/post/90952685669/so-apparently-someone-truscum-joked-about|title=so apparently someone (tru/scum?) joked about metagender but it’s actually...|website=get in the fucking robot 2k15|access-date=21 March 2021|date=6 July 2014|last=autisticlapis-blog|first=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|publisher=Tumblr}}</ref> The "—" is also written as "—-".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://imoga-pride.tumblr.com/post/180693311876/metagender-flag|title=Metagender Flag|last=imoga-pride|first=|date=1 December 2018|website=gendies ‘n’ more|publisher=Tumblr|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=22 March 2021}}</ref>

#In November, metagender was coined by Tumblr user arquus-malvaceae as "a tangential or tenuous connection to the concept of gender.  Existing in that sort of floaty space where there is no gender, but still connecting with another label.  Identifying with as opposed to identifying as. Can be narrowed down and specified as one sees fit.  Eg, Metawoman, Metaman, Metaqueer, etc."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arquus-malvaceae.tumblr.com/post/103240804765/metagender-a-tangential-or-tenuous-connection-to|title=Metagender: A tangential or tenuous connection to...|last=arquus-malvaceae|first=|date=21 November 2014|website=Cupcakes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228210047/https://arquus-malvaceae.tumblr.com/post/103240804765/metagender-a-tangential-or-tenuous-connection-to|archive-date=28 December 2020|dead-url=|access-date=28 December 2020|publisher=Tumblr}}</ref>

At Pantheacon 2015, a [[Pagan|neopagan]] convention, at least two persons spoke about their metagender identity at a roundtable discussion on gender diversity<ref name=":19">{{Cite web|url=http://divinespiralingrainbowtribe.blogspot.com/2015/03/living-spectra-with-jaina-bee.html|title=Living the Spectra with Jaina Bee|website=Divine Spiraling Rainbow Tribe: Exploring and Honoring Sacred Mxgender Mysteries|language=en|access-date=22 March 2021|date=15 March 2015|last=Bee|first=Jaina|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|publisher=Blogspot}}</ref> as derived from the spiritual definition by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus.<ref name=":3" /> After the convention, Priestx Jaina Bee wrote:

Author Maxfield Sparrow, who has spoken about coming 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=27 September 2019|website=reddit|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Maxfield Sparrow on Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/UnstrangeMind/status/1337887769511612417|website=Twitter|access-date=24 December 2020|language=en-US|date=12 December 2020|last=Sparrow|first=Maxfield|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|quote=It's great that people decided there should be a word for those who aren't cis and aren't trans but I wish they had not chosen the word [metagender] I&