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-Demigender, demigirl, demiboy, and related terms were coined online in 2014 or possibly earlier. A tumblr blog named demigenders was started in March 2014, aiming to be "a safe space for those who identify as demigirl, demiboy, demienby, demigender demiflux, or demifluid".<ref>https://demigenders.tumblr.com/archive/2014/3</ref> Another blog, demigenderpalace, was created in June 2014, with a similar aim.<ref name="palace">{{Cite web |title=Hello this is the demigender palace |author=spyro |work=safe space for demigenders |date=17 June 2014 |access-date=5 July 2020 |url= https://demigenderpalace.tumblr.com/post/89018247156/hello-this-is-the-demigender-palace-a-safe-space }}</ref>
+On August 12, 2010, user Bad Patient of AVEN's<ref>https://www.asexuality.org/en/</ref> transyadas<ref>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/54301-whats-a-transyada/?tab=comments#comment-1640236</ref> posted
+<blockquote> I've been thinking. (It's a thing I do. Pretty much all I do, really.) Last night I was lying in bed and thinking about the kind of stuff everyone else thinks about before they fall asleep: my weird sexual and gender identity. At one point I remembered my fondness of the term "demiromantic" and, chuckling, I said to myself that I can any word relate to me if I just stick a "demi-" in front of it. And then I realised that it might actually help me find a word for my gender identity. I've felt for some time that I may have too much of the masculine element in me to call myself agender and feel good about it — so maybe it would be a nice idea to call myself a demiguy. Demidude. Demibloke. Just not demiman, tyvm, because I only accept being called a man when you're talking about my body and not mind, and even then I prefer adjectives like "masculine" or "male" to that dreaded noun. Now, I'm not being entirely serious here, as I'm not going to go around calling myself a demibloke and I don't think I'll ever find a term that fully describes me anyway — and if I do, my identity will probably change just to spite me — but I kind of like those words and feel that they may actually describe me quite well. I'm not sure. But then again, I'm never sure of anything related to myself.
+Signed,
+Bad Patient the Demiyada
+PS The elitist douche in me likes describing himself with terms that are likely used by no-one else. <ref>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/52633-transwhatevers-of-aven/page/20/?tab=comments#comment-1615634</ref></blockquote>
+In December of that year, a different user in that forum, seeking more information, wrote<ref>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/52633-transwhatevers-of-aven/page/728/?tab=comments#comment-1733093></ref> that the only place they could find a description of the term "demigirl" was on the yada wiki.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150805010221/http://yada.wikia.com/wiki/Demigirl</ref> In response, user A Long Time Ago posted
+<blockquote> As far as I know, that and demiguy are terms made up by the yadas, so there is no additional information on it. Hopefully, they will get onto the Definitions Master List soon where the terms will get more visibility and then maybe it will spread out into more common usage. I personally identify as demigirl because I feel kind of like an female-agender blend by which I mean that I have no identification as male but have an identification as female that is not very strong.<ref>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/52633-transwhatevers-of-aven/page/728/?tab=comments#comment-1733127</ref></blockquote>
+"Demigirl" and "demiguy" were added to the AVEN Gender Definitions Masterlist<ref>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/159465-gender-definitions-masterlist-forum-ettiquette-and-faq/</ref> on Dec 12th 2010.<ref>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/52633-transwhatevers-of-aven/page/728/?tab=comments#comment-1733514</ref>
+A tumblr blog named demigenders was started in March 2014, aiming to be "a safe space for those who identify as demigirl, demiboy, demienby, demigender demiflux, or demifluid".<ref>https://demigenders.tumblr.com/archive/2014/3</ref> Another blog, demigenderpalace, was created in June 2014, with a similar aim.<ref name="palace">{{Cite web |title=Hello this is the demigender palace |author=spyro |work=safe space for demigenders |date=17 June 2014 |access-date=5 July 2020 |url= https://demigenderpalace.tumblr.com/post/89018247156/hello-this-is-the-demigender-palace-a-safe-space }}</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>}}