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[[File:Gender Identity Mapping by Ant Smith.jpg|thumb|450px|A multi-axial gender map created in 2016 by photographer Ant Smith.]] | [[File:Gender Identity Mapping by Ant Smith.jpg|thumb|450px|A multi-axial gender map created in 2016 by photographer Ant Smith.]] | ||
'''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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205170034/https://www.campuspride.org/resources/gender-continuum/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</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. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327210342/https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/best-practice-highlights/working-with-lgbtq-patients |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</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 conceptualization has been criticised by some, as it does not fully adequately include all genders.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=thejeffreymarsh |authorlink= Jeffrey Marsh |last=Marsh |first=Jeffrey |number=1421982374611415041 |date= 1 August 2021|title=Hello cis friends! If, when you say “gender is a spectrum,” you picture a line with …Man being real on one end, and Woman being real on the other…and everyone else in relation to and “in between…” …gender is not that. gender is a blob, a nebula, a sundae}}</ref> Many nonbinary genders are not "between male and female" (for example [[maverique]], [[agender]], [[aporagender]], or [[xenogender]]). | 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 conceptualization has been criticised by some, as it does not fully adequately include all genders.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=thejeffreymarsh |authorlink= Jeffrey Marsh |last=Marsh |first=Jeffrey |number=1421982374611415041 |date= 1 August 2021|title=Hello cis friends! If, when you say “gender is a spectrum,” you picture a line with …Man being real on one end, and Woman being real on the other…and everyone else in relation to and “in between…” …gender is not that. gender is a blob, a nebula, a sundae}}</ref> 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.|archive-url=False|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</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> | ||
[https://genderspectrum.org/ Gender Spectrum] is also the name of a USA-based gender inclusion organization. | [https://genderspectrum.org/ Gender Spectrum] is also the name of a USA-based gender inclusion organization. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
One of the earliest references to a gender spectrum in literature may have been from German legal author Prof. Ludwig Frey, when he uses the German language term ''Geshlechtsreihe'' in his 1898 book ''Die Männer des Rätsels und der Paragraph 175 des Deutschen Reichsstrafgesetzbuches'' ("The Men of Riddles and Paragraph 175 of the German Imperial Criminal Code").<ref name="Frey">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/DieMaennerDesRaetselsUndDerParagraph175DesDeutschen|title=Die Männer des Rätsels und der Paragraph 175 des Deutschen Reichsstrafgesetzbuches|last=Frey|pages=216|first=Ludwig|publisher=Verlag von Max Spohr|year=1898|location=Leipzig}}</ref> Although this is not explicitly the term "gender spectrum", ''Geshlechtsreihe'' can be translated to mean a scale/spectrum/sequence of genders/sexes.<gallery widths="260" heights="170"> | One of the earliest references to a gender spectrum in literature may have been from German legal author Prof. Ludwig Frey, when he uses the German language term ''Geshlechtsreihe'' in his 1898 book ''Die Männer des Rätsels und der Paragraph 175 des Deutschen Reichsstrafgesetzbuches'' ("The Men of Riddles and Paragraph 175 of the German Imperial Criminal Code").<ref name="Frey">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/DieMaennerDesRaetselsUndDerParagraph175DesDeutschen|title=Die Männer des Rätsels und der Paragraph 175 des Deutschen Reichsstrafgesetzbuches|last=Frey|pages=216|first=Ludwig|publisher=Verlag von Max Spohr|year=1898|location=Leipzig|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412142936/https://archive.org/details/DieMaennerDesRaetselsUndDerParagraph175DesDeutschen|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Although this is not explicitly the term "gender spectrum", ''Geshlechtsreihe'' can be translated to mean a scale/spectrum/sequence of genders/sexes.<gallery widths="260" heights="170"> | ||
File:Ludwig Frey charts - original.png|Frey's original charts, with the top and middle depicting spectrums of gender identities. | File:Ludwig Frey charts - original.png|Frey's original charts, with the top and middle depicting spectrums of gender identities. | ||
File:Ludwig Frey charts - translated.png|Translated and digitally-restored versions of Frey's charts, with the middle one intending to place [[Uranian|Uranians]] upon a gender spectrum | File:Ludwig Frey charts - translated.png|Translated and digitally-restored versions of Frey's charts, with the middle one intending to place [[Uranian|Uranians]] upon a gender spectrum | ||