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As of 2025, the Livejournal community had 115 members; the last post was in 2011.<ref name=":0" />
As of 2025, the Livejournal community had 115 members; the last post was in 2011.<ref name=":0" />


An analysis of journal entries and comments from the genderqueer Livejournal community, conducted by linguists Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth, found that "polygender" was the least common term for a person outside the binary in the dataset (which included content from 2001-2008). The term only appeared in the first few years of data.<ref>Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "How we got here: Short-scale change in identity labels for trans, cis, and non-binary people in the 2000s". 2020. Proc Ling Soc Amer 5(1). 499–513. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4728</nowiki></ref>   
An analysis of journal entries and comments from the genderqueer Livejournal community, conducted by linguists Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth, found that "polygender" was the least common term for a person outside the binary in the dataset (which included content from 2001-2008). The term only appeared in the first few years of data.<ref name=":1">Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "How we got here: Short-scale change in identity labels for trans, cis, and non-binary people in the 2000s". 2020. Proc Ling Soc Amer 5(1). 499–513. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4728</nowiki></ref> The researchers observed a similar pattern for uses of "polygender" in their dataset from the ftm Livejournal community (which had many members whose genders fell outside the binary).<ref name=":1" />   


== Demographics ==
== Demographics ==
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