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# Some of them have given it as an identity label that any person can use, even if they are not [[intersex]] (dyadic) themselves. This definition seems to have been coined earlier, at least in the 1990s.<ref name=":0">Donna Lynn Matthews, “What is intergendered?” 1998-10. [http://web.archive.org/web/20160326100452/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html]</ref>
# Some of them have given it as an identity label that any person can use, even if they are not [[intersex]] (dyadic) themselves. This definition seems to have been coined earlier, at least in the 1990s.<ref name=":0">Donna Lynn Matthews, “What is intergendered?” 1998-10. [http://web.archive.org/web/20160326100452/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html]</ref>
# Others have said that "intergender" can only by used by people who are intersex, and that intergender is an identity only for intersex people.<ref name=":1">Aeshling. "Intergender." ''Mogai-Archive.'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20160326100452/http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender]</ref> Intersex people need words for gender identities that correlate only with intersex bodies. In that case, dyadic nonbinary people should respect intersex people by taking up a different label than intergender for themselves, such as [[androgyne]] or [[bigender]].
# Others have said that "intergender" can only by used by people who are intersex, and that intergender is an identity only for intersex people.<ref name=":1">Aeshling. "Intergender." ''Mogai-Archive.'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20160326100452/http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/92026280519/intergender]</ref> Intersex people need words for gender identities that correlate only with intersex bodies. In that case, dyadic nonbinary people should respect intersex people by taking up a different label than intergender for themselves, such as [[androgyne]] or [[bigender]].