Gender fluidity
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Gender fluidity(commonly referred to asgenderfluid) is a non-fixedgender identitythat shifts over time or depending on the situation. These fluctuations can occur at the level ofgender identityorgender expression.A genderfluid person may fluctuate among different gender expressions over their lifetime, or express multiple aspects of various gender markers simultaneously.[1][2]Genderfluid individuals may identify asnon-binaryortransgender,orcisgender(meaning they identify with the gender associated with theirsex assigned at birth).[3][4]
Gender fluidity is different fromgender-questioning,a process in which people explore their gender in order to find their true gender identity and adjust their gender expression accordingly.[5]Gender fluidity continues throughout lives of genderfluid people.[6]
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History
[edit]Transgenderpeople (includingnon-binaryandthird genderpeople) have existed in cultures worldwide since ancient times. The modern terms and meanings of "transgender", "gender","gender identity",and"gender role"only emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.[7][8][9]As a result, opinions vary on how to categorize historical accounts of gender-variant people and identities, including genderfluid individuals.
The 1928Virginia WoolfnovelOrlando: A Biographyfeatures a main character who changes gender several times, and considers gender fluidity:
In every human being, a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.[10]
The first known mention of the termgender fluiditywas ingender theoristKate Bornstein's 1994 bookGender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us.[11]It was later used again in the 1996 bookThe Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader.[12]
Symbols
[edit]The genderfluidpride flagwas designed by JJ Poole in 2012. Thepinkstripe of the flag representsfemininity,thewhiterepresentslack of gender,purplerepresentsandrogyny,blackrepresents allother genders,andbluerepresentsmasculinity.[13][14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Cronn-Mills, Kirstin (2015).Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices.Minneapolis, Minnesota: Twenty-First Century Books. p. 24.ISBN978-0-7613-9022-0.
- ^McGuire, Peter (9 November 2015)."Beyond the binary: what does it mean to be genderfluid?".The Irish Times.Archivedfrom the original on 22 November 2015.Retrieved1 December2015.
- ^Bosson, Jennifer K.; Vandello, Joseph A.; Buckner, Camille E. (2018).The Psychology of Sex and Gender.Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. p. 54.ISBN978-1-5063-3134-8.OCLC1038755742.Archivedfrom the original on 28 May 2020.Retrieved4 August2019.
- ^Whyte, Stephen; Brooks, Robert C.; Torgler, Benno (25 September 2018). "Man, Woman," Other ": Factors Associated with Nonbinary Gender Identification".Archives of Sexual Behavior.47(8). Heidelberg, Germany:Springer Science+Business Media:2397–2406.doi:10.1007/s10508-018-1307-3.PMID30255409.S2CID52823167.
2 out of 7479 (0.03 percent) of respondents to the Australian Sex Survey, a 2016 online research survey, self-identified as trigender.
- ^Katz-Wise, Sabra (December 3, 2020)."Gender fluidity: What it means and why support matters".Harvard Health Publishing.Archivedfrom the original on April 12, 2023.RetrievedApril 12,2023.
- ^Jolly, Divya; Boskey, Elizabeth R.; Thomson, Katharine A.; Tabaac, Ariella R.; Burns, Maureen T.S.; Katz-Wise, Sabra L. (2021-03-12)."Why Are You Asking? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Assessment in Clinical Care".Journal of Adolescent Health.69(6): 891–893.doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.08.015.ISSN1054-139X.PMID34629230.S2CID238580640.
- ^Oliven, John F. (1965).Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions.Lippincott.
- ^Janssen, Diederik F. (April 21, 2020). "Transgenderism Before Gender: Nosology from the Sixteenth Through Mid-Twentieth Century".Archives of Sexual Behavior.49(5): 1415–1425.doi:10.1007/s10508-020-01715-w.ISSN0004-0002.PMID32319033.S2CID216073926.
- ^Mesch, Rachel (May 12, 2020).Before trans: three gender stories from nineteenth-century France.Stanford, California.ISBN978-1-5036-1235-8.OCLC1119978342.
{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^"Thousands of U.S. copyrighted works from 1928 are entering the public domain".NPR.Archivedfrom the original on 2024-01-13.Retrieved2024-01-14.
- ^Bornstein, Kate (2016).Gender Outlaw On Men, Women and the Rest of Us.Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.ISBN978-1-101-97461-2.OCLC1155971422.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-01-10.Retrieved2023-01-22.
- ^Hernandez, Michael M. (1996)."Boundaries: Gender and Transgenderism". The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader.Alyson.OCLC757653724.
- ^"Flags and Symbols"(PDF).Amherst, Massachusetts:Amherst College.Archived(PDF)from the original on 10 May 2017.Retrieved20 December2016.
- ^"Gender-fluid added to the Oxford English Dictionary".LGBTQ Nation.Archivedfrom the original on 25 October 2016.Retrieved2016-12-20.
Further reading
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Booker, Lauren (2021-04-21)."What it means to be gender-fluid".CNN.
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