{"id":37366,"date":"2019-01-24T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37366"},"modified":"2019-01-01T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:26:44","slug":"qotd-multiple-gender-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/24\/qotd-multiple-gender-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Multiple gender identities"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few examples of possible gender identities offered in Crofton\u2019s article include \u201camorgender,\u201d which is \u201cgender that changes in response to a romantic partners,\u201d \u201cmirrorgender,\u201d which is \u201cgender that changes to reflect those around you,\u201d \u201cchaosgender,\u201d which is \u201cgender that is highly unpredictable,\u201d and \u201cgendervex,\u201d which is \u201chaving multiple genders, each of which is unidentifiable.\u201d Genders can also be negative instead of positive \u2014 something Crofton calls \u201cantigender.\u201d For example, some people might identify as \u201cantigirl,\u201d and that\u2019s not<\/em> to be confused with identifying as \u201cmale.\u201d <\/p>\n

Now, lest you think that all of this sounds too simple and restrictive, Crofton also clarifies that your gender absolutely does not have to be something that\u2019s included on this or any list, because even though \u201cdominant culture wants us each to conform to a single gender,\u201d you are totally allowed to have as many genders as you want, to change your gender or genders as often as you want, and to identify as a certain gender or genders like only a little bit instead of completely. Basically, anything goes \u2014 except, of course, for cultural appropriation. <\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s right. According to Crofton, certain gender identities can be appropriation, such as \u201cthe Two-Spirit genders of some North American Indigenous groups\u201d and \u201cautigender and fascigender, which are exclusive to people with autism.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it\u2019s impossible to access these genders without being part of a specific cultural context, it\u2019s inappropriate for outsiders to claim any Two-Spirit gender,\u201d Crofton writes, adding that if even one of your genders is \u201cculturally appropriated,\u201d then your whole \u201coverarching identity also becomes problematic\u201d \u2014 a situation that can be an issue for \u201cpangender people.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cPangender people, in a literal sense, identify as all genders,\u201d Crofton writes. \u201cThe problem is that \u2018all genders\u2019 includes culturally specific genders that must not be appropriated.\u201d <\/p>\n

Ahhhhhhh, yes. A huge problem indeed! I, for one, cannot believe there hasn\u2019t been more talk about how \u201cpangender\u201d is, by definition, culturally insensitive, and that identifying as all genders inherently means that you\u2019re saying that you identify with at least one gender outside of your own cultural experience. The solution, according to Crofton, is for pangender people to make sure that they describe themselves as being \u201call available genders\u201d instead of as \u201call genders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Katherine Timpf, “SJW Internet Publishes a Guide to Being as Many Genders as You Want without Culturally Appropriating”, National Review<\/em><\/a> 2017-02-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few examples of possible gender identities offered in Crofton\u2019s article include \u201camorgender,\u201d which is \u201cgender that changes in response to a romantic partners,\u201d \u201cmirrorgender,\u201d which is \u201cgender that changes to reflect those around you,\u201d \u201cchaosgender,\u201d which is \u201cgender that is highly unpredictable,\u201d and \u201cgendervex,\u201d which is \u201chaving multiple genders, each of which is unidentifiable.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41],"tags":[1126,254,196,238,997],"class_list":["post-37366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-culturalappropriation","tag-gender","tag-lgbt","tag-offensensitivity","tag-socialjustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9IG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37367,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37366\/revisions\/37367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}