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    • Genderfluidity is a non-fixed gender identity that shifts over time or depending on the situation. These fluctuations can occur at the level of gender identity or gender 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 as non-binary or transgender, or cisgender, which means they identify with the gender(s) associated with their sex assigned at birth.[3][4]

    Genderfluidity is different from gender-questioning, a process in which people explore their gender(s) in order to find their true gender identity and adjust their gender expression accordingly.[5] Genderfluidity continues throughout lives of genderfluid people.[6]

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    non-binary and third gender people) 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 1928 novel Virginia Woolf novel Orlando: A Biography features 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 term gender fluidity was in

    gender theorist Kate Bornstein's 1994 book Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us.[11] It was later used again in the 1996 book The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader.[12]

    In February 2014, Facebook included "Gender Fluid" as one of the 50 identity options available.[13]

    In May 2015, Dictionary.com added an entry for genderfluid.[14]

    Symbols

    The genderfluid

    lack of gender, purple represents androgyny, black represents all other genders, and blue represents masculinity.[15][16]

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    References

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    2. ^ McGuire, Peter (9 November 2015). "Beyond the binary: what does it mean to be genderfluid?". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
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      . 2 out of 7479 (0.03 percent) of respondents to the Australian Sex Survey, a 2016 online research survey, self-identified as trigender.
    5. ^ Katz-Wise, Sabra (December 3, 2020). "Gender fluidity: What it means and why support matters". Harvard Health Publishing. Archived from the original on April 12, 2023. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
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    7. ^ Oliven, John F. (1965). Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions. Lippincott.
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    10. ^ "Thousands of U.S. copyrighted works from 1928 are entering the public domain". Archived from the original on 2024-01-13. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
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    13. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived
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    14. ^ "gender-fluid Meaning | Gender & Sexuality". Dictionary.com. 12 March 2018. Archived from the original on 2023-02-13. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
    15. ^ "Flags and Symbols" (PDF). Amherst, Massachusetts: Amherst College. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
    16. ^ "Gender-fluid added to the Oxford English Dictionary". LGBTQ Nation. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-20.

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