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 ==History==
-One of the first recorded instances of bigender being used comes from a trans organization called the Human Outreach and Achievement Institute in the 1980s which defined "bigenderist" as a type of androgyne, with the latter being defined as "a person who can comfortably express either alternative gender role in a variety of socially acceptable environments."<ref>https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/8g84mm373</ref><ref>https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/5q47rn80n</ref>
+One of the first recorded instances of bigender being used comes from a trans organization called the Human Outreach and Achievement Institute in the 1980s which defined "bigenderist" as a type of androgyne, with the latter being defined as "a individual who can comfortably express either alternative gender role in a variety of socially acceptable environments."<ref>https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/8g84mm373</ref><ref>https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/5q47rn80n</ref>
 The more modern definition of bigender comes from Gary Bowen who, in his 1995 publication ''Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women'', defined being bigender as
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 <blockquote>''having two genders, exihibiting ''[sic] ''cultural characteristics of male and female roles''.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/19961105010926/http://www.ftm-intl.org/Wrtngs/ftm-words.gary.html</ref></blockquote>
-A 1997 paper concerning the "gender continuum" in International Journal of Transgenderism noted that "a person who feels or acts as both a woman and a man may identify as bi-gendered."<ref>https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm</ref> A 1999 survey conducted by the San Francisco Department of Public Health observed that, among the transgender community, less than 3% of those who were [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] and less than 8% of those who were [[AFAB|assigned female at birth]] identified as bigender.<ref>http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=cftg-02-02</ref>
+A 1997 paper concerning the "gender continuum" in International Journal of Transgenderism noted that "a individual who feels or acts as both a woman and a man may identify as bi-gendered."<ref>https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IJT/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0102.htm</ref> A 1999 survey conducted by the San Francisco Department of Public Health observed that, among the transgender community, less than 3% of those who were [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] and less than 8% of those who were [[AFAB|assigned female at birth]] identified as bigender.<ref>http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=cftg-02-02</ref>
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