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'''Intergender''' is a [[gender]] [[Centrigender|between]] [[male]] and [[female]] or a gender that is [[Demigender|partially]] male and/or female, but it does not necessarily have to be. It can modify someone’s gender identity (i.e. intergender [[paragirl]]) or it can be an identity on its own (i.e. one is intergender because being intersex is their gender experience).
Recently, it has been deemed as exclusive to [[intersex]] individuals only, referring to any [[gender identity]] that is fundamentally tied to one's intersex identity. It denotes that being intersex has an important affect on one’s gender identity. Historically it has not had such exclusivity.
Common subsets to this are listed in [[The Inter-System]].
== History ==
The first recorded usage of the word was in October 1998 and was used to refer to a gender that feels in between male and female<ref>http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html</ref>. Under this definition it could be used by both [[dyadic]] and intersex individuals. At the time, "intergender" was used as an [[umbrella term]], similar to how "[[non-binary]]" came to be widely known as an umbrella term in the 2010s. Intergender included a variety of gender identities (even [[
In 2014, the Tumblr usernames quietlyloud-intersex/indonintersex independently coined the word "intergender," with the condition that this word is for the use of intersex individuals only. It had an otherwise similar definition as it did previously. It was defined as "A gender that is between and among male and female." The post did not seem to be aware of the other usage of the word.
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