Title: Non-binary gender - RationalWiki
Headings: Non-binary gender
Non-binary gender
Contents
Why do some people identify as non-binary?
Examples of traditional cogender identities
Africa
The Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
In Islamic texts
In Jewish texts
Recorded extinct cogender identities in history
Emerging non-binary gender identities and terminology in the West
Xenogender
Discrimination
Terms
Binarism
Exorsexism
Enbyphobia/NBphobia
Gender dysphoria
Criticism
See also
Gallery
External links
References

Content: Other cultures and traditions see them as simply another way of existing, and non-binary people from those cultures don't necessarily describe themselves in transgender terms. A non-binary person is not necessarily the same as a transsexual or an intersex person (though they can be), and as many transsexuals and intersex people view themselves as being either men or women, they will often take umbrage at being placed into a third category without being asked. There is a misconception that the concept of non-binary genders is relatively new -- that it is supposedly a product of the Internet age, largely spurred by users of the social media website Tumblr as a means to appear unique or special. However, several cultures around the world have had more than two gender types for millennia. Anthropologists who have documented these roles tend to use the term Cogender. Contents
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1 Why do some people identify as non-binary? 2 Examples of traditional cogender identities
2.1 Africa
2.2 The Americas
2.3 Asia
2.4 Europe
2.5 Oceania
2.6 In Islamic texts
2.7 In Jewish texts
2.8 Recorded extinct cogender identities in history
3 Emerging non-binary gender identities and terminology in the West
3.1 Xenogender
4 Discrimination
4.1 Terms
5 Gender dysphoria
6 Criticism
7 See also
8 Gallery
9 External links
10 References
Why do some people identify as non-binary? Nobody knows yet. Non-binary transgender identity has yet to be evaluated scientifically, unlike binary transgender identity which has been studied extensively. As science recognizes that a binary-identified transsexual is neurologically the gender that they identify as (see Causes of transsexualism ), and science recognizes that the physical body can naturally manifest physical ambiguity of sex (see Intersex ), one can speculate that non-binary people might be neurologically intersex.