X-gender
Japanese term for non-binary gender identities / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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X-gender (Japanese: Xジェンダー, romanized: x-jendā) is a third-gender that differs from M, for male, or F, for female.[1][2][3] The term X-gender came into use during the later 1990s, popularized by queer organizations in Kansai, especially in Osaka and Kyoto.[4][5] The term is used in place of non-binary and genderqueer in Japan.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
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Prominent examples of people who define themselves as "X-gender" are mangaka Yūki Kamatani[13][14] and Yuu Watase.[15][16][17]
In 2019, Japan LGBT Research Institute Inc. conducted an online survey, collecting 348,000 valid responses from people aged 20 to 69, not all of whom were LGBT. 2.5% of the respondents called themselves X-gender.[18]