What is X-gender?
{{Expand English}}[[File:X-gender flag.svg|thumb|The x-gender flag]] '''X-gender''' ({{Lang-ja|Xジェンダー|x-jendā}}) is a [[Third Gender|third-gender]] that is not M ([[male]] or [[masculine]]) or F ([[female]] or [[feminine]]).<ref>Dale, S. P. F. (2012). An introduction to X-Jendā: Examining a new gender identity in Japan. ''Intersections: Gender and sexuality in Asia and the Pacific'', ''31''.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pushing for 'X-gender' recognition {{!}} NHK WORLD-JAPAN News|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/576/|access-date=2021-07-08|website=NHK WORLD|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Non-Binary in Japan|url=https://www.abnrmljapan.com/home/nonbinary-in-japan|access-date=2021-07-08|website=ABNRML JAPAN|language=en-US}}</ref> The term is used instead of [[Non-binary gender|non-binary]] and [[genderqueer]] in [[Japan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Xジェンダーのための会員制サークル label X（ラベル・エックス）|url=http://ftxmtx-x-gender.com/|access-date=2021-07-08|website=label X（ラベル・エックス）}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67425|title=Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict|last1=Alexy|first1=Allison|last2=Cook|first2=Emma E.|last3=Alexy|first3=Allison|last4=Cook|first4=Emma E.|last5=Dale|first5=S. P. F.|last6=Dales|first6=Laura|date=2018|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|isbn=978-0-8248-7704-0|location=Honolulu}}</ref><ref>«[http://www.outjapan.co.jp/lgbtcolumn_news/out_proud/2026.html ノンバイナリー（Xジェンダー）とは] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422044234/https://www.outjapan.co.jp/lgbtcolumn_news/out_proud/2026.html |date=2021-04-22 }}». ''www.outjapan.co.jp'' (in Japanese).</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The ABCs of LGBT+ in Japan|url=https://blog.gaijinpot.com/the-abcs-of-lgbt-in-japan/|access-date=2021-07-08|website=GaijinPot Blog|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-06-06|title=X-gender|language=en|work=Nonbinary Wiki|url=https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/X-gender|access-date=2021-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Selected Links on Non-Binary Gender in Japan: