Guide:Gender

 serves as a guide for formatting pages on gender identities on this Wikia. Please use it as an example when creating and editing pages. A simple blurb about this gender goes here that mentions what kind of gender it is (ex, evilcatgender is a subset of catgender). Template:Gender should be used. Check the gender category for examples of filled out pages.

Alternate Names

 * If this gender is called by any other names, put them here.

Etymology
Origins of this gender's name.

Pronunciation
How to pronounce the title of this article. This can be formatted in phonetic spelling or International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), or both. Embedding a video or audio file where someone pronounces the term is also acceptable. Easypronounciation.com has an English Phonetic Spelling Generator which may be used, but users should keep in mind it may not always be accurate and the original words a term's name is derived from should always be considered.

Definitions

 * Text goes here. Put the original text used when coining here. - Person who coined, year

Additional commentary about what makes this gender unique here. If this gender's ever been accidentally recoined by the same name with a different definition, talk about that here too.

History
Text goes here. Some terms have lots of discussion and years of effort behind them, this is where we'd talk about that.

Community
A wide range of things can be mentioned here, this section is for general impacts that people who identify as this term have on society. Wikipedia's similar section can be used as inspiration.This section can mention things specific to this identity's community, like ace rings to asexuals, or miscellaneous things that people of this group have achieved and contributed to that don't fall into the other sections, or be left blank.

Statistics
Examples of people actually identifying with this label or the definition of it go here. Acceptable examples include quotes from celebrities or public figures, survey results like the Gender Census, and screenshots of blogs (with permission), etc. Fictional characters may also be added to this section if they've been said to be this label in canon (during the media they came from, or by a staff member.

(Ez keeps a tag on his blog dedicated to posts that mention statistics and one for canon representation, which may be a good place to start finding statistics and examples. He also spent time adding up exactly how many xenogender identities appeared in the 2020 Gender Census)

Controversy
If there's been a specific variety of (this identity)-phobic discourse that has led to discrediting it (examples being pan, ace, etc) or if this identity is potentially genuinely harmful (quasihomo, super, etc), please detail that here. This section can also be renamed called "flag controversy" if there have been similar -phobic discourses around popular flags, examples being the racist claims around the pan flag, or the true racism and biphobia of the pink lesbian flag's creator. Like other sections, this can be left blank or removed if not applicable.

Perceptions and Discrimination
This section can cross over somewhat with the controversy section, but focuses more on the specific kinds of discrimination and oppression that these people may face. Examples would be mentioning systematic transphobia and nonbinary erasure on the page for agender, mentioning rates of mental health issues in this group, etc. Specific examples of notable transphobes or other bigots mentioning this term to mock it are acceptable as well.

Subsets

 * If there's subsets of this gender, (like how genderplasma is a subset of genderfluid) put links to each here (with no description).

Flags
Information about the given meanings of the flag/s and the symbols can go here too.

Combinations
Combinations such as bi agender, pan trans, etc.

Coining
Any screenshots related to original discussions of coining this term, if there are any, go here. If nothing, leave blank.

Other
Any other kind of image (symbols from the flag, people waving pride flags, merchandise with the flags, images used to describe the gender, cube flags, aesthetic edits, MOGAIballs, DNI banners themed after the flag that were used when posting that flag, etc) goes here. If nothing, leave blank.