Meanings
- uncountableThe belief in and acceptance of more than two gender identities (i.e. more than male and female).
Multigenderism has CLEARLY FAILED! and only immigrants of the SAME GENDER should be allowed in.
2002 July 9, fasgnadh, “Is Multiculturalism worth it?”, in aus.politics (Usenet)3 more examples
While I'll acknowledge that 'communal/matriachial' societies have traditionally supported transgenderism and multigenderism, I'm uncertain that it can be attributed to the 'communal' nature of teh culture (that Leslie seems to imply).
1996 October 19, Rosalind Hengeveld, “Transgender Warriors”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet)Here Garton Ash argues that when liberals extended their thinking to embrace the rights of workers and women, for example, they did not find it necessary to address 'multiclassism' or 'multigenderism'. So, why bother with 'multiculturalism'?
2013, George Crowder, Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 208True liberation of gender/sexuality would be multigenderism, but not postgenderism, ie: in current conditions settling niches for more than two genders would be much more helpful than complete elimination of gender.
2016 June, Y Kolesnikova, “Culturalist criticism of queer doctrine”, in CAES, volume 2, number 2
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