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Gender policing

The earliest gendered clothing ordinance in the United States was enacted in Columbus, Ohio in 1848. The ordinance forbade someone from appearing, "in a dress not belonging to his or her sex." In the 19th century, forty American cities passed anti-drag and anti-crossdressing ordinances. These ordinances often adopted language invoking public indecency, such as St. Louis's 1864 law which stated: “Whoever shall, in this city, appear in any public place in a state of nudity, or in a dress not belonging to his or her sex, or in an indecent or lewd dress... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.” Other ordinances were couched in terms of public safety. A 1845 New York state statute, for example, defined an unlawful vagrant as “[a] person who, having his face painted, discolored, covered, or concealed, or being otherwise disguised, in a manner calculated to prevent his being identified, appears in a road or public highway.” Many gendered clothing laws from the early 20th century focused particularly on forbidding people assigned male at birth from dressing in women's clothing. Such sex-specific laws were passed in Detroit, Michigan in 1944, in Denver Colorado in 1954, and in Miami, Florida in 1965.

In the latter half of the 20th century, some crossdressing laws were challenged on the basis of their ambiguity and difficulty of enforcement. The Supreme Court of Ohio saw the 1975 case Columbus v Rogers, which challenged and overturned the city's ordinance. Ohio Supreme Court Justice O'Neill wrote that the ordinance was, "unconstitutionally void for vagueness, because it does not provide adequate standards by which activity can be determined as legal or illegal." He clarified later in his opinion, "Modes of dress for both men and women are historically subject to changes in fashion. At the present time, clothing is sold for both sexes which is so similar in appearance that a person of ordinary intelligence might not be able to identify it as male or female dress."

Androgyny edits I'm working on

Androgyny is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics into an ambiguous form. Androgyny may be expressed with regard to biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual identity. The different meanings of androgyny point to the complex interrelationship between aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality.

When androgyny refers to mixed biological sex characteristics in humans, it often refers to intersex people. As a gender identity, androgynous individuals may refer to themselves as genderqueer, nonbinary, or gender neutral. As a form of gender expression, androgyny can be achieved through personal grooming or fashion. Androgynous gender expression has waxed and waned in popularity in different cultures and throughout history.

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Biological sex

Historically, the word androgynous was applied to humans with a mixture of male and female sex characteristics, and was sometimes used synonymously with the term hermaphrodite. In some disciplines, such as botany, "androgynous" and "hermaphroditic" are still used interchangeably.

When androgyny is used to refer to physical traits, it often refers to a person whose biological sex is difficult to discern at a glance because of their mixture of male and characteristics. Because androgyny encompasses additional meanings related to gender identity and gender expression that are distinct from biological sex, today the word androgynous is rarely used to formally describe mixed biological sex characteristics in humans. In modern English, the word intersex is used to more precisely describe individuals with mixed or ambiguous sex characteristics. However, both intersex and non-intersex people can exhibit a mixture of male and female sex traits such as hormone levels, type of internal and external genitalia, and the appearance of secondary sex characteristics.

See also: Sex differences in humans

Gender expression Gender expression which includes a mixture of masculine and feminine characteristics can be described as androgynous. The categories of masculine and feminine in gender expression are socially constructed, and rely on shared conceptions of clothing, behavior, communication style, and other aspects of presentation. In some cultures, androgynous gender expression has been celebrated, while in others, androgynous expression has been limited or suppressed. To say that a culture or relationship is androgynous is to say that it lacks rigid gender roles, or has blurred lines between gender roles.

4.1 Gender and behavior 4.2 Bem Sex-Role Inventory 4.3 Androgyny in fashion

Gender identity An individual's gender identity, a personal sense of one's own gender, may be described as androgynous if they feel that they have both masculine and feminine aspects.

My Assigned Article - Androgyny

Bibliography

Definition of Androgyny from Human Rights Campaign

Timeline of Anti-Crossdressing Laws in the U.S.

Ideas

Restructure idea - into sections on androgyny of biological sex (in non-human animals?), androgyny as gender identity, and androgyny as gender expression. I put a note on the talk page about this.

Interested in politics of androgynous gender expression - including gendered clothing laws in U.S.? Are there laws about gender expression elsewhere in the world?

Article Selection Assignment

Androgyny - this article is a bit of a mess and needs some love. Some sections are very short and it's overall lacking in clarity. It has numerous warnings and headings. I'd be most interested in adding historical origins of the word "androgyny," more cultural context for androgyny, and historical examples of people who were considered androgynous (and by whom!) I think it should be couched in terms of language about gender expression, gender idenitity, with reference to intersex traits. Giving this article a major revamp would be a fun project to work on.

Kate Bornstein - a living artist, whose books and performances have been influential on queer and LGBT thought for decades. It's written in a neutral way but is missing some information about her life and ideas, and could be fleshed out more throughout. It's also stylistically a little awkward because Kate has used different pronouns throughout her life and a history of edits reflects this, but currently she has stated that she/her pronouns are fine.This article is rated start-class, so It would be a good candidate.

Mattachine Society - while it contains a modest amount of information, it's missing some stories of activism and organizing that we've read for class! This looks like a great candidate for an article with an added section for "activities." Some minor style updates would also be good.

Boston marriage - contains a modest amount of information but could certainly include more examples.

Yas (slang) - this would just be a funny article to learn the history of and contribute to. It's rated as stub-class. I'm not sure what information is most relevant for wikipedia.

Article Evaluation Assignment

I chose to evaluate Legal recognition of non-binary gender for this assignment. The article begins with a "history" section, clarifies the difference between recognition of intersex people and recognition of transgender people, and proceeds as a list-based article of the legal status of non-binary gender recognition by country, and in the United States of America, by state.

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
  • This article is tightly focused and didn't contain any extraneous or irrelevant information that I saw. The map at the top is particularly helpful for getting an overall picture of the recognition of non-binary people.
• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
  • Some sections of this article haven't been updated in awhile (since 2017) and read "this country will do X thing." The section on Canada in particular needed some tense/time edits.
• What else could be improved?
  • In the section about the United States, information is presented semi-chronologically but could be rearranged to be easier to follow the flow of particular topics or court cases.
    

• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
  • This article seems very fact and data focused, and not biased. It works under the presupposition that non-binary people exist, which seems fairly natural.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
  • The U.S.A. and Canada sections are much longer than other countries, which may also have detailed histories of non-binary people, but with less English-language media to cite.

• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
  • The citations provided in this article do work, and because the article is mostly a list of events, they're all relevant. There are some citations missing from a few country sections, however.
• Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
  • Most of the sources are news media, which are probably appropriate given this information. A relative dearth of scholarly sources, but much of this information is more recent.

• What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
  • The talk page isn't very active for this topic - the last modifications were in mid-2018.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
  • This article is part of WikiProjects: Gender Studies, and WikiProjects: LGBT Studies. It has a C-class in both. It also has a warning to impose discretionary sanctions against editors who edit articles related to GamerGate or gender-related controversies.
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
  • So far, we haven't talked about non-binary identities much in class, but I hope we will in the future!

Flatworms are one of the loveliest worm phyla.

Practicing different features of Wikipedia!

Worms are amazingly diverse animals! Did you know there are nine phyla of worms? Ever since I learned that from Emily Graslie, I haven't stopped thinking about it.