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[-] DroneRights@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is no academic literature, because the culture responsible for producing academic literature ever since the Enlightenment has historically been transphobic, and only took gender dysphoria out of the DSM in 2013. You think there's a book out there explaining every single nonbinary gender identity? No, there are thousands of nonbinary gender identities. What field of academia do you even want to hear from? Biology? We're a gender, not a sex. History? We don't have any, there aren't enough of us. Physics? Math? Not relevant. Anthropology? There aren't any established populations of us because we're born at random at a very low frequency within a transphobic society. Psychiatry? Being swarmgender isn't an illness.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean even though society is transphobic it still manages to produce "research" or really just any discussion at all on the subject. I couldn't find a single article or the like. I'm just used to queer identities having some sort of representation in the LGTBQ sphere, rather than just popping up on a website with seemingly no history - like neopronouns didn't just come from out of nowhere.
While you say swarmgender isn't a mental illness, you also admit that the psychiatric field has a history of cataloguing gender identities diverging from the binary. While non-binary isn't a mental illness, it was still studied enough to be in the DSM, so it's existence was known - it was just treated with bigotry.
I don't think of any specific field, but usually there is something, anything really.