Third gender movements

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In the Kryfona Kingdom, the term third gender movement (Kryfona: tejait sizse voszye; sometimes abbreviated to just TSV or referred to as a sizse voszye) refers to the various movements that advocate for the recognition and inclusion of other genders besides male and female in the Kryfona Kingdom. Although semantically, the term specifically refers to movements that advocate for only a third gender, in the public lexicon it has come to refer to all movements that advocate for additional genders under law. The term is not without controversy however, and many organizations use the more neutral gender activism movement(s) to describe groups in place of "third gender movement".

Third gender movements in the Kryfona Kingdom have their roots in the historical struggles of the LGBT community in the Kryfona Kingdom, particularly the struggles of the transgender and non-binary communities of the Kingdom. Transgender and non-binary rights in the Kingdom, as in the rest of the Old World, have historically lagged behind the gay and bisexual community; full transgender protections under the law of the Kryfona Kingdom did not occur until 1983, and only came after repeated debate and amendment. Crucially however, the Hate and Discrimination Based Crimes Act of 1983, which ushered in such protections, did not recognize in its length any third genders, nor acknowledge the existence of non-binary individuals. This apparent oversight gave rise to the first wave of so-called third gender movements in the modern Kingdom.

Although still relatively small in the context of the general LGBT community of the Kryfona Kingdom, the third gender movements have been the beneficiaries of a general shift to the left in Kryfona politics in the past three decades. Once considered to be a fringe minority even among some members of the LGBT community, the third gender movements now enjoy widespread support with the LGBT community, as well as some support from socially-leftist and centrist parties such as the Loyalists and the UKP. Mirroring this trend, the number of advocacy groups has doubled since 1990, and their membership has trebled in the same period of time. Nonetheless, support for the recognition of more than two genders remains a hard-sell for much of the Kingdom: an effort to bring a discussion on the subject to the Kryfonsparliszaiye's floor in 2015 failed, and efforts to pass legislation which would recognize a third gender have consistently failed to make it beyond the committee stage of the legislative body. Public support is also not with the third gender movements; polling on the subject in 2011,[1] 2013,[2] and 2015[3] consistently found that only around 35% of Kryfona support the recognition of a third gender by law.

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  1. Veitel, DAZENYEK: Support of the third gender movements rises, but remains in vast minority. Azsaeha. 17 February, 2011.
  2. Derys, SIELEK: Support inches up for third-gender orgs; third gender concept remains unpopular. Yadysima. 26 May, 2013.
  3. Lades, KGHYILDA GETEN: The Status Quo Is Shifting… but not that much.. Nylzsryfa. 2 January, 2015.