Version history

Added

• A graphite portrait plate on the homepage, beside the paragraph explaining what the catalogue is for, and on the share card. Every entry, category and collection already carries a written prompt for its own plate; this is the first one drawn.

Fixed

• The share card for an entry printed a grey dot and no label where it should have said where the word came from. It was keyed on a scale this site stopped using, so every entry looked identical to a reader scrolling a feed.
• The footer column headed The Record was four blank rows counting zero, for the same reason. It now lists the five origins the catalogue actually holds, with their counts.
• The homepage said gender terms come from four places. There are six, and five of them are in use here.

Content

• Eighty-two entries, one for every term in the reference list the catalogue is built from: the binary and the words for crossing it, twenty-three gender categories belonging to particular cultures, the umbrella terms, the fluid and the partial and the multiple, and the microlabel tail.
• Depth follows the record rather than a house length. A term with population figures, a dictionary attestation and a professional-body definition runs past a thousand words; a term whose entire documentation is two paragraphs on a community wiki runs to three hundred, and the entry says so. Padding the second to match the first would have meant inventing the difference.
• Every entry prints where its word came from: the year, the person and the publication where those exist, and a plain sentence saying nobody has dated it where they do not. That last case is the commonest one in this subject and no other glossary prints it.
• Eleven categories, read out of the sources rather than drafted in advance. The ten planned earlier failed against the catalogue that actually exists: two of them had no entries at all and one held a third of everything.
• Eight collections, each making an argument a filter cannot: the pairs readers most often mix up, the figures that get misquoted and why, the words whose meaning has moved, the categories that resist translation, and the Pacific grouping named by the communities in it rather than by this site.

Changed

• The scale the site sorted by is gone. It ranked terms by how much literature stood behind them, which does not transfer to this subject: a gender term is not more real for having been studied. In its place the catalogue sorts by where a word came from, which is a kind rather than a rank, and nothing in the interface now implies one origin is better than another.
• Numbers are labelled by what they measure. One tier means a share of a general population and the rest mean a share of the people who chose to answer a community survey. Reporting the second as the first is the commonest error made about this subject, and the site now refuses to make it in its own tooltips.

Fixed

• Three dates in one entry had been written without a source behind them. A sweep of the whole catalogue found unsourced years in seven more. All are cut or traced back to a source, and a check now runs on every build so that a year cannot enter an entry unless it is in the material that entry was written from.
• Search now matches the way names are actually spelled. Diacritics, apostrophes and hyphens are collapsed on both sides, so faafafine finds Fa'afafine and nonbinary finds non-binary.
• The page shown when a term is not found offered an example from a different subject entirely.

Added

• Every route a reference catalogue needs: an entry page, category and collection hubs, a browse view with facets, an A to Z index that works with JavaScript switched off, and a search that reads a build-time index.
• The design system. Clay is the accent, at #B5623C in the artwork and #AD5A35 in the interface, and it was chosen because it sits outside gender colour coding entirely: not pink, not blue, not rainbow. A reference work that signals a position in its own chrome has argued the case before the reader reaches a sentence.
• The mark is a plotted term: an axis with no end stops and one dot standing above it, off the midpoint. A bounded line with a point on it draws a spectrum between two poles, and that is the most common wrong picture of the subject.

Content

• No entries yet. What the site is showing is a placeholder corpus, and every page that describes the catalogue will be rewritten against the real one. Pronouns are written first: twenty sets, each with a full declension table and a dated first attestation, which is something no existing resource provides consistently.