Femmegender

This page is about a gender identity that is not widely used among gender-variant people. This does not mean that the identity is not valid, but that very few people are known to use this term. More information on uncommon identities...

Femmegender

Related identities	femme, demigirl, nonbinary woman
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Flag for "nonbinary femme" from Beyond Mogai Pride Flags

Femmegender, or femgender, is a nonbinary gender identity that is feminine in nature. It comes from the queer term "femme", which means a person who subverts and/or queers femininity. The term is popular in lesbian and sapphic communities. Femmegender can denote a person whose gender identity is tied to their femmeness. For a person who does not identify as femme, but still feels like their femininity is a part of their gender, the spelling femgender is more commonly used.

History

Femmegender seems to have first been coined by tumblr user queerfucker in July 2014. They defined it as "identifying with femininity, femme, and girlhood, but also not a girl; nonbinary with a core and foundation of enduring femme".

In August 2014 the user queernoctis created flag ideas for femmegender:

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Purple is a feminine color, but doesn't have the same GIRL connotations that pink does. The fade out of shades from dark to light is meant to represent the variations in gender while still associating with the core/foundation of femme. The mint/green are meant to represent the sort of 'absence' of a binary gender/being a girl, as well as give a bit of variety of color for those that dont like the plain purple+white design.

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An alternate meaning of femmegender was coined in 2019 by a nonbinary lesbian named Red. Red's definition of femmegender is "where you have two or more genders where they are ALL feminine genders!"