Transyada

Transyada is an online community and discussion forum for users interested in "messing around with gender", which became active in 2010.

The Yada Wiki describes yadas as "...originally brought together under the pretense of... slip[ping] between the cracks of the binary, identifying as something neither wholly male nor wholly female - perhaps both, perhaps neither, perhaps either on alternating days or one only when it rains, but certainly not how they were born."

TransWhatevers of AVEN

The forum was a spinoff of the "TransWhatevers of AVEN" thread, hosted on the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network forum. User Teagan KGB created the thread for trans people who desired an alternative to previously existing threads for trans men and trans women.

Origin of "Demiguy"

In this thread, user Bad Patient coined the term "demiguy", modeled on "demiromantic". He wroteː

I've been thinking. (It's a thing I do. Pretty much all I do, really.) Last night I was lying in bed and thinking about the kind of stuff everyone else thinks about before they fall asleep: my weird sexual and gender identity. At one point I remembered my fondness of the term "demiromantic" and, chuckling, I said to myself that I can any word relate to me if I just stick a "demi-" in front of it. And then I realised that it might actually help me find a word for my gender identity. I've felt for some time that I may have too much of the masculine element in me to call myself agender and feel good about it — so maybe it would be a nice idea to call myself a demiguy. Demidude. Demibloke. Just not demiman, tyvm, because I only accept being called a man when you're talking about my body and not mind, and even then I prefer adjectives like "masculine" or "male" to that dreaded noun. Now, I'm not being entirely serious here, as I'm not going to go around calling myself a demibloke and I don't think I'll ever find a term that fully describes me anyway — and if I do, my identity will probably change just to spite me — but I kind of like those words and feel that they may actually describe me quite well. I'm not sure. But then again, I'm never sure of anything related to myself.

Signed,

Bad Patient the Demiyada

PS The elitist douche in me likes describing himself with terms that are likely used by no-one else.

Origin of "Yada"

The term "yada" originated on the first page of this thread in an exchange between users Pugnacioun, Percy McKean and P is For... Definitions of "transyada", a related term, also appear in an AVEN thread from November 2010.

Forum

Sample threads from the gender subforum include "What the gender are you thinking?!" (miscellaneous thoughts about gender), "Genderwatch" (relevant news articles), and "Rantfest Thread-- Gender Version" (venting related to gender). Users also asked questions about and contributed their definitions of gender-related terminology.

Wiki

The Yada Wiki can currently only be accessed via the Wayback Machine. It includes entries on gender labels including agender, androgyne, demigirl, and neutrois.