Transyada

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

The splash page of Transyada.net, depicting the yada coat of arms.

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." In a 2013 comment on Genderqueer.me, user womandrogyne described the forum as "a small and very friendly enclave of AVENites [members of an asexual forum]... which is a haven for the non-binary gendered among us".

According to AVEN user P is for..., the community was also inclusive of binary trans people and cis people. Cis members sometimes called themselves "cisyadas".

As of March 2025, the forum had over 300,000 posts and 862 members.

In 2023, Tumblr user earhartsease, who participated for a decade, observed with sadness that the forum had "died out completely", remarking that the forum helped them realize they were agender and autistic. They added in tags, "#we never got to build a floating island republic together #but also in a way we totally did".

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. According to Siggy of The Asexual Agenda, objections to how a moderator addressed a transphobic incident sparked the desire to migrate from AVEN to a separate forum.

Multiple gender terms originated in the original thread. In a reply from 2010, user A Long Time Ago called coining a word for one's own gender a "yada tradition".

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.

Origin of "Demiguy" and "Demigirl"

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.

In a 2010 post in the thread, user bristrek87 inquired about the definition of "demigirl", remarking they could only find a definition on the Yada Wiki. User A Long Time Ago suggested its origin was with the yadas and explained their own identification with the termː

As far as I know, that and demiguy are terms made up by the yadas, so there is no additional information on it. Hopefully, they will get onto the Definitions Master List soon where the terms will get more visibility and then maybe it will spread out into more common usage. I personally identify as demigirl because I feel kind of like an female-agender blend by which I mean that I have no identification as male but have an identification as female that is not very strong.

Sample Threads

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.

There were threads functioning as "clubs" or meeting places for yadas of particular identities, ranging from transfeminine and transmasculine (originally transmasculine neutrois) to genderqueer, gender questioning, and agender.

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.