Genderfaun
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Genderfaun (or gendermars) is a term for a type of gender identity which is fluid between multiple genders, but never female or feminine genders.
History
The term Gendermars was coined in 2016 or possibly earlier, as the tumblr blog mogai-lexicon posted about it on 20 February of that year, but did not indicate whether it was a new coining at that time.[1] In 2017, Genderfaun was coined by tumblr user shadowofthedude, who stated it would be a synonym of gendermars and a complementary term to genderfae.[2]
Demographics
In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, eleven respondents were genderfaun.[3] In the 2020 Gender Census, 50 respondents (0.203% of all respondents) reported they were genderfaun.[4]
Related identities
- Demifae: "a gender which is partially static and partially fluid (demifluid). The fluid part of the gender is only fluid between identities which are not male, male-aligned, or masculine. The static part of the gender can be any gender of combination of genders."[5]
- Genderfaer: Fluid between multiple genders, which can include masculine genders but not ever binary male.[5]
- Genderfae: Fluid between multiple genders, but never male nor masculine genders.
- Genderfaunet: Fluid between multiple genders, which can include feminine genders but not ever binary female.[6]
- Genderflor or Gendervae: Fluid between multiple genders but never male nor female. Genderflor was coined by an anonymous submission to tumblr blog beyond-mogai-pride-flags in March 2018[7], whereas Gendervae was coined in January 2021 by Instagram user runawingism.[8]
- Genderselkie: Fluid between multiple genders and often xenic genders.[5]
References
- ↑ "gendermars". MOGAI Lexicon. Archived from the original on 2 August 2016.
- ↑ "shadowofthedude asked: Uh. I didn't mean to put my ask on anonymous. I'm the genderfaun coiner". 6 May 2017.
- ↑ "Gender Census 2019 - the worldwide TL;DR". Gender Census. 31 March 2019. Archived from the original on 18 January 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ↑ GC2020 Public Copy, 1 November 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedLGBTAwiki - ↑ "exspiravitgender asked: Hello? I'm looking for a gender that I used to know but can't remember..." xeno-aligned. 2 February 2020.
- ↑ "Anonymous asked: Genderflor- a fluid gender that never encompasses male or female genders". 25 March 2018.
- ↑ "Coining a new term!". 19 January 2021.
