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== TransWhatevers of AVEN == | == 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.<ref>Teagan KGB. "TransWhatevers of AVEN". The Asexuality Visibility and Education Network. July 21 2010. <nowiki>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/52633-transwhatevers-of-aven/</nowiki></ref> | 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.<ref>Teagan KGB. "TransWhatevers of AVEN". The Asexuality Visibility and Education Network. July 21 2010. <nowiki>https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/52633-transwhatevers-of-aven/</nowiki></ref> 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.<ref>Siggy. "A whirlwind history of asexual communities." The Asexual Agenda. August 7, 2022. <nowiki>https://asexualagenda.wordpress.com/2022/08/07/a-whirlwind-history-of-asexual-communities/</nowiki></ref> | ||
Multiple gender terms originated in | 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".<ref>A Long Time Ago. December 13 2010. https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/52633-transwhatevers-of-aven/page/729/#comment-1734942 </ref> | ||
=== Origin of "Demiguy" and "Demigirl" === | === Origin of "Demiguy" and "Demigirl" === |
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