Adgender is a gender modality that refers to someone who moves towards a given gender, or gender presentation. It is slightly more inclusive than terms like transmasculine and transfeminine as it includes people who wouldn't be included by trans. Examples include:
- An AFAB bigender individual who has been on testosterone and now needs to do the same things as transfeminine people to pass on days where they feel like a girl. This individual wouldn't be transmasculine but adfeminine.
- A male headmate in a system who has to dress the body of the cis woman host when they front in order to feel themself would be admasculine.
- A cis man with Kallmann syndrome who chooses to take testosterone might consider themself admasculine.
- An AFAB non-binary femme might call themself adfeminine because they feel like they're transitioning into a different kind of femininity than the heteronormative role they were assigned at birth.
- A butch woman who transitions but wants to avoid the connotations of transmasculine might feel more comfortable calling themself admasculine.
- A female headmate in a system who, in world, is transfeminine but the host is an AFAB body.
- An intersex individual who has undergone medical intervention but doesn't consider themself trans might consider themself adgender.
- A trans woman would be adfeminine and transfeminine, because in this case adfeminine an umbrella term that transfeminine falls under.
Subcategories
- Adfeminine - Someone who moves towards a feminine gender or feminine presentation
- Admasculine - Someone who moves towards a masculine gender or masculine presentation
- Adneutral - Someone who moves towards a neutral gender or neutral presentation
- Adandrogynous - Someone who moves towards an androgynous gender or androgynous presentation
History and flags
Adgender was coined by Queer-Buccaneers on June 22, 2018.[1] The flag was created on July 14, 2018, on beyond-mogai-pride-flags.[2] The adfeminine, admasculine, and adneutral flags were created on July 22, 2021, by wiki user Celestialsofia. The adandrogynous was created on August 17th, 2021 by Fandom user TheMagisttrate.