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 those who wouldn't be included under the trans umbrella. Examples include:
- An AFAB bigender individual who has been on testosterone and now needs to do the same things as transfeminine individuals to pass on days where they feel like a girl. This individual would be 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 is 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
Adgender was coined by Queer-Buccaneers on June 22, 2018.[1]
Flags
The adgender flag was created through the Tumblr blog beyond-mogai-pride-flags on July 14, 2018.[2] The adfeminine, admasculine, and adneutral flags were created by Wiki user Celestialsofia on July 22, 2021.
The adandrogynous flag was created by Wiki user TheMagisttrate on August 17, 2021.[3]
References
- ↑ https://archive.today/2021.05.20-003050/https://queer-buccaneers.tumblr.com/post/175125498477/admasculine-transitioning-towards-masculinity
- ↑ https://archive.today/2022.02.15-081634/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/175895522910/adgender-pride-flag
- ↑ https://archive.today/2022.02.15-082541/https://lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Adgender?commentId=4400000000000182747