Conformant describes a person who falls into the expected societal ideals, expectations, or roles for some form of identification. One can be conformant in terms of gender, sex, gender expression, sexuality, orientation, relationships, or other related forms of self-identification. The opposite of conformant is variant. People can be variant in some areas and conformant in other areas. To specify certain subcommunities, terms like gender conformant, attractional conformant, pronominal conformant, etc. can be used.
Forms of Conformity
Attractional conformance:
- Suptilic: An orientation that is strict, not changing.
- Perioriented: When ones sexual orientation and romantic orientation match.
- Allosexual: Regularly feeling sexual attraction.
- Alloromantic: Regularly feeling romantic attraction.
- Monosexual: Attracted to one gender.
- Heterosexual/romantic: Attracted only to people of the “opposite” gender.
Relationship conformance:
- Amorous: Desiring a close partnership.
- Monogamous: Only wanting to have a relationship with one person at a time (and no open relationships).
Gender modality conformance:
- Cisgender: Identifying with one's assigned gender at birth.
Gender conformance:
- Allogender: Having a gender.
- Monogender: Having a single gender.
- Suptilian: A gender that is strict, not fluid, and not fluctuating, and is not in a grey area between identities.
- Binary: Identifying as a man or woman.
Presentation conformance:
- Gender conformity: Presenting in a way typical of your gender.
- Pronoun conformity: Having typical pronoun usage.
Biosex conformance:
- Perisex/Dyadic: Not intersex. Being born with sex characteristics classified as male or female.
- Protosex: Not altersex. Having sex characteristics that are classified male or female, and desires those characteristics.
- Cissex: Someone who has not medically altered their sex characteristics, and does not wish to do so.
Flag
The conformance flag was created by the Tumblr blog conformant-archive on February 4, 2019.[1]