Femache is a non-binary gender in which one simultaneously experiences maleness or masculinity and femaleness or femininity. It is similar to androgyne, however androgyne can be used to describe a single gender that exists somewhere in between male and female, while femache is typically described as when one experiences a male gender and a female gender at the same time, as two distinct genders. Femache does not necessarily have to be a 50/50 split. One may or may not experience other genders. It is sometimes used interchangeably with male-female.
History
Femache was coined via beyond-mogai-pride-flags on October 1, 2018[1]. The name is a combination of the Spanish/Portuguese words fêmea/fembra and macho but with an -e suffixed to make the word neutral. The flag is a combination of the male and female stamp flags made by Bentonthefoxkin on DeviantArt.[2][3]
Arco-pluris then suggested other words, since some pointed out it's too similar to headache in English: machembre, femal[4] and macheme.[5]
Resources
- ↑ https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/178644762070/femache-pride-flag
- ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/thegayfoxboy/art/Male-Man-Boy-Stamp-736782061
- ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/thegayfoxboy/art/Female-Stamp-736782752
- ↑ https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/624498693056380928
- ↑ https://arco-pluris.tumblr.com/post/624904660424196096/useful-west-iberian-words-for-sheher-men-hehim