Feminino (pronounced: feh-mee-nee-noh) is a gender term in which someone feels as if they are feminine, but in a masculine way. Another way this can be described is where someone feels as if they are mostly feminine, but still have or feel masculine aspects about themselves and choose to keep them. Individuals who identify as feminino may each feel this gender differently from how other feminino-identifying individuals feel this gender. Feminino can be defined in various ways, including, but not limited to:
- One who was AMAB (assigned male at birth), has transitioned to a feminine gender, but feels as if some particular aspects of themselves may be masculine.
- One who was AFAB (assigned female at birth), chooses to mostly identify with the gender they were assigned at birth with, but feels as if some particular aspects of themselves may be masculine.
- One who was AIAB (assigned intersex at birth) or varsex, feels as if they are mostly feminine, but also feels as if a masculine aspect of themselves is there.
- One is feminine-aligned but connected to masculinity in some manner.
- One feels or is feminine but is more comfortable being perceived as masculine.
- One is genderfluid(-aligned), but mostly experiences masculine and feminine genders. There are many more ways to describe this term.
This may or may not be an umbrella term of bigender. Terms similar to feminino include masculina, neutro, femineu, mascuneu, and neutra.
History
Feminino was coined as a counterpart to Masculina.
Flags
All flags were created by Cerkus and Tucc at the same date the term was coined (March 21st, 2022).
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The second Feminino flag.
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The third Feminino flag.
Etymology
As stated in the page masculina, Feminino is the grammatically incorrect term of "feminine" in English. The letter "A" is usually feminine in Spanish, and the letter "O" is usually masculine in Spanish, but can also be considered neutral.