Not to be confused with venufluid, also known as femfluid.
Fluidfem is a term which describes an individual whose gender is mostly fluid between being female, fiaspec and fin, but occasionally experiences other genders (masculine, neutral, xenine etc.), all of which feel feminine or related to womanhood in some capacity. The femininity in those genders always (or very frequently) has the same intensity.
Examples include:
- Identifying as any feminine or womanhood related genders, such as demigirl, faesari or binary woman;
- Identifying as any miaspec gender with a touch of femininity/womanhood, such as rosboy or GNC man;
- Identifying as any xiaspec gender with a touch of femininity/womanhood, such as xenogirl or faexari;
- Identifying as any niaspec gender with a touch of femininity/womanhood, such as axera;
- Identifying as any liaspec gender with a lean towards femininity/womanhood, such as femandrogyne or gynx;
- Identifying with other genders/gender spectrum(s), but still experiencing a connection to femininity/womanhood;
- Identifying as multiple genders at once, one of which is always related to being a woman or feminine.
Flag gallery
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Fluidfem flag. Pink represents femininity, doubling the stripes represents multigender people. Lavender stripe represents xenogenders. Purple represents lia/niaspec genders, other genders alignments and lack of gender. Blue represents man and masculinity related genders.
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Fluidfemflux/fluixfem flag. Varying pink stripes represent varying connection to femininity and/or womanhood. The meaning of other stripes is the same as on the original flag.
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Parafluidfem/parrfem. Pale pink stripes represent femininity and it's occasional disappearance/loss of intensity. White represents complete lack of the feminine alignment and potentially other alignments taking place. The meaning of other stripes is the same as on the original flag.
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Demifluidfem/fawndoefluid flag.
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Alternative fluidfem flag. Orange replaces pink and green replaces blue, but the meaning remains the same. Based off of @quiet-times's flag for woman-related and man-related identities.
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Alternative fluidfemflux/fluixfem flag.
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Alternative parafluidfem/parrfem flag.
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Demifluidfem/fawndoefluid alternative flag.
Sublabels
While there are multiple sublabels to describe slightly different, but still similar experiences, they do not have to be used. Someone can just identify with 'fluidfem', while their actual identity is something akin to anything written below.
Fluidfemflux (alt. name: fluixfem): someone whose genders always feel feminine, however the amount of femininity changes. For example, one day all of their genders feel 100% feminine, some days the level of femininity decreases. The amount of femininity might vary with genders too, for example someone feels 10% feminine when experiencing a miaspec gender, but 40% feminine when they're xenine.
Parafluidfem/parafluxfem (alt. name: parrfem): someone who fits the definition of fluidfem and/or fluixfem, except the feminine/female alignment disappears. In those instances the person might identify with another alignment, multiple of them or none at all. The connection to femininity/womanhood usually comes back rather quickly.
Demifluidfem (alt. name: fawndoefluid): someone who relates to the concept of fluidfem, however their genderfluidity never (or very rarely) encompasses certain genders. For example, a demifluidfem person might experience all genders aside from xenogenders. Relating to femininity does not change.
History and Etymology
This term and its sister terms, such as fluidmasc, were coined by Discord user on June 3rd 2022. The flags and alternates were made by the same user, unless otherwise specified.
The 'fluix' part in fluixfem is a mash-up of 'fluid' and 'flux', it was done in order to make the term easier to write and pronounce. In parrfem, the para- prefix indicates that this change rarely happens. Alternative name for demifluidfem is based off of genderfawn and genderdoe.
Resources
https://web.archive.org/web/https://coinedterms.carrd.co/#fluidfem