Metaphorgender is where one feels one's gender is a metaphor for something else. It feels not fully real and it may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different identities. It falls underneath the xenogender umbrella.
Subsets
- Metaphoy - masculine aligned.
- Metaphirl - feminine aligned.
- Metaphen - both (masculine or feminine aligned), or neither (masculine or feminine aligned); neutral aligned.
History
Metaphorgender, and its subsets metaphoy, metaphirl and metaphen, were coined by FANDOM user Aspentheleafwing4 on November 23, 2021, via an LGBTA Wiki discussion post.[1] The metaphorgender, metaphoy, metaphirl and metaphen flags were created by the same user on the same date.