FAQ.
What is Deviæ?
Here's the coining post.
As stated in the pinned post, deviæ is the state of your physical sex traits and can reflect any identity such as transhumanism, transspecism, postfurry, physical nonhumanity, misceverses, etc. It can also reflect congenital states (deviborn) in which you believe is physically "unnatural, artificial, or animalistic" such as a prosthetic sex organ or a sleeve. Main things that would determine if one is deviæ is 1) self-identity, 2) the deviation from what people are normally born with (intersex & perisex) without being separated from such, 3) a consistent and prolonged state of self.
Does my identity fall under Deviæ?
There are probably more than 10 ways to be deviæ, especially since it relies so heavily on the "abnormal" and not the "bimodal" seen in perisex and intersex variations. Because of this, this mod cannot tell you what can and can't be deviæ unless the identity doesn't deviate at all.
Are deviæ people all nonhuman/transhuman?
A good chunk would be if we consider the fact that deviæ is made to replace and to reconsider the conversation around altersexness. Deviæ isn't a sex identity itself but describes a sex identity, which is why it encompasses much more than nonhumanity but could describe intersex people on animal HRT or perisex people who are congenitally altered from the "normal". It's a huge umbrella term made to pick up the lost pieces of altersex.
Is deviæ queer/LGBTQIA+? Is deviæ a gender? Is deviæ a disability?
It is complicated on all fronts. There is not one answer to any of these questions given the fact that deviæ means so many different things to people. Deviæ could fit into queer identity, but the mod is the coiner, and the mod refers to it as varsex and mogai/liom rather than entirely queer or LGBTQIA+. This is variable.
Deviæ has the ability to have gendered feelings turn into physical identity when psychosomatic experiences are introduced. This is not counting the idea of "brain sex", which doesn't exist and is intersexist. It is specifically referring to when the brain and body have an incongruence, which can also be effected by disorders or hallucinations or physical nonhumanity.
Deviæ can refer to sex traits that are "abnormal" because of disability, but deviæ isn't a disability itself nor can it cause disability.
What is malspecialia and how is it produced?
Malspecialia is the affirmation or supposed support of deviæ identity and traits only as a way to demean, gatekeep or discriminate. Similar to the concept of malgendering and altersexism, the discrimination against queer and mogai people and their identity, no matter if they're out or passing, has been a consistent, unwanted matter in the culture. This doesn't stop at just them but reaches up into deviæ as a ricochet effect, hitting every group that may apply even when not directly being attacked.
When someone says that because a "physical nonhuman is nonhuman, they can strip their rights to society away", that is malspecialia. When someone claims to support deviæ identities but only when they are non-op or "normal", that's malspecialia. When real bodies are shamed for being "abnormal and animalistic" but fetishized in fiction, that's malspecialia.
Most cases of malspecialia come directly from those who are disgusted or uncomfortable with the topic of transitioning, which is then used to be against transspecies folk and physical nonhumans for their bodies.
