#anc cis

[our-agabpunk-experience-2]

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Okay, tagging @our-honeybee-transfem-experience because it asked about it. Coming up with non-AGAB linked terms for cisfemininity and cismas

Update: I finally decided to make flags for Hydrangea Cisfem and Lemon Wave Cismasc. Mostly because I'm bored and had nothing better to do. The colors were color-picked from images of hydrangeas and lemon wave shrubs. I debated trying a new design scheme since these are technically cis flags and not trans flags. But the desire to have all the ANC gender modality flags match somewhat won out, so I kept the seven-stripe pattern.

Hydrangea Cisfem:

An AGAB-less cisfeminine label. For AMAB cis women/cisfems, AIAB/AXAB/UAB cis women/cisfems, cis women/cisfems who use neoAGABs, and AFAB cis women/cisfems who want to decentralize their AGAB.

Lemon Wave Cismasc:

An AGAB-less cismasculine label. For AFAB cis men/cismascs, AIAB/AXAB/UAB cis men/cismascs, cis men/cismascs who use neoAGABs, and AMAB cis men/cismascs who want to decentralize their AGAB.

These were made as sibling terms/cis equivalents to honeybee transfem, coffee bean transmasc, mint chocolate transneutral/tea bag transneutral, and blueberry bee transmascfem/carpenter bee transmascfem, and are fully in support of all those labels and experiences.

Feel free to tweak or play with these flags too. They're more of a prototype.

[our-agabpunk-experience-2]

Okay, tagging @our-honeybee-transfem-experience because it asked about it. Coming up with non-AGAB linked terms for cisfemininity and cismasculinity in the same vein as honeybee transfem or coffee bean transmasc.

I wanted to reference our history as the AGABpunk/AGAB-non-conforming community, so I took these old flags, meant as all-AGAB inclusive cisfingender/cisfiaspec flags. Specifically, the flowers on them (for some reason, the corresponding cismingender/cismiaspec flags don’t have flowers. I think that’s just a bit sexist, but whatever).

I looked up “plants with both pink and blue flowers” and came up with the hydrangea, which can apparently be pink or blue depending on the ph of the soil it grew in. I like that as a metaphor for inclusion of all AGAB experiences. Different growing conditions, but same flower at the end of the day. So I’m proposing Hydrangea Cisfeminine.

Then I looked up plants that were relatives to the hydrangea. I settled on the lemon wave shrub. Mostly because out of the terms and flags we already have (honeybee transfem, coffee bean transmasc, mint chocolate transneutral, bumblebee transmasc, blueberry bee transmascfem/transfemmasc) we don’t really have anything predominantly yellow. It would look distinct.

So my proposal is Hydrangea Cisfem and Lemon Wave Cismasc. Let me know your thoughts and suggestions. I’m terrible at coining terms.

[our-agabpunk-experience-2]

i know this is a bit of a weird ask, but i'm not too sure about the names of hydrangea cisfem and lemon wave cismasc.

i really like the flags! but i'm a bit of a nerd and i cant help but point out that lemon waves are actually a subset of hydrangeas. maybe this is nitpicky but i think it'd make more sense to have them be "hydrangea cis" flags and name them after different types of hydrangeas.

i don't intend to force you to do anything. it's just something i wanted to point out

It’s okay to be nitpicky!

I’m not a botanist so I’m going to defer to you on this one. And the rest of the ANC cis community.

[our-agabpunk-experience-2]

My ANC cis man experience is being in a server where a bunch of other people were taking the “7 identities test”. So you take it for yourself. And get instantly shunted by all the questions asking about relation to assigned sex at birth. They made me sick. I posted my results because everyone else was posting them, but quickly deleted them.

Anyway. The 7 identities test is stupid. It classes intersex with genders despite that not being a gender (I mean, it is for some intersex people, but not the way the test uses it). I guess I can’t tell if it’s really that stupid or if I’m just frustrated.

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