#nonbinary alignment

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Aurorian: fluid between galactian alignments.

(from the expanded galactian alignment system)

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because i’ve seen people spreading what i’ll politely call misinformation:

being unaligned and being transmasc/transfem are not mutually exclusive

‘transmasc’ and ‘transfem’ can be just as easily used to describe your literal transition as they can your identity- if you’re an unaligned nb person, but are transitioning in a similar manner to a trans man, there’s no reason transmasc can’t be used to describe you, same with transfem. the terms transmasc and transfem were actually very commonly used with these meanings before, like a lot of nb terminology, they got shoved into binary boxes labelled ‘basically a trans man’ and ‘basically a trans woman’

similarly, being unaligned is not a simple or singular experience. unaligned people look, feel, act, and exist in society in many different ways. if you’re unaligned but materially live your life very similarly to a trans man or trans woman.... it’s just splitting hairs to try and seperate those material experiences from each other, and thus, terminology to quickly describe yourself in terms of your transition and what kind of social roles you fulfill should be available to us! and transmasc/transfem already have that meaning and are well-known

just like. leave unaligned people alone basically. we know what we’re doing.

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I feel like making a genderfeels update. Some terms have been eliminated, some have been added, and others thrown into confusion due to conflicting definitions.

It’s basically like this:

[Image description: A downward-pointing triangle with the top-left corner labeled “F”, the top-right corner labeled “A”, and the bottom corner labeled “N”. A straight line cuts through the triangle from near the “A” corner to near the “N” corner.]

The “F” is for female. (Not feminine, not demigirl, not female-aligned, but female. If I spent all my time here, that would be called cisgender.)

The “N” is for a neutral gender that is not agender. More on this later.

The “A” is for aporagender, though that probably isn’t quite right either. More on this later.

I experience fluidity in nearly the entire space of this triangle, up to the line. I don’t think I’ve ever felt fully neutral or fully aporine, so I put the line there to show that. I always have some connection to female-ness.

Without going into any more detail, it is clear that the term genderfae applies, and indeed exists for exactly this kind of situation: fluidity that is never masculine. This is probably the best term for now.

Details under the cut (cut added 9 July 2019). 

As I go through the issues in question/answer format, it will become obvious that my issue with many of these terms is that they apply but are too broad for my situation.

Can demiwoman be fluid?

There seem to be conflicting views on this; it’s probably fine if I use this term, but the fluidity would not be explicit

Can bigender, trigender, polygender and multigender be fluid?

Gender Wiki says yes to all

The mods at askagenderfluidandgenderflux seem to agree

Bigenderflux seems to explicitly include the case with a gradient from one gender to another

These all work, but they don’t seem to get the situation across

Can lunarian and stellunarian/nebularian be fluid?

According to one of the creators, yes

Though it’s not explicit, and people could use them in different ways

The expanded system includes aurorian for fluid alignment

I’m becoming increasingly uncomfortable with alignment overall (for me, not as a concept)

Does neutrois describe the neutral gender?

It has been used for transneutral, which I am not

It has been used for agender, which I don’t feel comfortable with, except maybe it’s fine because going that direction just means feeling female/aporine less intensely

It can include androgyne, which I’m not comfortable with

Basically I want a neutral (not between-male-and-female) aporagender

Does neugender describe the neutral gender? (conflicting definitions: bmpf, newer blog)

What describes the “A” corner?

This post indicates confusion about whether aporagender is completely unrelated to masculine and feminine

Aporagender can also include neutral genders, but this corner is separate from those

I’m not comfortable with maverique

ilyagender might work, but it’s not well known and I’m not a huge fan of the name

aporagender isn’t well known either, but whaddaya gonna do

abinary works but doesn’t feel descriptive enough, and being “partly abinary” sounds odd to me

xenogenders never felt right to me, but at the same time I would like to get more specific

How many genders do I have?

infinitely many, and they’re all technically demigirl (except for the female corner)

this is like the Dr. Seuss character who had twenty-three sons and named them all Dave

this is femfluidflux but I don’t feel like that covers it

Is calling myself fangender for female-aporine-neutral a really bad idea?

yes

on Tumblr I only found two uses of it, which seem to indicate a gender-neutral form of the word “fangirl”

it’s a German word based on a root meaning “catch”; Google Translate says it means “scavenging”

consider: scavenge-gender