#systemgender

[intervex]

Term coining: desmosex

I've recently been researching intersex representation for Intersex Wiki, including Intersex in Mythology and Intersex Art History.

And it's made me want a term for individuals like: - Ardhanarishvara, the Hindu deity that is the combination of Shiva (male) and Paarvati (female) - Hermaphroditus, the Greco-Roman god who according to Ovid was transformed to have mixed sex characteristics after his sexual harasser Salmacis got her body forcibly merged into his body in an act of serious body horror (note: there are alternate versions of this myth where he was born intersex) - Stevonnie, the Steven Universe character who is a fusion of Steven and Connie

As @praeobscura in writing the call for An Intersex Jam point outs, these individuals are not actually intersex. And thus, I coin...

Desmosex: an individual with a varsex body, who has sex characteristics that were modified as a result of fusion/integration of multiple individuals/headmates or collaborative transition by a plural system. (Desmo- means to bind, connect)

This term would include: - fictional characters like Stevonnie - religious/mythical entities like Ardhanarishvara, Harihara, Lakshmi-Narayana, and the Ovid version of Hermaphroditus, etc - plural systems with perisex bodies who decide as a group to medically transition towards androgynous/neutral sex traits as a compromise for the varying genders of the different headmates - plural systems with intersex bodies who change their sex characteristics for similar reasons - a corelet who, because of their plural experiences, had changed their sex traits prior to final fusion

Note: I am not a plural system! I am intersex and median, and I personally interpret stories about "two individuals are merged into one varsex body" as an experience that belongs more with plurality than intersex. In coining a term and creating a definition for the mythical/fictional characters above, it struck me that there are probably plural systems out there who would identify with these individuals! Acknowledgements: @clairvoyant-weapons, who is an actual system, gave helpful feedback on the definition, coining, and the flag! 💜 And @goingrampant started the conversation that triggered me looking for a term for this, and was the one who first picked desmosex out of a list of several ideas I brainstormed. 💜

Flag is inspired by these transition flags that @bloomshroomz made. Symbolism is: - Orange, dark violet, and treble ampersand: plurality - White chevron and trans symbol: gender transition - Dark red: for the specifically embodied aspect of this - to be desmosex, one has to have changed one's bodily sex characteristics.

Copyright: public domain

Tagging for archival: @varsex-pride @radiomogai @liom-archive @pluralterms @plurchive

Edit for adding to Pluralpedia: I consider any term I coin to be in the public domain and no permission is needed to make a Wiki page for it <3

[jamiieeez]

DIDgender | OSDDgender | Systemgender

DIDgender is a gender when having DID affects your gender in some way. Exclusive to those with DID, including informed self-diagnosis.

OSDDgender is a gender when having OSDD affects your gender in some way. Exclusive to those with OSDD, including informed self-diagnosis.

Systemgender is a gender when your state of being a system/ a person in a system affects your gender in some way. Exclusive to systems/systemmembers including endogenic systems.

I only saw anti-endo versions of this and while I am a part of a traumagenic system we are pro-endo and because of that did not feel comfortable with using these flags/terms. This Systemgender variant is for endogenic systems and traumagenic systems that support endos. These DIDgender and OSDDgender is for disorderd systems who support non-disorders systsems.

If you don't like it just move on, I don't want a syscourse debate in the comments. To me that whole anti-endo stuff just sounds like that fake-claiming shit ableists do so maybe instead of using the same rhetoric that is used against you just leave other alone and live their lives.

Endogenic just means the source of the system wasn't trauma, endos still can have trauma. This is not about saying endogenic experiences are the same as traumagenic experiences because GENERALLY system experience are super diverse and yes if you have trauma and are a system you will likely have some issues traumaless systems don't have but that doesn't make them less of a system or their experiences and other issues any less valid. We as a traumagenic OSDD system for example don't experience amnesia to the extent DID systems usually experience it but that doesn't mean we aren't a system either. We still are a system just like any other no matter what their experience or source is.

Here is the link for the userbox.

[daily-plural-terms]

SYSTEMGENDER

[pt: systemgender]

— "Systemgender is a gender which is defined as a sum of all the genders within a multiple or median system. It is a nonbinary gender experienced by members of a system."

coined by unknown

pluralpedia page : ☆

[doodlemations-creations]

Alternative Systemgender Flag

Systemgender ~ A gender when being a system / a member of a system affects your gender in some way. It may be a sum of all the genders within the system.

Our flag is a mix of the systemgender flag [link] + the mediple flag [link] ( and the flags it's color picked from ) and is open for all systems to use regardless of their origins!

Like / Reblog it if you want! We don't mind too much on being directly credited or anything since gender is for everyone! ...as long as no one claims that they made the flag.

ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜɪs ᴏɴᴇ? ғᴇᴇʟ ғʀᴇᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴏᴡɴ! 🩷

[redacted-coiner]

Kegrealtem

[PT: Kegrealtem]

Kegrealtem, a kegregender(link) term for when all of one's genders are Plurtem(link) (gender quality).

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[martyrpolls]

Do you have a collective gender?

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Yes

Yeah but the others don't know yet

Partially

no

Voting ended onSep 1, 2025

[corporategraphics]

"This ___ is multipluralic" userboxes!

Multipluralic When you identify as multigender because you are plural, or your plurality affects your multigender identity in some way.

(Only to be used by those who are systems and/or plural)

-Natasha/Angel and Megatron

[ix-c-999]

frontergender

A pluralgender in which one is a headmate whose gender is influenced or determined by who else is fronting at the time. Some examples of this could include: -feeling more feminine with female headmates -feeling more gender neutral with asexual headmates -feeling more catgender with cat extranths This can be considered a form of genderfluid, but identifying as genderfluid is not necessary to being frontergender.

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