Adgender
Prefix: | Ad- |
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Main Umbrella: | Gender Modality |
Gender(s): | Transition or move toward a certain gender or gender presentation |
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Adgender is a gender modality for individuals who transition or move toward a certain gender or gender presentation, the prefix ad meaning toward.[1][2] It is an umbrella term for genders such as adfeminine, admasculine, and adneutral. Adgender is a slightly more inclusive version of terms like transfeminine and transmasculine as it includes individuals who may not be under the transgender umbrella.
Examples of individuals who may identify as adgender include:[1]
- an AFAB bigender individual who has been on testosterone and now needs to do the same things as transfeminine individuals do to pass on days where they feel like a girl;
- a male member of a plural system who has to dress up the body of their cisgender woman host when they front, in order to feel more like their male self;
- a cisgender man with Kallmann syndrome who chooses to undergo testosterone replacement therapy;
- an AFAB non-binary femme that feels as though they're transitioning into a different kind of femininity than the heteronormative role they were assigned at birth;
- a butch woman who transitions but wants to avoid the connotations of transmasculine;
- a female headmate in a system who, in world, is transfeminine whereas the host is an AFAB body;
- an intersex individual who has undergone medical intervention but doesn't consider themself transgender;
- a transgender woman may be adfeminine and transfeminine, because adfeminine is an umbrella term that transfeminine falls under.
History
Adgender, adfeminine, and admasculine were coined on June 22nd, 2018, by Tumblr user queer-buccaneers.[1]
Related Terms
Label | Relationship | Description | Difference |
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Syn- | Similar | A prefix that denotes someone is transitioning to any gender while being intersex. | The syn- prefix is exclusive to intersex individuals while adgender is not. |
Transgender | Similar | A gender modality for individuals that identify as a gender differing from their assigned-sex-at-birth. | An adgender individual's gender does not have to differ from their assigned-sex-at-birth. |
Subgenders
Label | Suffix | Flag | Description | Creator(s) |
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Adandrogynous[3] | -androgynous | [3] |
An individual who transitions or moves toward an androgynous gender or presentation. | isobug |
Adfeminine[1] | -feminine | [4] |
An individual who transitions or moves toward a feminine gender or presentation. | queer–buccaneer, Ap |
Adfemasc / Admascfem[5] | -femasc / -mascfem | [5] | An individual who transitions or moves toward a feminine and masculine gender or presentation. | adorable-abomination |
Admasculine[1] | -masculine | [6] |
An individual who transitions or moves toward a masculine gender or presentation. | queer–buccaneer, Ap |
Adneomasculine[7] | -neomasculine | [7] |
An individual who transitions or moves toward a masculine gender or presentation, but in a new way, similar to neoboy. | mogaiminty |
Adneutral[8] | -neutral | [8] | An individual who transitions or moves toward a neutral gender or presentation. | Celestialsofia |
Adnull[9] | -null | [9] | An individual who transitions or moves toward a null gender or presentation. | Ap |
Adxenine[10] | -xenine | [10] |
An individual who transitions or moves toward a xenine gender or presentation. | mogaiminty |
Flags and Symbols
The adgender flag was created on July 14th, 2018, by Tumblr user Ap via the beyond-mogai-pride-flags blog.[11]
Two alternate adgender flags were created on December 25th, 2021, by Tumblr user kenochoric.[12]
Alternate adfeminine and admasculine flags were created by Celestialsofia on 22 Jul, 2021.[8] An alternate adandrogynous flag was created by TheMagisttrate on 17 Aug, 2021.[8]
Two alternate admascfem flags were created on the 3rd of December, by Tumblr user kenochoric.[13]
Resources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 queer-buccaneers. "admasculine: transitioning towards masculinity : adfeminine: transitioning towards femininity". Tumblr, 22 Aug, 2018, https://queer-buccaneers.tumblr.com/post/175125498477/admasculine-transitioning-towards-masculinity. (archive)
- ↑ "-ad". dictionary.com, https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ad#:~:text=ad%2D,%2C%20as%2D%2C%20at%2D..
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 isobug. "Adandrogynous flags". Tumblr, 3 Dec, 2022, https://isobug.tumblr.com/post/702663642222673920/adandrogynous-flags. (archive)
- ↑ beyond-mogai-pride-flags. "Adfeminine Pride Flag". Tumblr, 8 Jan, 2022, https://archive.md/0cZZv. Archived on 29 Jan, 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 adorable-abomination.. "adfemasc or admascfem: someone who is both adfeminine and admasculine.". Tumblr, 31 Dec, 2021, https://adorable-abomination.tumblr.com/post/672102050641969152/adfemasc-or-admascfem-someone-who-is-both.
- ↑ beyond-mogai-pride-flags. "Admasculine Pride Flag". Tumblr, 8 Jan, 2022, https://archive.md/rUx6D. Archived on 16 Feb, 2022.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 mogaiminty. "Adneomasc/Adneomasculine:". Tumblr, 24 Aug, 2022, https://www.tumblr.com/mogaiminty/693486782078124032/adneomascadneomasculine. (archive)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Adgender". LGBTA Wiki, https://archive.md/2022.02.15-082541/https://lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Adgender?commentId=4400000000000182747. Archived on 15 Feb, 2022.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 beyond-mogai-pride-flags. "Adnull Pride Flag". Tumblr, 22 Aug, 2021, https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/660239077477597184/adnull-pride-flag. (archive)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 mogaiminty. "˚⋆ ˚。⋆୨୧˚Adxenine✧・゚✧・゚:*". Tumblr, 12 Nov, 2022, https://www.tumblr.com/mogaiminty/700748170709401600/%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A7-adxenine-%EF%BE%9F-%EF%BE%9F-someone-who-moves. (archive)
- ↑ beyond-mogai-pride-flags. "Adgender Pride Flag". Tumblr, 14 Jul, 2018, https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/175895522910/adgender-pride-flag. (archive)
- ↑ kenochoric-moved. "Edited / Alternate Adgender Flags!". Tumblr, 25 Dec, 2021, https://kenochoric-moved.tumblr.com/post/671596489373515776/edited-alternate-adgender-flags. (archive)
- ↑ kenochoric-moved. "Admascfem: Someone who is both admasculine and adfeminine, whether at the same time, fluid between them, or anything else.". Tumblr, 3 Dec, 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20230605160553/https://kenochoric-moved.tumblr.com/post/702598370627289088/admascfem-someone-who-is-both-admasculine-and.