I coined a term: prefix rigi-. This can be applied to orientations or genders, and it means that you only feel your identity (whether that be the orientation label or gender label) when you are doing something that fits your rigid definition of what someone of that identity would do and disappears whenever you are doing something else. Feel free to make flags if you like it!
Despite there being quite a few psychosis/schizophrenic spectrum neurogenders, there are none that are centred on all schizophrenic symptoms (most focus on psychotic/positive symptoms, except for negagender). So I’m coining one!
Zofrenie / Zofreniegender
A gender influenced by schizophrenic spectrum symptoms of both positive symptoms (such as hallucinations and delusions), negative symptoms (such as depression and alogia), and cognitive symptoms (such as confused thinking and memory issues).
The name comes from the Dutch word for schizophrenia, schizofrenie.
aesthetiboy (videboy, aestheteboy): an aesthetigender boy; a male gender experience that is derived from, or the embodiment of, an aesthetic; someone whose experience of being a boy is inherently linked to aesthetics in some way
aesthetigirl (videgirl, aesthetegirl): an aesthetigender girl; a female gender experience that is derived from, or the embodiment of, an aesthetic; someone whose experience of being a girl is inherently linked to aesthetics in some way
the first two definitions are based on the preexisting definition of aesthetigender, and i added the third definition!
I made a post about remembering those who *only* identify as trans: not trans men, trans women, transfem or masc, nb, genderqueer, aligned or unaligned—just trans. And I was thinking last night about how I really liked that concept…not a gender, per se, just an identity defined by transness. Like how people say, “I would always be trans, even if I were assigned a different gender at birth.” I really liked that idea, so I came up with the following concept: Transemphatic.
Transemphatic is an word that refers to those who emphasize transness as a very important part, or the most important part, of their identity. It has ties to concepts such as trans radicalism, anti-assimilationist queerness, and trenderpunk. It can be someone’s only identity, as in, I’m trans and nothing else, or it could be combined with another label, like, I’m a transemphatic woman, a transemphatic man, a transemphatic xeumel*, etc.
In the case of being combined with being a trans man or woman, it could be understood as the person wanting to emphasize their transness, not their (wo)manhood. Someone who isn’t transemphatic might say, “I’m a man,” rather than, “I’m a trans man,” while a transemphatic person would put the focus on the trans part of themself, not the man part.
The concept or state of transemphasis can be a visible one, shown through clothing, pronouns, names, presentation, etc, or a private one, in the way that many labels are private. For an example of a way one personally may show one’s transemphasis, take using neopronouns or emoji/symbol pronouns. The pronouns ⚧️/⚧️s might be used by a transemphatic person, because by using them, one is visibly emphasizing one’s transness in an inescapable way. However, this is just one example, and the concept of transemphasis is a very flexible and personal one, that each person who takes upon the label can and will interpret and contextualize in a different way.
This is a concept I put a name to, but it may already exist in different forms without my knowledge. Anyone can use the term, I’ve never been a fan of making up your mind for you.
*xeumel (n): a nonbinary person.
Unsurprisingly I had more thoughts about this.
It should be noted that being transemphatic does not mean you’re “defining yourself around what you aren’t rather than what you are.” By which I mean: saying you are transemphatic does not mean you’re just saying “I was assigned [x] at birth but I’m not [x].” While that could be a possible usage or explanation of the identity to certain people, that is not how transemphasis was originally created. The concept of transemphasis is a positive one, and transemphasis is based on embracing transness as a concept and state of being.
Therefore, one who has very little involvement or understanding with their trans community may not feel as drawn or connected to the identity. This is neither a positive nor negative statement, nor is it a judgement.
You don’t have to do anything to be transemphatic, you just need to connect with the concept to some degree
Transemphatic doesn’t take the place of other labels. Saying you are transemphatic does not mean giving up labels like “man,” “nonbinary,” “genderfaer,” etc. It just means that transness is a very important part of your queer identity, or the most important part, like I said above.
