#aphorian

Aphorian referential terms!

Aphan (left): A referential term for aphorian adults. Plural: aphen. Apol (middle): An age-nonspecific referential term for aphorians. Plural: apols. Aphie/Aphy (right): A diminutive referential term for aphorians. Plural: aphies.

I thought it would be cool to make some terms specifically for aphorians, since there were some coined for abinary folks. I'm sure someone will find these to be useful.

I really like these colors. The aphan flag is darker and more saturated which is something I've done with my other adult term flags. The apol flag uses more colors to represent more people (It's not a term made for any specific age, so it has more stripes to show that it includes more people.) The aphie flag is made up of pastels, another choice I've made for my other diminutive flags.

/srs

With symbol | without

[Image Description: Two identical pride flags, the left flag has a symbol and the right flag does not. They have nine, equal width stripes. From top to bottom, their colors are dark grey, medium blue, baby blue, very light blue, dark grey, light yellow, light orange, medium red, and dark grey. The symbol in the center of the flag on the left depicts seven circles next to each other in a horizontal line. Each circle is a solid color with a dark grey ring inside of it. The colors of the circles are, from left to right, medium blue, baby blue, very light blue, off-white, light yellow, light orange, and medium red. The circles are outlined in dark grey. End ID.]

Thermosterian [PT: Thermosterian End PT]: A gender related to stars, their colors, their temperatures, and how the two traits are connected. This term may describe relation to the color/temperature correlation of stars as a whole, the color/temperature correlation of specific star types, the color/temperature gradient between star types, and/or anything similar. This gender can be interpreted as both xenic or not, it’s up to the individual.

Etymology: thermo (meaning heat) + aster (meaning star) + ian (meaning belonging/relating to)

flag id: the left flag has 5 stripes, which are yellow, light yellow, white, very light grey, and light grey. the right flag has 6 stripes, which are very dark silver, copper brown, light brown, off-white, very light grey, and light grey. end id.

banner id: a 1500x150 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting’ in large white text in the center. end id.

two versions of a cis abinary flag for anon! the left is based on this abinary flag, the right is based on this abinary/aphorian flag, and both are based on this cis flag.

i'm maverique and i have consistently been misgendered by other gender-diverse people based on my transition steps, based on my AGAB and the assumed direction in which my transition is going. and funnily enough, this collective misgendering has actually stalled my transition because the assumed masculinity barely left me any space to explore further, i had to be masc or i was just cis.

instead of gendering transition steps based on cissexist and bioessentialist ideas (yes, flat chest = masculine, oestrogen = feminine etc. are literally recycled cissexism), we (you) should start to actually, properly include maveriques and everyone else who is misgendered based on transition steps.

You are not including all trans people (either as a whole or of given agab) when you’re saying transmasc/transfem

You are not even including all trans people (either as a whole or of given agab) when you’re saying stuff like transmasc/transfem and unaligned because someone can be exlusively aligned to their agab and still face the same fucking transphobia! And yes they are trans, if they themself define themself as such, and not a cis person receiving “misdirected” transphobia!