Asteresque: A gender that is not male, female, or anything in between and is entirely unaligned and neutral at its core. It is not ambiguous nor is it genderless. Its neutral quality can often "soften" or "neutralize" other genders, acting as a balancing element in one's gender experience (particularly for multigender people, where one gender might feel more aligned or more strongly felt.) It falls under the nonbinary, aporagender, and ningender umbrellas and is not necessarily xenine, but may be viewed that way by some people who use the label.
This term comes from aster as in a star and the suffix -esque to mean that it has a star-like quality - this is a reference to stellarian, which describes an unaligned nonbinary person (a Stellar Nonbinary person.) Thus, this word means a "stellar-like" gender. It is used as an adjective so you would say "I am asteresque" or "My gender is asteresque."
This term was created as a similar gender to neutrois, but without any ties to genderlessness or ambiguity. It differs from epicene in this way as well, because epicene is typically a lack of gender distinction (ambiguity.) It also doesn't use the -gender suffix that many other terms use such as neugender, aporagender, or ningender.
I borrowed colors from my stellarian redesign (the green one of course) to make this flag and even kept the star symbol for it. I used greens and yellow to represent neutrality but took out the gray, which to me felt like it represented ambiguity. I even made a red variant similar to one of the stellarian redesigns above:
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