#coexta

Re-coining: Coexta

Coexta is an abinary, fluctuating neogender defined by vagueness and inconsistency. Coexta can fluctuate from rejecting gender entirely, fitting within the concept but not engaging with it, feeling partially gendered, and fully gendered, but in a vague, undefinable way.

I wanted to redo coexta, to clarify the definition and differentiate it from other terms. The previous definition is as follows:

“A coexta person has a vague, inconsistent relationship with gender. They sometimes feel like gender does not apply to them at all; Other times they feel they may have a gender, but cannot describe what gender they are experiencing. A coexta person’s gender never feels masculine, feminine, or strongly aligned in any way, and as a result is difficult if not impossible to describe accurately.

This differs from terms like demigender and polyagender, because the person fluctuates on the idea of gender itself, not necessarily genderlessness. ” - The coexta coining post.

Usage: “Coexta” is can be used as an adjective or a noun. You could say “A coexta person,” or “A coexta.”

Name: The term coexta is a combination of the word extant and the prefix co. “Extant” meaning existing, and “co-” meaning with. This could be interpreted two ways: A coexta person exists with gender by experiencing it, or by existing next to gender itself.

Flags: The greys represent degrees of feeling or relating to gender, as well as the in-between, foggy experience of being coexta. Yellow represents abinary gender. The stripes were made vertical following the theme of standing next to gender, although I made a horizontal version alt. The five stripe flag has the same meanings, just in a more basic pride flag format.

Pupyzu also made an alternate coexta flag here!

Related terms:

Demigender - Partially being an unspecified gender; partially being a nonbinary gender.

Quoigender - An experience in which gender does not apply to you at all; Rejecting the concept of gender entirely.

Gender coining: Coexta

A coexta person has a vague, inconsistent relationship with gender. They sometimes feel like gender does not apply to them at all; Other times they feel they may have a gender, but cannot describe what gender they are experiencing. A coexta person’s gender never feels masculine, feminine, or strongly aligned in any way, and as a result is difficult if not impossible to describe accurately.

This differs from terms like demigender and polyagender, because the person fluctuates on the idea of gender itself, not necessarily genderlessness. 

Usage:

“Coexta” is an adjective, not a noun. For example, you would say “A coexta person,” not “A coexta.”

Name: The term coexta is a combination of the word extant and the prefix co. “Extant” meaning existing, and “co-” meaning with. This could be interpreted two ways: A coexta person exists with gender by experiencing it, or by existing with, or next to gender itself.

Flag:

The flag is three vertical stripes, light grey, grey, and yellow. The greys represent degrees of feeling or relating to gender, as well as the in-between, foggy experience of being coexta. Yellow represents nonbinary gender, or simply being outside of red or blue, female or male. The stripes were made vertical following the theme of standing next to gender, as well as to distinguish the flag.

Related terms:

Demigender - Partially being an unspecified gender; partially being a nonbinary gender.

Quoigender - An experience in which gender does not apply to you at all; Rejecting the concept of gender entirely.

Polyagender - Experiencing genderless and/or gender neutral genders, all at once or fluidly.

Greygender -  Having a strong ambivalence or neutrality towards gender identity, as a concept and/or in personal experience.

Gendervague - A gender identity that is largely influenced by being neurodivergent, and feels undefinable because of neurodivergence.