#heiressjane

Girl-proximal (proximal means “near to”; i use girlprox for short!) is a term made to include

women (cis and trans, just to affirm that) and

trans folks who are not necessarily women (or are not 100% women as some demigirls may ID, or are not always women as some genderfluid folks may ID, etc etc) but who experience a connection to girlhood, but not girlness.

women (group 1) experience girlness because they are girls. they will usually also experience girlhood. girlprox non-women (group 2) experience girlhood, but not girlness, because they are not women.

girlhood is a Very Large Concept and one that is difficult to pin down, because it has so many applications. here are some examples (not by any means all of them):

a connection to femininity

a connection to women, despite actual gender identity

a sense of belonging in women’s spaces (specifically in that nebulous community that i believe anyone girlprox creates just by existing near other girlprox folks)

a feminine or femme gender presentation

experience with misogyny

being assigned female at birth and holding that significant to one’s identity

holding female-assigned experiences significant to you and your life (ex: girl scouts, attending an all-girl school)

and, of course, identifying partially or sometimes or always as a woman - this is not required for girlhood, but often accompanies it.

Term coined by:  ymirjotunn

[Image: Flag with 4 stripes: Dark pink, pink, very light gray, black. It’s bordered on the left and right sides by magenta stripes].

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Designed by: Heiressjane

Color meanings: Unknown

Wait aren't they transphobic or something? I heard that somewhere but haven't fact checked bc I don't watch them.

they are not transphobic. they make dumb jokes that maybe sometimes offend people. but here’s the thing. they apologize.they make it very clear that they have no intention of hurting people’s feelings. 

Hi!

This is not actually true. Butch and femme predate the lesbian/bisexual split, when lesbians – in many cases violently – pushed bisexual and trans women out of community with them. Butch and femme were coined in their present terms in the 1950s; the ‘split,’ which really does a disservice to the intracommunity violence that was done, didn’t happen until the late 1970s. 

This friction continued until the 1990s in most of America in terms of lesbians specifically trying to keep people who, by their estimation, no longer were lesbians (even though they’d been called so before), out of community, and continues to this day with a repainting of history and a ‘you can’t use that word’ attacks on bisexual and trans identities. 

It is a disservice to history and to some of our lived experiences to state that a ‘non-lesbian’ butch flag is appropriative, and it is, bluntly, incorrect. Thanks for the opportunity to address this issue, however. 

Recommended reading: Butch is a Noun, written by S. Bear Bergman, a Jewish trans man.

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Boy-proximal (proximal means “near to”; i use biyprox for short!) is a term made to include

men (cis and trans, just to affirm that) and

trans folks who are not necessarily men (or are not 100% men as some demiboys may ID, or are not always men as some genderfluid folks may ID, etc etc) but who experience a connection to boyhood, but not boyness.

Men (group 1) experience boyness because they are boys. They will usually also experience boyhood. Boyprox non-men (group 2) experience boyhood, but not boyness, because they are not men.

Boyhood is a Very Large Concept and one that is difficult to pin down, because it has so many applications. here are some examples (not by any means all of them):

a connection to masculinity.

a connection to men, despite actual gender identity.

a sense of belonging in men’s spaces.

a masculine gender presentation.

being assigned male at birth and holding that significant to one’s identity

holding male-assigned experiences significant to you and your life (ex: boy scouts, attending an all-boy school)

and, of course, identifying partially or sometimes or always as a man - this is not required for boyhood, but often accompanies it.

Term coined by: ymirjotunn

[Image: Flag with 4 stripes: Dark blue, purple-blue, very light gray, black. It’s bordered on the left and right sides by periwinkle stripes].

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Designed by: Heiressjane and Honorary Mod Loki

Color meanings: Unknown

Emeraldgender: Similar to sapphiregender, a gender that is aesthetically related to emeralds, is neutral, nonbinary, and somewhat fluid.

Term coined by: anonymous

[Image: Flag with 7 various width vertical stripes fading from dark green to light green, back to dark green. Outer stripes are the thickest, next stripes and center stripe are about half the width of the outside stripe, stripes bordering the inside stripe are very thing].

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Designed by: heiressjane (edited to be emerald by anonymous).

Color meanings: Green to aesthetically represent emeralds. Multiple stripe sizes represent the gender’s vaguely fluid nature.

Sapphiregender: A gender that is aesthetically related to sapphires, a gender that is femminine, nonbinary, and vaguely fluid. 

Term coined by: heiressjane

[Image: Flag with 7 various width vertical stripes fading from dark blue to light blue, back to dark blue. Outer stripes are the thickest, next stripes and center stripe are about half the width of the outside stripe, stripes bordering the inside stripe are very thing].

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Designed by: heiressjane

Color meanings: Blue to aesthetically represent sapphires, also the varying sizes representing the vague fluidity of the gender.