#tumtum

PT: Tumtum Hamah Flag /end PT

ID: a flag with five horizontal stripes, the middle one being very thin. Their colors are, from top to bottom, dark orange, orangish yellow, white, bluish green and dark bluish green. In the center is a symbol ressembling a circle with six spikes. /end ID

Tumtum Hamah: a person whose sex is described as obscured, unknown, having neither or lacking some sexed characteristics, through natural development. Tumtum hamah is usually used for intersex variations where the genitals is covered by skin, but it can also be used for other variations of the agenital spectrum.

Note that this is just my *personal* attempt to define tumtum hamah, this definition isn't carved in stone. Even though adam and hamah are usually only used along with saris & ay'lonit, proposal to expand the hamah/adam distinction to androgynos and tumtum has been made, thus creating distinct gendered and sexed subcategories for each gendered sex.

This term is of a physical nature: they depend upon your physicality, and serve a legal purpose in Judaism. However, anyone Jew can use these terms, regardless of their spiritual practice.

Made mixing the flags by desactivated Tumblr user bigfootrights (link), and the ones made by Tumblr user gendertreyf (link), adding on top the intersex Jewish symbol made by desactivated Tumblr user sproutflags (link).

PSD file link.

i'm trying to make a new tumtum flag since the current one doesn't seem right to me, here's my proof of concept

symbolism behind it: the blue and white stripes on the side obviously represent judaism, and reference tzitzit specifically. i chose to reference tzitzit because i wear my grandfather's, and see it as a representation of tradition and our ancestors. the broad white stripe in the middle is to make it look more like traditional jewish embroidery.

the broad grey stripes represent tumtum identity, as grey is an "ambiguous lack of colour" the same way tumtum people ambiguously lack identifiable male or female characteristics.

my idea for this would be that the grey in my tumtum flag could be substituted for other colours to represent the other classical jewish sexes/gender falling outside the current western binary (ideas: pink for saris, blue for ay'lonit, purple for androgynos?)

🌈✡️ : JEWGENDER

This flag is DIRECTLY referenced/inspired by @gendertreyf 's flags for the Jewish cultural genders/sexes, please also support his lovely original work!

Image IDs in alt text!

Jewgender is a Jewish culturally-exclusive xenogender, meaning you may only use this term/flag if you are Jewish (inclusive of patrilineal Jews, secular, converts, etc - a Jew is a Jew!). Credit for use of the flag in pfps, banners, etc is appreciated but not necessary. Please credit back to this post if you make edits of or take inspiration from this flag! Goyim/non-Jews may interact and share, but please do not use or clown in the reblogs/replies. Someone who identifies as Jewgender may do so for any number of reasons, Including but not limited to:

Feeling connected to one or more of the eight genders/sexes listed in the Talmud, including both adam and hamah. Someone who identifies with multiple of the listed sexes/genders may do so due to gender fluidity, intersex identity, or other personal experiences.

Feeling connected to Jewishness itself: be it culture, religion and/or secularism, social justice, history, etc. This gender indicates a deep tie to Jewishness at your core, inherently intertwining itself with your gender and the way you carry yourself through the world.

As a punk/alternative gender - to piss off transphobes, goyim, etc.

All of the above, or another reason entirely. Again, a Jew is a Jew!