20th. I'm gonna catch up at some point here.
'Yesterday' was the Pride Flags of Orientation, discussing the various forms of attraction people might have, such as bisexual and demisexual. Today, I want to talk about Genders, such as being Male, Female, Trans, or any of a dozen other things. As with orientation, I know that I'll probably have a few things that I miss because the sites I used for this don't have everything or some things are more obscure, or any of a dozen other things. I apologize if I missed anything, and I hope that no one thinks I'm trying to marginalize them. People are people, everyone is different, and labels are both important and not, because sometimes labels help us realize that we aren't alone, but they can also feel like cages. I, personally, want to learn about people, as ever-changing and unique as they can be, and I don't exactly like coming at it with a checklist of categories to fill out.
That's not important though. I really need to work more on keeping my opinions out of things when they aren't important. Being snarky and silly is important though, so you'll still see that.
Since I found that heterosexual flag, I decided to start by checking if there is a cisgender flag. There is. I found it on a Gender.Wiki site. It has a lot more of the subcategories than I am going to go into, so if you're not sure what label you want or you want to know more about it, I think that this site might help. They seem to have a lot of options that I didn't know exist, and they have the flags for them.
Here's the Cisgender to start with, as my flag even if I don't like the actual flag:
So very imaginative. At least this one has color. For anyone that doesn't know, Cisgender is when the gender you identify with is also the one that matches what you were born as.
Second up is Genderqueer.
This lovely flag is the umbrella term for anyone that doesn't identify as cisgender. Anyone that doesn't fit in the 'regular' definitions of gender. Anyone Trans or Agender or any of a dozen different things.
This one is for Genderflux, another umbrella term for any that have a more fluid gender identity. There are a few new options for this particular flag, but this is the most 'umbrella' like.
In the more specific groupings, here's the most well known. The Trans Flag. This is what happens when someone isn't the same gender as what they were assigned at birth. When a woman is born in a man's body, or vice-versa.
This one is for Non-Binary. It's for one who is neither male nor female, but somewhere in the middle, or in a different spectrum entirely.
Similar to Non-binary, this is the Agender flag. It's for those that aren't male or female, that don't identify by either group much, if at all. These are the people that remind everyone that 'They' is an acceptable and widely used singular pronoun, and anyone that objects obviously hasn't been around English speakers for long.
Gender-Fluid, the flag of which is right above, means those that have different gender identities at different times. Someone who feels female one day and male the next, or female for a month but male for a week, or any variation thereof.
Intersex is more medical than the others. It's for bodies that don't fall in the male/female spectrum. It's also a bit more complicated than you might think it to be, and depends on the person that's picking their labels if they want this one.
Bigender. When you're more than one gender identity, either at the same time or varying between the two.
Deminonbinary. As you can probably guess, it's when you don't identify alot with the genders of male or female, but aren't quite detached enough from them to be entirely non-binary.
Is this all of them? Not really. There are a lot of other options that people can find if that's what they feel like. That's up to everyone to pick for themselves. If I missed anything important, feel free to let me know and I'll add it in. I have no problems updating things.
Right now though, I need to stop for a bit because one of my kittens, Squirrel, has decided my hands have better use, so I'll see you again soon, but I'm busy for a bit. If you aren't sure about things or want to investigate the flags more, use the Gender wiki link above and below. It's an interesting one, if not as well filled out as I'd like.
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