User:DragonMarquise/Genderflux

Genderflux refers to a person whose experience with their gender identity changes in intensity. A genderflux person's connection to gender may weaken or strengthen at random. For example, an individual could be a man most of the time, but then other times that connection to their gender could feel weaker, or even completely disappear. Genderflux could thus be compared to a thermometer, which can show fluxuating temperatures over time.

Etymology
The suffix "-flux" used in genderflux comes from the word "flux", which can mean "continuous change, passage, or movement".

Community
The -flux suffix in genderflux can be added onto other genders, in which case the base gender is one that a person has a fluctuating connection to. For example, a person who is girlflux may have a gender that fluctuates between being girl, demigirl, genderless, and various degrees of intensity in-between. Some genderflux people may also experience multiple genders at varying degrees of intensity at once.

History
Genderflux was first mentioned in a publication of the Queer Pagans Newsletter in 1994, where it was described as “shifting between genders”. The modern definition was coined by a Tumblr user named Deergoths/bigendeer in 2014, defining it as being specifically about changing intensity than just changing between genders. A Teen Vogue article that included mention of the term genderflux was published on April 22, 2016, and this article is often credited with spreading the term to a wider audience.

Flag
The exact creator of the most commonly used version of the genderflux flag is unknown, but this design was in use for genderflux as early as July 4, 2015. The meanings for the flag's colors are as follows:


 * Dark pink: Women
 * Light pink: Demigirls
 * Grey: Agender
 * Light blue: Demiboys
 * Dark blue: Men
 * Yellow: Nonbinary

Genderfluid
Main article: Genderfluid

Both genderfluid and genderflux describe feelings of gender that can change over time. However, while genderfluid describes a person's gender changing into other different genders (such as going from woman to nonbinary to neutrois), genderflux can be seen as a subset or microlabel of genderfluid where a person's gender instead changes in intensity rather than type.

Agender
Main article: Agender

Genderflux is a change in intensity of feeling any gender at all, while agender is defined as not feeling a gender at all. The moments where a genderflux person feels little to no gender could be compared to agender, but this can vary from person to person.

Demigender
Main article: Demigender

Similar to agender, demigender is a static gender, compared to genderflux which is a changing gender. If a person describes their gender as demigender, then they may feel partly one gender, and partly something else. In some cases, the "something else" portion can be compared to agender or otherwise a feeling of being genderless. Genderflux people may thus feel that their feeling of gender sometimes weakens to the point of describing it feeling similar to demigender.

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