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genderflux
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黑料网 does聽genderflux mean?
A person who is听驳别苍诲别谤蹿濒耻虫聽experiences a range of intensity within a gender identity. For example, a person who is boyflux聽may identify as fully masculine to partially masculine (demiboy) and slightly masculine (libramasculine) to fully agender.听
Genderflux聽is also used by some as a synonym for聽gender-fluid.听
Where does genderflux come from?
Evidence for genderflux for “shifting between genders”聽(hence flux) dates back to at least 1994 concerning a Queer Pagans newsletter. In 2003, rocker Marilyn Manson was described as genderflux.
Genderflux took off in 2014, thanks to Tumblr user Deergoths, who applied genderflux聽to experiences of variation in the intensity within a gender identity (rather than between).聽A 2016 Teen Vogue article on the changing lexicon of gender and sexuality helped spread the term.
While both senses of genderflux are in use, social media suggests聽Deergoths鈥� sense is becoming more common, likely to its utility and the existence of the terms nonbinary 补苍诲听gender-fluid.听
The genderflux community has a rich vocabulary based on flux, including but not limited to聽boyflux, girlflux, bigenderflux, fluidflux, agenderflux, neutroisflux, nonbinaryflux. A person who identifies as girlflux, for instance, experiences a range of intensity of female identity, while an agenderflux person may experience various degrees of feeling any gender at all.
genderflux: a gender experience which changes in degree over time (sometimes /very/ that gender and sometimes less that gender)
this is not the same as genderfluid, because the gender(s) you're experiencing stay the same, it's only the intensity that changes— your gay is showing鈿� (@GIRLSKISSGlRLS)
Examples of genderflux
Who uses genderflux?
Genderflux is still by people in various genderqueer communities, especially online.
To help spread genderflux awareness, gender-fluid activist and fashion blogger聽Elliott Alexzander launched a clothing line called GenderFlux in 2015. The brand sells gender neutral t-shirts emblazoned with a variety of gender identities.
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Gender Flux is also a 2015 short adult film, which according to Queerporn.tv, 鈥�brings gender fluid strap on fucking to its highest form.鈥�
Genderflux remains a topic of discussion within queer culture and is not universally accepted, including by those who hold transphobic beliefs. However, others are embracing a broader cultural shift that supports individuals in self-identifying their gender in authentic ways.
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Genderfluid and genderflux are similar, but not the same. Genderfluid switches genders and genderflux does not switch but rather intensifies between agender and another gender.— Genderfluid People Unite 鉁婐煆烩湂馃徏鉁婐煆解湂馃従鉁婐煆� (@Gndrfluidunite)
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