Aslashgender or a/gender, shortened to aslash or slash, is a type of gender under the non-binary umbrella in which someone identifies as a recognised gender while having a very different gender experience than one would expect from their gender identity. It is best described as "identifying as, but not really with, a certain gender". For example, an aslash girl may identify as female while not experiencing the gender identity of what most of society views as female.
![](http://static.miraheze.org/lgbtawiki/thumb/9/95/Aslagender_Flag.png/300px-Aslagender_Flag.png)
![](http://static.miraheze.org/lgbtawiki/thumb/0/05/Aslaenby_symbol.png/92px-Aslaenby_symbol.png)
Aslash people may have an entirely different view on what "male" and "female" are to them, and identify as their experience of a chosen gender identity. Thus, they would not be "pretending" to be a certain gender, as they choose to identify with the typical parallel of their unique identity.
Aslashgender may be similar to offgender or perigender.
History
Aslashgender was coined as aslagender on 1 January 2021 by FANDOM editor RalseiTheFluffiest as a way to better describe her identity.[1]
After finding out that aslagender was an existing identity, she renamed the term to aslashgender.
Etymology
The term aslashgender is derived from the prefix "a-" (meaning "not"), and the word "slash." A forward slash ("/") is usually used to describe something being either-or. This is applied to aslashgender by saying "not gender or gender" representing being a certain gender, while not relating with that gender at the same time.
Aslashgender should be pronounced as "ay-slash-gender".
Flag
The first aslash flag was created by RalseiTheFluffiest on 1 January 2021. The meanings of the flag's colors are: Green represents identifying as a gender. Cyan is close to green, and represents being a unique version of a gender. Light red is the opposite of green, and represents being not a gender at all. Greys represents fluctuating between white and black and being uncertain about one's gender.
The aslash symbol was created by RalseiTheFluffiest on 4 January 2021. It features a break in the middle to represent a disconnect from traditional gender identities.
Subcategories
- Aslash Girl - Identifying as one's unique sense of woman
- Aslash Boy - Identifying as one's unique sense of man
- Aslash Enby - Having a unique sense of the binary genders, but identifying as neither of them
- Femslash - Identifying as one's unique sense of fingender
- Mascslash - Identifying as one's unique sense of mingender
- Neuslash - Identifying as one's unique sense of ningender
- Xenslash - Identifying as one's unique sense of any given xenogender
- Watercoloured - Fluid between aslash genders