Girlby, also known as galby, and womanby, rarely known as engirl or womenby, is a term for someone who is a non-binary woman. It can be used by anyone who identifies as both a girl and as non-binary, multigender individuals with a non-binary gender and female, gendervast individuals, those who are genderfluid or genderflux between non-binary and female, lunarian individuals, and neugirls/neuwomen. It may also be used by parafluid/parafluix individuals whose non-fluid gender is girl or related to femininity.
History and Flag
The term was created by Tumblr user portugayse on May 31, 2018.[1] The first girlby flag was created by Tumblr use beyond-mogai-pride-flags on August 9, 2018.[2] On August 15, 2018, beyond-mogai-pride-flags created an alternate girlby flag.[3]
On January 23, 2019, Reddit user technobaboo created the girlby-centered subreddit r/Femby.[4] On August 26, 2020, Reddit user scientific-communist created a femby flag based on the colors of the lesbian flag.[5] Reddit user Hotdog1352 created an alternate femby flag on February 3, 2021.[6]
Discord user Accidental-Therapist created an alternate girlby flag. The flags colors are meant to mimic the agender flag's layout, having a yellow stripe in the center for non-binary representation, while pink is the color associated with feminity. From top to bottom; The darker pink is for those that Identify as partially Women/Female/BinaryWoman. The lighter pink is for those that identify with Femininity or Girlhood- not necessarily in a Cisgender or Binary way. The yellow stripe is for Nonbinary, as many variations of that there are; ranging from Agender to Neutrois to Xenogenders, anything non-binary is welcome with the Yellow. The white is the disconnect, or possible 'wiggle room' around the Nonbinary Yellow stripe, seeing as sometimes Girlby is part of Genderfluidity or a possible fusion of Demigenders.
Demigirlby
Tumblr user imoga-pride coined the term demigirlby, also known as demigalby and demiwomanby, and created a flag for it on November 30, 2018.[7]
A demigirlby person is someone who is partially, but not entirely an girlby or non-binary woman. This may include a multigender individual who is both demigirl and deminonbinary, a monogender individual who feels their gender is a fusion of demigirl and deminonbinary, someone whose gender is some percent girl and some percent non-binary, someone whose gender has demigender components, or a genderfluid individual who is fluid between demigirl and deminonbinary.
An alternate demigirlby flag was created by FANDOM user Reign of the Breadsticcs on March 25, 2021.
Flags
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The alternate girlby flag
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A girlby flag by scientific-communist
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An alternate girlby flag by Hotdog1352
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The demigirlby flag
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An alternate demigirlby flag by Reign of the breadsticcs
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Alternate Girlby flag by Accidental-Therapist
References
- ↑ Tumblr post introducing new non-binary terms, including girlby.
- ↑ Tumblr post with the girlby flag.
- ↑ Tumblr post with the alternate girlby flag.
- ↑ Welcome post for r/Femby.
- ↑ Reddit post by scientific-communist with their new flag.
- ↑ Reddit post by Hotdog1352 with their new flag.
- ↑ Tumblr post on demigirlby.