Girlby, also known as galby, femby, and womanby, rarely known as engirl, 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 people with a non-binary gender and female, gendervast people, people who are genderfluid or genderflux between non-binary and female, lunarian people, and neugirls/neuwomen. It may also be used by parafluid/parafluix people whose non-fluid gender is girl or related to femininity.
It is similar to xirl. Its masculine counterpart is enboy.
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]
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 person who is both demigirl and deminonbinary, monogender a person who feels their gender is a fusion of demigirl and deminonbinary, a person whose gender is some percent girl and some percent non-binary, a person whose gender has demigender components, or a genderfluid person who is fluid between demigirl and deminonbinary.
An alternate demigirlby flag was created by FANDOM user Reign of the Breadsticcs on March 25, 2021.
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.