Nonbinary Visibility Glossary

NOTES:

  • This glossary offers vocabulary that Nonbinary, Genderfluid, and Queer individuals may find useful, especially in regards
    to family relationships.

  • GIN below refers to terms that are Gender Inclusive / Neutral —
    in short, GENeral words that can be used equally by any or all!

C

Comparent (pl. Comparents): A GIN term that may be used generically to refer to any or all siblings of a person’s parents
(aunt, uncle, or parsi), regardless of sex or gender identity.

Example: All ten of my comparents are coming to our family reunion next week.

The word “comparent” combines the Latin prefix com-, meaning “with” or “in association,” and “parent.” (Also see Parsi below.)

G

Ge, Ger, Gers, Gerself: A GEneral third person singular pronoun set that can be used by and for anyone. Related to the French noun gens and Spanish gente, meaning “people,” the etymology of these pronouns can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European gene-, which also provides the root of many English words, including genealogy, genetics, genus, genotype, and general. (See link below.)

Gex: A new method of self-identification that consists of the merger of Gender and Sex into a unified whole, expressed as

“Gender + Sex = Gex”

A person’s Gex is written as two upper-case letters:

  • The first letter denotes a person’s self-identified gender: A (agender), 
    B (bigender), 
    F (feminine), 
    G (genderfluid), 
    M (masculine), 
    N (neutrois), 
    Q (queer), or 
    S (synthois).
  • The second letter denotes a person’s genital structure at birth:
    X (from XX),
    Y (from XY),
    O (from XO) and I (for Intersex) are also possible if the person so chooses.

Some commonly held Gexes are:

FX (cisgender wenn)

MY (cisgender man)

FY (transgender wenn)

MX (transgender man)

BX or BY (bigender person)

GX or GY (genderfluid person)

NX or NY (neutrois ren)

SX or SY (synthois ren)

QX or QY (queer person)

(See definition of Ren below.)

Gexual Category:  One of three large categories that a person may choose to identify with according to their gex. The three gexual categories are Wenn, Man, and Ren.

J

Ja or Ja-Ja: [jă or jă-jă] A slang expression for one’s nonbinary parent. (See “Jather” below.)

Jather: [jă’ ther] A GIN term for a genderfluid, nonbinary, or queer parent. From Sanskrit janayati, whose meaning can be translated into several terms associated with parenthood, including “generate,” “beget,” and “give birth to.” (See listings from the Sanskirt Dictionary below.)

M

Mrg.: An abbrevation of “Merger,” which can be used as an honorific title by those genderfluid people who can “merge”
their individual genders into one synthesized ŭber gender.
(See “Synthois” below.)

Mx.:  An abbreviation of “Mix,” used as a title by many nonbinary, queer, or genderfluid people.

N

Neutrois: Term for a neuter gender identity.

Nibling(s): A GIN umbrella term for the child of one’s sibling. A nibling can be a niece, a nephew, or a child whose gender identity is between or beyond the binary.



Nx.: An abbreviation of “Nix.” Nx. is an honorific that may be used instead of Ms., Mr., or Mx. by those who identify as neutrois (i.e., no gender) or who “nix” the entire idea of honorifics that reveal any private information about an individual’s gender or non-gender identity.

P

Parsi: / ˈpɛər see / plural parsis / ˈpɛər seez / A GIN title for a comparent who does not identify as either a wenn or a man.

Example: I’m so happy that Aunt Marion, Uncle Bob, and Parsi Glen are coming to our family reunion next week!

The title “parsi” combines the 
“p-a-r” of parent and the “s-i” of “sibling” to form a word that expresses the meaning “parent’s sibling.” Having the unique title “Parsi” also signals that a parent’s gender-variant sibling is on a “par” with a cisgender aunt and uncle.

As with “Aunt” and “Uncle,” the title “Parsi” can be given to an actual sibling, sibling-in-law, or good friend of one’s parent.

(Also see Comparent above.)

R

Ren: A noun that may be used as an umbrella term for someone who experiences their gender as being different from, beyond, or between that of wenn and man, which may include genderfluid, gender-gifted, neutrois, synthois, non-binary, and queer identities. 

Ren can also be used as the convenient second element in compound words relating to a gender-variant person, as in chairren or congressren,

There are three etymologies for “ren.”  The first is “renegade” as in “gender renegade.” The second is “renaissance.” The third is Mandarin Chinese rén, which is the gender neutral word for “person.” (See link below.)

S

Spouse: The term used most often in Trailblazing English for any married person.

Spouseren: A married ren.  Used when necessary to indicate that a spouse is a ren.

Synthois:  Term for an über gender identity that synthesizes two or more of a genderfluid person’s individual genders into a unified whole.

T

They, Their, Theirs, Them, Themself, Themselves: Trailblazer English endorses the “Singular They” as a GN/GI third-person pronoun set for use when a speaker is referring to anyone generally or when a particular person is talking about themself.

For more on the growing acceptance of “Singular They” use for specific individuals and the reclaiming — Yes, the reclaiming! — of its use in the generic sense, see the links to two English language authorities below:


Y

Yong: (Yōng) – Meaning “harmony” in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Yong can be used by Gender-variant people to name the space they occupy between or beyond that of Feminine Yin and Masculine Yang.