Quoigender

Quoisgender flag

Quoigender, also known as WTFgender or Whatgender(*), is a gender identity and umbrella term for those who do not fully understand, or want to define, their gender. Some examples of this include:

*Not to be confussed with Genderwhat.

• Not being sure what gender is, so in turn, not knowing if one has experienced it
• Finding one's gender too confusing
• Finding one's gender so complicated and intricate to the point where one can't define it, even with extreme effort
• One questioning their gender for so long that their questioning starts to become part of their identity
• An alternative to questioning
• Dis-identifying with the concept of gender, either as a social construct or as something potentially applicable to oneself
• Finding the concept of gender identity to be personally inaccessible, non-nonsensical, or inapplicable
• Not understanding gender at all

Under the quoigender umbrella are subsets such as quoifluid, quoimasc, quoifem, quoimascflux, and quoifemflux.

History

The term quoigender was created in 2014 by Tumblr user epochryphal. It was intended as a close parallel to quoiromantic, which was introduced in 2012 as an alternative to the humorously-intended wtfromantic. The "quoi" in quoigender comes from the French word quoi, meaning "what."

Flag

Alternative flag

In 2015, the creator proposed co's own flag design for all quoi identities. The flag consisted of four lavender question marks, rotated in a ring to share a single dot, as if spinning in a circle. This design was overlaid on a grey background in a house-shape, instead of the traditional rectangular flag. The choice of question marks as a symbol references the questioning basis of quoi as an identity term.

Another quoigender flag design was posted to the Pride-Flags DeviantArt account, although its original source remains unknown. It features horizontal stripes in the colors of black, lime green, and pale blue.

Third flag

Fourth flag

More recently, some simplified designs have been proposed inspired by the nontraditional flag shape idea, using a triangular flag shape instead, with the intent of being easier to physically reproduce. Like the creator's design, these designs exhibit a ring of question mark symbols sharing a single dot, except that the number of question marks is three instead of four. These designs have been proposed in both a green and a lavender version, in reference to previous designs. The lavender version is intended for quoi identities as a whole, as with Cor's design, "to honor its intentional vagueness."

Another quoigender flag was posted by tumblr user hghrules.[2] Like Cor's design, it was intended to represent all the quoi identities. The two lines are an optical illusion; the brain struggles to understand whether they are the same color or not due to the color surrounding them. It is purple because "there are so many names for purple" that it just gets confusing and is hard to identify at all.

alt. quoigender flag by hghrules