Oblifeminine



Contributions by: Rust&Stardust

Definitions and Usage
Oblifeminine describes an individual who has a tie to femininity and/or femalehood because of abuse or brainwashing. Usually, this is an AFAB person, but not inherently; it could be an CAFAB, or coercively-assigned-female-at-birth intersex individual. The kinds of abuse resulting in an oblifeminine identity can vary. For example: sexual abuse can lead to an androgyne feeling as if they have to be a "perfect" female, causing a trauma-induced tie to that image; religious abuse can force a nonbinary person to conform to rigid femininity, and may have been told that the only way to survive is to be that feminine person; transphobic emotional abuse from parents making a transman unhealthily connected to his femaleness to survive. It comes from the word "obligation", as it is an obligation to be and present as ones assigned sex.

Related Terms
Obligender falls under the neurogender umbrella with other trauma-related genders, like aclarus or lazuligender. The overall label is obligender, and the specifically-male version is oblimasculine.

Flags
According to the designer, the pink represents the coerced femalehood. The yellow is for self-discovery and healing, as well as being a gender-neutral color. Trauma caused gender confusion is represented in the black stripes.