An umbrella term for genders that could be considered “between” Outherine/Aporine and Xenine. This can include any gender that shares qualities of both abinary/atrinary genders and xenogenders, without explicitly being either.
Diastine can include genders that:
Genders relating to both human and non-human/abstract relations to genders. This can include genders that are partly attributed to feelings typically considering masculine/feminine/aporine/outherine/etc, however may be in abstract ways. Includes genders that non-xenine+xenine.
Are related to things typically not attributed to gender in general society, such as plants, animals, concepts, colors, etc. However, this is only genders that are connected in some way to these things, where one’s gender isn’t literally these things. This includes genders that are usually seen as xenogender/xenic, however may not always be seen/experienced as such. (See next bullet point)
With genders relating to abstract concepts, these genders use the qualities these things have which can lay within and outside human constructions of gender. Basically genders that describe the qualities of one gender, how one’s gender feels compared to a thing in nature, concept, media, etc. without necessarily being xenine or a xenogender, as it describes qualities vs one’s gender in itself. Depending on the person, these types of genders may either feel non-xenine or xenine, or perhaps both as these genders share qualities of non-xenine and xenine genders. (An example of this could be a feminine gender relating to a fox, as one’s gender has both qualities of femininity, and qualities usually prescribed to foxes in one’s mind.)
In general, genders that can be described as being both abinary/atrinary and a xenogender, yet possibly also being neither. These types of genders are usually felt as their own thing vs under a certain subset of gender identity.
The examples above aren’t all what the Diastine label can cover, however they exist to give you an idea of what could be includes under this label.
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The name “Diastine” comes from the root word “Dia” meaning through/between/apart/across, which I feel any of those could fit how one experiences being Diastine, or genders that may fit under what this term was coined to describe. “(a)st” comes from the word “Vast” as this term was coined to cover a vast amount of experiences, (I also couldn’t really think of anything else due to what I was originally gonna call this term got yoinked, and I kinda wanted to pay homage to the original name), plus the suffix “-ine”, which I see it pretty common to use for genders like this so using it also.
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The in-nature term would be DIASIN (Diastine-In-Nature).
Diastous / Diaine / Distine — The adjective equivalent form of Diastine. Could be used to describe terms that aren’t Diastine but have similar qualities. Can be used to describe any type of identity with these qualitites. (Similar in usage to masculine/feminine/aethine/aporine/outherine/xenine/etc) Could be shortened to “Dia”.
Diastinity — The diastous equivalent to masculinity/femininity/etc.
Diastic / Diasic — Diastine-alignment/aligned. Similar to aethic, xenic, kenic, masc, fem, etc.
Diast / Diastan — Equivalent to man/woman/enban/etc. The plural form being Diasts or Diasten.
Asti — Equivalent to boy/girl/enby/etc. The plural form being Astis.
Transdiastous / Transdiaine / Transdistine — Transitioning towards a diastous/diaine/distine identity. Includes those with at least partly (or fully) diastous/diaine/distine identity. May refer to gender, presentation, or both.
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This term was originally coined October 7th, 2022. The bright-colored flag below the cut is the original/main flag, the flag shown above is a new alternative one.
Anyways yeah similar to Anthidial, I coined this to help others fill spaces in terminology one can use. Similar to Anthidial, Diastine shouldn’t be applied to pre-existing terms without permissions of the coiners. If unknown (or unable to contact coiners) one could simply note that the gender could possibly be considered Anthidial.
I just wanted to coin a term to fill that weird fuzzy space between Outherine genders and Xenogenders. Like with Anthidial, this was mostly inspired by Kenochoric and Luxine, like-wise all the other concept-related neogenders that aren’t Xenogenders. Just a word/tool coiners can use when describing genders.
While Diastine may cover pre-existing genders, that doesn’t automatically make those genders Diastine. They simply share qualities that could be described by the Diastine term. I’m all for the “this isn’t a [x] gender” however when it comes to archiving something that shares a lot of qualities with something else, I’d advocate for the adjustment from “this is a [x] gender” to “this gender shares qualities typically seen in [x] gender(s)”
I’ll all for gender umbrellas, and I’m all for unique genders not under any other umbrella. However when it comes to someone who found a gender like that and wanted to know more about similar genders, they’d have a hard time (or possibly impossible depending on the terminology the original coiner used) finding similar genders, especially if one has no clue what types of genders to even search for.
Anthidial and Diastine have been coined to help with that. Instead of incorrectly labeling certain terms as things they aren’t, these terms are tools to help both coiners and archivers alike to shift from “this is an [x] gender” to “this gender under no certain umbrella, but shares qualities of [x] and [x] genders” this allows for more flow between terms, and to allow folks to pin-point what actual aspect of certain genders they’re connected to. At least, that’s what I’m trying to get at by coining these lol.
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Below this DNI is a cut, underneath the cut is where I put flags that may trigger eye strain, migraines, etc. due to colors or stripe patterns. (When I’m able to make an alternative flag) Proceed with caution if you struggle with anything like that.
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