Girlflux
The girl part rises and falls. Full some weeks, faint others, sometimes gone, while the anchor stays a girl.
- One of twenty-three Fluid identities
- No settled flag
- 3 min read
A shorter entry: the essentials, written to the same standard. The fuller guides are on the main identities.
What it is
Girlflux is genderflux with the anchor named. Your gender is a girl's, or a woman's, and what moves is how much of it there is. The record describes fluctuating between feeling strongly feminine and weakly feminine, and the range can run from fully female all the way down to no gender at all. Same station, different volume.
The stops along the way have names if you want them: paragirl for mostly a girl, demigirl for partly, librafeminine for slightly, agender at the bottom. Some people slide between them; some jump. None of that is required reading. What is required is the anchor. Girlflux is not a girl who becomes something else. It is a girl whose girlness has a dial.
The record credits the word to Tumblr user kitsuneshay in August 2015 and lists femaleflux and womanflux as alternatives. Boyflux is the masculine equivalent and enbyflux the non-binary one. There is no research behind any of them. What it is not: it is not girlfluid, which moves between genders; it is not demigirl, which sits still at partial; and it is not a woman whose dysphoria has loud weeks. If the woman is constant and only the discomfort moves, that is a different and very common thing.
Pronouns
She/her at every setting is common and not a cop-out. So is they/them, chosen precisely because it never needs updating. Some switch by the week, which needs people who pay attention. None of it proves or disproves anything.
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Nearby identities
The distinction is the useful part.
The umbrella, without the anchor named. If you always know the gender getting louder is a girl's, girlflux is simply the tighter word.
Compare Girlflux and Genderflux →The same dial on a boy's gender. Some people have both, a girl part and a boy part that each rise and fall, and then bigender or multigender may fit better.
Compare Girlflux and Boyflux →The dial on a non-binary gender. If the thing that gets louder was never a girl's, look there.
Compare Girlflux and Enbyflux →It might not be you if…
- Your womanhood is constant and your dysphoria comes and goes. Almost every trans woman has loud weeks and quiet ones. That is not flux.
- What changes is which gender, not how much. That is girlfluid or genderfluid.
- The flat weeks flatten everything: food, friends, music. That may be depression or dissociation borrowing this shape, and it deserves its own attention.
- You landed at partial years ago and have not moved. Demigirl fits a dial that is not turning.
Questions people ask
What is the difference between girlflux and girlfluid?
Fluid changes which gender; flux changes how much. A girlfluid person may be a girl this week and neutral next week. A girlflux person is a girl throughout, at full volume then barely, sometimes down to none. Plenty of people are both.
Am I a trans woman if I am girlflux and was assigned male?
You can use both words if they fit. Trans is a wide word for not staying where you were assigned, and a girlflux person assigned male at birth is not staying there. Some prefer trans woman, some non-binary, some just girlflux. Nobody checks.
Does girlflux mean I am non-binary?
Most people file it under non-binary because part of the range is not fully a girl. Some girlflux women say they are women, full stop, whose intensity varies. Both positions are held by real people and neither is wrong.
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