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Huegender

A colour gender that will not hold one colour: any hue, any shade, changing as it likes.

  • One of twenty-seven Xenogender identities
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A shorter entry: the essentials, written to the same standard. The fuller guides are on the main identities.

What it is

Huegender is a xenogender. The nearest honest word for the gender is a colour, not man, woman or a point between them — and the colour does not stay put. The LGBTQIA+ Wiki describes it as a mix of all colourgenders and fluidflux: the colour of your gender can shift to any hue and any shade, dark purple one week, cyan the next, scarlet after that.

Read this before building on it. This is a very small word with a very thin record. The wiki page that defines it carries no outside sources at all and gives a coining date in late 2020 by a single user; there is nothing older to check it against. What follows describes a shape, not a documented community. Take what fits and drop the rest.

What it is not: a favourite colour, a mood ring, or an aesthetic. Colorgender is for when the colour is the answer to "what is your gender". Huegender is that, plus motion — the answer is a different colour on different days, and the changing is part of the truth rather than a failure to settle.

Pronouns

No pronoun set comes with this. Many people with colour-shaped genders use they/them; some use neopronouns and some use several sets, sometimes changing with the colour. Pronouns and gender are separate decisions.

Does this sound like you?

Asked your gender, a colour arrives before any word does — and it is not the colour that arrived last week.
You tried colorgender and it fitted right up to the moment the colour moved, which it always does.
You could keep a chart of it. Some people do. Nobody else would understand the chart.
The shifts are not moods. You have been miserable while the gender sat at a warm yellow, and cheerful at slate.
Sometimes the intensity moves as well as the hue: full saturation one day, a wash of nothing the next.
Non-binary is the word you give the world. It is true and it is a blank.
You have wondered whether synaesthesia explains this, and decided it might explain the how but not the what.

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Nearby identities

The distinction is the useful part.

Colorgender

The parent. One colour, held steady, as the truest answer to what your gender is. Huegender is what you reach for when the colour will not stay. If yours has been the same colour for years, colorgender is the accurate word.

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Fluidflux

The motion without the colour: gender that changes in which it is and in how strongly it is felt. Huegender, on record, is colorgender with fluidflux built in. If the changing is the story and the colour is incidental, this is the better page.

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Genderfluid

Change over time between genders that usually have ordinary names. Huegender moves the same way but between colours. If your stations are man, woman, neither, read fluid first.

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Xenogender

The umbrella: gender described through something other than male, female or neutral. Huegender is one specific answer inside it.

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Aesthetigender

Gender tied to a whole aesthetic or scene rather than one property. If what changes is the palette of a look you love, not the gender underneath, that page is the honest one.

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It might not be you if…

  • You love colour and "woman", "man" or "non-binary" already describes you accurately.
  • The colour has been the same for as long as you can remember. Colorgender says it better.
  • What changes is your mood, and the colour follows the mood. A mood is not a gender, and it is fine to have both.
  • What you are describing is how you dress or decorate. That is an aesthetic. It matters; it is not this.

Questions people ask

What is huegender?

A xenogender felt as colour, where the colour itself keeps changing — any hue, any shade. The LGBTQIA+ Wiki records it as a mix of all colourgenders and fluidflux. The record is thin: that page cites no outside sources, so treat the definition as a community description rather than a settled one.

How is huegender different from colorgender?

Motion. Colorgender is one colour held steady. Huegender is colour that shifts between hues and shades, and the shifting is part of the gender rather than indecision about it. Some people use colorgender loosely for both; huegender exists for the people who wanted the movement named.

Is huegender just a fancy word for genderfluid?

It is genderfluid in shape, with a specific content. Fluid says the gender moves; huegender says what it moves between — colours rather than man, woman or neither. If your stations have ordinary names, genderfluid is the plainer and better-known word.

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Last updated · How these pages are written and checked

No flag is shown because none is settled. Text: written from how people who use the word Huegender describe it.

Sources:

  • Huegender — LGBTQIA+ Wiki — Definition (mix of all colorgenders and fluidflux; colour can change to any hue and shade) and a coining date of 13 November 2020 by one user. The page is tagged by the wiki itself as having no outside resources. Fetched and read.

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