Recugender
Recugender is a gender identity in which one identifies with their birth gender, but refuses to be cis. It may be used as a modifier for other genders such as recugirl or recuboy.
Common Definitions
| “ | To identify with your birth gender, but you refuse to be cis; to be used as recugirl or recuboy. From the latin word “recuso”, meaning “to refuse”. | ” |
–Mod Fy of Beyond-MOGAI-Pride-Flags, 2018[2] | ||
| “ | Redefined Definition : To identify with your birth gender, but refusing to be called cis, due to being trans and or nonbinary in a way where you identify WITH your AGAB, without necessary having a gender related to your AGAB. Examples of this includes AMAB Demiboys, Transman Lesbians, Genderfluid people who sometime have a gender relating to their AGAB. These feelings cause complexity in gender. This term can also be useful for plural and intersex folxs. Microterms can include Recugirl or Recuboy. From the latin word “recuso”, meaning “to refuse”. | ” |
–ashix0trender0juice, 2021[3] | ||
Controversy
Recugender is often criticized for being 'too close' to cisgender, or that it could be used by cis people who just don't want to be called cis. According to Tumblr user neopronouns, "the issue that i (and many others) have with recugender is the use of the word ‘refusal’ - a ‘refusal’ to be cis makes it seem like this term, rather than being for people who are in the grey areas around cisness, could be for people who find the term cis offensive, such as t3rfs. it’s the language that the term uses, not the potential concept behind it, that people dislike."[4]
Reclaiming
The term was reclaimed on January 2021 by Tumblr user ashix0trender0juice, with an expanded definition and an alternate flag:
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