I have a question:Here in Germany we got an acronym: FLINTA.
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@enbypirate@lgbtqia.space We have LGBTQA+
It’s a mouthful.@kiki and what do you think about the German acronym?
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@kiki@thegayagenda.fans FLINTA specifically excludes cis men, so no, LGBTQIA+ doesn't cover it.
@ics @kiki @enbypirate I've seen LBT but that excludes cis straight women.
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@kiki and what do you think about the German acronym?
@enbypirate@lgbtqia.space I actually like that it’s easier to say and not just a bunch of random letters.
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@kiki@thegayagenda.fans FLINTA specifically excludes cis men, so no, LGBTQIA+ doesn't cover it.
@ics@tau-ceti.space I don’t appreciate replyguy behavior. The question was not about cis men exclusion. It asked for similar acronyms. Enjoy this block from me to you.
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@enbypirate@lgbtqia.space I actually like that it’s easier to say and not just a bunch of random letters.
@kiki @enbypirate well FLINTA is not synonymous to LGBTQIA+. It's mostly used if you specifically want to exclude cis men.
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I have a question:
Here in Germany we got an acronym: FLINTA. This means Frauen (women), Lesben (lesbians), Inter (intersex people), Nichtbinär (nonbinary), Trans (well.. I think that one is pretty self explanatory) and Agender (same as for trans).Is there - in the English speaking world or anywhere else on earth a similar acronym? And what do you think of it (the German acronym)?
I am honestly not aware of one, although I live in Germany, albeit as a Brit!
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@kiki @enbypirate well FLINTA is not synonymous to LGBTQIA+. It's mostly used if you specifically want to exclude cis men.
@schlupf@kinkycats.org I don’t appreciate replyguy behavior. The question was not about cis men exclusion. It was about similar acronyms. Enjoy this block from me to you.
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@enbypirate@lgbtqia.space I actually like that it’s easier to say and not just a bunch of random letters.
@kiki @enbypirate Direct translation to English would be WLINTA - not too bad
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I have a question:
Here in Germany we got an acronym: FLINTA. This means Frauen (women), Lesben (lesbians), Inter (intersex people), Nichtbinär (nonbinary), Trans (well.. I think that one is pretty self explanatory) and Agender (same as for trans).Is there - in the English speaking world or anywhere else on earth a similar acronym? And what do you think of it (the German acronym)?
@enbypirate It's interesting but no, not aware of anything quite like it here in the U.S.
Also, apparently this at times involves excluding #TransMen -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLINTA*
"FLINTA* specifically refers to the gender identity of individuals"
"Sometimes it is criticized that despite the clear terms, it is not clear who is welcome in these spaces. There are spaces where trans women are welcome, but not trans men, or vice versa."
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@kiki@thegayagenda.fans FLINTA specifically excludes cis men, so no, LGBTQIA+ doesn't cover it.
@ics I was today years old when I learned that FLINTA is not a passenger rail line. (In my defense, y'all have a lot of those.)
I propose "queer." Which, given the history of the assimilationist gay rights movement specifically abandoning those who invented that self-descriptor, I am pretty comfortable saying does not include cisgender men. (Cis women can be under the banner so long as they drop the White Feminism and accept that they're not the sole marginalized group.) There's also "GSM," which stands for "gender and sexual minorities," but neither specifically includes cis women like FLINTA seems to; I'm not aware of any term like that in English. I wish we had one, but that would require a level of class solidarity between cis women and queers that I've never observed at the scale of political movements, only at the individual level. (And honestly I don't trust the fact that most of these Wyoming fash are polite to my face because I pass a little.)
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@ics I was today years old when I learned that FLINTA is not a passenger rail line. (In my defense, y'all have a lot of those.)
I propose "queer." Which, given the history of the assimilationist gay rights movement specifically abandoning those who invented that self-descriptor, I am pretty comfortable saying does not include cisgender men. (Cis women can be under the banner so long as they drop the White Feminism and accept that they're not the sole marginalized group.) There's also "GSM," which stands for "gender and sexual minorities," but neither specifically includes cis women like FLINTA seems to; I'm not aware of any term like that in English. I wish we had one, but that would require a level of class solidarity between cis women and queers that I've never observed at the scale of political movements, only at the individual level. (And honestly I don't trust the fact that most of these Wyoming fash are polite to my face because I pass a little.)
@kiki @enbypirate@SymTrkl Honestly, I don't really care. FLINTA is a bit of a difficult topic for me (especially when they use
Frau*with an asterisk at the end --- no, don't ask
).I don't really feel very welcome there as it feels (in reality) to much oriented towards women or "always feminine", which is not who or what I am.
So far I haven't felt really well in those circles.
Queeris where I feel really welcome and well, unless it is "lesbisch-queer" (lesbian-queer) or "schwul-queer" (gay-queer, as in "gay men") -
I have a question:
Here in Germany we got an acronym: FLINTA. This means Frauen (women), Lesben (lesbians), Inter (intersex people), Nichtbinär (nonbinary), Trans (well.. I think that one is pretty self explanatory) and Agender (same as for trans).Is there - in the English speaking world or anywhere else on earth a similar acronym? And what do you think of it (the German acronym)?
@enbypirate Besides the translation question: I have one problem with that label, that too often the "INTA"-Part isn't seriously considered. Sure, not always, but there is a serious risk that someone just replaced "Frauen" with "FLINTA" -since "that's the modern phrasing" -without considering the implications of this abbreviation for the "invited" audience.
So it can be used in a F*(Frauen/female and people who mostly align with it) way, so "too masc presenting" INTA people often feel unwelcome or are even excluded and "female enough" often assumed to be comfortable to be gendered female... -
@SymTrkl Honestly, I don't really care. FLINTA is a bit of a difficult topic for me (especially when they use
Frau*with an asterisk at the end --- no, don't ask ).I don't really feel very welcome there as it feels (in reality) to much oriented towards women or "always feminine", which is not who or what I am.
So far I haven't felt really well in those circles.
Queeris where I feel really welcome and well, unless it is "lesbisch-queer" (lesbian-queer) or "schwul-queer" (gay-queer, as in "gay men")@ics @SymTrkl @enbypirate oh I liked the sound of FLINTA in theory but not if it excludes any of my enby friends 🫂
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@ics @SymTrkl @enbypirate oh I liked the sound of FLINTA in theory but not if it excludes any of my enby friends 🫂
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@ics @SymTrkl @enbypirate oh I liked the sound of FLINTA in theory but not if it excludes any of my enby friends 🫂
@ciara @ics @SymTrkl @enbypirate Also often ~half of the inter and asexual people and of course our trans brothers.
In theory good, in reality you have to check for other signs.... -
@ciara @ics @SymTrkl @enbypirate Also often ~half of the inter and asexual people and of course our trans brothers.
In theory good, in reality you have to check for other signs....@doppelgrau @ciara @ics @SymTrkl and there is quite much critique from trans-men who feel that including them means that they're not seen as real men
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@doppelgrau @ciara @ics @SymTrkl and there is quite much critique from trans-men who feel that including them means that they're not seen as real men
@enbypirate @ciara @ics @SymTrkl And from what I heard often even worse, not only that the "FL" part is so dominant, but also the organizers assume all people attending are fine being gendered female => trans masc people are misgendered in the worst way then.
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@enbypirate @ciara @ics @SymTrkl And from what I heard often even worse, not only that the "FL" part is so dominant, but also the organizers assume all people attending are fine being gendered female => trans masc people are misgendered in the worst way then.
@doppelgrau @ciara @ics @SymTrkl to quote a very good (also AMAB and super gay) friend of mine: FLINTA is just a cool way to say "woman"
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@doppelgrau @ciara @ics @SymTrkl to quote a very good (also AMAB and super gay) friend of mine: FLINTA is just a cool way to say "woman"
@enbypirate @doppelgrau @ics @SymTrkl eww it really does sound that way
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@enbypirate @doppelgrau @ics @SymTrkl eww it really does sound that way
@ciara @doppelgrau @ics @SymTrkl even though I can imagine that people are doing the stuff that Ellejay described, I don't know any FLINTA only spaces or people who assume everyone has she/her as pronouns.
