#Trinteri

[your-bigender-big-brother]

Hello again!

This month, let's talk about genders that exist in between genders. Those are called centrigenders! Is this something you experience yourself? Tell me about it!

- Your Bigender Big Brother 💙💚

[gender-jargon]

[Image ID: the Trinteri pride flag by Gent of Gender-Jargon. The Trinteri flags consists of three down-pointing chevrons of the same size, with negative space above, between and to the left and right bottom corner of the flag. The top negative space is very light green. The left-botton negative space is very light pink. The right-bottom negative space is very light blue. The chevrons from top to bottom are indigo, grey and teal with very very light grey space in between. ./. End ID]

Trinteri: a gender amidst the Gender Trinary; a gender that is centered in the middle of the Male-Female-Neutrois trinary.

[PT: Trinteri: a gender admist the Gender Trinary; a gender that is centered in the middle of the Male-Female-Neutrois trinary. ./. End PT]

Etymology

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From Latin, "Tri-", a prefix meaning "Three" + "Inter" meaning "Between" + "-i", an English neologistic suffix indicating genderness. Literally "between the three". Coined by Gent (Gender-Jargon) (link) in March 2024.

Elaboration

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Trinteri was created as a result of this post (link) by @your-bigender-big-brother (link). The post posed the question, "what gender quality is right in the center of the trinary?". Most replied, including myself, neutrangity, while others cited epicenity or neutrœmmity, but the more I thought about it, the more I began to feel like these suggested designations were only approximate and didn't quite get to the root of the question.

As Stormy said emself in eir essay (link) ey wrote, the Gender Trinary contains qualities aside from masculinity, femininity and androgyny. Aside from these three, some others are effeminacy, femmulinity, epicenity, neutrommity, neutremmity, neutrœmmity, gynxemity, androxulinity, gyndroxity, neutrangity, tomboyishness and janegirlishness, to name a couple. This got me thinking, which lead me to coin Trinteri as a centrigender that includes the entire Gender Trinary.

Here is the graphic that Stormy included with eir question, which I edited to add Trinteri in the center for reference:

[Image Id: a graphical representation of the Gender Trinary. It is a down-pointing triangle with the left corner labeled "masculine", the right corner labeled "feminine" and the downward-facing point labeled "neutral". Between masculine and feminine, feminine and neutral and masculine and neutral are double-pointing arrows. In the left corner, there is a point labeled "Man". In the right corner, there is a point labeled "Woman". In the downward-facing point, there is a point labeled "Neutrois". Between "Man" and "Woman" is a point labeled "Androgyne". Between "Neutrois" and "Man" is a point labeled "Neutromme". Between "Neutrois" and "Woman" is a point labeled "Neutremme". In the very center, circled and pointed to by a large arrow is a point labeled "Trinteri", which is located at the very center of the diagram. ./. End ID]

I propose the term trinterinity to refer to the quality of gender that is located in the very center of the Gender Trinary. I would be very interested to hear about Stormy's thoughts on this post to see if ey agree, if I missed the mark or if ey have any other kind of feedback for me.

Trinteri is can be considered a midtrinary aporagender. Trinteri is:

a single, specific non-binary identity.

located in the very center of the Gender Trinary of Male-Female-Neutrois.

a centrigender of all trinary gender qualities.

[PT: a single, specific non-binary identity. located in the very center of the Gender Trinary of Male-Female-Neutrois. a centrigender of all trinary gender qualities. ./. End PT]

Trinteri is quite similar to, but distinct from Neutrangi, Neutrœmme and Epicene:

[PT: Trinteri is quite similar to, but distinct from Neutrangi, Neutroemme and Epicene: ./. End PT]

Neutrangi

[PT: Neutrangi ./. End PT]

Neutrangi and Trinteri are both in between Male, Female (rationalized as Androgyne) and Gender-Neutral, but Trinteri is also centered/in between all other trinary genders.

Neutrœmme

[PT: Neutroemme ./. End PT]

Neutrœmme and Trinteri are both in between Male, Female (rationalized as Femache) and Gender-Neutral, but is also centered/in between all other trinary genders.

Epicene

[PT: Epicene ./. End ID]

Epicene is a gender related to Male-Female indeterminance, having characteristics of both Maleness and Femaleness and/or having no characteristics indicative of Maleness or Femaleness. Epicene is a relatively complicated identity, as it can be considered masculine, feminine, androgynous, neutral and a sort of genderless all-in-one.

Both Trinteri and Epicene encompass experiences of masculinity, femininity, androgyny and neutrality, but Trinteri involves all other trinary identities as well. Trinteri is explicitly a centrigender, where as Epicene is generally considered not to be. Epicene is definitively indeterminate with regards to the Male-Female binary, but Trinteri may or may not be indeterminate in it's nature.

Pride Flag

[PT: Pride Flag ./. End PT]

The Trinteri pride flag was created by the coiner at the same time of the term (Gent, GJ, 3/24). The flag consists of three down-pointing chevrons of the same size, with negative space above, between chevrons and to the left and right bottom corner of the flag. The top negative space is very light green. The left-botton negative space is very light pink. The right-bottom negative space is very light blue. The chevrons from top to bottom are indigo, grey and teal with very light grey in between. The colors have the following meanings:

The very light-green negative space represents neutrinity.

The very light-pink negative space represents femininity.

The very light-blue negative space represents masculinity.

The purple chevron represents androgyny.

The grey chevron represents neutremmity.

The teal chevron represents neutrommity.

The very light grey negative space between the chevrons represents the center of the Gender Trinary.

[PT: The very light-green negative space represents neutrinity. The very light-pink negative space represents femininity. The very light-blue negative space represents masculinity. The purple chevron represents androgyny. The grey chevron represents neutremmity. The teal chevron represents neutrommity. The very light grey negative space between the chevrons represents the center of the Gender Trinary. ./. End PT]

[stormy-talks]

Okay, so, what about a model like this? This is a circa-binary model, based on male, female, and epicene.

You have your basic centrigenders - androgyne, neutromme, and neutremme. Then you have the smaller centrigenders - androx, gynx, neutrangi, neutrandrox, and neutragynx. Trinteri is between male, female, and epicene but I couldn't fit it on a flat model like this.

The proximal genders - proxvir, juxera, juxtaneu - lie on the outside near their gender counterparts and not in-between any genders.

Thoughts? Criticisms? (Didn't mean to leave the color pick on the side there but oh well.)

Edit: I took out the mention of "trinary" in the original and this reblog, but this reblog doesn't show the change I made to the original. The gender trinary is an exorsexist concept and I am unlearning my frivolous use of it.

Is it weird/bad that I don't like the circa-binary model? Like that little graphic with all the colorful balls?

Firstly, it's more like a circa-trinary model. But that's pedantic.

Secondly, uhhh. Proxvir and juxera are placed between femache/male and femache/female respectively. Why? Proxvir and juxera don't exist between those things. That's what androgyne is (not androgynous. Androgyne.) Proxvir and juxera should exist on the outskirts of the graph near the points they resemble - proxvir outside of male and juxera outside of female.

Proximal genders and centrigenders (androgyne, gynx, androx, neutremme, neutromme, etc.) should be two different concepts, all a part of the circa-binary. Wouldn't that make more sense? I also don't think nixic genders fit the model at all. Why are they even included? They're just agenrine identities related to the gender trinary.

I have a model in mind that I need to doodle real quick and add to this post. I just wanted to get my thoughts out there about this thing. I think we can make it better, more concise.

[your-bigender-big-brother]

Here is a term I wanted to coin called centrine. It's a gender quality for centrigenders, midgenders, midbinary genders, and any of those that sit between two genders. It can include androgynous genders and lingenders. I'm thinking it can be centrine-in-nature, or CENIN (I'm still deciding on this.)

Genders that might be considered centrine: Androgyne, androx, gynx, neutromme, neutremme, neutrangi, trinteri, and many more. - 💙💚

[your-bigender-big-brother]

Centrinic: The experience of having a centrigender no matter how the rest of your gender changes or moves.

One can be fluid between many non-centrine identities while centrigender remains the "base" of the identity, or one can fluctuate between intensities of gender while the centrigender stays present. Centrigenders include androgyne, neutremme, neutromme, androx, gynx, neutrangi, trinteri, and many more.

[your-bigender-big-brother]

The identity that sits between all three is called trinteri, which was coined just for this question. 😊💛

*Kurtis Conner voice* Folks! 👏

I have a gender-related question.

What gender quality exists in the dead-center of this graphic? Right in the center of the trinary? I saw something that said it's agender, but that's a lack of gender identity and I don't think it should be consider as "in between" all the other gender qualities, you know?

So what is in between masculine, feminine, and neutral? Is there a word for it at all? Not outside of or a combination of, but in between. I'm also looking for a gender quality, not a gender.