¿gender

¿gender, or quégender, is an exclusive gender identity for Latine and Hispanic individuals whose genders cannot be fully described in English. Often, this is because their gender can only be described in Spanish or in an Indigenous Latin American language, but to some Hispanics/Latines the term can refer to a gender that can't be described in any language.

Some similar non-exclusive genders include quoigender and genderqueer.

Etymology
The upside down question mark, "¿" is a symbol used exclusively in Spanish and closely related languages. As such, the ¿gender identity is exclusive to Latines and especially Hispanics. However, the term does include Hispanic and Latine people whose genders can't be explained, such as Indigenous Latin Americans.

Quégender, an alternative to be possible to say out loud and type on English keyboards, is from the Spanish word "qué," or "what." It was originally proposed without an accent (as "quegender").

Pronounciation
/keh-jen-der/

Definitions

 * A gender that cannot be described in the English language - Pride-flags, 2017
 * A term for Hispanic and Latine queers who feel our genders can’t be described in detail [in English] - Sol Diaz, 2021

History
¿gender was coined at some point before February 19 2017 by an unknown individual. The first ¿gender flag was created by an anonymous Tumblr user alongside Mod Hermy through ask-pride-color schemes on or before February 19 2017. On October 28 2021, an alternate flag was created by Twitter user sol_v_diaz. Sol remade the flag due to feyr belief that the original flag's symbolism "largely adheres to English genders [without acknowledging] pre-colonial and Indigenous identities, ... muddling the meaning."

Flags
The ask-pride-color-schemes' flag's stripe meanings were described as the following:


 * Pink: Women
 * Green: Agender
 * White: Nonbinary
 * Orange: Bigender
 * Blue: Men

The ¿? in the center is intended "to show that this gender still can’t be perfectly described by simple English terms and associations." An alternative version was also posted to ask-pride-color-schemes' DeviantArt, Pride-Flags.

The meaning of the Sol Diaz flag is as follows:


 * Black: Difficulty defining terms (in English), Black Hispanics/Afro-Latines
 * Brown: Indigenous and Brown Hispanics, pre colonial/Indigenous Latin identities such as Muxhes and Qwariwarmi, tierra (“homeland/earth/soil")
 * Red: Resilience, strength, femininity, heritage
 * White: Identity, self understanding
 * Gold: Value, history
 * Blue: Masculinity, peace, the ocean
 * Green: Existing outside of the colonialist lens, nature, growth

The yellow Sol de Mayo is representative of the Hispanic people. Like the original ¿gender flag, there is a "¿?" in the center. Fae coined two additional flags alongside the first; a ¿punk flag representing active rejection of pressure to define identity in English, and a simplified ¿gender flag.