Shadowstraight





Shadowstraight is an orientation that has one of two definitions:

In either case, to express the disconnection, the prefix shadow- is used.
 * 1) An orientation affected by the fact that one is transmasculine, a trans man, transneutral, nonbinary, or just not a woman (includes multigender and genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux folxs), as they either are dysphoric about being called a woman, and/or experience a disconnection from traditional womanhood. They may describe their attraction as any of the following: MLM; MLNB; MLX; NBLM; NBLNB; NBLX, etc – but they don’t identify their labels as WLM due to reasons listed above. With a multigender and/or genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux identity, one feels straight when with a woman and/or has a fluctuating level of dysphoria where they may sometimes view their attraction as straight/julietian in nature, or as WLM.
 * 2) An orientation affected by the fact one is transfeminine, a trans woman, transneutral, nonbinary, or just not a man (includes multigender and genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux folxs), as they either are dysphoric about being called a man, and/or experience a disconnection from traditional manhood. They may describe their attraction as any of the following: WLW; WLNB; MLX; NBLW; NBLNB; NBLX, etc – but they don’t identify their labels as MLW due to reasons listed above. With a multigender and/or genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux identity, one feels straight when with a man and/or has a fluctuating level of dysphoria where they may sometimes view your attraction as straight/romeric in nature, or as MLW.

In simpler terms, a shadowstraight may be defined as the following:


 * 1) Being multigender/genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux but never MLW, yet feeling like their attraction to women is strayt. Likewise, being multigender/genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux but never WLM, yet feeling like their attraction to men is strayt.
 * 2) Being m-spec and not WLM or MLW, yet feeling a connection to the label depending on your gender identity.
 * 3) Being too dysphoric about being called a woman/girl/being thought of as one, yet being either NBLM, MLM or XLM with a connection to the straight label. Likewise, being too dysphoric about being called a man/boy/being thought of as one, yet being either NBLW, WLW or XLW with a connection to the straight label.

History
The shadow- orientations (shadowlesbian, shadowgay, and shadowfloric) were first coined by Tumblr user ashix0trender0juice on 19 July 2020, with shadowenbian and shadowstraight being coined later on 26 August 2020. The flags were made around the same time.

A redesign of the shadow- flags were created by Tumblr user thepokedexisgay. The shadowstraight redesign was posted 28 February 2021.