Posts tagged family

transtheorist:

uplifttrans:

Although many trans* folk (on the tumblr scene, at least!) may have a while before needing such a pronoun, I stumbled upon this, and felt it needs to be spread. The people pictured are the Glendenings, a French Canadian couple. Several photos of the two were given to me by an old friend of mine. I haven’t been able to find much further research on the people or the pronoun itself, but all the photos I found stashed away of them were labeled “Grandwa Glendening”, on both the photos of the man and the woman (in different handwriting, for those who speculate that, for some reason, both photos are labeled Grandma). Distant relatives confirmed that it says Grandwa, but are unsure where the pronoun came from, whether it be from family tradition, or a more widely-known source.

Regardless, Grandwa may be an easy transitional or permanent pronoun for the genderqueer or trans* folk out there who are faced with the dilemma of title in the grandparent role.

Huh, grandwa, that sounds pretty nice :)

If I ever decided to have kids who then decide to have kids maybe I’ll use it lol.  That or grandpar (pronounced like grandparent w/o the ent).

Submission from nolabelneeded:

today, i was talking to my best friend about my children and he asked me what they’d call me.  i though for a moment and then said, “something that rhymes with am because it could become ammy like mom and mommy.”  he looked at me and then replied, “zammy.”  we talked some more and decided my partner will be called zoddy.  gender neutral parental unit names: zammy and zoddy.

artoftransliness:

Being trans* has a tendency to make one aware of all the gendered terms out there. “Boyfriend”, “Girlfriend”, “Brother”, “Sister”, “Aunt”, and “Uncle” leave little room for ambiguity, which can be frustrating for non binary identified individuals (and even, sometimes, for binary identified trans* people as well). Here are some options, some already mainstream, some invented.

*Instead of brother or sister, you could use “sibling” or “sib” 

*For niece or nephew, “nibling” or “nephling” (both are used as a gender neutral term for a niece or nephew on urban dictionary) or “sibkid”. 

*Instead of aunt or uncle, have your nibling come up with a nickname for you (for example, my niece calls me “T”, which was once short for “auntie” but now is perfectly gender neutral) or just invent something like “untiee” (a combination of “uncle” and “auntie”). 

*Boyfriend or girlfriend can easily be replaced by “partner”, “significant other”, “SO”, “lover”, or “sweetheart”. 

*Similarly, husband and wife can be replaced by the above words (particularly “partner”) as well as “spouse” 

*For mom and dad there’s always “parent” or “parental unit” (as well as endless possibilities for made-up names, which we absolutely encourage)