As Pride season comes and goes, members of the LGBTQ community and its allies will see hundreds of differently colored flags. Each banner represents a specific kind of sexuality, some of which are lesser-known yet equally valid.
People once viewed sexuality as a binary. This meant that they thought a person was either gay (as in same-gender attracted) or straight. Luckily, we’ve come a long way since then. Instead, the community has realized that sexuality is a spectrum with space for every person – whether they’re cis, trans, or non-binary.
That’s where the term “trixic” comes in. Keep reading to find out about the trixic pride flag and what it means to be trixic.
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What Does Being Trixic Mean?
Being trixic refers to when a non-binary person is attracted to women, distinguishing it from being a lesbian or straight.
Until recently, non-binary individuals didn’t have their own widely-used labels for their sexual orientations. This complicated the definition of many sexual orientations and potentially contributed to the erasure of many people’s identities.
However, in 2017, a small Discord and Tumblr-based community coined the terms “trixic” and “orbisian”. Today, these terms are used interchangeably to identify female-attracted non-binary folks.
How To Tell If You Might Be Trixic
Sexuality is fluid, so there are no hard and fast rules about determining which label suits your identity. That said, figuring out if you might be trixic is relatively easy if you’re honest about your gender and sexual preferences.
Ask yourself: are you non-binary? Are you attracted to women? If you answered yes to both questions, then you’re probably trixic. However, the definition of being trixic can also include non-binary individuals who are not exclusively attracted to women, which can confuse many folks.
Ultimately, you don’t have to conform to one identity over the other. After all, many people discover their sexualities as they have more experiences or discover new parts of themselves.
Trixic Pride Flag And Meaning
Trixic pride flags are unique because there isn’t one official banner that encompasses all people who identify this way. Here are a few of the more prominent trixic pride flags.
Modern Trixic Pride Flag
The trixic pride flag has many variations, but the most recognizable one is the five-striped banner. This flag features the interlocking symbols for females and non-binary displayed over the color bars.
White its visual impact is one of the main reasons why this banner is more popular than the alternatives, it isn’t the only reason. Its popularity is primarily attributed to this specific trixic flag’s meaning. The purple and yellow tones reference the non-binary flag, while the pink stripe in the middle indicates an attraction to cis and trans women.
Another variation of this flag doesn’t use the interlocked symbols – many people hang this version in their rooms or homes for simplicity.
Poppy Flower Trixic Flag
While this poppy flower-themed trixic flag is much less popular than the stripes-and-symbols alternative, it’s still used within the non-binary community. The poppy flower flag’s pleasing design mirrors sapphic, Achillean, and diamoric flags.
Some people use this flag instead of the more popular variation because it stands out, especially among the stripe-filled Pride flags. Other folks prefer this flower-themed flag because the central poppy represents “perfect love”.
The primary disadvantage of using this flag in the context of Pride is that it can be a bit more esoteric, which means it may be less accessible.
Four-Stripe Trixic Pride Flag
The four-stripe trixic pride flag isn’t all that different from the more popular 5-stripe or 7-stripe variations. It means all the same things as its more colorful alternative, but it may be more accessible when manufacturing large quantities of flags to use at a Pride protest.
Final Thoughts On The Trixic Pride Flag
Trixic sexuality is one of the lesser-known identities on the spectrum, but the label helps a lot of people figure out who they are. Putting up a flag containing the trixic colors can also help people feel more comfortable with themselves – which is what Pride is all about.
For more LGBTQ-related news and information, keep reading Queerty.
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Polaro
Sorry, no this flag is not equal. Equating being non-binary to being anything similar to the challenges of being LGT is a joke. Non-binary is about fashion and getting attention. Loonies hurting the LGBT movement every day.
jt1990
“Non-binary is about fashion and getting attention.” I’m pleasantly surprised to see someone in the queer community who understands this! Same also applies to asexuals and the whole trans movement. The latter of which also does immense bodily harm.
bviccarrie86
While I agree with your view that those identifying as non-binary aren’t as marginalized as the historic LGBT community, many people do find themselves somewhere confused on a continuum. The “non-binary” idea is the continuum concept. There are many paradoxes in human relationships that certain people seem to relish.
UlfRaynor
I just don’t get why the editors at Queerty just didn’t use the power of the force to communicate this bit of scripture from the holy church of the Nonbinary.
Perhaps their lack of faith has arrested their divine path toward trans-substantiation.
Let us all pray that He/she, the mother/father speaks to their two spirits so that they may be blessed and sanctified into the all consuming arms of the great and mandatory awakening.
Jon in Canada
This is a joke right?
It has to be. What’s next? An Objectumsexual Flag and yes, that’s a thing too. This has gone from being truly about fighting for recognition of our sexual/personal being to a competition as to how many flags can be made up for every single quirk in society.
It’s embarrassing and further gives ammo to our enemies.
skeldare
Oh for the love of…
Heywood Jablowme
The poppy represents opium, and taking a nap on the road to Emerald City!
mastik8
Shouldn’t this be in The Onion?
scotty
how bout no.
cctv
“The primary disadvantage of using this flag in the context of Pride is that it can be a bit more esoteric, which means it may be less accessible.”
Kangol2
I love how Queerty knows has figured out how to generate clicks and commentary. An entry like this will spark outrage but an article about a longtime trans journalist and activist like Singaporean Gina Chua barely merits even one comment, even though it’s LGBTQ Pride month. Oh well–as long as people keep responding to provocations like this piece, they’ll keep posting them. Meanwhile, we might not see as many articles that actually deal with real LGBTQ people and their achievements in the world, which help ensure we all are treated equal and free.
UlfRaynor
Hey Queerty, why is this relevant to you but the BIG news today, that you’re not even mentioning, is that FINA (the overseers of rules governing Olympic water based sports qualifications) has ruled that only trans athletes that have transitioned before the age of twelve, are eligible to compete in all Olympic water based sports?
I guess Lia won’t be going to compete at the Olympics after all.
But take heart, the organization did recommend separate events for those athletes like Lia who transitioned after puberty and retain the distinctive physical advantages garnered by doing so.
DarkZephyr
I guess there isn’t a word for non-binary folks who are attracted to men then?
mecorrea1970
Lol!!!
Heywood Jablowme
“Incel” is taken, though probably accurate!
mecorrea1970
This is getting ridiculous!!
GlobeTrotter
“Sexuality is fluid, so there are no hard and fast rules about determining which label suits your identity.”
For the love of Gawd, just stop with these divisive, delusional articles!
“Being trixic refers to when a non-binary person is attracted to women, distinguishing it from being a lesbian or straight.”
It’s articles like these and the people who come up with these utterly bizarre and infantile theories that’s fueling the mental health crisis among the young and impressionable. Just stop!!
Yooper
No.
PinkoOfTheGange
I am just going to say to myself: “Okay boomer” and move on.
BTW get off the ivy!
L
What’s boomer got to do with it??
L
“Okay boomer” is pretty much a child’s answer when they don’t have an intelligent comment.
Den
“Being trixic refers to when a non-binary person is attracted to women, distinguishing it from being a lesbian or straight.”
“IT”!? First of all, it is best used to refer to animals or inanimate objects, or those who define themselves as “slaves/subhuman” in the SMBD world!
Second, if the “non-binary” person has make genitals, is not trans and is attracted to women…THEY ARE HETEROSEXUAL. If they have female genitals, are not trans and are attracted to women, THEY ARE HOMOSEXUAL. If they are trans and are attracted to those of the opposite sex or chosen gender, the opposite is true, regardless of the level of reconstructive surgery.
And if you are attracted (regardless of how you define yourself) to both those who are mostly opposite and those who are mostly the same, bisexual kinda covers that doesn’t it?
There is no such thing as a “nonbinary person” in reality, although there are those who might feel the need to differ from time to time in where they place themselves on the culturally based masculine/feminine continuum! They still remain either cis-male/cis-female, or trans-male/trans-female. The entire mammalian class within the phylum chordata is defined as sexually dimorphic. And though the cultural specifics vary from group, male/female and homosexual/bisexual/heterosexual continua are universal. That means something. Made up names and impossible to parse definitions do not.
If you think you are trixic, you probably are as far removed from objective reality as followers of Q or evangelical christians!
Den
And as a point of horticultural reference, the symbol on the so-called poppy flag has no taxonomic or symbolic connection to a poppy at all. The genus Papavar is overwhelmingly characterized by four petaled flowers with broad rounded petals. If you actually google “poppy images” or “poppy motif” you will see nothing that looks anything like that.
It is amusing that an “orientation” which does not really exist uses a symbol that is not at all similar to what they claim it is.
Heywood Jablowme
Yeah, it looks like a tulip.
Sqwoah
This is why I identify as gay and why I do not identify as LGBTQAA+. I have nothing more in common with these people than I do with Martians.
Polaro
I was really invested in the LGBT movement. I did so much work for it – time and money. I’m still a leader in the movement, but I am feeling more and more ambivalent with where this is all going. I quit HRC last year after being a member since the stone age. They’ve gone over the edge with this non-binary nonsense. When your core no longer feels wanted or respected you will fail. I do not believe I am alone in this.
inbama
The thing about sexual orientation is that it doesn’t matter how you identify. Researchers can use Penile plethysmography (PPG) to measure blood flow to your penis in response to photos of men, women or both and determine whether you’re straight, gay or bi.
Psychologists can also determine sexual orientation through sets of questions.
IanHunter
I am old school. I came out as gay and I am sticking with that. I can’t keep up with all the different names and flags.
Sqwoah
@inbama. this is not identifying with a sexuality, it is identifying with a political ideology. Genetaia has nothing to do with it.
MrGoldman
The classic rainbow flag already covered the spectrum of marginalized people. Literally, all colors of the spectrum. These “new” flags are ridiculous.
Polaro
Really, all these flags are divisive. They break us out into even smaller groups. When they bastardized the LGBT flag to specifically identify people of color and trans people they did a disservice to our unity. It’s all the big plan on the left to marginalize white gays and lesbians for their social engineering nonsense. Not a great idea when we represent 90% of the entire group. One flag…the original.
kevininbuffalo
So does anyone actually own these flags? Has anyone ever flown these flags or are they just pictures on the internet? Or is it something Queerty just made up to get clicks?
IanHunter
I want my own flag so now I am Cheeriosix. Because Trix are for kids.
okokwhatever
No, silly straight. Trix are for gays. As for the original article, I am so glad I don’t belong or subscribe to the LBGTGIFF.
DJLA
So we have all of these individual flags that now represent different sexualities and races— that’s wonderful! My question is, if there is a bevy of individual specific flags to represent pride for those groups, why has the umbrella flag, the rainbow flag (which has always encompassed us all), now been turned into a flag for specific groups (ie: trans and people of color)? When did the Pride Flag ever represent anything aside from unity FOR ALL within this community? The stripes represent Life, Healing, Sunlight, Nature, Harmony/Serenity, and Spirit. None of those messages exclude anyone and that was such a beautiful beacon within our community that I was proud to be a part of! That beautiful message is what made us so special. By now adding specific groups to that unifying message, when no one was ever excluded form that message, takes away from the message. It takes away from the message that our community is a place where we can ALL come together and actually belong. The underserved amongst us deserve equality and to be seen, but to take away and tarnish a beacon of hope to so many is not the way to do it. I am in support of human kindness and love for all and wholeheartedly believe everyone deserves to be treated equally and to be seen, but not like this. That flag was special and represented us all, together.