Skhizeingender

 is a neurogender defined as a gender that is strongly connected to schizophrenia, having a gender that is difficult to describe or communicate due to being schizophrenic, or having a gender that is affected by having the mental illness.

Alternate Names

 * Schizogender

Etymology
Skhizein gender uses the prefix "skhizein-" which is an Ancient Greek word that translates to "to split." This word is one of the two Ancient Greek words that are the roots of the term schizophrenia, the other being "phren" which translates to "mind." The suffix used is "-gender" as this is a gender.

Definitions

 *  Definition: A gender that is strongly connected to schizophrenia, or having a gender that is difficult to describe or communicate because of being schizophrenic. Only to be used by individuals with schizophrenia or schizophrenia-related symptoms. - Psychoticfrodo via MOGAI-archive.tumblr.com, 2014.

History
The term was coined by tumblr user psychoticfrodo before or on November 28, 2014 via MOGAI-Archive.tumblr.com. The first skhizeingender flag was made on March 29th, 2020 by tumblr user psychotic-corvidae and submitted to ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com. The flag has five horizontal stripes, The white represents the positives symptoms of schizophrenia, the magenta represents hallucinations and delusions due to magenta technically not being a real colour, the silver represents the schizophrenia awareness ribbon, the green represents the schizoaffective awareness ribbon, and the black represents the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The desaturation given to all of the colours represents the breakdown of the perception of reality that often comes with these disorders, being a haze over the flag. 9 months later, on December 9th, 2020, tumblr user amabtrender posted a flag they had made for skhizeingender. This flag has eight horizontal stripes. From top to bottom the stripes are brick red, orange, golden, yellow, green, turqoise, blue, and black. No reasons have been given for the color choice as of yet. A few days after amabtrender's flag, on December 20th 2020, lgbtqia.wiki user Zer0Rebel4 made another flag for the term. This one contained four horizontal stripes, with a sigil in the middle of it. The yellow stripe is for the way one experiences gender through their schizophrenia, cyan is for one's own severity of schizophrenia, green is for acceptance, and black represents schizophrenia as a whole. The white sigil relates to schizophrenia through design. This flag was unfortunately coined using page-as-source.

Controversy
Skhizeingender has been subject to certain ridicules that aren't uncommon for other neurogenders. There are people who claim that having a gender related to a mental condition belittles the condition itself, or that the people who identify as skhizeingender are doing it for attention. A commonly used criticism of skhizeingender, and other neurogender identities, is the idea that people identifying as skhizeingender are saying that their gender is schizophrenia or another schizophrenia spectrum disorder itself, when many people who identify with it view it as their gender being influenced by their schizophrenia spectrum disorder, that it's connected in some way, or that it's changed the way they're able to communicate their gender. An example of the negativity that has been directed at those identifying as skhizeingender is the MOGAIpedia page made dedicated to it. Which in a poem reads "I found this really cool disease/with a complicated name/so now whenever I fuck up,/it’s the thing I blame./But since I diagnosed myself,/I’ve become a bit obsessed;/schizophrenia’s my gender, too/‘cause schizophrenia’s the best." It reflects many typical beliefs about the gender identity, such as the individual identifying with it not having a schizophrenia spectrum disorder and the previously talked about notion that most people identifying with skhizeingender believe their gender to be their schizophenia spectrum disorder fully and wholly.