Deergender

 is a gender defined by a exploring it through timidity and caution, and it blossoming into something natural and cute.

Alternate Names

 * Deergender

At it's time of coining in 2016, deergender was an alternate name for this time, but since that time "deergender" has been recoined several times as different versions of genders related to deer.

Etymology
Literal "fawn" + "gender."

Definitions

 * definition: a gender that is explored through timidity and caution, but blossoms into something natural and cute. - MOGAI-Archive, reblogged by Purrloin sucks, dated August 25, 2014.
 * Fawngender or Deergender: A gender that is explored through timidity and caution, but blossoms into something natural and cute. - Pride-Color Schemes, September 6, 2015
 * Deergender: a gender that is explored through timidity and caution, but blossoms into something natural and cute. - Variant-archive, Some Interesting, Mostly Forgotten Genders, October 31, 2018

The original coining of fawngender did not have any relation to deer, and was not a faunagender in the sort. Its relation to deer/deer fawns seemed to be only in aesthetic description, which was then further influenced by the flag design made in 2015. At it's time of coining in 2016, deergender was an alternate name for this time, but since that time "deergender" has been recoined several times as different versions of genders related to deer.

History
Deergender was coined in a submission to MOGAI-Archive by tumblr user forteh. The original post was not archived, but an archived reblog exists on the blog Purrloinsucks dated August 25, 2014. The flag was created on September 6, 2015 by Pride-Flags on Deviantart.

Perceptions and Discrimination
MOGAI-Watch posted a poem mocking the term specifically on fawngender, opening it to visibility and hatred.

Flags
The flag design is intended to represent the coat patterns of a fawn.