Pupgender

 is a xenogender that is puppy-like, connected to puppies, and/or described as small, lively, cute, and any other quality associated with puppies. It is sometimes used as an umbrella term for dog-associated genders.

Alternate Names

 * Puppygender
 * Dog-gender

Etymology
"Pup" + "gender."

Definitions

 * Pupgender: A gender that is small, lively, cute and any other quality associated with puppies, that is puppy-like and/or connected to puppies. Made with system littles and non-k1nk age regressors in mind, but can be used by anyone. May or may not be a kingender. Do not use if k1nk - Xeno-aligned, April 17th, 2019
 * pupgender: a gender that is small, lively, cute, and any other quality that is associated with puppies, puppy-like, and/or connected to puppies. in this term’s recent resurgence, another definition has been coined: a gender identity that feels very strongly like dogs or puppies - Neopronouns, November 9th, 2020

Pupgender was originally described as being open to anyone with the exception of kink/petplayers. The creator of the most popular pupgender flag seems to imply they recoined it as a neurogender:


 * pupgender is for everyone who falls under the ND umbrella :3! the pawprint just stands for autism acceptance specifically bc of the common link between ASD and xenogenders/neopronouns:)!! - Twitter user Kandipaws, March 16th, 2020

History
Pupgender was originally coined in a list of baby animal themed genders by Tumblr user Xeno-aligned on April 17, 2019.

Twitter user Kandipaws posted their flag on Twitter on March 16th, 2020. Tumblr user viraldoll posted their flag design on May 3rd, nbgender posted a design on July 19th , and Tumblr user neopronouns posted a flag design on November 9th, 2020

Statistics
There is one example of canon pupgender representation in MOGAI Stories Anthology. Iris, a character from the story, is stated to be pupgender.

Controversy
As pupgender is a particularly popular xenogender, it's been many people's first experience seeing xenogender labels, which may cause the term to be insulted and mocked. However, it is just as valid and harmless as other xenogenders.

Subsets

 * Autipupgender
 * Berrypupgender
 * Burgerpupgender
 * Candypupgender
 * Emopupgender
 * Icecreampupgender
 * Pupaliengender
 * Zombpupgender


 * For a comprehensive list, please see Category:Pupgender.

Flags
According to kandipaws, the orange paw on their flag design stands for autism acceptance because of the common link between ASD and xenogenders. According to neopronouns, his flag design is supposed to represent puppies sunny field, to represent the lively/active, positive, and fun qualities of the gender, and in order the colors represent: Yellow for the sun, happiness, positivity, joy, then blue for the sky, loyalty, freedom, then brown picked from a German shepherd puppy and a yellow lab puppy, and green for grass, life, energy, freshness, etc.