Demiguyplurid
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Our system collectively identifies as genderqueer and intersex in the way that many people would identify as transgender or cisgender. However, those words do not describe what our actual gender is, at least to us, and we use "demiguy" as a broad but specific label for most of the male or masculine genders in the system.
We use "guy" as the ending word for the collective label rather than "boy" because we are over the age of 30 and therefore don't regard "boy" as the term we'd prefer at our age. However, "demiman" doesn't seem to register as a gender word immediately the way that "demiguy" does, so there you go.
We're aware that "demiguy" is coined to refer to one gender that is PART male and part something else, and not necessarily to refer to being a man who is fully a man and has other genders too, and it's true that the latter definition describes a lot of our main fronters.
However, a lot of our other main fronters ARE demiguys in the more conventional sense, in that they only feel partly male, and that they feel it is mixed with something else.
The "something else" can differ from headmate to headmate, but for convenience, we use agender as the default label/flag for what the "something else" in our demiguy identity is referring to.
Where it comes to members of the system who are masculine or male-aligned but not men per se - e.g. agender masculine people, or proxvirs - they may not consider themselves individually a demiguy, but they do agree with our decision to collectively label our gender as "demiguy", and they also personally identify with the part of our identity that we're referring to with that term, even if they would use other language for it in themselves as an individual.