Talk:womxn

Etymology
[//www.the-standard.org/news/woman-womyn-womxn-students-learn-about-intersectionality-in-womanhood/article_c6644a10-1351-11e7-914d-3f1208464c1e.html Various] web sources say part of the motivation for womxn is to explicitly include women who are non-white and/or trans, who were sometimes excluded from womyn (e.g. by MichFest). This seems like it might explain the choice of x, that has a history (herstory?) of use in gender-neutral coinages like Latinx. I haven't spotted a source I would consider high enough quality giving this as the etymology in clear enough terms that I would add it to the entry yet, though. - -sche (discuss) 18:54, 31 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia cites, from a month and a half after my comment. Heh. - -sche (discuss) 20:25, 25 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I do not believe it fair to consider this a suitable term for being inclusive to transwomen. It has a very vocal opposition from the community as it raises exlusivity to the term woman and I do not believe it suitable to be represented here on the site as it currently is presented. By foregrounding certain people, it creates an environment where they are not considered women at all. Sensitivity consultants would highly advise against using this term because of it's transphobic (TERF) connections, and I believe this article actively misrepresents this case. 1.136.109.13 05:38, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Is it still rare?
Ive seen this a lot lately, and it is for sure more common than womon and womyn that were in fashion twenty years ago. — Soap — 15:12, 19 May 2020 (UTC)


 * In absolute terms, it's rare (compared to women). I guess relative to womyn, or when looking only at feminist writings (which is what the "form of" template scopes it to), you could change it from "rare" to "uncommon". - -sche (discuss) 18:39, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

RFV discussion: November 2020
There is no English word "womxn". There are several references in the word's page, but these were published by feminist activists with the purpose to promote this specific term of their invention. 99.999% of English speakers do not recognize this word, and never heard of it. This word also can't be pronounced. Its spelling is unnatural for English: no other English word ends with "mxn".

I propose this page to be deleted. Yurivict (talk) 17:47, 25 November 2020 (UTC)


 * several references &mdash; = it meets WT:CFI?
 * recognition &mdash; irrelevant.
 * pronunciation &mdash; already noted under womxn.
 * —Suzukaze-c (talk) 17:49, 25 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Closed. Already cited. DTLHS (talk) 17:50, 25 November 2020 (UTC)