Demiboy & Demigirl Pride Flags: Meaning & Guide

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We're Delwin and Jimmy, co-founders of Proud Zebra, a queer-owned Canadian small business designing pride pins and accessories from the Lower Mainland, BC. The demiboy and demigirl flags are some of our most popular non-binary identity pins, especially with younger customers and people whose gender feels "almost but not quite" aligned with a binary identity.

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This guide covers both the demiboy and demigirl pride flags, what each identity means, what the colours represent, and how demi-gender identities sit within the broader non-binary spectrum. It's part of our complete guide to LGBTQ+ pride flags.

The terms travel across languages with the same meaning: people search for "demiboy ne demek" in Turkish, "o que é demiboy" in Portuguese, "que es demigirl" in Spanish, "apa itu demigirl" in Indonesian, "demiboy là gì" in Vietnamese, "demiboy คือ" in Thai, and "demiboy meaning in hindi" or "demigirl meaning in hindi" in Hindi. The English definitions below apply across all of them, demiboy and demigirl are loanwords, the partial-identification concept doesn't change.

What does demiboy mean? (definition)

Demiboy describes someone who partially identifies as a boy or man, but not fully. The "demi" prefix means "half" or "partial." A demiboy might feel mostly like a guy with elements of something else, or sometimes like a guy and sometimes like something more neutral or fluid. The simplest demiboy definition: partial boy, partial something-else, with the partial-ness being the point.

The term is also written as demi boy, demi-boy, or occasionally misspelled as demibiy or demoboy in search; they all point to the same identity. People sometimes ask "what's a demiboy", "whats a demiboy", or "whats a demi boy" looking for a quick definition; if you want to define demiboy in one line, it's partial-male identification, plus whatever else fits.

Common ways demiboys describe their experience:

• "I'm a guy, but not entirely. There's a non-binary or fluid component too."
• "I identify with manhood, but the word 'man' alone doesn't capture me."
• "Most of me is masculine; some of me isn't."

For broader non-binary terminology context, LGBTA Wiki's demiboy and demigirl entries cover the terms' origins and adjacent identities. GLAAD's transgender glossary covers demiboy and demigirl alongside related identities.

Demiboys can be assigned any gender at birth. A trans man might use demiboy if "man" doesn't quite fit; a non-binary person assigned female at birth might use demiboy if there's a partial-male component to their identity. Being demiboy doesn't require any specific gender assignment or transition history. For adjacent identity context, see our agender and neutrois guide, both identities sometimes overlap with the gray-stripe portion of the demi-gender flag.

What does demigirl mean? (definition)

Demigirl describes someone who partially identifies as a girl or woman, but not fully. Same structure as demiboy, mirrored: a demigirl might feel mostly like a woman with elements of something else, or sometimes like a woman and sometimes like something more neutral or fluid. The demigirl definition, simplest form: partial girl, partial something-else.

The label also turns up as demi girl, demi-girl, or in typos like demgirl or demigirk. People often ask "what's a demigirl" or want demigirl explained; if you want to define demigirl in one line, it's partial-female identification, plus another component to their gender (non-binary, agender, fluid, or something they don't have a tidy word for yet).

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The lived experience parallels demiboy closely. A demigirl might feel woman-aligned but with a non-binary component. The partial identification is the identity, not a transitional state, not a halfway point on the way to something else.

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Demiwoman, demifemale, and other demigirl-adjacent labels

A few related words come up in the same conversations. Demiwoman means the same partial-feminine identification as demigirl, with a slight age or self-presentation lean toward woman over girl; many people use the two interchangeably. Demifemale (sometimes written as "demi female") and demilady are less common but functionally close, partial alignment with femaleness or with feminine womanhood. None of these have separately recognised flags; most people who use them carry the standard demigirl flag.

On the masculine side, demiguy, demiman, and (less often) demimale show up the same way: partial alignment with maleness or manhood, no separate flag, usually grouped with demiboy.

A demigirl can also hold a sexual orientation alongside the gender label, the two layers stack rather than conflict. A bisexual demigirl, a lesbian demigirl, an asexual demigirl, all coherent. Same for demiboys with any orientation.

Demiboy vs demigirl: what's the difference?

The two identities are structurally identical, just mirrored across the binary. Demiboy is partial identification with boy or man; demigirl is partial identification with girl or woman. The "other" part of the identity, the non-boy or non-girl portion, can be non-binary, agender, fluid, or simply "something else." Some people use both labels (demigirlboy or demiboy/demigirl) when their partial alignment moves between the two, though most people land on one.

A quick side-by-side:

"Demiboy and demigirl" together aren't a single combined identity; the phrase usually shows up because people are searching for both at once to understand the pair. If someone identifies with both partial-boy and partial-girl alignment in equal measure, bigender or genderfluid is often a closer fit.

What do the demiboy and demigirl flags look like?

Both flags have 7 horizontal stripes in a vertically symmetrical pattern. The outer stripes are identical between the two flags; only the coloured stripes differ.

The vertical symmetry is intentional. The pattern reads the same from the centre outward in both directions, signalling that the demi-gender identity isn't a movement away from one binary point or toward another, it's a static partial identification that holds.

The colours mean:

• Dark gray and gray, partial agender or partial outside-the-binary identity
• Light blue / light pink, the binary gender component (boy/man for blue, girl/woman for pink)
• White, non-binary, agender, or third-gender identification

The flags were designed by Tumblr user Transrants (also credited as Tumblr user Hubble) in 2015. Like many community-stewarded pride flags, exact attribution is partially obscured.

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How is demiboy different from non-binary or genderfluid?

Demiboy and demigirl sit under the broader non-binary umbrella, but they're more specific identities within it.

Demiboy/demigirl is specifically about partial identification with a binary gender, not full alignment, not full opposition, not fluid movement. Many demi-gender people also identify as non-binary; some use "demi" alone as their primary label.

Demigender: the umbrella that holds both

Demigender is the broader category that covers demiboy, demigirl, demiwoman, demiman, and any other "partial gender" identity. The demigender meaning, in plain terms: any gender identity built on partial alignment with a recognised gender rather than full alignment. If "I'm sort of a [gender], plus something else" feels true, demigender is the umbrella the word lives under.

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A few related identity terms that often come up in the same searches, with quick definitions so this page can be useful even if you landed here looking for something nearby:

• Enby meaning: short for non-binary (from the letters N-B). An enby is a non-binary person; demiboys and demigirls often, but not always, also identify as enby.
• Pangender meaning: identifying with many or all genders, often simultaneously. Different from demigender (which is partial alignment with one) and from genderfluid (which is movement between).
• Cisgender meaning: identifying fully with the gender assigned at birth. Cisgender is the opposite end of the spectrum from demi-gender; in between sit non-binary, demi-gender, fluid, agender, and many other identities.
• Femboy: often a gender-expression term (a person, usually a man or masculine-aligned person, who presents in a feminine way) rather than a gender identity. Femboys may or may not be demiboys; the two labels describe different layers (expression vs identity).

For the full mapping of non-binary identities, see our non-binary and genderqueer guide.

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Demi-gender identities are some of the more sub-divided identities under the non-binary umbrella, and customers often tell us at the booth that finding well-designed demiboy and demigirl merch is harder than finding general non-binary pieces. We design demiboy pride pins, demigirl pride pins, and accessories specifically because the demand is real and the supply is thin elsewhere. Browse the full pride pins collection for the complete range.

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Carrying both flags forward

Demiboy and demigirl identities have built strong visibility within the non-binary community over the last decade, even though they remain less mainstream than broader non-binary identification. The flags give demi-gender people a way to be specific about their experience (partial, not fluid; aligned, not fully) without needing to give a long explanation every time.

If you wear a demiboy pride pin, a demigirl pride pin, or one of the more specific identity flags from our complete pride flags guide, you're claiming visible space for an identity that's about precision: not all the way, not none of the way, but specifically partway in a way that fits.

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