vitunrunollista:

so I’ve seen there be talk about the word theyfab and how it’s used and what it means and I just wanted to put this out here in case someone tries to use the wictionary article as proof that it’s not strongly tied to dismissing a section of nonbinary people as nothing but trenders. wiktionary currently defines “theyfab” as follows:

This is the result of a couple of recent edits:

both of these are from April this year

Now the first editor says they’ve edited it to better match how the term is used colloquialy, but that being the sole definition does NOT reflect it’s colloquial use, because this is a huge part of the term’s history as well as current use:

We gain nothing by pretending this isn’t there.

Also in case anyone saw the mention of race traitor in the edit log and got curious about what that’s about, it’s in reference to this removed additional definition:

which had been added to the article on the same day it was removed (November 30th 2023).