Meanings
alternative FLINTA*
- rareuncountablefeminismThe community of all people except those who identify as cisgender men.
It is also important whether we speak of a women*'s strike, a feminist strike, or even a FLINTA* strike.
2024 June 17, Antonia Kupfer, Constanze Stutz, Contested Social and Ecological Reproduction: Impacts of States, Social Movements, and Civil Society in Times of Crisis, Verlag Barbara Budrich, →ISBN, page 1252 more examples
This is a FLINTA night (as you'll recall from Chapter 4 this stands for female, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender) and I know from having hung out in the bar upstairs first that there are trans women[…]
2025 May 29, Lotte Jeffs, Stu Oakley, Do Ask, Do Tell: Queer Life, Love and Culture Laid Bare, Pan Macmillan, →ISBNIt recorded that he was 47 years old, had run an array of now-shuttered businesses involved in building work and listed an address in rural Essex. He didn’t seem like the most obvious candidate to be heading up a FLINTA bar.
2026 September 5, Andrew Kersley, “It was east London’s hottest lesbian bar. Then a straight builder from Essex was forced to run it”, in The Londoner
Origin
- GermanFLINTA
- EnglishFLINTA
From German FLINTA, acronym of Frau, Lesbe, inter, nichtbinär, trans, agender (“woman, lesbian, intersex or intergender, nonbinary, trans, agender”), often backronymed to female, lesbian, intersex, nonbinary, trans, agender.
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FLINTA. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/FLINTA
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