Filipinx

English

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o of Filipina and Filipino, which are from Spanish filipina and Spanish filipino, both from Spanish Filipinas (“Philippines”), from Felipe II de España (“Philip II of Spain”), from Felipe (“Philip”).

Filipinx (plural Filipinxs)

Filipinx is used as a gender-neutral alternative to Filipino or Filipina. However, there is debate as to the term's necessity: many claim that Filipino has always been gender-neutral^[1] and that the -x suffix is "unnatural" in Philippine linguistics.^[2]
This term is not well-accepted in the Philippines itself and is mostly used by certain speakers in the United States.

Filipinx (not comparable)

(rare) Filipina or Filipino (and any gender).
- 2017 November 15, Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo, Fritz Pino, Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN:
  I didn't want people knowing I was Filipinx, or Chinese, I didn't want them laughing at my culture, or my food, or asking me why my clothes always smelled like I had just come from a buffet.
- 2025 August 26, Jenny Heijun Wills, Everything and Nothing At All: Essays, Random House, →ISBN, page 23:
  […] was Filipinx American. As a nine-year-old who knew nothing of the world outside my German Canadian hometown, I identified with her.

^ Lauren Golangco (1 February 2022), “Filipinx: Why is the Gender-Neutral Term So Controversial?”, in Tatlerasia‎^[1]:
One of the primary arguments for denouncing ‘Filipinx’ is that the term ‘Filipino’ is already genderless. While ‘Filipina’ may be used as a feminine version of ‘Filipino’, the latter is not exclusively masculine: people of Philippine origin identify themselves as Filipino regardless of gender identity.
^ Kate Cabigao (7 January 2021), “Are You Filipino or Filipinx?”, in Vice‎^[2]: “She said that “Filipinx” is an unnatural term because the suffix “-x” does not exist in the Philippine linguistic system.”