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#Me after watching two fanvideos exploring characters genders: Apparently I have gender headcanons now
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So, gender in Peter Pan thoughts.
Peter doesn’t know how to tell the difference between boys and girls. So he just assumes that anyone who falls out of their pram is a boy, and anyone who doesn’t is a girl. He’ll believe you if you tell him your gender, but absent that, he defaults to “did they fall out of their pram?”
This means that not only does he recognize Wendy as a girl, but he also assumes that Michael and John are as well until they tell him otherwise. (It also might mean that Peter has questions about his own gender since he didn’t fall out of his pram, he ran away.)
Adults he sorts into four categories: Mothers, Fathers, Pirates, and Others.
One of the Lost Boys had a birth certificate identifying him as a girl. But Peter figured “Boys fall out of their prams. This is a boy.” And they didn’t correct him. So whichever one it is lives as a boy in Neverland.
When the Darlings adopt all six of the Lost Boys, it doesn’t take Mrs. Darling very long to notice. But when she speaks to him, he makes it very clear that he considers himself to be a boy. And Mrs. Darling accepts that. She makes it very clear to her husband and Liza and Nana that this one is a boy too and is to be treated the same as the other boys.
This being the early 1900s, there’s not really puberty blockers or surgeries or testosterone or anything available. But Mrs. Darling does the best she can, letting him dress like the other boys and using correct pronouns. And whichever boy it is (I don’t really care, it can be Slightly or Toodles, or Curly, or Nibs, or one of the twins), never feels like he’s any less accepted and loved than the others.
Mrs. Darling does not care to listen to anyone who tries to disagree. You must be mistaken, she does not have a second daughter. She only has one daughter, and that’s Wendy. You must mean one of her eight sons. Yes it is a large family and it is probably easy to get confused, but only Wendy is a girl. And she says this so firmly that no one would dare argue with her.
TL;DR: Peter Pan doesn’t give a single fuck about gender. One of the Lost Boys is trans. And Mrs. Darling is an excellent mother to her nine children.
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