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#im just trying to project my transness on all the characters
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i used to be so uptight about how i went about fandom like i was all ‘dont stray from canon’, ‘dont project your transness onto characters be respectful’, ‘youre just the documentarian you mustnt help the cub’ and now two years later im dragging 13 around like im six years old and shes my favourite doll; shes missing a shoe, half her hair is torn out, she gets a plate at dinner, she falls out of the boat when i go swimming and i have to fish her out of the water with my paddle, she lies next to me in the grass and i make her a flower crown, i dress her up in different outfits that arent even hers but that are just clothes i took off other dolls i care less about, she sleeps in my bed, she gets run over when she falls out of my bike basket, shes covered in mud, i put her in the washing machine, i forget her in the washing machine and now she smells funky, i talk to her, i give her little kisses, her seams are coming loose, i hold her hand so much that all the stuffing has moved out of it and now it’s just a thin floppy bit of fabric, i hug her real tight bc i love her and ive stopped trying to be rational about it
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bridgyrose · 3 years
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a (short) series where Blake and Ruby are childhood friends, and Ruby knows what Blake is but not WHAT Blake is. ie: She knows Blakes parents are big in the politico-sphere for equal rights, but she doesn't know that A: they're basically the rulers, B: they're faunus, and C: they're (technically) Terrorists. ... Feel free to add some gender-related shenanigans since you seem to really like those.
Ruby started to relax a bit as she saw Blake on Beacon campus, realizing she’d have at least one friend here. Even if it had been a few years since the two had last seen each other, it was still a nice thought. 
Yang smirked as she noticed Blake and put a hand on Ruby’s shoulder. “So, are you finally going to ask her out?” 
A blush started to form on Ruby’s cheeks as she absentmindedly looked out to the girl. “N-no, I couldnt… she and I havent really talked to each other much lately and her parents are still big shot activists… I… dont stand a chance.” 
“Oh come on, what’s the worst that can happen?” 
“She can reject me.” 
“And?” 
Ruby sighed and turned to face her sister. “I know she and I have only met once face to face at one of those rallies, but we’ve only talked as pen pals. I mean what if it turns out that she really doesnt like me? Or maybe after a few years of not talking… maybe she just… doesnt want to be a friend with me or-” 
“I think you’re just overreacting.” Yang smiled and started walking off a bit. “All that these what ifs are going to do is just cause you to worry.” 
“Okay, but still the last time she and I talked, I was… you know… a boy…” 
“And if she’s really a friend, she wont care.” 
Ruby slumped a bit, all her worries started to run through her mind again. “Maybe… I should  try to avoid her for a bit…” 
Yang sighed and shook her head. “And what good will that do, Rubes? I get it, you’re nervous because you’re not sure how she’s going to react to how you’ve changed and grown. But you have me, your big cis, with you.” 
Ruby groaned a bit, realizing the pun Yang just made. “Okay, you have a point. So, you’re going to come with me to talk to her, right?” 
Yang smiled nervously as she rushed off to her group of friends. “I’ll be here with you in spirit! You’ve got this Rubes!” 
“W-wait! Dont leave me!” Ruby let out a long sigh and looked down at her scroll to pull up a map of Beacon as she started to walk a bit, not paying attention to where she was going. “Well, I still have time before orientation starts and I can still-” she fell flat onto her back, looking up at a girl in white, yelling at her. 
“Watch where you’re going!” 
Ruby slowly picked herself up. “I was trying to…” She dusted herself off and started picking up some of the dust vials that spilled. “I was looking up the map to Beacon so I could start taking a look-” 
The girl snatched one of the dust vials out of Ruby’s hand and started shaking it around. “And you need to be more careful! Dont you know how volatile dust is?!” 
“She does, but I think you’re the one who needs to pay more attention.” Blake put a hand on Weiss’s, trying to cover the dust vial that was open. “Shaking an open vial around is going to cause more trouble than someone knocking you over.” 
“Do not touch me!” The girl pulled away from Blake, glaring at her. “Do you even know who I am?” 
“Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee dust company, and clearly someone who has no respect for safe dust usage.” 
Weiss frowned and started walking off. “I dont have time for this.” 
Ruby rubbed the back of her head nervously with a small smile. “Thanks for that. I was afraid she’d chew my head off.” 
“She probably would’ve too. Especially since she probably hasnt fallen all that far from her father’s point of view.” 
“I feel sorry for the poor soul who’s going to end up being her partner.” 
Blake chuckled a bit as she watched Weiss start fawning over a redhead in red and gold armor. “No kidding. She’s definitely going to be a pain to get along with.” 
“Oh, the name’s Ruby, by the way.” 
“Blake.” 
Ruby smiled a bit. “Yeah, I know. Blake Belladonna, daughter to Ghira and Kali Belladonna, activists for faunus rights.” 
Blake cocked a brow as she looked at Ruby. “And how would you know that?” 
Ruby hesitated for a moment before looking away shyly. “Oh… right… you… probably dont remember…” 
“Dont remember what?” 
“We were penpals when we were younger. And we met once at one of the faunus rights rallies when your dad was around. Although, I was a bit… different then.” 
Blake looked at Ruby curiously, really starting to look her over a bit. “Wait… you’re that kid who tried to take off my bow.” 
Ruby physically winced at remembering that. “Y-yeah… I… I am... “ 
Blake smiled a bit. “Well, its nice to see you again Ruby. Although, I swear it was a boy I met back then.” 
“Y-yeah, I was… but then… you know, grew up and figured myself out…” 
Blake nodded and started walking off. “Why dont we start heading to orientation together? It’ll be much easier while we have someone we know.” 
“Y-yeah, it would. I’m just glad you dont hate me.” 
“Why would I? Because you’re different?” 
Ruby nodded. “Most kids picked on me for that.” 
Blake shrugged and kept walking. “Well, I dont see why I would. You’re not the only one with a secret anyway.” 
“And what kind of secret do you have?” 
“You’ll just have to find out.” 
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aalghul · 2 years
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“tim drake is so bland, he’s the white bread of food” yeah well huh ever think about people like bland. huh! toasted white bread with butter is one of my favorite Safe Foods. litterally bread and butter. cant get much more plain than that. the crispness of the bread—how it holds itself together, the crunch it makes when you bite into it, the hot, melted butter that ties it all together. i love it so much. its plain and its boring and i know ita plain and boring. i love it because it plain, because it tastes so damn good to me. canon tim drake is an asshole and a misogynist and fuck that dude. but damn. i sure do love to project onto fanon tim drake [*slaps tim* this badboy can contain so much autism and transness]
so yeah. i love to bully time drake, i know you do to babeyy, and i do actually like him, but goddam it sure is fun to see people razz and beat on my comfort characters. when it gets not fun i just ignore the post and move on (like everyone should do lmao). all characters deserve a smackdown, and they can all be taken down a few pegs. especially comic characters. comic writers do the comic characters dirtyy (or rather they take the potential of the character and ruin it). winding down, im not sure if this seemed angry/targeted or wholly sarcastic, but i can assure you, it is most definitely not. i mention again, i am autistic lmao. i worry im coming off as rude but please know im not trying to be. anyways. *kicks out the backs of tim’s knees* *gives him a hug afterwards*
That was a ride but I think I got where you wanted me to in the end. Yeah! All characters need to be made fun of sometimes. It keeps everyone humble lol. The block feature is everyone’s best friend! No point in being resentful and wasting your energy on someone when you can just block (because rest assured, I will block if someone tries to pick a fight with me over a fictional character).
P.S. I actually like when Tim is an asshole sometimes (to a degree). It’s part of his charm, to me. (When it’s not related to him being misogynistic and such.) He’s a little shit, what can you do?
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a-dragons-journal · 3 years
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i dont "kin for fun" but through tiktok i found out about the whole kin for fun vs actual otherkin... situation ig? im having a really hard time taking it seriously... maybe im just burnt out and bitter from dealing with the worlds current events, and maybe its because on tiktok the only people i saw mad about it were white people, but you're the most reasonable person ive seen talking about it (a lot of other posts have this odd tone that 12 year olds on tiktok saying kin is the worlds greatest opression and it weirds me out) so ig my question is just... why exactly does this matter? why does it matter enough to post about and care about and not just ignore? /gen
Hey! I don’t blame you for being a bit weirded out by it, we’re a weird subculture and we’re well aware of it! xD I appreciate you taking the time to actually look into it past your first knee-jerk reaction, especially considering burnout and the state of things.
I’m not totally sure if you’re asking why otherkinity matters or why the “kin for fun” being wrong matters, so I’ll answer both - they’re pretty well tied together anyway.
The short version:
Otherkinity is an identity. It’s who we are, we can’t choose to pick it up or put it down, and it comes with struggles - though no, ‘kin are not systematically oppressed (though we are pretty badly bullied and, at this point, pushed out of our own words and spaces).
What people calling roleplay/relating to/projecting onto characters “kinning for fun” does is steal our words, make them meaningless, and in doing so, make it difficult or impossible for us to find each other. If someone says “I kin [x],” I no longer know whether they mean “I am [x] on an intrinsic level” or “haha I relate to this character a lot”. I no longer know whether they actually share my experiences or if they’re going to turn on me and call me “crazy” as soon as they realize I’m not exaggerating or joking or roleplaying. It’s done massive harm to the community as a whole because it’s become difficult to tell whether someone is actually ‘kin or if they’ve misunderstood the whole thing - and because antikin rhetoric, which I’m seeing more and more in KFF spaces, hurts far more when it’s coming from inside what you thought was a community space than when it’s coming from self-labeled “antikin.”
There are other words for roleplaying and relating to and projecting onto characters. Hell, there are words for strongly identifying with-but-not-as characters/things, though usually KFF people don’t even seem serious enough for those to fit in my experience. I’m really not sure why these people are so determined to steal and misuse our words, words that were specifically created to mean something else, when they already have their own and are just refusing to use them. (Or, hell, if you don’t feel like those fit, make your own. We did. It’s your turn to put in the work. (General you, not you-the-anon, of course.))
An analogy, if that still doesn’t quite land for you:
Consider, for a moment, the transgender community. I am aware this is a dangerous thing to say, but bear with me. Obvious CW for hypothetical transphobia up ahead is obvious.
Consider if you were part of the trans community (I don’t know if you are or not), having finally found a word to explain why you feel the way you do about yourself, why your experiences don’t seem to match up with those of everyone else around you. Having found a community, a home, full of other people like you, people you never would have met if not for words like “transgender” and “gender dysphoria/euphoria” that were created specifically to describe your experiences.
Now consider if people suddenly stumbled across your community for the first time who were not trans themselves. They see community jokes and lighthearted posts out of context, because Tumblr and Twitter aren’t exactly conducive to making sure people find the Transgender 101 information posts first. They don’t bother to do further research, assuming they understand: ah, these people like to crossdress! They like to pretend they’re a different gender! This seems like a fun hobby, I want in!
They begin to post things like this. They post photos of them crossdressing and caption them “hi, I’m [name], and I trans men!” and things of the like. Suddenly the concept of “transing for fun” seems to be everywhere - and it’s not at all what being trans actually is, but these people either don’t know or don’t care. When actual trans people try to politely correct them, they’re accused of “gatekeeping” - and to be clear, this is not “nonbinary people aren’t real,” it’s “transgender means you identify as a gender other than the one you were assigned at birth, and you’re self-identifying as the gender you were assigned at birth 100% and telling us this is just a fun hobby for you, therefore you’re not trans, you’re crossdressing or doing drag or being GNC. That’s fine, but it’s not being trans - you have other words to describe that, use those.”
(Yes, I am aware these things have a history with the trans community - please just ignore that for the sake of the analogy and bear with me on the slightly simplified version of this. “Kinning for fun” does not have that same history with the otherkin community.)
...And then the response to those attempted corrections, in some corners, turns into “wait, you ACTUALLY think you’re another gender? idk that sounds pretty unhealthy, maybe you should see a psychologist or something :\” and “you’re taking this too seriously.”
I imagine, in this hypothetical scenario, you’d also be pretty fuckin peeved.
(Obviously, in this hypothetical scenario, systematic transphobia would be an issue as well, which isn’t the case for otherkin - again, you’re gonna have to bear with me on the simplification for sake of analogy there.)
(EDIT: this is not an anti-MOGAI/exclusionist argument, this is “you’re literally telling me you don’t fit the definition,” explanation on that here)
The long version, which is probably still worth reading if you have the time and energy:
Otherkinity is... pretty core to who I am, who we as a group of individuals are. We live with being otherkin on a daily basis. Many of us spent a long time feeling different and disconnected and not understanding why until we found the otherkin community. Even people like me, who don’t share that experience and still had social connection - I’ve still had to live with weird differences that I had to learn to mask when necessary; instincts that don’t line up with human society well, feeling body parts that weren’t there and that no one else ever seemed to have, things that other kids grew out of because it was just make-believe for them and I... didn’t, because it was never make-believe for me to begin with. Oh, sure, I played make-believe too - I played warrior cats and house and all those things with the other kids, but there were things that weren’t play-pretend for me too. I didn’t have an explanation for it for a long time - it was just how I was, I was weird, and fortunately for me personally I was okay with that (many of those with species dysphoria or more trouble connecting with humans have more problems from that than I did).
And then I found the word “otherkin.” And suddenly everything fell into place, and I had an explanation for the things I’d been experiencing, and there were other people like me. Something I’d assumed didn’t exist. I found others who shared my unique experiences, who were talking about how to cope with the instinct to growl or snap jaws at people instead of expressing annoyance in a human way instead of just saying “that’s weird, don’t do that”, who were talking about dealing with phantom wings and tails, who understood me. I wasn’t weird, I wasn’t broken, I was exactly what one would expect from a dragon living in human skin. I found an explanation for myself. I found a home.
That is why otherkinity matters - it is who we are, it’s not something we can walk away from (certainly not most of us, anyway), and it’s something many of us need the support of the community to help deal with on a daily basis. Being a nonhuman in human society isn’t always easy, but it’s not something we can just magically stop being - it’s core to who we are, we (generally) didn’t choose to be this way, and we (generally) can’t choose to stop. Which is fine - the vast majority of us can cope with it just fine, with a little advice and help and space to be our authentic selves in. We found each other, we built this community from the ground up to make a space and words to make finding each other easier - or possible at all.
Thus we come to the second half of our story.
It was only a couple of years ago that the “kin for fun” trend started getting big. It had existed before that, of course, but it only started going mainstream two, maybe three years ago, from what I can tell. Suddenly people were treating “kin” like it meant relating to, projecting onto, roleplaying as, or just really really liking a character or thing - not being that thing, which is what it actually means. Not long after that, it became hard to tell whether someone saying “I kin this” meant they were that thing, that they were actually part of our community - or that they really really liked that thing and either didn’t know or couldn’t be bothered to learn that that wasn’t the case for us.
Not long after that, it became relatively commonplace to hear phrases like “otherkin are ruining kinning!!” and “you’re taking this too seriously” and “idk, if it’s that serious for you that sounds unhealthy. maybe you should get some help :\” (all directly quoted, or as exactly quoted as I can remember, from things KFF people have said to me or people I know).
It is a special kind of hell, I think, to be told “you’re taking this too seriously, that’s unhealthy” by people who are taking words created to describe your experiences, not theirs, and misusing them to mean something that you do for fun on a weekend instead of something that’s intrinsic to your being.
Perhaps more importantly, like I’ve said, it’s making it almost impossible to know whether someone who says “I kin [x]” is actually ‘kin or if they’re misusing our words to mean something else entirely. The entire point of words is to communicate ideas, and once you start misusing words to mean something totally different than what they actually mean, that communication falls apart and suddenly we might as well not have those words at all. Especially when the community is small enough and obscure enough that we’re starting to be outnumbered by the misinformation. We’re being run out of our own words, words we created to describe our experiences specifically - because we’re a small community that the wider internet can easily drown out by sheer numbers of people who either don’t know any better or don’t care to learn.
That’s the harm it does - the harm it is doing, right now. That’s why it’s important enough to post about. That’s why it matters - because we’re fighting desperately to hang onto our own words so that others like us can actually find us. Because we’re seeing young nonhumans go “this isn’t a kin, I actually am this” and screaming “No, I’m so sorry that this is what the misinformation has done to you, that’s exactly what otherkin means, you have a place here, please don’t let these non-’kin misusing our words drive you away from the very community you’re looking for and that you belong in.” Because we can’t even communicate effectively about our own experiences anymore except in semi-closed spaces like Discord servers and forums (and the number of Discord servers overrun with KFF people is absurd).
......This got very long. Hopefully it at least explained why it matters so much to me and others a bit better ^^; Thanks for hearing me out, and thank you again for looking into this beyond your initial knee-jerk reaction - I really do appreciate it.
(For further reading, if that text wall didn’t blow you out of the water completely, I recommend my “kin for fun” tag, which has more posts like this in both short and long form.)
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tamaharu · 4 years
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hey. share your Thoughts on the cutesy and unassuming line youve referred to it during our Trans Scott Discussions but never elaborated
i actually have gone semi in-depth abt it here but it was in the middle of the night and more about trying to help a dude w the ~abstract nature of gender~ so nobody except the question asker really saw it BUT ID LOVE TO TALK ABOUT IT AGAIN WITH MORE CLARITY. big paragraphs under the read!
okay like. firstly you have to look at scott as an archetype and what exactly he was written to be before you can get into top ten transed gender moments. i mentioned in the previous explanation how the scott pilgrim character was written by o’malley as an expression of “[his] fantasy of being a cute white indie rock boy (which, as an ostracized mixed-race weirdo, was something I occasionally wished for when I was younger).” (the article in question is more about race and the way he’s making sure he doesn’t accidentally make all his characters white out of racial ambiguity like he did w spvtw and i really recommend reading it)
So once you address the way that scott pilgrim is, essentially, partly a self-projection power fantasy, you can see where it comes through. Best fighter in the province, gets all the girls, cool band, doesnt work a job, etc etc etc. this, however (im tapping my screen with a pencil) this doesnt line up with the rest of the story. The way that traditionally male protagonists would deal with arcs is completely different from how scott deals with his character arc. Like, the closure of his break-up with Envy and realizing he was in the wrong rather than them getting together/her slobbering all over him; he doesn’t end up with knives at the end thank GOD and in fact, she moves on from him (and this is why we kill edgar wright - for wanting them to be together :vomit:); he has to take ramonas feelings into account to even attempt to mend their broken relationship - he has to move on from being an asshole, which for most male protagonists, goes hand in hand with power fantasy.
That alone is amazing and #smashgenderroles and all that, but once you carve further into the details like you and i have bc we’re obsessed with meta, its not just within the arc itself where hes positioned as non-traditionally masculine. Its also the way he is with his loved ones, whether friends or romantic interests.
Him being his best self is entirely due to this softness that he has. Scott’s relationship with knives, positioned in the first book as creepy but something to be semi-appreciative of, is bad and reads very. Cis to me. Idk how else to describe it, but thats how it is. The same goes for some of his time with Lisa, Envy (USE HER CHOSEN NAME YOURE TRANS YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS *SHAKES HIM*), and Kim throughout the course of the books. Spoiler alert, its when he’s being an asshole and ignoring ppls feelings and ignoring his own past mistakes.
Scott, as he is who he is, despite being a skilled fighter, is, well. Somewhat pathetic. Or, well, i guess a better way to say it is that he inspires a sense of protectiveness in people? Despite being pretty self-reliant (at least in the fighting sense) and being a dick (at least in the all the time sense), his friends love and care for him, attempting to help him when he massively depressed, or when hes fighting the exes.
Even ramona feels this! Here is where we get the first addressing of scott “cutesy and unassuming” pilgrim. Throughout the books, hes constantly juxtaposed against his female counterparts, arguably to a degree more than his male counterparts. Wallace, Stephen Stills, and Niel are his only male friends, with the rest of the dudes being very very very secondary characters or exes, and they usually serve to sometimes goad him, sometimes help him (mostly wallace), sometimes just be his casual friends. On the other hand, all of the female characters, unless theyre very very very secondary (like julies friends), impact his actual character VERY deeply. This in turn calls to mind the time in v5 when scott said all his high school friends were girls and ramona remarks that shes unsurprised he was “raised by teenage girls” as hes “such a sensitive boy.”
Like, the dudes are just dudes hes friends with. Wallace is really the only one that fosters any visible emotional growth in him, but even so, despite living with him, basically being his best friend, and helping him out with the fight training, a lot of the growth that wallace pushes him towards is incidental, and more due to the women in the story.
Theres something kinda eh when you acknowledge that literally every single female character except for julie&co was/is into him, but at the same time, it is pretty interesting when you realize that all of scott’s emotional growth, while not manic pixie dream girl-ed by them, was at least pushed towards him due to his interactions with women. And THATS TRANSGENDERISM. 
I mean. Im not a girl. But because of my agab, i feel MUCH more comfortable with having girl friends rather than guy friends, and im sure thats not a rare phenomenon in transmasc ppl. the fact that scott has a cutesy/unassuming demeanour to him, especially when you consider that this statement is coming from his girlfriend, the frequent references to him being soft and “raised by girls” and, as said by envy in a flashback, “the girl of the relationship,” it all points to the conclusion of him being very non-traditionally masculine at the very least, and definitively trans at the most. 
Anyways.. I dunno if that makes ANY sense but writing this just made me have several very nice relizations about how to read the story in a new light. Tl;dr: scotts trans and i proved it youre welcome everybody
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transkirishima · 6 years
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sorry to bother you but uhh, i'm someone who regularly does bnha headcanons and i take requests, but recently i've gotten one for trans bakugo headcanons. i'm not trans, so i thought i should ask around and find out from a bunch of trans people whether or not to do the request, and things to avoid if i actually do them. you don't have to respond. i'm just trying to be cautious since i'm cis, but i really don't want to do something wrong without realizing it.
im gonna like, try to give the best answer i can with such a vague ask, but if you want more clarifications on things dming a trans boy whos up for it would be best, my mains dms are always open (i cant guarantee how fast ill respond though)
this ended up being longer then i intended cos i just kinda went off on things but, i hope its helpful
trans bakugou is my jam man, there are definitely ways to portray it wrong (such as the ppl who heavily fetishize/sexualize him) but the headcanon itself is fine. like while i definitely side eye cis ppl who jump to him for their trans headcanon (as hes violent and has a history of being a bully), its fine and basically all my other trans buddies love trans bakugou (well, trans boy bakugou, dont even dare do trans girl bakugou for the love of god. since youre asking abt transcanons, while youre here ill just say this: dont hc canon boys as trans girls and dont hc canon girls as trans boys, unless many trans girls or trans boys themselves have rallied around those respected hcs)
cis people making transcanons is fine- it helps in normalizing us, however when it comes to being cis and making trans headcanons, just know that your trans headcanons should not center around the character being constantly ashamed and in agony over things like their dysphoria (not all trans people have physical dysphoria) or their general transness; rather focus on their gender euphoria of how right it feels for them to be trans. it shouldnt all hinge and focus on their body. of course, hcing a character as trans and with dysphoria is fine, but dont make that the center of their trans experience. that seems to be what cis ppl take most from our lives when thats really only a section of it for those of us who have bodily dysphoria. but there are trans boys who dont bind- hell there are those you CANT bind, and if you want to discuss those kinda hcs, actually like dming a trans boy would be best. 
most likely youll say something that makes a trans person uncomfortable or something bad because you dont fully understand us and just learn from those experiences. really the most important thing is listen to trans people if theyre telling you youre doing or saying something transphobic. if a trans person is saying smth you did or said is transphobic, dont take it as an insult, rather a “oh shit, what did i do wrong and what can i do to be a better ally?”
just talking to trans ppl abt these things through dms would be fine, and i bet talking to them you would learn more than you thought. like- one of the ways i project my transness onto specifically bakugou is how he wears primarily black clothes like i do, and thats how i hide my curves. lots of cis people wouldnt even think of that but its just small things like that that can go into a persons or characters transness. our daily way of living and our relationship with gender is varied and complicated. some people know from when they are young they are trans, some people dont figure it out and begin transition until well into adulthood- ive heard of people above 50 coming out and beginning transition. some trans boys love embracing masculinity to the best of their ability, and some still like wearing skirts and dresses. there isnt one true trans experience and all of them deserved to be portrayed with the utmost respect.
but something basically we’re all sick of: the whole “looking into the mirror and seeing ourself with the WRONG BODY!” trope. lots of us dont identify with that for many reasons. some feel a total disconnect to their body, some embrace their body for what it is, some see the beauty in what they can change in it. just DONT do the thing where they look in the mirror and are like “im really a girl :(” cause really like, personally for example, yeah i get discouraged when i see myself but not because i “look like a girl” but because im PERCEIVED by society as a girl. i fully see myself as a dude with who i am and really most elements of my physical transition can be attributed to survival and passing. lots of the things we end up doing are just so we can survive. this trope really just shows how cis people see our experience, its dumbed down and way to simplified to the point where it loses most if not all connection to trans folk themselves.
this has kinda gone into a long tangent and idk where else to go but. yeah. you can make transcanons, thats completely fine. i think the most important question you could ask yourself is why you see certain characters as trans, such as if any stereotypes are effecting your headcanons. making trans headcanons themselves is fine, trans bakugou is fine.
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