#omg so many disco elysium characters oh no lol

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Just a thought for fandom when writing/drawing trans people who smoke cigarettes/vape

They literally won't be able to smoke while on hrt, masc or femme

I actually thought I could smoke while on t for the longest time because I kept seeing trans headcanons of cis characters whose whole thing is smoking. It wasn't until I actually looked it up when I came out and! Lo and behold, smoking while on hrt can kill you! Actually kill you (for some reason at the time I looked it up, it was really hard to find a solid answer online, so some years later when I did my consult, I asked, and I was told flat out that if I smoked it would cause shit like blood clots!)

Now I'm not saying to stop putting trans hcs for cis smokers, because obviously it's a fucking drawing or whatever, but there really needs to be more awareness from the community (trans and general fandom) about how normalized it is to just slap trans centric surgery scars on a cis character whose lifestyle and addictions wouldn't allow them to look cis and be on hrt for any length of time without killing them before they got to transition

I don't know if this is a thing, it's just something that I've thought about on and off when interacting with trans people who turn cis smokers into trans smokers. I dunno, just something to think about when doing your hcs

Edit: just read the notes for whatever answer you want to accept. One person from medblr put their thoughts in, and so did another trans person who was told what I was. Take whatever evidence you want from either of those responses and agree with me or don't.

#trans #fandom #tagging the characters I've seen this month who are commonly hc'd as trans who smoke #adam faulkner stanheight #klaus hargreeves #nicholas d. wolfwood #pickles the drummer #klaasje amandou #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #jean vicquemare #omg so many disco elysium characters oh no lol #smoking