#really good candidate for being a no-med no-op trans person

[lttleghost]

wait I said this in the tags of another post and have previously tried to express these thoughts but did so poorly; while I don't think canon compatibility necessarily has as much importance in fandom with lgbtq+ headcanons if there isn't a queer reading of a character that is canonically compatible, and I don't think that fandom having differing headcanons for characters not meant to be lgbtq+ can ever fully be categorized as erasure in general

I do think when there is a queer reading of a character that is completely compatible with canon and is relevant to the themes of the story yet is given significantly less attention or is all but ignored in a fandom for headcanons that require at least some suspension of disbelief and/or changes to the text to reach their full potential, that starts to tread somewhere at least adjacent to the territory of erasure. and while I think individually people can still prefer whatever headcanon they want, it can say something about a fandom as a whole if there isn't any thought to, or if there's even refusal to give visibility to the more canonically accurate queer reading

and I think it's also important to look out for situations where that reading might be ignored because it's "less palatable", either as an identity itself and/or the presentation of that identity, to those in the community that tend to not like nonconformity or look down on certain identities, like transmedicalists ect...

#I'm not in too many fandoms so i dunno how OFTEN this happens #but i sure am vastly aware of one example of it #meat.txt #while i know lots of people like it for projection i do think its important to recognize transmasc Jesse is also like #a perfect transmasc example for a transmedicalist to latch onto as well #and because theres a higher rate of transmedicalism in the transmasc community this is another area of hesitence #that i have with the popularity of that headcanon vs egg transfem Jesse #espec since while any level of physical transition still could be accurate for Jesse #there's honestly not much indication that appearance is the focus of her identity #really good candidate for being a no-med no-op trans person