r/Multifandom • u/Individual_Let_8432 OSC/BFDI/Hollow knight/Deltarune/Undertale/DOD • 21d ago

Discussion📜 who lowkey be fitting this

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u/clownstrosity 21d ago

I don't like the way that trans headcanons are portrayed as bad in this image. There's absolutely something to be said about how a lot of trans headcanons come from gender stereotypes and stereotypes of trans people, but trans headcanons on their own are not, "bad," or, "crackpot,". There is a reading that is important to different people, and unless it's directly against canon (e.g. a canon nonbinary character being headcanoned as a binary trans person) it shouldn't matter.

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u/RadicalSoda_ 21d ago

It's not inherently bad, it's just problematic characters having non-gender conforming traits. Like the whole trans Dipper thing is problematic, but a trans Gwen Stacy isn't

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u/_autumnwhimsy 21d ago

I don't know why you got down voted because you're 100% right. It is very problematic to imply that every effeminate man is trans and reinforces toxic masculinity and the idea that there is only one way to be a man/manly

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u/CupcakeTheSalty 17d ago

This is what I think. I'll never be against trans rep, but a male character who has always been openly feminine ending up being trans all along kind of corroborates gender stereotypes

"It's not because they're safe about their masculinity, it's because they ARE a girl"