its a really small problem, not much of an issue really but the insane lack of transmasc representation in fanfiction, especially for reader insert fics feels very strange to me
maybe it's just because trans people in general are a minority, but there's so many queer people that write fanfiction, im tired of not being able to find fics i can see myself in
This is transandrophobia. No, it definitely is an issue. Transmasc representation in media is statistically lacking [link.]
And fanfiction, the place where this lack of representation should be getting made up for, is lacking just as much.
It's almost always the same archetypes.
Transmascs who are white, skinny, SPETE (someone perisex expected to estrogenize), have gone through minimal or no HRT or surgery, and are okay with vaginal penetration (and often their breasts being touched.)
Also, it often has pregnancy thrown in just for the sake of fetishes or to create a fanchild.
In a vacuum, nothing is wrong with these things. Transmascs like that exist, fetish content is allowed to exist, and if you're making a fanchild-centric fic about pregnancy there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
But it's just exhausting to never see diversity.
Where are transmascs of color? Black, Brown, Asian, Latino, Pacific Islander, Indigenous transmascs?
Where are fat transmascs? Muscular transmascs?
Where are intersex transmascs? Transmascs who are SPETA (someone perisex expected to androgenize), transitioning from one type of masculinity to another (ie; binary manhood to non-binary manhood, Westernized manhood to culturally gendered manhood, etc)?
Where are transmascs who are going through HRT? Transmascs who have gone through metoidioplasties, phalloplasties, vagina-preserving phalloplasties or metoidioplasties, nullification, vaginectomies, etc?
Where are transmascs who feel dysphoria or disconnect over parts of their bodies, (and in NSFW works, where is the contect of them having to navigate around that)?
Where are the complex storylines of transmasc pregnancies?
Where are transmasc tops? Transmasc doms?
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