LIONIZE

treating trans bodies as normal and not some kind of outlying freakshow gets pushback in part because it also means accepting "non-conforming" cis bodies (which are more common than not, tbqfh, if you look around at an actual crowd of human beings for 10 seconds) and wellsir that simply WON'T DO because shame is a broadly used, socially sanctioned and accepted tool of control and ostracization and honestly people loooove punishing anyone who transgresses those bounds because unless you're miserably expending energies trying to fit yourself into an impossible box then you're cheating and everyone has to suffer because that's life babe!

dean winchester gender and sexuality studies truly phd material. he's a son he's a mom he's a brother he dated that bear-shaped vampire for a year and like yeah i'd categorize his attraction to women as largely performative when it's casual and undertaken primarily for the benefit of other men (wheee i'm soooo masc i love tits strippers porn and banging hot cheerleaders i'm not overcompensating for being uncomfortably beautiful to the point that i'm under constant suspicion of queerness or anything wheee) but considering how he behaves in private with, say, cassie, i also don't think his attraction to women is ONLY performative and also he's life partners with his weird boy best friend who has perma-stubble and football shoulders and they coparent a godbaby together