Hot take - I've always been at odds with the fanon of transfem Sinclair (and how the only alternative I've seen is transmasc) because it's something people argue is very strongly present in his text which makes it "basically canon"...but his text is very heavily focused on androgyny, not femininity. Sinclair is very much focused on breaking free of the binary concepts that society has constructed which includes finding a balance between the subconscious female anima and the conscious male self and to me that lends itself way better to something more fluid and nuanced and non-binary. I feel like entirely dismissing how Sinclair wants to find balance to instead say that he wants to entirely become the female inner self is like saying Sinclair wants to completely abandon the world of darkness to be entirely light. As an intermediary step perhaps, where Sinclair then learns that he doesn't fully belong in either realm and that he needs to make a third path, but no one frames it like that, it's always an absolute end goal.
Also because Hong "boys are mud and girls are pure water and I hate how dirty I am I'd do anything to be pure like a girl" Lu exists. I also find it hard to squint to make specifically a transfem reading of Sinclair work when DotRC is as subtle as a sledgehammer when it comes to how much the main character does not want to be a man.
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