Reading a book that was specifically advertised as a book for queer kids and teens, witten by a non binary author, where a transmasc main character repeatedly expresses experiencing dysphoria, switches to using he/him pronouns partway through the book, insists that he and his friends dress as boys to disguise themselves as pirates even though there were plenty of girl pirates, kept wearing masculine clothing and binding his chest after they're discovered while the others didn't, has a conversation with a transfem character where they bond over their transness, states several times that he *is* a boy now and has *never* wanted to be a girl, and repeatedly expresses euphoria when given a masculine nickname. Getting excited about transmasc representation. Telling someone about it being told that since they never explicitly used the word "transgender" there's no way to know and maybe he's just a masculine girl. I'd also like to clarify that's it takes place before the word "transgender" was coined?
(And that the other trans character did not get faceclaimed even though her only line about her transness is something along the lines of "I love the crew of my ship cause only they believed me when I told them I'm a woman".)
This is transandrophobia.










