the thing that frustrates me so much abt how ppl don't understand what i mean by "trans men with boobs" is like. no, i don't want him in a bikini. no, i don't want him in a dress. no, i don't want you to give him really long eyelashes or makeup. i don't want him to be gnc at all. that isn't to say that gnc trans men aren't valid, or that we should be drawing less of them, but i find it frustrating and a bit concerning how much resistance some artists will put up to drawing a masculine-presenting person who just also happens to have breasts, and it gives the vibe that people see trans men/mascs as somehow less queer (/less interesting/less worth drawing) if they cross a certain unspoken, subjective threshold of masculinity
i do see people draw the kinds of bodies i feel represented by as a transmasculine person, but at least in my experience i swear to you they have all been characters intended to be butch lesbians, oftentimes specifically gnc women (going off the artist's tags). i have to question what it is about the label "butch woman" that somehow makes it easier for some artists to conceptualize a masculine person existing passively while also having breasts than the phrase "trans man". is queer masculinity only worth portraying to you if you can put it on someone you label as a woman in some way? will my queer masculinity as a nonbinary person only matter to you if you can construe me as somehow woman-aligned? because i consider that misgendering, frankly.
i'm not trying to call any specific people bigoted in any specific way, but i am trying to call attention to what i feel is a bit of an unspoken double standard in queer art rn, and i hope we can push to see and create more inclusive art in the future
