#trans fandom

You cant headcanon a masculine man as a trans man bcs it "doesnt make sense"

You cant headcanon a feminine man as a trans man because "you're steorotyping"

You cant headcanon a gnc man as a trans man because "no trans man would dress like that you fetishizer"

You cant headcanon a masculine man as a trans woman because "that's completely out of character"

You cant headcanon a feminine man as trans woman because "you only headcanon that because he wears (typically feminine thing)"

You cant headcanon a gnc man as a trans woman because "just because he likes certain clothes doesnt make him trans"

You cant headcanon a masculine woman as a trans man because "you're a misogynistic fetishizer"

You cant headcanon a feminine woman as a trans man because "its making stuff up" or again "you're a fetishizer"

You cant headcanon a gnc woman as a trans man because "you're enforcing gender steorotypes"

You cant headcanon a masculine woman as a trans woman because "you're a misogynist transphobe"

You cant headcanon a feminine woman as a trans woman because "she doesnt seem trans"

You cant headcanon a gnc woman as a trans woman because "trans women dont like being masculine"

You cant draw pre-op bodies because "its too sexual", "its transphobic to show that", or "you're fetishizing trans bodies"

Can't draw post-op because "they look funny" or "that doesnt make sense"

This isnt even getting into Nonbinary or Genderfluid headcanons, or even headcanons that dare to be complex. Or trans headcanons that involve stuff trans people "shouldnt do" like a trans man deciding to have kids or a trans woman doing literally anything with her private parts.

Half the time any existence of said headcanon is demeaned as tarnishing a precious cis character or is virtue signaled in a "woke" way such as things listed before or calling a trans character in a queer ship "heteronormative" or "straight-ifing"

God forbid you yourself are a trans man or trans woman making these headcanons, ESPECIALLY if its to connect to a character.

I feel like its a mix of throwing around buzzwords or just not scrolling if they dislike something. If you're not being a dick about your hc why gaf.

Editorial

Jennifer Duggan, Angie Fazekas, Trans fandom

Article

Jennifer Duggan, Trans fans and fan fiction: A literature review

Xavia Andromeda Publius, Turing tests, catfishing, and other technologies of transgender rage

Peizhen Wu, Teaching trans studies through fan fiction in college English classrooms

Ari Page, How Teen Wolf’s transmasculine fans use online fandom to build community and representation

Jon Heggestad, Pregnant Teen Wolf: The border wars of mpreg fics

Damien Hagen, Regeneration and trans possibility in Doctor Who

Symposium

Yves Herak, "edmund is trans he told me himself": Recognition in transgender Shakespeare fan fiction

Ben Cromwell, Perverse polyjuice: Trans Harry Potter spitefic as a response to J. K. Rowling’s TERF wars

Casey Friedmann Kelley, "How could you think we'd care about what that—woman—wrote about you?": Harry Potter fans' reaction to J. K. Rowling's transphobic tweets

Book review

yerf yerfyerf, "Fan identities in the furry fandom," by Jessica Ruth Austin

Maria K. Alberto, "Representing kink: Fringe sexuality and textuality in literature, digital narrative, and popular culture," edited by Sara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook

Trans Harrie / Louis - Rated M - No smut - Coming Out - Self-Acceptance

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Harrie always knew that things weren’t right in her world, but it was many years before she had the answers, not only about herself but the world around her. With the help of two wonderful friends, she comes to embrace life as it truly is. She’s found happiness and confidence within herself, feeling truly content for the first time in her life. One thing she longs for is to share her life with another person, but fear holds her back. She doesn’t know if she’s able to be accepted as she is now. But that doesn’t stop the world from trying and allowing her to see who she needs to be. Despite her reservations, she realizes that one failed date doesn’t mean is it’s an end all. It simply means she wasn’t herself the first time around. With a deep, steady breath of fresh air, Harrie knows now. She’s ready and the future is here in the form of a wonderful person who doesn’t hold her past against her. In fact, he finds her imperfectly perfect exactly as she is, and that’s all Harrie needs.

Is it nice to see more trans headcannons? Sure, but some folks need to unlearn TERF rhetoric to avoid making people slog through yet another fic dedicating several paragraphs to rehashing the same tired, shallow, clinical dysphoria navel gazing.

I get it, you're writing for a middlingly popular currently niche series that was painfully heterosexual except for That One Character in a satellite game who was pretty much just three levels of gay panic in a trenchcoat. I am an oldfag, I know what it's like to crawl through the representation trenches.

Personally I feel like if you're shipping two male characters, decide to make one of them transmasc, and then shunt him down the breedable malewife pipeline you need to be really sure that chute doesn't go right into the terf trash bin. Because I'm seeing a lot of that shit right now and I am TIRED.