#trans headcanons

Ozai: Azula, my eldest. You're a failure and I hate you.

Zuko: I'm Zuko.

Ozai: I thought Zuko was the shorter one?

Azula: No, you're confused. Zuko is the one that sucks at firebending.

Zuko: Hey!

Ozai: Ah yes, of course.

like, for my girl Jesse, you have to produce an explanation for why her being transmasc would never be brought up! like Walt's known her since high school and there is no way he wouldn't use Jesse being trans as a point of belittlement or manipulation - and if you want to try and dodge Walt knowing she's trans by having Jesse transition before he was in high school well then you have to make the idea of Jesse's piece of shit parents letting him transition before then make sense, and there is no satisfying way to do that

or for a more extreme example, with Hunter from The Owl House you need to come up with some reason for this character who is a clone of a late 16th/early 17th century puritan man who took part in witch hunts to be trans as well, and then you have come up with a reason that Belos, an abusive man of the same background who killed his brother when he fell in love with a witch, would actually respect that Hunter is transmasc which is just laughable

"Ostensibly male" refers to characters that can reasonably be presumed to be cis men/boys in canon (or in the eyes of the writers/actors/etc).

"Ostensibly female" refers to characters that can reasonably be presumed to be cis women/girls in canon (or in the eyes of the writers/actors/etc).

We're using "ostensible" because most (ostensibly) cis characters are not explicitly confirmed to be cis, but most people would read them that way/not think about it.

For this poll, interpret "transfem" and "transmasc" somewhat flexibly– this includes trans women, trans men, and nonbinary people, as well as transfem men and transmasc women.