i want a Superman story about Superman realizing she's a trans woman. how would she tell people? who would she tell? how could she tell them? through what possible ways would she transition? Kryptonian biology may not necessarily be compatible with human hormone replacement therapy and needles are certainly out of the question. if she figures it out, at what point does her presentation change? superman can't take a break, people need her, even if her haircut is getting awkwardly long and her body is uncomfortable to be in. everyone on earth knows who Superman is, knows her face. is her secret identity threatened if Clark Kent mysteriously starts to transition at the same time as Superman? if she only lets one be publicly out, which one? and what would it feel like to put on that costume -- in either case -- if so? if someone tries to attack her on the street, as Ms. Kent, how does she hide her secret identity? how would the world itself react to someone with the strength to juggle planets being a tranny? with her super-hearing there's nothing she wouldn't know about what people are saying, nevermind what's being written in the press. how does SuperMAN, one of the most definitive icons of masculine indomitability and resilience, cope with changing? would her strength, her confidence, her ability to do anything suddenly be used against her? why can't she be more like wonder woman? why is voice training so hard even for someone with super-ventriloquism? does anyone know what it's like to be able to run faster than a speeding bullet and leap tall buildings in a single bound but to not be able to find a cute pair of shoes that fits? to be indestructible but afraid to use a public bathroom? would even the most powerful person on earth not feel just as helpless as i do?
It's a very potent idea. Superman, in almost all her stories, is the most singularly famous person on the planet, she can't really change her public appearance that much or people are going to die in the confusion. I should think with all her powers, adopting a new voice and so on would not actually be hard - she maintains the perfect disguise of Clark Kent by assuming two entirely different sets of postures and body languages every day after all. Heck, she can fully go to sleep on command. Transitioning physically wouldn't be difficult at all. But people need Superman to be there, the legend, the icon, the Earth's savior. It was a decade-long worldwide disaster just that one time she turned blue for a while. It'll be so, so hard to maintain the image of Superman if she gets tits and a set of hips.
Not to mention all the people in Clark's life are going to notice if she comes out at the same time Superman does. I want to see this in the world where everybody knows something's up with Clark who works so prudently and who never lets anyone into his personal life and who always vanishes into thin air the moment cops might show up and who looks nothing like his parents, where assume he's an illegal immigrant and just quietly go along with it and cover up for him no questions asked. She tells Lois she thinks she might be a woman and doesn't really know what to do with that and Lois is going to be like "That's rough, it's got to be hard to get healthcare, right? Would it help if you and I get a paper marriage?"
