Thread by @sugarcubeshiro, hmmn i want to say one final thing abt everything. because i’m [...]

hmmn i want to say one final thing abt everything. because i’m still rly frustrated by some ppl going “almost every fic w trans characters in it is by trans people tho

” as a ’gotcha!’ moment @ me. esp found cis ppl talking abt this (altho pretty unsurprising) wild & annoying—

—when i was Literally saying that other than tagging, then yeah, my issue is that CIS PEOPLE almost NEVER include trans characters in any fics, ever, and if they DO, it’ll 99% of the time only be abt the things i listed, while *making the same characters cis in anything else*

and the things listed are, just objectively, what most content with trans characters in it is about! the frustration i feel is over cis people seeming to think that it’s the ONLY content we can or should be included in, and how i hate that we can’t even talk about this.

trans ppl can write/draw/whatever abt anything as much as they want ! if what i listed is the only thing u wanna make content with, ever, it’s great ! i genuinely mean that. any negativity or passive-aggressiveness etc is other ppls feelings or fears being projected onto my words

taking back our own narratives is something that’s so important and i’m so happy for anyone who does it, however they do it, and no one has the right to judge that

which is why i repeatedly said that everyone’s experiences are valid & i’m not speaking for anyone but myself

and i’m not demanding—or even requesting, really—that other trans people make any specific kind of content because it’s no one’s job to deliver stories about their own identities so they cater to someone else’s needs

that’s not an opinion i hold or something i’ve ever said

it WOULD still be cool tho if we could all just talk abt these things ! just like i said it’d be super nice to see more nonbinary characters in fics too—because it’s something i’ve felt for a long time should be more openly encouraged so ppl knows how welcomed it’d be!

also—my thread had nothing to do with anything else going on that day. it was shitty timing and if i’d seen the other stuff, i absolutely would not have said anything when i did. i wasn’t trying to speak over anyone or make the discussions already being had about something else.

as soon as i realized how it might’ve looked i felt awful and dm’d to explain and apologize in case it sounded like some shitty weird public response to that, but it was all good right from the start.

i can’t help that i experience my own dysphoria in the way i do. i wish so, so badly that i didnt lmao. but me feeling a certain way about myself is not a judgement or attack on anyone else, just like how anyone else feels about themselves has literally nothing to do with me.

i have my own traumas related to being trans that i deal with in my own ways, but i’m also really, really trying my hardest to be kinder towards myself. being able to engage with more trans content in fandom is just one small thing i would’ve loved to do while here, too.

&something that would’ve been healing for *me* (& just Very Obvs Nice & Good In General imo??!?) would’ve been to see us represented & existing in ANYTHING in fandom

in every diff kind of scenario
no matter the rating or the plot
even with little to no focus at all on our bodies

im just not at a point yet where i can make these stories happen myself! not where the main character(s)’s gender identity is explicitly stated at least (even tho anyone is always free to + i’ll always happily encourage others to think of literally any character of mine as trans)

which is, again, why my main point—beyond please tag consistently—was that if you’re cis (cis!! not trans, nb, gq or anything else!), then I Am Once Again Asking you all to please consider not acting like there’s *only* one way to include us while *ignoring us in everything else*

like

i am literally talking abt & directly @’ing cis people here who never make characters trans !

i am encouraging & asking ALL cis ppl to please ask themselves WHY they dont have more characters be trans! but even that isnt a demand or me trying to guilt~ ppl into writing us

i’m js if we could have more conversations & open-minded discussions about these things, then i—maybe naively so, but!—would like to hope a lot of ppl who literally just haven’t even considered how easy it could be to casually include us in ANY story... well, they might start to.

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