the world needs more trans headcanons thank u for coming to my ted talk

imagine: trans fem xue yang coming for your man

imagine: bigender jin ling shyly trying out girly stuff

imagine: afab a-yuan who declares at 4 that he's a BOY and all the adults are like ok! sure! why not!

afab song lan whose touch aversion is a manifestation of gender dysphoria

genderqueer lxc who never had any space to figure stuff out + is a late bloomer who realizes that he's just been performing masculinity the way he performs everything and maybe he could do? something else?

amab xxc who's just. like. ethereal. his gender is the fucking moon. he has transcended the need for gender and yet is also all genders at once. esp contrasted with song lan, whose gender feels are more binary and solid. what a pair, effervescent trans sword queers.

AFAB Jiang Cheng, who was angry/depressed as a kid until his parents let him start to transition, but then when he was old enough to properly start his puberty all the T just made him ANGRIER and he has so many feelings and isn't this supposed to make things BETTER?

(sorry to be a butt to JC, I love him. he figures things out when he stops comparing his masculinity to wwx's and realizes that him being a man is complete unto himself and wwx has never seen him as anything but the best little brother you could ask for)

wen ning's gender is being handed a gender at birth and very gingerly holding it in his hands before making his sister hold it so he can go back to shooting good with arrows. gender? i don't know her.

now that we've talked about everyone else LET'S TALK ABOUT DA-GE FOR A HOT SECOND and let me whisper to you about the miraculous restorative properties of nie mingjue, trans man

remember the first episode of korra where she busts down the wall and is like I'M THE AVATAR U GOTTA DEAL WITH IT? that was nmj, same age, telling the world he's a boy. probably also knocked down a wall while doing so. it was a very impressive coming out.

and since this is magical cultivation land you can just... cultivate? your body?? so no worries with this puberty bullshit. as soon as he's old enough he's doing Magic Energy Stuff to make sure hormones are in line. he's watching u and if u don't make him happy u will be chopped

consider: it takes a lot of spiritual energy to transition
consider: even after transitioning nmj is still HELLA STRONG
conclusion: he would have been too powerful as a cis man and god had to nerf him

but just - and I KNOW the Nie have so much shit going on so this is like my fix-it headcanon - nmj being trans is an open secret and everyone respects their sect leader and his twinky lil gaybro?? this is just how the qinghe nie roll??

genderqueer-but-unaware lxc visiting the unclean realm for the first time and presented with trans nmj and going 1) oh no. oh no. he's hot. and 2) what do you mean A Trans?? and 3) no we don't have that in gusu absolutely not (..so he thinks)

nmj just rocking lxc's fucking WORLD. here's a queer relationship for you! here's an example of a trans person in the world in a position of power for you! here are ways YOU CAN EXIST that are possible and valid if you want. btw you're hot let's bang

i don't think lxc is naive, i just think he's sheltered and never got a chance to see what the world was like. think a lot about my own experiences, only calling myself trans at like.. 20? because i didn't realize it was even a POSSIBILITY? and ten years later mind still blown?