firstly: works of art by trans people often feature that
secondly: you don’t need magic to change genders
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oh yeah re this whole writing conversation
our very own @Caspore is working on a video game
go give it a try and give her some feedback if u like it lol
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Not terribly relevant here, but I’ve been trying to write a fantasy book for, like, years now. For one of the characters, their mother put a spell on her so that if she cut or gained hair, it’d automatically grow back or cut itself back to its original length. It’s basically a sign of the oppressive environment that she comes from, one considered as powerful as the royal family.
And one of the big character moments is that she, with her sister’s help, sets her hair on fire to circumvent that spell and constantly keep her hair short.
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is her hair just perma on fire
all that smoke cant be good
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I believe so.
Still not certain how I want to deal with it going forward.
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sigh i dont know i’m just. you have to understand that when we were taught about trans issues in school Dr. Frank-N-Furter was listed as an example of a trans woman on the power point. i don’t know how i can make it any more fucking clear that the Rocky Horror Picture Show is intensely transphobic and affects people’s perception of gender identity for the worse
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how’s her scalp holding up
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Hair grows back fast enough that the fire doesn’t reach it.
Makes for a cool visual.
is she the first true redhead
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but like. for those of us who defy the gender binary, including “binary trans women” (you neve hear anyone say binary trans man, do you? wonder why that is), there is no way of interfacing with sexuality that is not In some way queer
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i dont have stats on this but anecdotally that’s like 10x rarer or more
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quick google search mostly supports that
the Blanchard typology is a horrific mangling of reality but it reflects the internal logic of transphobic systems of thought - transsexuals™ are either gay men, or autogynephiles - either possible sexuality (yes, I know, there are way more than that. I’m talking about sexuality as it exists within the imagination of transphobic media)
notice that there is no opportunity there for a trans woman to be meaningfully heterosexual
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so sure, Dr. Phallic Object That Is A Pun On Frankenstein does that neat little sexual assault because he’s gay (okay, pansexual), sure, whatever. But he’s gay because, out of the text, he is how trans women are imagined by transphobes
yeah i was more calling attention to the fact that the notion of a “binary trans woman” as a more reductive form of transgenderness compared to being non-binary is just flagrant misogyny
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further google digging seems to oppose this
both are equally transgressive in the eyes of transphobes! the only difference is that they also hate those with women-aligned genders for being women as well as being trans
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my own lived experience the ratio is like 20:1 tho I admit that’s definitely not an unbiased sample
more modern studies seem to suggest it’s somewhere closer to 50/50 apparently
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