Jax

I’m gay. That’s pretty much it. He/him, 20.

[its-all-a-hoax]

Tell me you see the resemblance…

[its-all-a-hoax]

I’ve seen this happen a lot in fandoms when they’re shipping gay men.

They’ll usually take the bottom guy and make him trans. And as a trans guy, I love it! I mean hell yeah, representation for us. But then they make him a very feminine, skinny, trans guy

(nothing wrong with being a feminine, skinny, trans guy)

and it just feels icky at times. Not because he’s written/drawn fem, skinny, and transmasc, but because that is the ONLY way they draw/write him if he’s trans.

No hypermasc guys that love going to the gym, no ‘literally just a regular guy that you only know is trans because he says it’, no dad bods and balding, not even the cringy indie uwu stereotype. They don’t really make him masc in general.

And maybe it’s just me, but most of the smut fics I see in fandoms like that where the bottom is a very fem transmasc guy, it seems like just an excuse to write straight sex instead of gay sex.

it’s like they want the feeling of a gay couple without actually having to write it.