can i kick the hornet’s nest. i could not give less of a shit if someone headcanons, or writes fic about, or draws fanart of, etc. a trans character as trans in a different way than they canonically are. in the same way thay i could not give less of a shit if someone writes a queer character as queer in a different way than in canon. for one, genderbending is a staple of fanfic already, it’d be weird to exclude trans characters from that, even if benevolently meant. and for two, literally nothing any fanwork can do can change the source material. they will still be trans in canon in that particular way. so who cares. go hogwild.
i keep seeing posts that go like “guys remember to be nice no matter if someone headcanons this cis character as a trans man, trans woman, or nonbinary. (IF SOMEONE CHANGES A TRANS CHARACTERS GENDER LIKE THIS, IT’S TRANSPHOBIC, KILL THEM)” and it’s like. i don’t think that’s true, actually. i think people have as much a right to explore ‘what if this trans guy was a trans girl in this AU’ as they do exploring how a cis man being a cis woman would change their experiences in a genderbend AU. we are not so fundamentally different that to flip genders around erases what the character originally is, it just opens up new paths of exploration for how they interact with their world. come play in the sandbox with me instead of getting mad at each other.
