hiiiiiii! since ur pfp is trans mike, would you be willing to share any trans!mike headcanons you have? (sorry if this has been asked before)
(I'm so so sorry I forgot about thisss I've been busy ahhh)
I love trans Mike omg yes!!
• For one thing I'm a big fan of trans Mike in any direction. Ftm Mike? Amazing give that to me. Mtf Mike??? Give my beautiful daughter a beautiful dress? Nonbinary/agender Mike? Genuinely canon to me, gender is overrated Mike told me themself.
• For FTM Mike I think he'd already have a grasp on the fact that he wanted a different gender expression from a young age. I can imagine little egg Mike refusing to go to school in anything other than trousers or shorts at a certain point in time because "They're great for the swings" and not because he found all the boys that wore them cool.
•I also think that's why he'd have an all boy friend group even while he was young. Trans people are not immune to "I'm not like other girls" behavior and hanging out with them with their particularly masculine interests (DnD, Star Wars, Ghostbusters etc) did wonders for his gender euphoria.
• Mike the brave preceded Mike Wheeler in my mind. He just asked the party if his character could be a boy and they were like yeah sure I guess. "Roleplaying as your preferred gender" is the alternative to the modern "playing as the right gendered skin in video games" lol
• He told Will about being trans first definitely. Not directly at first, he just asked if Will could call him Mike outside of DnD games or if that would be weird but Will said that it's totally ok because he's a sweetheart. Then later on he explained that he doesn't really feel like a girl to Will and Will helped him through it because he is, once again, a sweetheart. At that point I don't think he'd put an actual label on it though it would just be a thing he is. He'd figure all that out later because gender is strange (especially if you're a kid in the 80s who doesn't know about all that stuff and also autistic #autusticmikewheeler)
• I feel like he'd only come out to the rest of the party after the events of s5. He'd be like "I'm probably transmasc but the world is ending so idrc about that rn" or something like that.
• I think similarly to how Mike started dressing more alt in s4 by s4 trans!Mike would've finally started dressing more masc and it felt amazing (and Will was totally normal about it when he went to Cali)
(ok I don't have anything profound to say after this point so here's some random stuff)
• Binding is a sensory nightmare for him (#autisticmike). He's just a baggy tee and shitty posture warrior
• Whatever the direction they don't take the hrt shots. They'll do any alternative as long as they don't have to have a needle near them
•For mtf Mike or ig Michelle she had crazy gender envy for El in the beginning because she was "a girl that kinda looked like a boy". And then later she had crazy gender envy for El because she's just a pretty girl what else can I say (she may have mixed that gender envy up with romantic interest it happens to the best of us)
• Once again being a kid in the 80s would make it really hard for her to really grasp all this gender stuff and being amab and living in a conservative patriarchal society would make that even harder. Unfortunately like her queerness, her transness would probably be pretty repressed. I can see her fully accepting her trans identity later in life (probably in college) once she can be around more queer people. Will will definitely be helping with this
• I've called mtf Mike Michelle so far but her nerdy ass would pick something like Leia (which would be so adorable)
• More mtf Mike. She knew how to dress El up like that in the first season because she had tried the look on herself before :3
• I have nothing special to say about NB Mike because that's just Mike to me. He's gender non-conforming in some way he just has to be. Its totally punk rock to not care about gender expression
This is all I've got for now (it's mainly transmasc mike because I'm projecting)
