Sorry if this is stupid but what is the difference between the transgender and genderswap tags???
Ooh, reading this made me feel a little old!
Genderswap is a term popularly used in fic for... eons now. Though it does get used other places. Another popular one would be genderbend but genderswap gets the point across a little clearer, I think.
Anyway, it usually refers to things where a character who is usually one gender is ‘magically’ another gender, rather than trans. Use Alex as an example -- sometimes people would write fics where he has always been a cis woman from birth, or magically got turned into a cis woman.
If you’re a fan of Halsey, you might know she did this for her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom album cycle when drawing inspo from Romeo and Juliet -- she genderswapped it so that Romeo took on a female persona and Juliet the male persona. Just as a popular example.
Whereas in our transgender tag, it’s fics where a character is actually trans (and not by magical means either).
- Eve
