There's something I want to coin called the "Caeneus Fallacy".
What exactly am I saying? Well, the Caeneus Fallacy is the idea that a character or a person loses their character as soon as they experience rape or sexual assault, and are dumbed down to that experience. The Caeneus Fallacy specifically would cover the experience that trans men in fiction and reality face, that when they are sexually assaulted in anyway, they are dumbed down to that experience, and their transness is erased in favour of making them a girlboss success story or a tragedy with no other character or history to them.
Caeneus is the character I use because he is one of the oldest trans men in mythology/history/fiction, and his original story recounts the story of a young woman, the third daughter of a king, meeting Poseidon and having consensual sex with her. Wherein after Poseidon decides to gift her with whatever she requests, here is where Caeneus asks that Poseidon turns her into a man, willingly, as well as give him invulnerability.
This is where the fallacy begins, as his story is twisted into non-consent and tragedy. That Caeneus did not consent or agree to this transformation, that it was only so that Poseidon would not have another illegitimate child. And this happens many times with both fictional and historical trans men, as people would rather assume a woman is seeking protection for herself by becoming a man than actually believe that he is a trans man.
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