It pisses me off that people use voice actors as a reason to 'headcanon' characters who are canonically genderless or non binary as male or female.
I shouldn't be so mad about it, but it reminds me of how people treat others even now. People having their identies being invalidating because they don't look or sound or act a certain way. Not to mention past harassment I've faced for not looking or acting a certain way, but that doesn't matter.
Trans men and trans masc who aren't on T or can't go on T. Trans women and trans fems who aren't or can't go on E. People desprately trying to figure out if this non binary person's 'agab' to see if they're girl non binary or boy non binary. Not to mention people ignoring or forgetting about intersex people, or those who aren't on the male, female, neutral spectrum. Ie: agender people, people who use xenogenders, etc.
It's upsetting. There's a media where I feel represented and seen. A media where everyone uses they/them, where everyone's identity are blatantly there, and is reinforced throughout the show, on the wiki, etc. but everytime I check comments on Pinterest, YouTube, Reddit, heck even on some posts here on tumblr I'm seeing people call them he/him or she/her, based on the voices or how they look.
I don't like it. I feel like fans are erasing me, even though it's not being done to me directly. I hate when people force fem or masc onto characters who aren't that. Non binary, agender, and those who don't fit gender rules or under any labels exist. We are here, and we see how you treat us.
I feel guilty for feeling this way because I know some languages don't have a way of referring to people in the gender neutral way. I feel so bad and it's not anyone's fault but mine.
Idk where am going with this. This issue has led to me blocking people just for gendering them wrong. I feel like a bad person.