hey there! i don’t wanna sound like a nitpicky or an asshole or anything like that but i just wanna point out that morgyn is a trans man - stated by one of the authors of the sims community site (here: simscommunity. info/2019/09/09/ the-sims-4-realm-of-magic-meet-the-residents/).
Hello! You don’t sound nitpicky or like an arsehole at all, there’s a lot of confusion on this topic right now and I really wish the Sims Team would just hurry up and release backstories for the premades so we can clear it all up.
But here’s the thing though, The Sims Community is not an official Sims/EA website. I don’t even think the author of that post is a Game Changer so they probably wrote that post without seeing Morgyn in game. The owner of the site, Jovan, is a Game Changer but unless he received information that none of the rest of us did… there has still been no official word on what exactly Morgyn’s gender identity. As I mentioned in this post, the closest I’ve see to anything actually official is SimGuruNinja saying to me in a private DM “I would definitely think Morgyn would identify as nonbinary or gender fluid.”and while transgender is just one of the many identities that make up the spectrum of nonbinary genders, I personally don’t think Morgyn is a trans man.
Of course if we do get official word that Morgyn is in fact trans, then of course I’ll be the first to raise my hand and admit I was wrong, and adjust my head canon accordingly. But until that happens, until either SimGuruLyndsay or Frost or one of the other Gurus makes an actual official statement about it… I stick by my head canon that Morgyn is gender fluid.
I will say though — and I’m by no means an expert on the subject so I could be dead wrong — but if Morgyn were a trans man, wouldn’t their outfits all be masculine? Their outfits are both masculine and feminine presenting, which generally means they don’t identify as just one gender but multiple. Most trans people (or the ones I’ve spoken to anyway) identify as one specific gender and generally dress according to that gender to help them with any gender dysphoria issues they might be experiencing if their body does not match the gender they identify with; so a trans man would dress masculine and avoid anything feminine completely, like dresses.
Gender fluid people on the other hand identify with two or more genders and adjust their outfits accordingly depending on how they feel they identify at the time. So in Morgyn’s case, their formalwear is an extremely feminine long dress, their activewear is more masculine, and their party outfit is a mix of both with a suit and makeup. So it would seem like when they go to formal events they feel more feminine, when they work out they feel more masculine, and when they go out to clubs or parties they feel androgynous.
I wanna state again though, that I am not at all an “expert” on the subject and that this is just my own personal opinions and assumptions based on what I’ve seen of Morgyn in game during early access. And again, there has been no official word from the Sims Team as to Morgyn’s gender identity 😊
EDIT:
Apparently I need to be a bit more clear about the fact that I did NOT say trans men, or men in general, can’t wear feminine clothing. I did not say anything about clothing defining gender AT ALL. I said trans men who have issues with body dysphoria might avoid feminine clothing to avoid being triggered, which again I’M NOT AN EXPERT on the subject and I can only go by what I’ve been told by trans male friends and acquaintances.
Anyone can wear whatever they want regardless of gender identity, there are no hard and fast rules and if anyone felt like that’s what I was saying, please know it wasn’t meant to come across that way at all and I sincerely apologise.
All I’m trying to say is that TO ME PERSONALLY Morgyn feels more gender fluid than anything else. Other people feel differently and there is nothing wrong with that. So until EA make an official statement; there is no right or wrong version of Morgyn.
All Morgyns are valid.
