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In honor of "fuck you Rowling" who are your favorite characters to write trans?

Anon you’re my favorite. And in answer to your question, here are my favorites:

Okay so my number one “this is actually just canon, go on prove me wrong” trans character headcanon is DRACO MALFOY. That’s why he’s soooo determined to be just like daddy -- why he talks about his father all the time but hardly mentions his mother, despite Narcissa being from a family that’s arguably every bit as famed and pure (a little better, really) as the Malfoys. Because Lucius isn’t just Draco’s parent, he’s his whole model for his masculinity. To him, Lucius is the ideal idea of a wizard, so of course Draco is going to imitate him! Also let’s be honest, what little boy wouldn’t choose “dragon” for his name when presented with a list of constellations that has that as an option? And on the subject of names: being offended when someone thinks your name is funny is such a trans mood I can’t even.

Next up we have NARCISSA MALFOY, another obvious candidate imo. Why is she the only one of that generation of Blacks who wasn’t named after a constellation? Why, because she was named thusly when she was born, but she gave that name up to to choose one that better fit her true self. Her parents were less than thrilled by the idea of “losing” their “male heir” and didn’t take it well when she came out, told her she was being selfish and vain etc etc... So Cissy, being a Black, basically went “Oh YEAH? You think I’m selfish and VAIN? Well then my name is NARCISSA now, bitches! Choke on it.” When her parents eventually got over themselves and embraced having a third lovely daughter, she regretted her fit of spite just a tinge (which is why she made such an effort to convince her son to choose a traditional name for himself later -- not that it took much work actually lol) but she wasn’t going to take it back -- and anyway, it was a pretty name. And that was the most important thing.

Then we get to CHARLIE WEASLEY who is perhaps the most painful, because he had to shatter his mother’s dreams of having a little girl when he explained he wasn’t one...and Molly, while not meaning to hurt her newest son, did in fact do just that by so openly longing for so long for a daughter like the one she’d “lost” when Charlie came out. He was glad when Ginny was finally born and Molly could at last have the daughter she’d always wanted...but at the same time, it hurt a little, both knowing that he had hurt her simply by being himself and that she’d finally found a replacement for what he’d “taken” from her. He went to Romania for the dragons, yes...but he also went because he wanted the distance.

Bopping back to the Marauders’ Era, we have REMUS LUPIN who gives us a truly delightful moment of supportive misunderstanding: when his three friends told him they’d noticed his “monthly issues” and they knew his secret and wanted to make sure he knew that they accepted him anyway, Remus thought they were talking about that time of the month...not the other one. They were about halfway through their two different conversations before they realized they were talking about other things -- but James, Sirius, and Peter took the revelation that their friend was trans in stride (especially James and Sirius who, being from old pure-blood families, didn’t see why there was any reason to fuss about something so normal, and Peter certainly wasn’t going to raise a fuss if the others didn’t start it first) and Remus was even more relieved -- and decidedly more shocked -- to find out that they were willing to be friends with a werewolf. He’d really thought that he had hidden that one better...

You know who else is great to write as trans, though? Absolutely everyone. You don’t need a reason, you don’t need an excuse! You want to write Fleur Delacour as trans? Do it. You want to write Sirius Black as trans? Do it. You want to write Hermione Granger as trans? Or Cedric Diggory? Harry bloody Potter? Do it. You want to write something where literally everyone is trans? Do it -- and then fucking link me to that because yes.

*I mean probably maybe don’t write Rita Skeeter as trans actually unless you’re planning to do some kind of stereotype deconstruction thing because JKR leaned hard into some really ugly things when she created Rita, and perpetuating that would be bad, but imo she’s literally the only character who is probably a NOPE on the “make them trans” option.