#trans!lwj

[wrrinkl]

WangXian and Gender

Ok I’ve been thinking about WangXian and gender and listen, this shit gives me Life.

Like, trans*masc Lan WangJi! YES PLEASE

For one, it doesn’t change anything about Chen Qing Ling canon - as it should! Because you know, trans* people just are what they are.

But secondly, it fucks up the hetero-normative uke/seme bullshit that determines people’s social roles by what they do with which kind of genitalia.

As for Wei WuXian, while I recognize that a lot of his experiences are very similar to that of trans* people, with the golden core swap literally altering his social role / gender in the cultivation world BUT the difference is that these changes are external and forced, rather than an expression of himself.

So, in my opinion, Wei WuXian’s experience is more similar to people who are inter* actually. I like to believe he is also non-binary, but that seems to be something he’d have to re-discover for himself. After all, his divergence has been weaponized against himself and the people he loves, so it would probably take some time to reclaim his own agency in that.

If nobody is going to write these convos between him and Lan WangJi, I will write it myself (threat).

[fantasiavii]

My favorite t4t wangxian headcanon is that Lan Zhan is a trans man and Wei Ying is nonbinary but he comes out after they get together.

Wei Ying grows a lot when he gets to college, meets and befriends more queer people than he ever has before, and learns a lot more that he didn’t even know there was to learn. Somewhere in here he starts dating Lan Zhan and tries drag and starts asking himself, well, what makes me a boy anyway?

He eventually has a conversation with Lan Zhan that starts, “How did you know you were a boy?” except that instead of being invasive he genuinely wants to know because he thinks that the part of him that is a boy might be...missing. Like, he’s been thinking and searching around inside himself and it’s just not there? He’s just been conforming to how everyone sees him and it’s fine but what if...what if something else would make him happier?

So Wei Ying and Lan Zhan talk it out and experiment together and eventually Wei Ying comes out as nonbinary, mostly agender, but they have fun with gender presentation (it’s like trying on a bunch of different costumes!). They’re constantly experimenting and having fun and that...that brings them joy.

[fantasiavii]

Lan Wangji in his blue hanfu but one of his under robes is pink so he’s dressed up in his pride colors

[xpi-x-elx]

Art drawn for the Summer Solstice bang  Story written by Lillijen “the man with the flower tattoo”