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nicorobinphd · 5 hours ago

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my favourite part about being multigender to this day is something i realized within a couple weeks of coming out to myself, which is that i get to be a better man than the very misogynistic & violent men i’m related to while also still being a woman. i get to be fucking poetry.

(if you’re confused as to why you’re seeing this, read the tags. there’s a one piece post hidden there.)

(also, like just because i exhibit the paranoia of a terminally online hermit™️ deprived of an habitat enrichment, & because this website is hellish, i want to be clear that i’m not trying to exceptionalize @ the expense of monogender trans people who come to similar realizations, we are doing the same thing in a different genre.)

#also shout out to the terms “personally coming out” & “coming out to myself” for encompassing those who exist both within & outside of the #born this way paradigm. very sexy chefs kiss.#anyway posting this on my op blog because it is arguably a tad sanji + ace coded #(& i want to state this before some idiot gets weird- this is just as if not more meaningful when interpreting sanji as transfem multigende #rather than as a tme character for all transfem readings of sanji are a nuanced topic due to ways she in this reading can fall #into negative stereotypes/caricaturization due to the perv gag + the transmisogyny in #the writing of the kamabaka characters (apologies if i am misremembering what they are called i’m very stoned) & other such problematic tex #-ual elements i don’t think the solution to that is to entirely disregard the fact that any trans coded textual elements are specifically #coded as transfemine- which is something i’ve started to see fandom veer toward recently. like if it’s projection that’s one thing whateve #but like you are genuinely arguing that any of that is transmasc coding you are being willfully transmisogynistic through erasure though #like idec i’ll be blunt & say it. you cannot look at sanji’s relationship with transness being specifically centred around transfeminity #in every relevant portion of the text including the added (albeit still transmisogynistic itself) post-sabody anime material & then go #“all of this is oda saying trans guy” & expect me to think otherwise like. that’s not how narrative coding works. that’s not how anything #works. & even if you are arguing a reading in which sanji as a transmasculine individual realizes he is allowed to be gender nonconforming #& is affirmed in his manhood as a result rather than the much more heavily (especially in the anime) conclusion of the egg shell rebuilding #around her like. that is reliant on a premise that the text has in no way presented us with or implied which is that sanji is cafab.#& like tbc i do not care about personal projection headcanon or for fun headcanon & that’s not what i’m talking about here.#i headcanon zoro as a transfemine butch in spite of there being a lack of textual basis for it cause i think it’s more interesting #in particular when examining from the lens of zoro being so impacted by kuina’s internalized misogyny in part due to her own gender #alienation (for lack of a better way to put it) when she was that young & how it hit a really sore spot both in terms of like in-the-moment #dysphoria & like personal conceptions of her relationship with gender as she got older & how that relates to her desire to be the strongest #swordsman & the like.#oda didn’t imply all that it is just an interesting way to tug at the thread presented by kuina & zoro in the flashback.#what i do care about is when we get into the territory of text-based readings & claims of textual validity & that’s when the transmisogyny #discussion comes into play here.#for the record i was not expecting to say all that it just came out.#anyway i’m highkey curious as to what the transfem folks in the op fandom think of the transfem sanji reading whether that be in a mono or #multi-gender sense. it’s not a perspective i’ve seen get much spotlight unfortunately.#i’ve been tempted to make a hey share your thoughts post but it feels like in this context it would be demanding women explain things to me #& i don’t want to do that yk?

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