#Nothing about canon Nico says/implies that he was socialized as a cisgender man. Sorry but 'cis Nico' is as much hc as trans Nico.

[heliomanteia]

Every time I some stupid take like "there wouldn't be that many trans people in—" about a trans headcanon on something from the beginning of the 20th century, I kind of lose it a little bit because clearly you know nothing about queer history, sorry. This is entirely on you and it's extremely embarrassing.

There were transmasc (because the post was specifically transphobic bullshit against trans men) men in the beginning of the 20th century that medically transitioned, not to mention all the unspoken, non-transitioned, silent ones. You're genuinely deeply uneducated about queer history if you think transgender people have not been around pretty much the entirety of human history.

Anyways transmasc Nico di Angelo is real in my head and fits perfectly with the neverending theme of "otherness" with him. Nico being narratively defined through three female characters (blood related) is also something commonly done in trans-coding. Dionysus, the God of transition and willful gender-fuckery who specifically favors Nico can also be read as trans-coding (alongside his mental disorders).

It makes perfect sense for Nico to not be cis, actually, fight God on that.