#but im beyond pissed that yall just let cis people do this and havent said a word about it

[hostilecandle]

Yeah so turns out the longer im in this fandom the more im pissed about this so here goes. I'm trying real hard to figure out when afab went from being something for transmascs, intersex, and nonbinary individuals to use and instead has come to mean "woman" in all your 'x reader' fics. Because that word is not for you. It does not mean woman or female and yall know that.

To tack onto that, gn!reader isn't genderneutral when you use exclusively feminine nicknames, terms, and descriptors(Lass, Bonnie, etc etc). Genderneutral and nonbinary does not mean woman-light. Afab does not mean woman. These are terms exclusively used by and for the Trans community and usually/initially only for medical reasons with medical providers for fucks sake.

(As a side note, I personally don't care if you yourself fall under the Trans umbrella and are doing this, you absolutely are not getting a pass. In fact, you should then know better than anyone else not to be doing it)

Anways something something it's Pride month and we've fought so fucking hard to get the barest minimum of respect and rights and Trans people all over the world are being attacked, stripped of our rights, and being used as the boogeyman man for every countries political agenda. So it is BEYOND annoying as fuck for mainly cis women in fandoms to co-opt transmasc terms for fics just so they feel special and unique. Just fucking say its female reader and have some fucking shame 🙄🙄