#chinese transgender

[angsthungry]

ok legitimate question: is there a reason why most transfemmes in asian media are fashionistas? is it a common stereotype or smth? i've seen it in skip & loafer, blue period, hibari-chan i think—would just like to know why bc i didn't get a proper answer from google

i asked twitter to no avail so don't let me down tumblr!

[yourdailyqueer]

Faline San

Gender: Transgender man (he/they)

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 30 April 2004

Ethnicity: Chinese

Nationality: Malaysian

Occupation: Youtuber

Note: Has ADHD and Epilepsy

[eunuchboy]

Happy TDOV everyone!

[parasite-of-sentience]

Mutual Aid Request

After moving my savings have been cut, and my current check is taken entirely by my rent + util payment. this + my cats vaccine shot not being covered has left me unprepared for the coming month.

Goal is $150 and goes to groceries/gas/general funds

anything after that helps and will go towards paying off upcoming bills or payments. might also stream this weekend to promote.

shares appreciated

[abyssal-debonair]

You’re a grown man with the trauma of a little girl. ... I don’t mean that trans men cannot speak about the misogyny they experienced; it’s just now, most people will look at me and not see the layers of patriarchal violence I experienced. The song “Sweet Cis Teen” asks: Am I a boy or am I just my trauma? But all of my experiences did not magically disappear the moment(s) I realized I am a man, nor were they left behind. It was traumatic being a Chinese woman. I was spat at, harassed, fetishized, assaulted, told that my worth depended on others, my experience and abilities invalidated. My bodymind holds these memories and shapes itself with them, and I do not want to trivialize these memories because they continue to inform who I am and my politics.

this entire essay is worth a read, but the quotations I pulled out are the ones that strike me deeply, being the most relatable to my own FtM experience.

[quotidianish]

Tell me if I’m being dramatic but I feel like trans Headcanons in fandom hardly revolve around anyone except young, skinny white people. It feels like a large reflection of how western trans communities view trans people who aren’t exactly like them; as nonexistent.

[polyglot-sock]

since it's pride month once again, I would like to give a shoutout to the best trans ally in the world: the finnish language, having one word for he and she. truly a king

[markiafc]

not sure how to put this into words. but buddhism (literature, figures, history, etc.) is queer and has been queered over the years. and when a chinese story embarks on a daoism-buddhism-confucianism study, there are echoes of similar themes, devices, techniques, allusions. by nature of being a chinese story, the frequent heart of it is a daoism & buddhism vs. confucianism ideological battle where the latter is rules and conventions and social expectations. and the former is liberation, a queered deviancy because it advocates for plurality and fluidity.

the lotus sutra has a prominent gender-change motif so as to present freedom... the buddhist ideal to emancipate oneself from mainstream society is often realized as a release from the gender hegemony. non-duality teachings in buddhism encompasses all of this.

in the lotus sutra, the dragon girl turns into a male and then proceeds to attain enlightenment - in direct response to the men telling her she cannot do so, that women are spiritually disadvantaged. transitioning is a queer act but also a buddhist achievement: an entity letting go of their body and subsequently their confucian identity of "father", "son", "wife", "mother", "daughter", etc. through this they learn non-duality & non-self & abandoning illusions, the primary concepts to buddhism.

in the lotus sutra, bodhisattva guanyin also notably underwent a male to female transformation. back in the day, guanyin's male form was at first more popular and their masculine image dominated. today it's an androgynous woman in white robes that's become iconic. this gender fluid nature again stands for liberation; guanyin is a beloved figure for women because they depict a breakaway from male-oriented society and the patriarchy. from the sanskrit name "avalokitesvara" (lord who looks down) to the chinese "guanyin" (one who observes the sounds). the chinese symbol of mercy is necessarily linked to a male to female trajectory, described to have a total of 33 male and female forms. for artistic depictions, guanyin has a feminine face but a masculine body (typically an exposed flat chest) too.

even when imagined as a girl without a history of gender swaps, they were still an antithesis to the male-dominated confucian scene. 妙善 miao shan is guanyin's other popular myth: the princess at odds with her royal father. she refuses his demands to marry until he ultimately executes her. it is a narrative negating the confucian relationships, (a) father/son or child, (b) ruler/subject, and (c) husband/wife. this is the constant of guanyin. a direct challenge to chinese patriarchal ideals.

as an aside, post-execution miao shan becomes a bodhisattva in the mountains through one spiritual miracle or another. in the mean time her father grows ill and the only cure is the eyes and arms of a person without anger. they seek out miao shan, not knowing who she is, and she gives up both arms and eyes for her father. after his recovery, the true identity of the bodhisattva is revealed and the father changes his ways. and miao shan ascends to become guanyin. related because an elusive figure amongst nature, blind and physically impaired, is also.... a prevalent trope for enlightened peoples.

overlapping the feminine and the masculine, a presence that has one foot in both categories, is the buddhist language for enlightenment + a manifestation of core buddhist teachings. when you are outside the gender regime and when you are outside human society, when you're beyond a cogent and organized identity, you are free. you are happy. which also means you are queer!

[mamawasatesttube]

oop okay deleted that headcanon post i can't be perceived. but for the record i have Thoughts abt mixed 2nd gen chinese diaspora tim and the way being mixed and 2nd gen plays into his overall identity issues and his compartmentalization habits and his relationship with his white dad. much 2 think about

[ogurek42]

Następny numer z essą i lekkim opóźnieniem bo jest za ciepło żeby myśleć. Pozdrowienia dla pani Redzi. Teraz też koszuleczki customowe rozprowadzam za coś do jedzenia. Kup mi oranżadę, kilka bułek i ser żółty to może coś ci się trafi.

Miałem dopisać jeszcze że ulepszyliśmy technikę i teraz wszystko montujemy komputerowo bo się nie rozjeżdża w druku.

[starriesse]

[ID: Three identical nine-striped flags. The middle flag is thinner than the rest. The colors from top to bottom are dark red, dull red, muted pink, pink, yellow, pink, muted pink, dull red, and dark red. End ID]

♡ ⁔⁔ 跨性别 (KÙAXÌNGBIÉ) ... !!

[PT: 跨性别 (Kùaxìngbié) End PT]

— A term for Chinese people who are transgender, or feel like their transgender identity relates to how they are Chinese. Exclusive to those who are transgender and Chinese

— Rad.queers + Trans.race (in the R.CTA way, not the adoptee way) people, do not touch this post!

[yourdailyqueer]

Henry Tse

Gender: Transgender man

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1990

Ethnicity: Hong Kong Chinese

Occupation: Activist

Note: In February 2023, Tse won a court appeal to remove full sex reassignment surgery as a requirement for changing gender on identification cards in Hong Kong.

[eunuchboy]

[scarletlich]

Bestie can you show me trans bilibili? Im sick of only seeinf white trans women and that one trans chinese celebrity

Sure! I'll rec you the main vlogger I watch, she used to be a model and she actually represented China at a trans beauty contest in Thailand (I think it's called Miss International Queen) several years ago. Nowadays she makes vlogs and does interviews of various trans and trans-adjacent or queer people. You can find more people to follow based on who she interviews, actually. She also does videos discussing her experiences with transition etc

[ribbonwolfartistry]

Outfit sketches for Marshal [the Chinese Crested]!

[celluloidrainbow]

姑奶奶 | MADAME (2010) dir. Qiu Jiongjiong A stark black-and-white series of interviews with trans cabaret singer Madame Bi Langda. Madame Bi's recollections of past experiences explicitly touch on how she performs her way through life, whether interacting with friends, lovers or her audience. (link in title)