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carlyraejepsans · 1 month ago

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Huh, I just noticed something. The majority it seems, at least according to the characters mentioned in the notes and tags of that post, to be headcanoned to be trans (the gender they are in canon) are characters who are guys in canon being headcanoned as transmasc. And now come think of it, I dont remember the last time I saw a character that isn't a guy in canon be headcanoned as a trans guy. Meanwhile trans fem headcanons are a lot of the time appled to characters who are guys in canon (not always! Trans Noelle Holiday comes to mind), so that's a thought. Not sure what it means or if my observations are even correct, but it's something.

i think you made a good observation, it's just a matter of what angle you approach it with: characters with contested trans headcanons (male AND female) tend to be men in the source material because statistically those are the characters that get the most fandom attention

#if you're a woman in the canon you're less likely to be popular ie less likely to have hc about you in general #to expand a bit it's common for people who favor male characters to just not give a shit about the women in the cast. completely ignore them #if someone has transfem headcanons about a character they are already someone who evidently engages with female characters #so statistically it makes sense for the hc to distribute more evenly between male and female characters in the base material #you won't find someone who doesn't care about women in the ''type of woman'' hc brigade #from a more sympathetic angle i guess people feel discouraged to hc girls as tmasc eggs because it feels like ''stealing representation''#once again from a statistical perspective female characters are fewer in the overall cast of their source material #but as a phenomenon it very much still exists. shout-out to transman claire from supernatural #tldr: sexism and transmisogynistic biases #answered asks

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