#that doesn't mean that trans/queer headcannons can't exist

[walterthemelon]

So like I (walter) started rewatching Voltron (2017) with my friends (who haven't seen the show before)

and like we haven't gotten past the first season but I first watched Voltron pre egg-cracking and watching in now with my (queer) friends I realized just how relatable Pidge is to me? like even if we keep everything cannon Pidge still reads trans masc to me they just haven't realized it yet.

They didn't have to crossdress to go to the garison they did that willingly. There are also many other ways that they could have disguised themself (hair dye for example) without trying to appear as a guy.

And yes, they assert that they are a girl to the team! But this could be for a variety of reasons! I thought that my desire to transition was something perfectly normal for most cis girls. I thought that wanting a binder and wanting to take testosterone was a perfectly cis feeling (I was delusional). So one could argue that Pidge just hasn't bothered to explore their gender yet? I was a child who would in fact assert that I was a girl. The fact that Pidge does that doesn't mean that they can't be trans masc.

and this isn't to say that pidge is 100% trans masc! they aren't but i think that trans masc pidge is just as valid as a reading as trans fem reading.

Also if you are going to say that this is taking away rep from young girls kindly fuck off. I was pressured to not transition because I would be taking away a good role model for young girls wanting to get into STEM. Young trans boys also deserve to see themselves in media.

[bells-of-black-sunday]

Who was the first person you came out to? Did they accept it? + Tharos

Trans Headcannons | Accepting

Tarhos is interesting, because there wasn't even a label for what he is back in the 1300s, trans is something very modern even if trans people have existed all throughout history as I'm sure everyone is well aware. The best way I can describe it from what student papers I have read is gender was more of an obligation to church and society than it was to your government like it is over here in modern day U.S. if that makes any sense. They're very similar in that the man was the head of the house, but a lot of work was shared back then. I mean- washing clothes in itself was an all day labor intensive job that was done every week.

That being said: I feel like his captain and his most trusted 3 that he was raised around were probably the first people to know, but anyone would look stupid trying to call him a woman even when he was going through puberty. He's 6'10 and a wall of muscle there's nothing traditionally feminine about that.

I feel like it was a very known fact and those that did disapprove it was more of a "Oh that's the devil's work!" than it was a "You're a woman why are you here?" thing. And lets be honest, medical knowledge at that time wasn't great he probably could've just said it was a war scar and people would accept it. I feel like at the time if he were aware of that kind of label he wouldn't have really cared, because he is a man and he's treated by society as one. He doesn't feel like he needs a label when there's nothing wrong.

Of course in modern based verses it's extremely different. Tarhos probably had to keep it a close as a secret for a long time just due to his military status and the way he was in the foster care system we all know how neither systems are really that kind to queer people in general. He also doesn't have a family left and tends to keep to himself in and out of work. The most trusted three Durkos, Sander, and Alejandro were probably the first people he told when he realized there was a label for his feelings and all of them are very relaxed about everything. They don't judge.

He's not one to hide the fact that he is trans though and all of the people close to him know. In fact Robin did pay for his bottom surgery and has probably been the single most overwhelmingly positive force in his life. Mostly due to his own faults with toxic ideals he does have just due to the environments he's been in, there's just certain things he can't bring him to tell Haru, but being trans isn't one of them. It's something he's been very open about from the beginning and he's always been super supportive.