#trans julian bashir

[captainjimothy]

personally i do think julian bashir is trans, but not in a way that sublimates his genetic alterations into a trans allegory. i think he's disabled and trans at the same time, but i think his rebellion against his parents--the symbolic death of his old self with the name change--that's not about gender, for him, at all.

it's about the incredible violation of autonomy he experienced as a disabled person under the knife of a eugenicist society. it's about the need to reclaim some, any, of the agency that was so completely stolen from him by his parents.

it's about discovering that his entire self was deconstructed and reconstructed, without his knowledge or consent, for the express purpose of being less of a burden on his parents.

because let's not forget that the death of julian's old self was not his decision. it was his parents who killed the old self and created a new one.

let's not forget that human society in star trek is still recovering from the eugenics wars--that just because it's post-scarcity doesn't mean it's a utopia.

let's not forget the multiple episodes where bashir is forced to confront the fact that his "success story" is truthfully a gross reminder of how deeply his society (and his family) hates disabled people, not only shown in how they tried to fix him, but also in the fact that the process so rarely works as intended, yet is still done anyway--and the failures and the ones too far gone to save are locked away! with no connection to general society, and only the bare minimum provision for their physical needs, with no privacy and no autonomy!

and let's not forget that julian sees these people and is torn between the empathy he has for them, and his urge to fix them. and he goes through with this urge on Sarina, "fixing" her to conform to his idea of what she ought to be, treating her as a problem to be solved, objectifying her via "my ideal woman was trapped in this disabled body/mind and i saved her," thus continuing the cycle of violence, because even he can't conceive of a world where the disabled do not need to be fixed. where the violence done to him was wrong. fuck man

[v3xxy]

how’s everyone feeling today

[magpieandpossum]

Ok so I've watched Deep Space Nine's "Far Beyond the Stars" about a million times, but tell me why I just noticed that during that episode, Bashir is only referred to as Jules, or what is essentially his deadname? The first time I heard it, it took me a moment, before punching me directly in the gut a bit, because it's just one more example of someone who wasn't able to fully express themselves or be themselves, besides Ben's character. Just knowing that if Julian's character lived in a different time from that "flashback" (or dream sequence, window to the past, whatever theory you have) he would have wanted to have a different name than the one assigned to him is simply heartbreaking </3

[deepestturtlepielover]

((It’s that time of the month and I’m giving Julian a specific embarrassing moment that I think has happened to everyone))

((I’ll leave notes to explain my thoughts and writing))

Julian returns from a stressful mission while waiting for his ship to dock finally. He rushes off excitedly for his lunch with garak, they plan to discuss a new book garak recommended while he was away for the mission. Garak notices a smell of blood he thinks Julian is injured and is too stubborn to admit injury ((on Cardassia it’s typically signing a death warrant to admit your injured or showing any weakness because someone can exploit it)) , so he tries to pry it out of Julian by using the book ((sometimes you can say something without saying it or using an example)) They eat for an hour arguing over the books both detailing their interpretation and why the other is right. Garak suggests they get up and walk around to catch up with each other when really he’s going to walk the stubborn doctor into the infirmary. But Julian goes to get up first and notices a red mark on the chair and promptly sits back down refusing to move out of complete and utter embarrassment at forgetting to mark the calendar. He frantically attempts to let garak know while berating himself inside his head “I can’t move” then Julian grabs garak’s and his napkin off the table before putting it on his lap and sitting on the other one. But Garak misinterprets this as god dammit of course he can’t his injuries are too bad and just out right asks. Julian tries and fails miserably to explain why he’s bleeding because for fucks sake mate they are literally at the Replimat and there’s a bunch of people already staring at the commotion. He gets up and sorta plays it off like “haha I split food” before scrubbing the chair off with the napkins and garak is like what is happening and stop that before you injure yourself further. Then Julian removes his top half of the jumpsuit and sorta ties it around his waist before grabbing garaks hand and rushing out of there straight to the infirmary while garak protests and tries to slow down to talk about “hey maybe don’t go there you can come to my quarters I’ll patch you up” ((oh my god they were roommates! Palm to palm *wink wonk*)) Julian stubbornly says “no we’re going to the infirmary and then we’re going to talk I have something to tell you”

But Garak has other ideas and pulls julian to a stop and practically half carries half drags julian to his quarters instead away from prying eyes and away from the infirmary because who knows who’s listening or watching. Julian promptly has a conniption about how dare Garak just decide for him where he gets to go and “oh my god now everyone is talking about it! someone kill me please kill me” then dramatically locks himself in the bathroom ((I’ve done this the bathroom is my fortress YOU SHALL NOT PASSS)) Garak being completely unnerved by this behavior goes to try to open the door only to be met with a crying Doctor Bashir on the bathroom floor curled up into the furthest corner like the walls at any minute could swallow him. Julian is just in pieces at this point he can’t stop crying god why can’t he stop this is not how he wanted to spend his time back with Garak, they were only supposed to get lunch then maybe talk but not this. He doesn’t need to know about this part of his life how much he hates it and how much it makes him want to tear into himself for everyday he bleeds is another day of misery.

End for now I’ll post later but I have to go eat I forgot to eat (✽´ཫ`✽)

[desperatelyseekingcannibals]

eMERgency (Garashir - DS9) - Shortfic

Explicit // M/M // Garashir - Elim Garak/Doctor Julian Bashir (ST: Deep Space Nine) // Tags: ftm Julian Bashir, trans character, trans Julian Bashir, mer anatomy, mermay, merman costume, established relationship, false emergency, costume fitting, semi-public sex, fingering, front hole penetration, squirting. Prompt fill. This might be crack?

MerMay prompt fill for Kira-Bird (though they didn't make it to the holosuite, sorry!)

Garak makes Julian a merman costume, with a surprising addition.

eMERgency (2.2k words):

“I’m here!” Julian panted, medical bag in hand, “What’s the emergency?” He looked around the tailor shop expecting to find some sort of scene rather than a completely empty shop. 

“Oh, there you are,” Garak spoke pleasantly as he came out from behind a shelf of material bolts. With his usual casual demeanour, he strolled towards Julian, “I had been waiting for some fantastic material to come in. I wasn’t sure it would work out. Wait here.”

Garak walked past Julian to the storage area whilst Julian frowned after him. 

“Garak, I was given to believe there was some sort of emergency,” He kept his tone flat, though he wasn’t really angry. He never could quite get himself mad at Garak. 

“Well, it is.” Garak insisted as he returned from storage with a garment bag. He placed it upon the workstation and looked over at Julian expectantly. At which Julian sighed and walked over to give this emergency his full attention. 

Garak unzipped the bag and began to gently extract a fabric that seemed almost like liquid in the way it moved and glistened. “I need you to try this on before I make the final alterations. I’ve done it all so far by the measurements I have on your file,” Garak eyed him up and down with a somewhat salacious grin that let Julian know he had detailed measurements of every part of his body. “But this is a difficult fabric to work with, it moulds to the body once put on, so I need to ensure that it sits correctly around your waist, knees and feet. We don’t want unsightly lumps and bumps.”

“Can’t have that,” Julian agreed, his tone cool and cynical. 

Garak continued to draw out the fabric which Julian had, bizarrely, thought might be some sort of evening gown. But now, from the bag, came what appeared to be a fishtail. Julian blinked and his cheeks heated.

“Oh,” he said, breathless. “It’s a… fishtail.”

“Well, more accurately, a merman’s tail.” Garak corrected as he pulled it over the workstation so that it flared out entirely. The tail fin was huge, but the tail itself, Julian could see, was the length of his own abdomen to feet. 

It had been months since the conversation they’d had about this. One of those pillowtalk moments where they lay in the afterglow of their lovemaking.

Julian had mentioned that as a child, before he took up tennis, before he had been altered by his parents, he had enjoyed swimming. Weak and uncoordinated on land, in the water he felt stronger and more in control. He was sure to any onlookers he seemed no more than a floundering child barely able to keep from drowning, but in his mind he was a merman.  He hadn’t meant anything by it, not really. Just sharing part of himself with the man he loved. But this appeared to be very true to who Garak was and how he showed Julian love, that he had now made him a merman costume. 

Continue on AO3!

[seebutdontblink]

Listen, I love Trans Julian Bashir. Would never criticize it. I do think intersex works better. Especially in terms of forced surgery to make you into a version of yourself that they wanted. And finding out way after the fact and what it means to yourself.

[martianbugsbunny]

My TNG poll is over (Data won and I should not be surprised lmao; proud of dealer's choice Will Riker for pulling a solid third) so let's do another one!

Dax and Odo don't get to be in it because that feels like cheating. they're actually trans.

[desperatelyseekingcannibals]

Anyone interested in the fic (which features trans Julian getting measured for a merman tail, but unfortunately no actual mosasaurs... this time) it is now up on my AO3!

Mosasaurmaid Garak

[lesbian-odo]

Jadzia Dax fancam that came to me in a dream

[walkingstackofbooks]

Julian-is-pregnant-with-Yoshi AU but the timeline is squidged a bit so he's one month due when he goes to his medical conference.

(Miles protests, of course, but Julian has a pretty solid argument with "I'll be literally surrounded by doctors, even on the shuttle there'll be at least five, it will be absolutely fine.")

The Founders still plan to impersonate Julian, but they've done their research, so while kidnapping Julian they also deliver Yoshi and return to the station pretending to have given birth at the conference.

("Unbelievable!" says Miles. "I knew I shouldn't have let you gone." "I'm sorry you weren't there," replies the changeling, "but we were in the best hands. Dr Girani says we're both in excellent health.")

Julian wakes up at the Internment Camp, no longer pregnant. He assumes the worst. When Worf and Garak turn up, none of them mention the baby. Even Garak is too distracted by Tain to remember that Julian wouldn't know his child was safe. Or maybe he does, but chooses not to bring it up, fearing what the baby might actually be.

They escape. The irony is, if the baby hadn't been taken, he might actually have survived the camp, safe inside Julian. It's 37 days after his kidnapping. 5 months since he decided he was a more viable surrogate than Kira. He would have been due tomorrow.

Back on DS9, he does his best for Worf - always a doctor first - and waves off the concerns about his own health until later. There's something he needs to do first. He's dreading seeing Keiko and Miles, but apologising is the only thing on his mind right now.

("But what if it's not fine?" Miles had protested. "It's a medical conference, Miles," Keiko had laughed. "How much trouble could Julian really get into?" "I'll look after him," Julian had promised. "I'll keep him safe, you know I will." He should have listened to Miles.)

And he gets to the O'Brien's quarters and Miles answers the door like they've been expecting him and he doesn't even know where to start because somehow Miles is smiling at him and Keiko is smiling at him from the sofa and-

And Keiko-

And Keiko is holding a baby.

Julian looks at Miles, demanding answers to questions he can't even begin to formulate. And Miles gently asks him "Do you want to hold Yoshiro?" as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

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(So this was meant to be very small "fic I'll never write but I want to share the premise" post but it kind of got away from me.... And now I want to write the actual fic, the worst XD )

[magpieandpossum]

julian bashir what do you mean the only surrogate options were you and kira. what do you mean king.

[yourfaveisintersex]

Julian Bashir from Star Trek is an intersex trans man!

Intersex flag-only and popular transmasc flag edits under the cut!

[knivesandteeth]

Loving Ds9's apparent approach to gender affirming care, whereby you can get multiple gender affirming surgeries and hrt overnight no-questions-asked. Also love that gender affirming care is apparently included in all startrek medical surgical training

[spoopyium]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

As per usual here's garak and bashir celebrating pride featuring my headcanons for each of them!!

[a-stitch-in-time-and-space]

had a fun little conversation at a party about ds9 and the guy and i agreed on almost everything (he's a big sisko fan, makes me trust him), except at one point while we were talking favourites he sort of casually went "i imagine julian bashir is nobody's first choice" and i was like. oh honey. you haven't met the trans nd trekkies have you.

[youngpettyqueen]

Julian's line of "I needed another womb for the baby, and the only two other people on board were Major Kira and me." is already very. That Man Is Trans. and listen yes you can interpret it as him saying Kira was the only choice, but then it's literally followed up by Sisko saying "I think you made the right choice, Doctor." which I know is supposed to be a joke but the implication IS there that there WAS a choice and basically Julian is trans