#transgirl tomboy

[puppygirl-seraphim]

Got a date later, tryin to look more feminine

She/her have a nice day

[aurum-angel]

“I’m gonna tear you apart”

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@brattyratgirl

[twiggybeing]

reblog if youre a girl who wants to get forcefemmed by a tomboy

[mav-exe]

I am living my best cyberpunk dystopian life~

[misadate]

[airilotte]

I remember growing up, when my older sister got into a rebel tomboy rebel phase, my dad who was a bit old school got a bit disappointed, always saying how a proper girl should always be soft and feminine. I guess i took those words to heart, if my sister wasnt going to fulfill that role it was up to me to become a daddy's girl <3 #femboy#mtf#男の娘#cute crossdreser#trans#伪娘#boy to girl#transgirl#crossdress#boytogirl#sisified#sissy cd#sissy for bbc#sissy crossdresser#feminine sissy#sissy for daddy

[keexshound]

last tlou post for a little bit but. i don't really read the fic part of the fandom often anymore, but since interacting with any the last of us post puts like five of you guys on my dashboard inevitability i have one request. (mostly towards abby and ellie) (heavy on ellie, you guys show up the most)

PLEASE start making your y/ns have some diversity, add uniqueness to your fics, im tired of getting cookie cutters!! i don't want petite, fem, shy lamb characters in almost every fic. give me someone like dina or something. ellie has canonically dated cat and was in love with Riley, both of which are pretty tomboy style. give me a tomboy y/n.

go farther than tomboy, i want to see those girls fall head over heels for a butch. not flannel and jeans like you some of you think butches are, i want a REAL butch. physical labor and hypermasculine butch.

add some diversity to the trans genre, all it is transgirl ellie/abby. not too much of a complaint, i love it, but i just wanna see some diversity in that. give me enby or transmasc ellie. better yet make y/n the trans one for once. or both of them. t4t would be great to finally see.

[buntress]

[IDs in alt text]

❝ Boy™ // Girl™ ❞

[PT :: Boy™ // Girl™]

Boy™ :: A term for when one is so many different types of Boy (dogboy, femboy, tomboy, lesboy, transboy, etc) that it all loops back around to just being Boy™. Girl™ :: A term for when one is so many different types of Girl (catgirl, mascgirl, tomgirl, azurgirl, transgirl, etc) that it all loops back around to just being Girl™.

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For @cocajimmycola's 1k Event! Day 4 :: amasui // card suits // comedy Note :: This coined from an inside joke me and my friends have about how I describe my gender as Boy™, but I will be using this as a serious gender for myself. Alt Flags under the cut

Archive Tagging :: @radiomogai @fem-mogai @min-main-archive

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Taglist :: @genderdenied @mimiscoiningcafe @discrophy @horrgores @smilepilled

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Additional Tags :: @blood-moon-night-coining @theflaggerrrr @hweavensent @cyberneticloverboy @wilted-blades

[kinda-pushy-fem]

How would you even forcefem a tomboy? Isn't that just giving her a makeover?

Well yeah, but you can forcefem a transgirl too, so the principle carries over. I'm not changing what it's call based on assigned gender at birth, because we all know how unreliable that can be.

[princesscolumbia]

Boys -> Men

Girls -> Women

Transboys -> Transmen (objectively cool)

Transgirls -> Transwomen (objectively hot)

Twinks -> Gay Uncles that your kids like better than you

Tomboys -> Butch lesbians that have to teach your husband how to fix the p-trap under the sink when he messes it up

Weird 'girls' who just want to study frogs -> The NB who finds the cure for cancer while you're getting turned down by the fifth transwoman in a row

Girls who draw anatomically correct genitalia on their Barbie dolls and top surgery 'scars' on their Ken dolls -> Goth women who are better at your job in every objectively measurable way

"Sports" girls -> Powerful women executives that wear bondage gear under their skirt suit and can identify what kinks someone has within five seconds of meeting them

Jock boys -> That one gay sports star your husband has a 'mancrush' on

[puppygirl-seraphim]

Btw I'm pink now

She/her have a nice day

[elloingo]

Tomboy transgirl tuesday

[mav-exe]

Cute tummy incoming!

[thejediexile]

Under construction but heres an alt for ppl to acknowledge my existance

(Mutuals feel dree to dm if you want discord or homing pidgeon address)

[daybreakerreal]

CW: mild transphobia (mild to me at least. nothing physical just words and selective support)

I'm a very masculine trans woman but I kinda wanna start saying "yeah no im cis I'm just a tomboy" or whatever so people actually respect my she/her pronouns LMFAO!! I already pass as cis when I dress fem I just like dressing in masculine outfits and shit cuz they're comfy and I hate makeup cuz its overwhelming and people see that and my broadish shoulders and assume im some he/they gnc femboy twink or whatever and its soooooooooooooo tiring. like im a girl still just shut the fuck up.

Even my fucking parents (who think they/them is gramatically incorrect and are bioessentialists) would rather just accept me as nonbinary LOL!!! Like what the fuck?? they even use they/them pronouns on me!!!!! Whatever. They don't fucking matter though I'm talking about strangers. Like and the worst thing is is like some people use my masculinity to be fucking exclusive about their support. Like my parents as mentioned and one of my 'friends' in high school told me to my face that she would support one of our mutual friends but not me becuz the mutual was "more feminine so it was pretty obvious they're a girl in a boys body" well you're about to be a mess on the fucking ground you fucking bitch. like god fucking damn. I hate terfs. I hate transphobia.

Anyways if you are also a transgirl and people don't respect you because you're not "feminine" enough for whatever reason, whether its your choice or not, my heart goes out to you and I'm sure you're all lovely and beautiful. Have wonderful days and stay safe etc. Things will get worse before they get better always.

[princesscolumbia]

OP is right and should say it, and I hope nobody minds that I dovetail this with some thoughts on a related piece of media; the Ranma 1/2 reboot. (There were Ranma 1/2 video games, it counts!)

So, yes, by this point we have decades of history and fanfiction. There's not a single square inch of the manga or frame of the anime that hasn't been poured over by fans that support the idea that Ranma is Very Gender™ and pretty much the only online space that doesn't support this is the r/Ranma subreddit. (...there's something wrong with that site, it's like you can find so much good information there and then someone has a "hot take" that gets forty-bajillion upvotes and is one of the most rancid piles of garbage you've ever read)

But here's the thing; Ranma 1/2 was originally started in 1987. To give you a little more context; Crystal Pepsi wouldn't hit test markets for five years, the Berlin Wall wouldn't fall for another two years, and Ronald Reagan was still president of the USA!

We didn't have the words to describe the gender experience at the time, especially in the public lexicon. Japan was toying with the word "newhalf." For the majority of people, even in the trans community, you were a boy or a girl and which you were was determined by the contents of your underwear and how many phallus-insertable holes you had. There was no "transgender" label as we understand it today, you were either a transexual or a crossdresser/transvestite. Transgender wouldn't be used as (to quote wikipedia) an 'umbrella' term until the 90s. And, yes, R.5 was animated in the 90s, but the core story was unchanged from the late 80s black-lines-on-newsprint manga content (the "Does Ranma canonically have black or red hair?" argument is proof enough of that)

(...in the manga, everyone has black or blond hair because the 'black-lines-on-newsprint' nature of manga meant that nobody had different colors of hair. Prior to the whole neighborhood realizing that Ranma has a gender swapping curse, Ranma's able to fool people into thinking that s/he's just really good at 'pretending' to be a girl because people see a person splashed with water and their sex presentation inverting and their rational brain says, "That can't possibly happen," and see that everything but the physical sex of the person remains the same and if said person insists that they're 'still a guy' and nothing's changed, the sex presentation inversion becomes a 'somebody else's problem' and they resume their lives blissfully ignorant of the fact that actual magic happened in front of them. When the transition from manga to anime happened, girl-Ranma suddenly had red hair for no explicable reason other than aesthetics. Red hair changes the game and the fact that people see Ranma's entire physical presence alter including the NATURAL hair color and nobody thinks, "...waaaaaait a minute!" is never addressed in canon.)

(Yes, this was a HUGE point of contention in the fandom for, like, five years.)

(Ask me about the Churches some time if you want to hear exactly how petty the 90s Ranmafandom could get.)

Ranma's behavior is so incredibly problematic from an analysis standpoint because it could be either a boy who's been raised by his father as a completely insulated experience deliberately denying him access to anything resembling females or femininity and leaving him completely unprepared for dealing with actual girls or a hard-closeted transgirl who's internalized all the toxic masculinity her father poured into her for 10+ years on the road with no influences to tell her that there's any other way to perceive the world.

S/he lives in a world where one can only be a boy or a girl and if you're a boy who shows any girly qualities than you're a weak sissy and if you're a girl who shows any boy-ish qualities than you're a tomboy lesbian. Weak sissies are the lowest rung on the masculinity totem pole and exist to be trod upon, they have no life, no prospects, and no future. Tomboy lesbians are ugly parodies of masculinity and exist purely to lure sweet, innocent girls away from the manly men they really want and are shunned by society and have no life, no prospects, and no future. Ranma has ONLY THIS NARRATIVE in which to frame their experiences as a Jusenkyo victim and when Ranma looks at the spread of options before them and sees that every possible choice presented to him/her/them by a toxically misogynistic, compulsively heteronormitive world and sees that every option but 'manly man' would severely limit their choices and freedoms and options and tell them that their very life's purpose is only available in the ONE option of 'being a MAN,' then no FUCKING SHIT the phrase, "I'M A MANLY MAN!" is gonna fall from their lips on the regular!

(This isn't even talking about the seppuku pledge, btw.)

BUT!

Let's side-step this entirely and take a look at another character entirely for a moment...Shampoo.

Shampoo seems to be just an airheaded bimbo on first glance. And, maybe, the second. She's stacked, the very image of what a teenage boy is known to lust after, physically powerful, and cares for her physical appearance to the point she could be a pin-up model. She looks good in a swimsuit and knows it, flirts shamelessly, and her best use of the common tongue is 'pidgin' levels, at best.

But she's NOT JAPANESE. Why does this matter? Because it completely re-frames the presentation of her character. If Shampoo had been born Japanese and raised Japanese and still acted like she did and talked like a bad parody of a Chinese national, then we could dismiss her as a particularly dim bimbo and move on. She is, however, Joketsuzoku, a member of a tribe of warrior women who don't even consider themselves to be Chinese, even if their home is within the geopolitical boundaries that the PRC claims as theirs. She learned enough Japanese in the space of a few weeks to go from, "Doesn't understand the language at all," to "Capable of working in a punishingly demanding fast-food environment for 12+ hours a day." She's not being hounded by the Japanese immigration authority about attending school (and you KNOW how much of a lense Japan puts on foreigners), so she likely took some education tests and passed at a high enough grade level that the Japanese government didn't even bother with a student visa, she understands chemistry/alchemy enough to use "traditional Amazon" formulas and techniques, and defers ONLY to her great-grandmother. Literally nobody else is able to tell her what to do.

And the whole, "flirts more shamelessly than a street hooker" thing you're probably thinking? Guess how many people she actually has sex with, canonically? Zero. She's in Ranma's bed an awful lot, but there's never a moment where she actually has sex in the manga, even with Ranma.

(There's some soft-canon implications that she's slept with Ukyo in the anime continuity, but even that supports my contention, which is...)

Shampoo, as a character, is an incredibly deep and intriguing inversion of the Japanese prejudice against foreigners, especially Chinese nationals.

So if we look at Ranma with the same examination, s/he is no longer just an angsty teenage boy bitching about hormones and a problematic love-life, s/he's a clever mirror shown to the face of 1980s Japan's views and expectations of their youth growing into a society that has specific demands of them as they grow to maturity and realize that maybe they aren't going to fit neatly into the boxes of 'boy/man' and 'girl/woman'.

This makes, IMHO, Ranma at least NB. By the end of the manga they're flat out stating that 'the cure doesn't matter' and they 'were only doing it for Akane.'

(I've written about anime-Ranma being a transwoman thanks entirely to THAT episode elsewhere, so I won't expound on that here.)

Even in the USA we didn't have the proper words and framework for actual trans people to describe their experience well and properly that we have today. Even today's tools for communicating our experience are evolving at a frantic rate and no one trans person is ever going to be up-to-date because it's a RAPIDLY shifting lexical body.

So why in the world would we expect a 1980s Ranma to have the right words to say, "I'm enby" or "I'm trans"?

Which brings me back to my point; the reboot has a fine line to ride. If they don't ride that with the care of an Olympic's-quality snowboarder grinding on a five-mile long rail, and I mean staying on that edge and never falling off once, they're gonna fuck this up. On one side, they've got the land of "safe, non-threatening" language where they're going to buff out any hint that Ranma "could be" NB or trans and alienate their entire queer audience. On the other side, they've got the heavily queer-phobic, trans-misogynistic language of the 1980s that only allowed characters like Konatsu to exist as an extreme form of transvestite and they're only there for the lulz...and alienate their entire queer audience.

They have a shot to do this right, and if they thread that particular needle it will be as epic as The Battle of Phoenix Mountain and Mt. Horai all in one.

If they biff it, it'll be as tragic as Ranma's attempts at kissing Akane during the Shakespeare play.

The problem with debating whether a character from a twenty or thirty year old video game is "really" trans or merely a cross-dresser is that mainstream video games from the 1990s and 2000s just plain didn't care about the difference, for the most part.

Basically all gender-nonconforming characters in video games of that era are treated as jokes to some extent, and their gender from moment to moment is whatever it needs to be to make the joke land. Can you cite textual evidence that they're trans? Yes, absolutely. Can you cite textual evidence that they just like to play dress-up? Also yes. The writers typically weren't distinguishing the one from the other, and many of them probably didn't even understand that there existed any distinction to make.

Sure, the source texts are of historical interest, but pedantic textual originalism in itself isn't terribly interesting because you can usually twist it around to support any conclusion you want. A better question is what our motivation is for favouring a particular conclusion – and there just aren't a lot of ways to make favouring the funny-man-in-a-dress reading into a good look!