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Of The Devil Appreciation Thread - Trans Megathread for May 4th through May 10th, 2026 (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net
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Hi everybody!

no big post this week, down with cis

since multiple people recognized it, it's not officially OTD Appreciation Week!

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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

The only good transfem rep I've seen in fiction is Ranked Competitive Breast Growth and that's written by transfems. At this point I just skip anything that features explicitly trans characters because I know it's going to be terrible. You can forcefem whoever you want. Find your own experiences reflected in texts that are perhaps on their face not explicitly about the trans experience.

guhhhhhhhhjjhhhhI've been burned too many times by shitty rep in media. How daring, you wrote a transfem character who's actually genderfluid and doesn't mind being called a man, and the circumstances of her birth are the most important thing about her. She's a tragic character, or farcical, or both, and that's if you're lucky.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Unironically yeah. The bar is so low that the only advise I could give most writers is to just write a "normal" person (pretend they are cis) and offhand reveal they are trans and not have it be relevant to anything except like a scene or 2.

    Some authors also need this advise to write women characters (pretend they are men while writing then ctrl+f replace the pronouns)

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