>>126974029Why the hell not? We're just lucky his giant elephant dong never slipped out on the actual show
>>126978551>>126969170Funny that you say that.
There was an argument among the weirdoes on Twitter a while back that genderbending was actually transphobic.
It's not a very good one, and I didn't initially get the logic behind it, but I think I do now
To play devil's advocate:
No one in the current mainstream says transsexual instead of transgender because it's actually inaccurate regarding the theoretical basis for trans identities being a thing at all. The word focuses on the immutable biological sex rather than on the constructed gender.
"Genderbending" was thus a misleading, invalid concept because its focus was on switching the character's sex as opposed to their gender, which takes a gender-essentialist stance, reducing gender to sex.
But is genderbending actually transphobic? No, that's kinda dumb. Most people don't identify as trans, meaning, if they were born male or female, they will identify respectively as men and women, so it makes perfect sense narratively for the version of a non-trans male character that was born without the Y chromosome to be a vagina-having girl
What point am I trying to make here though?
Well, as bad as that argument above is, it's at least not as stupid as thinking that R63 is a trans thing. Most trans headcanons I've seen take a character and say the gender they identify with in canon is a result of their being trans. For example, let's say someone is really hard into kinning as ...
Lazy Susan. The headcanon would be that she was born male, and what we see now is her final form.
Trans people hate to be reminded of their previous gender expression, their deadname, it's considered an insult to even bring it up, so why the hell would they want to latch onto R63, where the deadname character is the more prominent version of the character?
