Thread:Grimdominatrix/@comment-3406131-20140323064724/@comment-24290620-20150109032030

hmm, i understand what youre saying. my distinction was meant to be between, for example, the earth-1007 wolverine, who is in all other ways a cisgender man, being transformed into a cisgender woman through fantastical means, and characters who are transgender in real-world terms (whose transition is done through medicine), and thus not a fantasy "transformation". it was my solution to the problem of characters such as the example of the transformed wolverine being tagged as "transgender", when they are not, so that the transgender category can belong to actual transgender characters. characters like xavin are more complicated instances of this, as they transform in fantastical terms (shapeshifting, etc), but it's done to line up with a true non-binary gender identity and not a gender-swap gimmick like the wolverine example, so xavin IS transgender despite fitting the description of a "gender transformed" character instead, so the medicine descriptor isnt perfect, youre right. perhaps being upfront and saying in the description of gender transformed characters "characters who are not transgender, who were transformed by some manner into another gender". would that work? it's the best solution i can think of.