Thread:Grimdominatrix/@comment-3406131-20131214084825/@comment-24290620-20131214085554

hi. i am transgender, and these characters are not. body switches, magical transformations, and shapeshifting skrulls do not mean a character is transgender. i don't know a lot about how wikis work, which is why i didn't create a replacement category, but i wanted the transgender characters category to reflect ACTUAL transgender characters like tong and jessie drake, not "any character who was transformed into the opposite gender" or "every skrull". transgender is not "the closest thing to true", that's highly disrespectful to actual transgender people. the characters i left tagged, for example, are jessie drake, who comes out as trans in the story she's featured in, tong, who does the same, and xavin, who discusses their complex gender identity in runaways. these are characters who are canonically trans. i'm not going to accept transformations and shapeshifting and shared bodies as trans representation. maybe we could create a "body switch" category, or a "gender transformation" category, but please don't use the transgender label.