>>#8: Transgender superheroes should not be dressed in a way that shows they are transgender. Clothing in and out of uniform should be normal, mainstream superhero clothing.
Yet another round of erasure, which is especially unpleasant for all the trans and genderqueer folks out there who are still trying to figure out what their "normal clothing" even is. Among the common options are: Dress in masculine styles. Dress in feminine styles. Dress in things that shout your transness because you are sick of hiding it or just want to be an activist. Make up a style unique to you as a way of expressing your gender. So let's take two of my trans soups: Calliope's wardrobe is a riot of pink-white-blue with a good handful of things that say "transgender" on them. Hyperspaceman simply dresses in masculine clothes, and deliberately picked a cape name with -man. Two trans characters, who are actually nothing alike other than being trans and having superpowers. That's diversity in action.<<
Not super, per se, but my character Morgan in my "Boy with Something Extra" has an unfortunate incident at school that results in him having to wear the "emergency clothes" he'd pack. He hadn't counted on his underwear getting messed up too.
So here we have a guy with a body that's pretty much "female" except for his genitals winding up stuck in a set of biking gear (spandex shorts and top) with no underwear. and it's rather obvious that he's got breasts and a penis. (this causes no end of trouble in the next chapter which I really need to get back to working on)
It's not *deliberately* "dressed as trans", and it is in fact "normal" clothing. It's just a problem with circumstances that make his being TG *very* noticeable.
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Yet another round of erasure, which is especially unpleasant for all the trans and genderqueer folks out there who are still trying to figure out what their "normal clothing" even is. Among the common options are: Dress in masculine styles. Dress in feminine styles. Dress in things that shout your transness because you are sick of hiding it or just want to be an activist. Make up a style unique to you as a way of expressing your gender. So let's take two of my trans soups: Calliope's wardrobe is a riot of pink-white-blue with a good handful of things that say "transgender" on them. Hyperspaceman simply dresses in masculine clothes, and deliberately picked a cape name with -man. Two trans characters, who are actually nothing alike other than being trans and having superpowers. That's diversity in action.<<
Not super, per se, but my character Morgan in my "Boy with Something Extra" has an unfortunate incident at school that results in him having to wear the "emergency clothes" he'd pack. He hadn't counted on his underwear getting messed up too.
So here we have a guy with a body that's pretty much "female" except for his genitals winding up stuck in a set of biking gear (spandex shorts and top) with no underwear. and it's rather obvious that he's got breasts and a penis. (this causes no end of trouble in the next chapter which I really need to get back to working on)
It's not *deliberately* "dressed as trans", and it is in fact "normal" clothing. It's just a problem with circumstances that make his being TG *very* noticeable.