• First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    Long hair is awesome, I know that unfortunately it's considered feminine by gender stereotypes but that never stopped me from growing it out. Did cause problems with my school thinking I was (binary) trans though and trying to corner me with gross questions about "wanting to be a girl" that I didn't want to discuss with them (was mostly teachers trying to get into this with me).

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    who you want to be

    No offense to anyone, but isn't this actually anti-trans...?

    By making it aspirational, rather than what you identify as, this just makes it read as "if you want to, you can be another gender, an animal, a god, a tree, whatever!"

    • wafergirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      Not necessarily. You could also read this as the person in the comic being their preferred gender in every panel, but is just altering their gender expression towards something they're happier with. Also, not everyone thinks about their gender that way. Some people really have thought about their gender in an aspirational way. I certainly did when I first started trying to figure out my gender.

      The sentence also says "who" instead of "what," implying that you can be the person you want to be, but not an animal, god, or tree, as those are all not people. I think it's also fair to assume that the comic's statement is within reason. If someone interprets this comic to think that they can become a tree, that's a bad faith interpretation.