Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XI is the eleventh numbered installment in the… Okay, you know what it is, I’m just going to tell you about one of the storylines!
During the Wings of the Goddess expansion, adventurers will be sent back in time to experience the events of the Crystal War, a cataclysmic event that is the foundation for conflicts of the modern-day timeline. Should an adventurer choose to serve the Kingdom of San d’Oria, they will be immersed in the story of the Young Griffons—a group of children who would see themselves knights, many of whom grow into prominent characters later in life.
Among the Young Griffons, the player will find Bistillot, a shy boy who doesn’t like to be seen. With his penchant for engineering, shy demeanor, and lack of combat potential, Bistillot prefers to spend his time inside of an orcish war machine that he was able to repair to working condition.
He is often seen before he is heard, with his signature phrase, “HAAAALLOOOOOOOOO” being used to hail the adventurer. Through the course of the story, Bistillot finds his way, even contributing to the war effort with his engineering skills.
However, when another member of the Young Griffons is kidnapped and taken to the present day, the adventurer must return to the present day and reunite with the Young Griffons’ present selves! The adventurer’s first contact in the present day is Bistillot. When the adventurer hears the signature “HAAAALLOOOOOOO,” Bistillot approaches the player, but what the player sees is… a woman?? She introduces herself as Bostilette, a “friend of Bistillot.”
After the rescue mission, Bostilette comes clean. She is, of course, the very same Bistillot who was a little boy twenty years earlier. She explains that she was very sick as a baby, so her parents gave her a boy’s name so that she would be stronger and survive the illness. Once she overcame the illness, she was comfortable to reclaim her name and gender. Well, that closes the book on that story, except… I’ve decided that’s bullshit!
I have unilaterally decided that Bostilette is trans, the sickness she had was dysphoria, she stayed in the orcish war machine because she was an egg, and I hope you all agree!
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Transmisogyny is different from general misogyny, the intersection of transphobia and misogyny can hit pretty hard. Just look at how much more often trans women are subjected to SA and domestic violence than cis women, how much harsher trans women are judged by their appearance or how viciously insistence on traditional feminine gender roles is combined with denying the feminity of trans women who do not stay in the lane women are demanded to stay in. The critique of TMA/TME discourse isn't about transmisogyny as a concept, the most common criticism is that it's about finding new ways of reconstructing a gender binary in spaces that should have moved beyond that. I also find it largely useless analytically, from my experience there is literally nothing that sets apart the behaviors of (trans)misogynist trans men and transmasc nonbinary people from those of transmisogynist cis men.
Edit: This was written before i read the link about baeddelism in the Serano thread, JFC tumblr delenda est
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Yeah that makes sense, and i'm more or less in the same boat on this. And that isn't even getting into the weirder forms this discourse takes, like the whole "TME people have never experienced misogyny even before their transition" shit.