Ah, Transphobia
Apr. 17th, 2023 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitI suppose getting my first transphobic comment on my fanfiction is a milestone of sorts.
Which is to say, it's a series in which I have imagined the primary character as trans. I tag for "trans Julian Bashir" on the individual stories where it actually comes up in some way; I don't tag it on the ones where it's never mentioned. And I actually mention that in a chapter note for one of the stories with the tag, because I added the tag partway through posting-- I hadn't thought it was going to come up until much later, and then I started thinking about the living arrangements on Terok Nor. So there's a chapter note at the start of the chapter where I added it saying we've added a tag and I've planned him as trans all along but I was expecting it to not come up yet and hadn't initially tagged for it.
Someone has left me a (now-deleted; I'm not leaving transphobia in the comments) comment lecturing me about how I ought to be tagging it on every story in the series because they don't want to read stories that fetishize trans people. (Cue utter bafflement from me, since it was mentioned in the context of "being trans on a station run by brutal Cardassians is probably extra-dangerous; I should take precautions to make sure the people I'm sharing a room with don't notice.")
They go on to say that in a world of Star Trek level technology, obviously people who wish to transition could just transition all the way and have their bodies be what they want and it wouldn't be an issue, so bringing it up ruins their escapism. So they've got nothing against trans people, no, they just don't want them to ever be mentioned because it ruins their escapism, because trans people existing in the future is fetishizing... methinks you protest a bit much there.
I admit to being someone who has not engaged much with my gender (although my antipathy to saying "cis" here is probably telling me something), but I've engaged a lot with my disabilities and "but everyone will just be able to just have the bodies they want in the future because ~technology~" is the same argument people use to say "but there won't be disabilities in the future" and that's generally regarded as erasure, not inclusion.
Also it's a story set during a brutal genocide; if in-universe prejudice against trans people is what ruins your escapism, you might want to think about why that is.
I really do not *want* to archive-lock my fic, and I won't unless this becomes a habit, but there's no way to block guest commenters.
Which is to say, it's a series in which I have imagined the primary character as trans. I tag for "trans Julian Bashir" on the individual stories where it actually comes up in some way; I don't tag it on the ones where it's never mentioned. And I actually mention that in a chapter note for one of the stories with the tag, because I added the tag partway through posting-- I hadn't thought it was going to come up until much later, and then I started thinking about the living arrangements on Terok Nor. So there's a chapter note at the start of the chapter where I added it saying we've added a tag and I've planned him as trans all along but I was expecting it to not come up yet and hadn't initially tagged for it.
Someone has left me a (now-deleted; I'm not leaving transphobia in the comments) comment lecturing me about how I ought to be tagging it on every story in the series because they don't want to read stories that fetishize trans people. (Cue utter bafflement from me, since it was mentioned in the context of "being trans on a station run by brutal Cardassians is probably extra-dangerous; I should take precautions to make sure the people I'm sharing a room with don't notice.")
They go on to say that in a world of Star Trek level technology, obviously people who wish to transition could just transition all the way and have their bodies be what they want and it wouldn't be an issue, so bringing it up ruins their escapism. So they've got nothing against trans people, no, they just don't want them to ever be mentioned because it ruins their escapism, because trans people existing in the future is fetishizing... methinks you protest a bit much there.
I admit to being someone who has not engaged much with my gender (although my antipathy to saying "cis" here is probably telling me something), but I've engaged a lot with my disabilities and "but everyone will just be able to just have the bodies they want in the future because ~technology~" is the same argument people use to say "but there won't be disabilities in the future" and that's generally regarded as erasure, not inclusion.
Also it's a story set during a brutal genocide; if in-universe prejudice against trans people is what ruins your escapism, you might want to think about why that is.
I really do not *want* to archive-lock my fic, and I won't unless this becomes a habit, but there's no way to block guest commenters.
