(that was something i was accused of doing often back in the day, although those people seem to have moved on. for canonically “male” characters, however, i specify that the character is a woman because i don’t want to imply that a man can be a lesbian. the blog is “your fave is a lesbian,” not “your fave is (X) and also a lesbian,” and so i wanted to keep the scope that narrow. but i would like to know how this blog’s trans lesbian followers feel about the option to submit “male” characters, and whether any of them have actually used it, or if it’s something we’d be better off without.Īs for the wording of the posts, it’s also something that i debated a lot. unfortunately a lot of people who submit here have trouble reading the rules, period. I’m not sure if i should just reinstate the rule and trust people to follow it, or something else. and, for my part, i failed to recognize that they were offensive. unfortunately, i think this led to cis people making submissions that ended up being offensive to trans women. i took that out because i figured not everyone would have that listed on their profile and i didn’t want to have to ask people about it. The policy was changed for the benefit of trans women, and at first there was a rule stating that only trans women could submit a canonically male character. i figured that if people could accept canonically straight characters being posted on here, there would be no reason not to accept canonically male characters. When i took over this blog, it had just recently started accepting submissions of characters who were canonically men, and it had received a lot of criticism before that because many people viewed the former policy as transphobic. not that this was directly addressing me, but it’s good to see regardless. Thank you for this! i have not received such in-depth feedback on the blog’s policies before.
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