We had a transgender tag, but it's gone. Because here's the thing, tagging guidelines for trans characters are complete bullshit, since it's supposed to be "tag what you see", unless it's traps because why the fuck does that tag still exist; but even in cases where you can't tell otherwise, like in this image, canonical genitals take priority.
We had a transgender tag, but it's gone. Because here's the thing, tagging guidelines for trans characters are complete bullshit, since it's supposed to be "tag what you see", unless it's traps because why the fuck does that tag still exist; but even in cases where you can't tell otherwise, like in this image, canonical genitals take priority.
Most "trans" characters are only so from localizer meddling and lgbt community's insistent headcanons. Having that tag means endless edit wars.
Just create a tag like: "Canonical/official_trangender", it's a no-brainer.
It is indeed a no-brainer, because that is a completely brainless suggestion. Canonical/official as opposed to what? Headcanon trans people? How would that even be taggable? The issue isn't a lack of a tag, since we have tags which can be used for art explicitly depicting someone as trans, the issue is the guidelines for gender tagging, which as I said make no sense for SFW rated art. If it's NSFW then it at least makes sense for the purpose of the blacklist, but otherwise it's tagging an informed attribute instead of a visible one. Plus, tagging post-transition characters as such when it isn't the topic of the image is just gross, and I mean both social and surgical transitions.
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