#ciswap

[holly-natnicole]

[Image Description: Uchiha née Haruno Sakura and ciswapped or genderbent Uchiha Sasuke standing with the background being white. Sasuke is on the left and Sakura is on the right. Sasuke has short, black hair which spikes downwards and horizontally at the back yet is neatly combed at the front. She has her left elbow propped up against an invisible wall which Sakura is leaning against. Sasuke wears a black tank-top with a large, vertical tear over the right shoulder (or the fabric has simply been cut by scissors) and another smaller, horizontal one along her right side. The tank-top is cropped short enough to reveal Sasuke's stomach. Her black baggy trousers hang low on her hips, her underwear visible. She wears black shoes. Sakura's light pink, straight hair reaches past her shoulders and she wears a light pink cheerleader uniform with the miniskirt ending at mid-thigh. She has on slippers akin to ballet ones, but without the ribbons. Sakura has a light complexion whereas Sasuke is pale. They seem to be about 17 years old, so they aren't married yet.]

when the hot emo girl you’re always staring at finally confronts you

[fandork]

i got that benign, loving brainrot. moss and mushrooms.

[laniusbignaturals]

Ciswapped platinum blonde soft muscled square jawed fat tittied wine swilling sailor cursing bitterly divorced 58 year old evil butch Caesar/Outspoken Bespectacled Trans Girl Arcanna kept on hand to tend to her medical needs and breath in her boob sweat all damn day

[horror-aesthete]

Some very messy ciswap lesbian The Passenger doodles

[holly-natnicole]

So is this Maito Gai perisex cisgender feminine male, dyadic cis masc male but with a feminine appearance, dyadic transgender masc fem but with a feminine appearance, dyadic trans feminine fem, dyadic cis feminine fem, or in some way gender nonbinary? (Or something else that hasn't been listed here?) Regardless of which one is the case (and even if the answer is "I don't know. Gai doesn't know either. Gai's gender is unknown."), I love Gai. *hugs Gai*

I'm waiting for a lot of reactions to this 😂

[widdleguy]

omfg the term "cis-swap" in the best thing ive seen in my life

*thinking about cis-swap Solangelo* Nico's name would be Nicolette, obviously. But what about Will . . . Willie? No . . . Willow?? Pretty but idk . . . *gasp* WILMA--"

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Li’ll something for MerMay. Gave up on the bubbles. XD Anyway, Martin and Adrienne from my Mer AU :P

[pompompmuffin]

The perks of drawing them is that I can draw Chat’s hair as fluffy as I want :3c

[holly-natnicole]

Team Minato Trio in an Alternate Multiverse/Alternate Universe (if the Summon Animals' Universe and other different dimensions exist in it, it's an A.M.; if there's no parallel realities, it's an A.U.) where Obito is fem & born into royalty whilst Kakashi and Rin are her knights is so cool!!

Princess Obito sketch

[onlyfandomflail]

On The Topic of "Genderbend"

So in the past few months I've been reading quite a few posts that have some very legit critiques of the "genderbend" trope. It's one of those umbrella terms for many many different types of works within, and not all of them are trying to do the same thing with characters (or within a media format).

Since I've come to terms that "genderbend" is a really problematic term to use for works within this trope, I'd first like to list some types of works within the trope, and then list some suggested alternative terms I've read around here and the internet.

Types of Works (not an exhaustive list):

media where a cis male character is drawn as a cis female. (includes changes in wardrobe or no changes in wardrobe)

media were a cis dude, through an incident of plot, changes sex, and has to adapt or accept it or struggle for whatever reason.

media were the character has always been of a different sex and/or gender and/or expressed gender

media where some aspect of the original character's sex/gender/gender expression is changed.

etc.

Now, these are a few of the terms that I have seen as propositions to replace "genderbend" in some/all of these instances.

CisBend/CisSwap (for cases where it applies)

Presentation Bend 

SexBend (I find this one problematic, but need help articulating why)

Presentation Play (something about the word "play" bothers me...idek)

Body Bend (where it applies)

Binary swap (used where cisbend applies, that's my understanding)

Alternative Physicality Verse 

Spectrum Slide (the only term I've found that tries to encapsulate it all)

I've been looking at this list for a while, and there's stuff that bothers me and other stuff that I'm just not sure about. This is a call out for people to give me their opinions on the terms I've seen, and to give me alternatives if they've found any. I'm open to hearing critiques of the alternatives I've listed. I'm not advocating for the use of any one in particular. 

If you feel you need a better understanding of why "genderbend" is problematic, please do a google search (or go through tumblr search). This is not because I don't want to tell you, it's that many other people have done a way better job of explaining than I ever could.

Any contributions with explanation will be digested and then added to the potential term list. Many Thanks.

[dksartz]

I accidentally drew cisswap fem!tony owo

[81gremlins]