#i see the actual value in confirming characters are cisgender but in practice i hate doing it

[elftwink]

i always have this dilemma when i need to confirm a character is trans in a story for whatever reason where i go “should i confirm which characters are cis?” because i firmly believe that only mentioning marginalized characters contributes to viewing cis people as the “default” and priming the audience to always assume a character is cis unless told otherwise. explicitly outlining both cis and trans people instead would demonstrate that both are normal and equivalent ways to exist, without one being more ‘deviant’ than the other.

but on the other hand i hate confirming characters as cis because who wants that many confirmed cisgender characters. i need a fictional world where if someone asks me “is [x] trans?” i say yes regardless of who [x] is. [x] could be a sentient book and i still wanna be able to say they’re trans if i want