#queer gender

[this-is-me19]

Accepting your children as they are no matter what, AKA Radical Acceptance, will save their life.

[soleminisanction]

I got a bee in my bonnet and spent last night crunching these numbers to confirm a long-held suspicion of mine, and now I'm going to do something with them even if it's only interesting to me. So.

I went through and tallied up all of the fics AO3 currently (as of 3/27/24) has under the tags "Trans Tim Drake," "Nonbinary Tim Drake," "Genderfluid Tim Drake" and "Genderqueer Tim Drake," since I figured that cast a wide enough net without committing myself to reading every fic vaguely tagged Trans Character to figure out which character they were talking about.

I then did the same for Dick, Jason, Damian and Bruce and, after comparing those numbers against each other and against the total number of fics each character has under their general tag, followed up with Duke, Babs, Cass, Steph and Kate, and then Kon, Cassie, and Bart for good measure.

The results confirm the suspicions I was going into check and are really interesting, to me at least:

Despite having far fewer stories overall than Jason, Bruce or Dick, Tim has by far the most stories tagging him under the trans umbrella (653 out of 58,395) and is the only member of the Bats for whom at least one full percent of his stories fall under that category (1.12% to be exact.) He actually has more total trans stories than Jason and Damian combined (308 out of 71,120 and 255 out of 42,607, equaling 0.43% and 0.59%, respectively) and outstretches the 2nd place ranker, Dick, by over a hundred (who clocks in at 438 out of 79,057 -- 0.55%). Bruce amusingly has by far the most stories overall (90,305) but the fewest trans stories (185) for the lowest percentage among the boys (0.2%).

The only one who comes anywhere close to matching Tim percentage-wise is Bart, who has far fewer stories to his name but a ratio of 62 out of 5,717 for 1.08%. I was thinking maybe Young Justice might have a higher percentage than the Bats due to their strong queer fandom but that only really proved true for Bart, with both Cassie and Kon coming in at only 0.2% and 0.28% trans umbrella percentage respectively (actual count 6 out of 2,874 and 39 out of 13,746).

Cassie's numbers correspond with the fact that women just, do not get a lot of these stories, at all, even compared to the general lack of attention they're paid by fanfiction spheres in general. Steph and Kate both clocked in at falling 0.17% under the trans umbrella (29 out of 16,638 for Steph, 5 out of 2,897 for Kate); Cass got 0.13% (21 out of 15,769) and Babs only 0.07%, the lowest percentage out of anyone I calculated for (11 out of 15,785). Duke's showing was a respectable 0.55% (34 out of 6,166) which puts him about even with the rest of the boys.

All of which I just went through to confirm a gut instinct I've had for a while: even in light of the noticeable trend in fandom towards increased visibility for trans and other queer-gendered people over the last decade and a half or so, it's a notable Thing for the DC comics fandom to explore with Tim Drake in specific.

And that doesn't even take into account things like the over 200 "Tim Drake is Catlad | Stray" fics, which almost always have some element of queered gender or at least femme'd sexuality to them, far outstripping any of the other Robin boys' spins in that AU (those counts stand at, respectively: Damian - 11, Dick - 33, Jason - 79, Tim - 242). Or the 11 fics logged under the "Tim Drake is Batgirl" tag, a category that doesn't even exist for any of the other male Robins.

(What makes that last one extra hilarious to me that most people don't know one canonical version of Tim has been a member of the Batgirls.) Part of me wants to use that parenthetic detail as a segway to ramble about the various canon snippets I think probably contributed to this, from Tim being presented as "the pretty one" who most often gets the "looks like his mother" comments to the fact that he is the only male Robin who's ever cross-dressed for an undercover mission and even though it only happened once the Internet will never forget Caroline Hill.

But this post is long enough as it is and I don't really have a point beyond I think this is interesting and cool so I'm going to leave off here for now and put my numbers under a cut so people have the raw data to look at if they'd like to.

TL;DR - Based on the numbers, the internet believes Tim Drake is more likely to be trans than any other member of the Bat-family or Young Justice, and I think that has interesting implications about his character and fandom. It's neat.

Data Taken: 3/27/24

Tim Drake: 58,395 Trans Tim Drake: 513 Nonbinary Tim Drake: 46 Genderfluid Tim Drake: 89 Genderqueer Tim Drake: 5

Dick Grayson: 79,057 Trans Dick Grayson: 399 Nonbinary Dick Grayson: 15 Genderfluid Dick Grayson: 23 Genderqueer Dick Grayson: 1

Jason Todd: 71,120 Trans Jason Todd: 286 Nonbinary Jason Todd: 17 Genderqueer/Genderfluid Jason Todd: 5 (4 have both tags and are the only ones tagged Genderqueer Jason Todd)

Damian Wayne: 42,607 Trans Damian Wayne: 215  Nonbinary Damian Wayne: 37 Genderfluid Damian Wayne: 3 Genderqueer Damian Wayne: 0

Bruce Wayne: 90,305 Trans Bruce Wayne: 180 Nonbinary Bruce Wayne: 5 (2 also tagged Trans Bruce Wayne) Genderfluid Bruce Wayne: 1 Genderqueer Bruce Wayne: 1

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Total Trans Umbrella Tim Drake: 653 Total Trans Umbrella Dick Grayson: 438 Total Trans Umbrella Jason Todd: 308 (313 if you count the GQ tag separately) Total Trans Umbrella Damian Wayne: 255 Total Trans Umbrella Bruce Wayne: 185 (187)

Percentage Trans Umbrella Tim Drake: 1.12% (1.11825) Percentage Trans Umbrella Dick Grayson: 0.55% (0.55403) Percentage Trans Umbrella Jason Todd: 0.43% (0.43307 or 0.44010) Percentage Trans Umbrella Damian Wayne: 0.59% (0.59849) Percentage Trans Umbrella Bruce Wayne: 0.2% (0.20466)

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Duke Thomas: 6,166 Trans Duke Thomas: 20 Nonbinary Duke Thomas: 14 Genderfluid Duke Thomas: 0 Genderqueer Duke Thomas: 0

Barbara Gordon: 15,785 Trans Barbara Gordon: 11 Nonbinary Barbara Gordon: 0 Genderfluid Barbara Gordon: 0 Genderqueer Barbara Gordon: 0

Cassandra Cain: 15,769 Trans Cassandra Cain: 15 Nonbinary Cassandra Cain: 6 Genderfluid Cassandra Cain: 0 Genderqueer Cassandra Cain: 0

Stephanie Brown: 16,638 Trans Stephanie Brown: 27 Nonbinary Stephanie Brown: 2 Genderfluid Stephanie Brown: 0 Genderqueer Stephanie Brown: 0

Kate Kane (DCU): 2,897 Trans Kate Kane: 4 Nonbinary Kate Kane: 0 Genderfluid Kate Kane: 1 Genderqueer Kate Kane: 0

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Total Trans Umbrella Duke Thomas: 34 Total Trans Umbrella Barbara Gordon: 11 Total Trans Umbrella Cassandra Cain: 21 Total Trans Umbrella Stephanie Brown: 29 Total Trans Umbrella Kate Kane: 5

Percentage Trans Umbrella Duke Thomas: 0.55% (0.55141) Percentage Trans Umbrella Barbara Gordon: 0.07% (0.06968) Percentage Trans Umbrella Cassandra Cain: 0.13% (0.13317) Percentage Trans Umbrella Stephanie Brown: 0.17% (0.17429) Percentage Trans Umbrella Kate Kane: 0.17% (0.17259)

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Kon-El | Conner Kent: 13,746 Trans Kon-El | Conner Kent: 19 Nonbinary Kon-El | Conner Kent: 19 Genderfluid Kon-El | Conner Kent: 1 Genderqueer Kon-El | Conner Kent: 0

Bart Allen: 5,717 Trans Bart Allen: 40 Nonbinary Bart Allen: 20 Genderfluid Bart Allen: 1 Genderqueer Bart Allen: 1

Cassie Sandsmark: 2,874 Trans Cassie Sandsmark: 4 Nonbinary Cassie Sandsmark: 2 Genderfluid Cassie Sandsmark: 0 Genderqueer Cassie Sandsmark: 0

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Total Trans Umbrella Kon-El: 39 Total Trans Umbrella Bart Allen: 62 Total Trans Umbrella Cassie Sandsmark: 6

Percentage Trans Umbrella Kon-El: 0.28% (0.28371)  Percentage Trans Umbrella Bart Allen: 1.08% (1.08448) Percentage Trans Umbrella Cassie Sandsmark: 0.2% (0.20876)

[little-blurry-stars5]

[fixing-bad-posts]

[Image description: A tumblr text-post, edited blackout-poetry style. Resulting poem is below.]

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Gender is mind made concept. An abstraction. An image made up of dress, behavior and expectation.

abstract figures and lines. An image

abstract not a defined state of BEING

We are living breathing humans defined by our figures, roles, costumes, and expectations.

You are an idea

[little-witchys-garden]

"Why don't trans and intersex people trust doctors?? "

Hmm idk could be because people like this:

{ context: this man is replying to a trans person saying their family tried pushing them to suicide as a young teen to save their reputation in the church because the person is trans then disowned the person as a young teen because they wouldn't kill themself... And how this trans person has been denied medical care for being trans.. For the conservative dickhead only two people in his family stopped talking with him... He thinks that's totally the same as adults telling a trans youth to kill themself and giving that minor the objects to do so... Or a trans person being denied medical care for being trans... }

Trans people and intersex people have been repeatedly harmed by the medical field over and over again and the fact there are still people like this becoming doctors is terrifying..

[puppy-barkz]

me: hmmmm i've been leaning pretty fem for a long time now, perhaps i am a Diet Girl after all

an x reader fic, referring to me: "pretty boy" "good boy"

me:

[leastrife]

GOT MY PLAYING CARDS LETS GO!!!!

@prideknights

[xxinksxx]

I was told that I would eventually

-Like make up

-Would want to shave my legs (who wants to shave their legs it’s tedious AF - my parents legit tried to shame me into doing this too when I’d skip it for a while)

-Would eventually want a boyfriend/husband (HA)

-Would eventually want kids (I’ll carve out my uterus with a rusty spoon first)

-That because I’m “female” I gotta sit/act/behave a certain way (I’ll end you. I’m NB aF)

-Would eventually be forced to carry a purse out of necessity (Got fucking yelled at for this too - not just by family. It gives me hella dysphoria.)

-Would change my mind and could not say for sure that I would NEVER want to date

A mix of all this (and a few others) was told to me from the time I was 8 to the time I moved out of my parents house and bought my own. I’m 32 years old now and there ain’t a damn thing on this list that I like or want to do. If this is just a phase then it’s a life long phase and I’m here to ride this bitch till I fucking DIE. Don’t let anyone try to dictate to you how you live your personal life. If you like doing any and all these things coolio homie you do you. Slay it like damn royal. But if someone tries to tell you to live your life according to what they find acceptable tell them to fuck off. (short of being a racist bigot guys come on work with me)

This has been a PSA from your local Agendered Aromantic Asexual. Thanks for tuning in.

[just-a-little-trans-chaos]

Every time I learn about a new neopronoun I have to try to guess/figure out what kind of neopronoun it is :')

Is it a it/its neopronoun where it's just it, its, and itself? (Or insert whichever pronoun it is)

Is it a they/them neopronoun where it has more variations? (They, them, their, themself)

Do I use plural grammar like for they/them? Or single grammar like for she/her?

Idk ;-; idk if this makes sense, idk if anyone else has this problem, idk if there's a good way to ask about it, I just don't know ;-;

[electr1c4]

i saw the term "losergirl" describing Fionna in the new adventure time remake and i can NOT get over the fact how well it describes my gender.

[cactuskid99]

They have such cute LGBT gifs

[mogai-sunflowers]

i’ve realized that my gender feels to personal. so parts of it can be described with one word for a certain gender, but the deepest parts of it can’t be put into a singular gender title, so from now on for those parts of my gender i am just using a certain flag to fit a certain description of my gender, not a gender name. here’s my gender and its flags.

my gender-

my gender is the divinity of the sun and moon portrayed together in the sky, the celestial reign of the realm of the moon and the night, and the realm of the sun and the day- and all in a sapphic, femme/butch way. my genderqueerness is the depiction of the sun, the sun’s realm, as a butch divine being who compliments the moon, the stars, the night sky, and their realm, a femme divine being. one’s genderqueerness is the personification of the night sky, or celestiality, as a femme divine being/goddess who compliments the god of the sun and its realm, a butch divine being/goddess/god. the divinely beautiful colors, concepts, aesthetics, and deep meaning of the sun and moon as each others other half, a butch sun god of the day who is the other half, the compliment, the love, of the femme celestial goddess of the night, and the glorious harmony of their two realms complimenting each other in celestial eternity. this genderqueerness is deep and infinite beyond words, yet these are the best words i could find to fit.

A flag with nine horizontal stripes, each of equal size except for the thick central stripe. From top to bottom, the colors are off-white, golden, orange, red, deep grey, indigo, royal blue, periwinkle, and off-white. A sun-and-moon symbol is in the center

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my gender is the sweet romance of the red rose beneath the deep blue divinity of the celestial domain of the night sky. it is the sweet taste of the divinity of the night sky, of the romanceful remedy that is the red rose's royalty. my gender is the gentle sweetness of a starcrossed love story, a story of love and roses written in the night sky. it is too sweet and beautiful for words, o that beloved sweet rose, o a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet, o the embrace of long lost lovers becoming one amongst the stars, together forevermore in the night sky.

A flag with nine horizontal stripes, the top and bottom twice as thick as the rest. The colors are black, navy blue, mid blue, royal blue, black, royal blue, mid blue, navy blue, and black. There are stars across the flag and red roses in the center.

these feel like the two deepest, richest, most personal parts of my gender, so im just going to be using the flags instead of pressuring myself into finding a singular label for them because honestly it induces so much dysphoria to feel like this beautiful part of myself is confined to a language that doesn’t have the capacity to communicate the depths of my soul. that’s why im sticking with genderqueer as an umbrella gender label, using my gender hoard for other parts of my gender, and using these flags/descriptions for the deepest part of my gender.

[just-an-average-rock]

Just got invited to a girls night and now I want to cry

[little-blurry-stars5]

Honestly feeling so great and alive right now because I babysit for two twins, right? And like- I JUST had this interaction and I feel like living and there's hope for the world so:

I was putting one of the kids to bed right? And she goes:

Hey, I have a question.

Me: what is it?

Her: do you feel like a boy that went to a girl or a girl that went to boy, or a half a girl and half boy or half boy and half a girl? Or totally girl or totally boy?

Me, confused but happy: sometimes I feel like a boy. Not very often like a girl, but very very few times.

Her: so are you fully a boy then?

Me: well, I feel in between a boy and a girl. Right in the middle.

And this little girl, who turned seven like, a week ago, starts running her little hands though my hair and says "so you're neither?"

And I grin with all my heart and say: yeah! You got it. I'm neither."

And I'm like, bursting with joy on the inside, because this little girl, this kid who nearly cried when we couldn't watch the next Ninjago episode, who sat in her little foam box on the couch, who I read a Wonder woman book to not even five minutes ago understands. She smiles and accepts me. And she grins at me as I tell her I am neither boy nor girl.

Please remember: hate is taught. Please, I beg of every parent or anyone with a family, please raise your kids like this. Because it is just the most incredible thing ever to have a little girl smile at you and accept you when so many other people don't. It gives me so much hope. Please, for the love of all that is precious, don't be hateful. Teach your children to be kind, and accepting. And to love. And to try and understand.

[die-brot-frau]

I think my hands look too masculine. you can see the veins and little bones

I've been told they look beautiful but idk