it’s 2:41 in the morning, you’re working the register of a Gotham City bodega when you see these three mentally disturbed lesbians patiently waiting in line, WYD?
Commission of my depictions of the Sirens by @frijolbean!!! their art is so rad and they are so rad, and I’m not gonna be normal about this for like at least a month 🫨😵💫😭💝🤪🤪🤪
you can read about them here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/32299885
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The headcanon idea for either (or both) of Harley and Ivy being trans is so special to me. Like. Pamela being trans adds so much angst and intrigue and context for her general hatred and distrust for men. Harley being trans and/or gender non-conforming as one of many ways she's seen as weird and crazy and probably served as a point of contention between her and Mistah J and fueled some of his abuse. Content warning for discussion of gender roles, misogyny, and transphobia.
Pamela having to deal with the socialization and treatment of being seen as a boy growing up, the disparity between how boys and girls are treated especially in white christian american suburbia, the stigma and backlash against a 'boy' liking girly things, seeing what the boys do and 'boys will be boys' and all the misogyny built in. Having an interest in flowers and plants and botany and gardening being seen as a girly thing as a kid for some reason. Showing emotions other than anger and arrogance and apathy being seen as feminine, which causes so many men to be emotionally constipated and have anger issues because they'll channel their sadness and upset into anger. Then women not being taken seriously because of their emotions, being treated as dumb and naive.
Pamela dealing with the prejudice and stigma and transphobia of trying to transition, being seen as a drag queen or gay for wanting to dress femme. Dealing with femininity and womanhood being seen as lesser, inferior, by men. Growing up being shoehorned into the role of 'man', in the specific cookie cutter way western society at large expects men to act, despite that specific way of existing being toxic even to the men who abide by it. How it harms men and women alike to conform to this mould. If cis men weren't socialized and expected to be such a toxic way, if trans men weren't treated as jokes or as just girls playing pretend, if trans men and trans women didn't have to feel the pressure to be hypermasculine/hyperfeminine and conform to misogyny in order to be affirmed and accepted.
Like, no fucking wonder Pamela hates mankind, emphasis on the man in mankind, if she was forced to live as one against her wishes. Seeing firsthand how male socialization and misogyny taints everything. She'd know exactly how to seduce and play men like fiddles, having to deal with that firsthand experience.
With Harley, her being trans and/or gnc in any way would definitely serve as a point of contention with the Joker. Oh I feel it in my bones he'd be a transphobic piece of shit. Even if he himself was trans, I just know he'd be transphobic and act hyper-misogynistic to compensate. Misgendering Harls and being generally slimy and transphobic to her whenever she ticked him off, only gendering her correctly when she's 'earned' it. Forcing her to dress hyperfeminine and wear that femme sexualized jester outfit and act a specific form of feminine in order to appease him and 'prove' she's what she says she is.
Even gymnastics is fucking gendered in how men and women train and what feats they do in their routines. Harley taking gymnastics either way would still be affected by gender roles and would build up muscle and flexibility differently depending on which role she's forced into. Women in gymnastics being far more flexible and strong in their legs, while men in gymnastics are far stronger in their arms and core, because men do a lot of routines involving the arms supporting their entire weight via upper body and women do more routines involving their legs. I'm not a gymnast so I'm not an expert this is just from my observations.
Harley's gymnastics would be affected by gender roles, her pursuit of academics is affect by gender roles (men working for doctor's degrees being taken seriously, meanwhile women often being assumed to have slept their way to success - highlighting an issue that people in power will take advantage of women as leverage in order for said women to get where they want), her being taken seriously as a villain and hero alike is affected by gender roles (being assumed as a sidekick as a woman, being taken more seriously as a standalone vigilant or villain as a man, seen as more threatening as a man than as a woman, being seen as deviant if she's gnc or otherwise 'clockable' as trans).
Harley only feeling safe exploring her presentation and gender again once she's free of the Joker, only to still deal with the stigma from the general public at large. But Ivy understands, Ivy gets it. And Harley gets Ivy.
Harley when she's still just Harleen, a psychiatrist, affirming Ivy and understanding and comforting her because she gets the trans experience, being trans herself. Ivy feeling safe with Harley/Harleen, safe to present and feel the way she wants. Trans Harley understanding that being trans is not a mental illness to be cured to return to the status quo. Understanding that dysphoria is more often than not a side effect of how society treats them.
Insert that meme of explaining trans issues to cis people as if you're having to explain it to toddlers and baby them, but explaining it to other trans people being like greek philosophers waxing poetic.
Harley and Ivy being trans but in different ways, and being able to give each other advice on things. Harley teaching Ivy how to do better makeup, Ivy teaching Harley different walking gaits to better present, them swapping each other's clothes, doing each other's HRT injections for them, taking care of each other and watching over their recovery when/if they get surgeries to better affirm themselves. Them knowing it's not arbitrary physical sex characteristics that make them who they are, it's their choices of making themselves who they want to be that matters.
They may be misfits, but they're misfits together, and they love and support each other.
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