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visibly_trans
📅 Updated:2025-09-08
🕒 Created:2017-09-20
🆔 ID:17732
Description
When a character is clearly, visibly transgender – that is, when there is evidence that they are undergoing, or have undergone, surgery and/or hormone replacement therapy to present as a different sex.
This is not a gender tag. It exists separately from, and neither affects, nor is affected by, the gender tags
Things that might make a character `visibly_trans`, especially when seen together:
- Mastectomy scars on what we tag as an andromorph
- Orchiectomy scars (see eunuch) on what we tag as a gynomorph
- Vaginoplasty scars on what we tag as female
- Mammoplasty scars
- An enlarged clitoris
- Breast binding, often with tight clothing such as sports bras, breast binders, or bandages
- Penis tucking, however use caution with this and only tag tucking as visibly trans when it's very obvious (i.e. a character wearing a gaff.)
As always, use your best judgment. For example, mastectomy scars don't make a character trans if there's evidence in the post of breast cancer.
Things that do not make a character `visibly_trans`:
- Statements from the character owner or artist (see trans_(lore))
- How the character is tagged in other posts
Not to be confused with:
- Gender transformation, which is a short-lived process, often supernatural
- Tag group:genders
