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athousanderrors) wrote2020-06-29 12:02 pm
athousanderrors) wrote2020-06-29 12:02 pm
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Genderfluid Nymphadora Tonks: AKA, the best use JKR could think of for a freaking *shapeshifting spe
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I mean, as some people have pointed out, it behooves us to be careful not to equate a presentation of biological sex with gender – ie, Tonks doesn’t have to give visible signs of masculine secondary sex characteristics to use male pronouns, etc – so it’s good to be careful there. But I was approaching it also from the POV of like…if you can make your body do pretty much anything you want but you’re still dealing with the rest of the world’s preconcieved notions, I do think your relationship to gender might be somewhat informal to start with.
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I mean, as some people have pointed out, it behooves us to be careful not to equate a presentation of biological sex with gender – ie, Tonks doesn’t have to give visible signs of masculine secondary sex characteristics to use male pronouns, etc – so it’s good to be careful there. But I was approaching it also from the POV of like…if you can make your body do pretty much anything you want but you’re still dealing with the rest of the world’s preconcieved notions, I do think your relationship to gender might be somewhat informal to start with.
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