To my fellow transfurs: are your fursonas also transgender?
To my fellow transfurs: are your fursonas also transgender?
I've seen many people do this. I've seen fursonas with top surgery scars or bottoms reflecting the ones the authors have. Of course, it's nice to have our own fursonas represents who we are and to make them relatable to us.
But on the flip side, I've heard some transfurs preferring to have a cis fursona based on their preferred gender instead. They felt that their fursonas represents their perfect self, which for them would be if they were cis.
There's nothing wrong with that or making your fursona trans. Your fursona is yours to decide and it doesn't have to be tied to expectations about yourself; that's the best part about having a fursona!
But, how do you feel about it? If you are trans, do you also make your own fursona transgender?
Personally, my fursona is transgender much like I am. I usually like to put a little trans pin and write her as "trans" in her ref sheet, assuming that I'd ever take the time to draw her. While being trans isn't the biggest aspect of my fursona or an imporant detail for most of her art, it is an important part of her identity.
im between fursonas because the last goat doesn't really do a good job representing me these days. Im comissioning a new ref at some point of a different goat that will be trans. I enjoy having my fursona be in my own likeness.
Does your last goat match your current preferred gender, or are they based on your old/assigned gender?
Does your fursona always match your preferred gender?
Also, a goat fursona. Very interesting. I'm sure your new fursona will be the GOAT!
id like to say the old one was androgynous but it presents male. the main thing is that I didn't really put much effort into designing, I just was a very plain brown goat. I identified as a cis-male femboy back then, as it was an easier place for me to chill while i figured myself out and worked towards being in a safer space for me to present as less cis.
gender-wise I'm non-binary and take feminizing hormones to express an in-betweenness of gender. I don't know how I'll represent that fursona-wise... probably stare at a few selfies and try to figure out what body aspects and goals i can transfer over.
Im not really the GOAT im just a goat tbh. that spot goes to Ralsei, Asriel, Yagi, or Baphomet
My fursona was never trans, but she does present androgenous a lot of time, mostly because I can't get the right feminine shape for her all of the time. Phantom is a partial suit, so there is no bodysuit to pad out. I have started using kigurami padding to get my shape better, so that is helping. So I guess my fursona is genderflux since the degree of her femininity is constantly changing based on what I have with me for presentation.
Ah... to be honest, gender presentation does not necessarily imply gender identity. You can be feminine without being a girl, androgynous without being non-binary, or constantly shifting in presentation without being genderflux.
But there is nothing wrong with being genderflux if you want your character to be. Gender identity is something only you-- or your creator if you're an OC I guess-- can determine.
That is very true. I assume that the person's (or funsona's) gender identity is in line with how they are presenting, at least when at a con. But there are plenty of people who do not do this, and I am making a bad asumption. I guess it was drilled into my head too much "use the pronouns for how the person is presenting, use they/them when unsure".
I'm in the situation where I want my fursona to ID as trans (you know, so I can identify with her), but it wouldn't make sense for her to do so since she's a possessed plushie. Maybe she was possessed by a formerly male spirit and decided that possessing a feminine plushie and IDing as a woman was better for her? idk.
I do have another fursona that is canonically trans. She was created in a vat as a military experiment as a male bioweapons project, but ended up transitioning really quickly using super secret government science after the project fell apart and they let her.
she's a possessed plushie. Maybe she was possessed by a formerly male spirit and decided that possessing a feminine plushie and IDing as a woman was better for her?
Undertale lore! Or at least, it's very similar.
I do have another fursona that is canonically trans. She was created in a vat as a military experiment as a male bioweapons project, but ended up transitioning really quickly using super secret government science after the project fell apart and they let her.
Now that's a very interesting backstory. I, for some reason, imagine it like a furry version of Agent 47 wanting to transition, that'd be very interesting.
Undertale lore! Or at least, it's very similar.
Oh yeah, I see what you mean :3
I, for some reason, imagine it like a furry version of Agent 47 wanting to transition, that'd be very interesting.
I haven't actually played Hitman, so I can't confirm or deny that ...
My fursona was never trans, but she was always a girl. She represented the ideal version of myself, who turned out to also be a girl, heh.
Her species has changed, though. Originally she was just a dog of some sort. Then at some point I decided I wasn't afraid to break the mold a little bit, and now she's a zebra. That species change DOES coincide with my own gender identity journey, though.
(To be clear, I've just retconned Hanalei into being a zebra the whole time -- it is not the case that Hanalei herself was originally a dog (*) who transitioned into a zebra, haha)
(*) ADAB: Assigned Dog At Birth?
My fursona is trans, though ive not really incorporated much to show that. I used tondraw a lot of TG-TF pics with them, kind of as a way to explore gender stuff myself. But, when I finally transitioned, I kinda stopped and she's had a solidly female form since then.
I changed my sona from male to female when I transitioned IRL. However, I don't give trans characteristics to my sona. So one can think of it as my sona's reality was altered to have always been female.
I made my fursona trans without realizing it, because I was also trans without realizing it. They haven't really changed since then but my trans awakening did recontextualize many traits of theirs that I found odd or confusing, like their androgynous appearance and willingness to accept being dressed like the "opposite" gender. What I thought was a weirdly sensitive boy is actually a genderfluid transfem enby with she/they/he pronouns, which I don't think is exactly where my own gender identity is going to land but it feels close.
I started my transition back around 2003 and it is largely over. I seem to pass pretty well. I don't introduce myself to the world as trans any more and neither do my fursonas. Really they never have, and neither have I. Perhaps in part because "a trans person" was not a social space that really existed as a possibility to inhabit for an extended period of time the way it does now; you were a guy, or a girl, and if you were transitioning, either you passed, or you didn't, and in the latter case you were some kind of weirdo. People gave less of a shit about physical gender in the furry scene, which was nice.
My very first fursona was a guy, as I was at the time. I stopped playing him on Furrymuck shortly after experimenting with a female fursona around 1995. When I drew him after I'd started transition, she was a girl now too. With pink and blue fur. I never consciously decided on the color change, she just started having the transiest possible color scheme whenever I doodled her, which was kind of hilarious in retrospect once "my fursona is the colors of this queer identity flag" became A Thing. She's clearly gone through a gender transition but I've never described her as "trans".
The female fursona that replaced the first one has always been cisgender. Even if I draw her with a dick, or as a pan-gendered sex beast with every possible flavor of genitalia and two dozen pairs of boobs, she's not trans. She's just this lady dragon. A while back she started insisting on being drawn with a third eye, which maybe reflects some other stuff going on in my life.
It was certainly interesting to hear the perspective from an older trans person, from an era where being trans is largely unknown and considered weird.
I suppose it's nice to see how times have changed now, with how many people-- but especially so furries-- are now able to express their gender and being proud and accepting of who they are, even more so for non-binary people!
I never consciously decided on the color change, she just started having the transiest possible color scheme whenever I doodled her, which was kind of hilarious in retrospect
In retrospect, my old fursona also had a rather interesting color. Like you, he was male before I cracked my gender. Yet, I made my fursona white and pink because I wanted him to look more feminine. I don't even know why I wanted him to be feminine, and I wouldn't know until later.
The breaking point was when I made a second fursona that was femboy, by then my egg finally cracked.
"I made him white and pink because I wanted him to look femmier" sure is one heck of a thing to look back at and wonder how on earth you managed to avoid saying "oh I'm trans!" for so long. It's a big thing to come out with though, and has a lot of hard work following it, so it's really surprisingly easy to avoid saying it until suddenly it is obvious.
We tell ourselves a lot of things without realizing it.
We're both nonbinary, but I like to think of my yeen as not having been assigned any type of gender. They're just a scraggly animal. They don't care what pronouns get used for them, or what terms really get used for them either. I've always been pretty androgynous and get called both male and female terms daily by strangers who are just trying to figure out how to politely address me lol
They probably are trans but being a spotted hyena their biology is very different from ours, so I assume maybe they wouldn't have bottom dysphoria like I do? Maybe they had top dysphoria whereas I never have? I couldn't say
Idk. I admitted I was nb waaaay before I admitted to myself I was a furry so I don't have any pre-transition/pre-egg-cracking sonas, although I suppose if I think hard I did kinda mess around with it a bit. I tried making a bear character, but I didn't like the feelings that came up with a character representing me that ID's as a different gender than what I thought I was (lol) so I felt stuck making it a girl. It didn't really suit me and probably delayed my furry-ness by several years in retrospect