wankgate | 161: because most of the people in this hobby are godawful writers

Smellerbee and Avatar Kyoshi both being trans women because they don't present as traditionally feminine in certain ways.
Kyoshi because of how tall she is and for having the biggest feet of any Avatar before her.
Smellerbee because she is mistaken for a guy at first and has to tell Iroh she's a girl for him to recognize it since she's so unconventionally feminine.
Like, I'm glad trans women see themselves in the two, but the trans headcanon said for those two are regularly treated as actual canon when fans discuss the marginalized groups getting representation in the series. And I fucking hate that because it's saying a woman can't be so non-traditionally feminine (or even just exceptionally tall) unless they were assigned male at birth. Which is as equally fucked up as someone saying any man that likes girly things must be ftm.

The same thing goes for Samus Aran. I've seen people arguing that she's MtF because of similar reasons, and the idea that a woman can't be tall or non-traditionally feminine unless she's trans is just so, so fucked-up.

with samus it's a bit more complicated. iirc, there was an old interview from the nineties where some of the game devs made shitty jokes about how samus might be a "new half", which is outdated (and insulting) japanese slang for mtf transsexuals. when parts of the interview made its way to the internet, the tone was lost in translation, and tumblr fans mistook a transphobic, sexist joke for actual representation

I hate to tell you, but Bryke confirmed Smellerbee as trans last year or something like that. It was pretty dumb, and it reminded me of JK Rowling saying Dumbledore was gay after talk about HP died down just to garner more interest.

I think they confirmed Lin's butler or whatever, the earth kingdom guy who was evil and working for the book 3 villain, was also gay. Among others.

if you're talking about the post from the tumblr account "bryke-official" then you're wrong. That's a fake account and not either of Bryke's actual tumblr accounts.

The only thing Bryke has said on the matter is that people mistook Smellerbee as a guy and she firmly corrected them because she is a girl, but that she doesn't care about looking traditionally feminine and doesn't feel she should have to. That she's still a girl regardless of the assumptions made about her appearance.

The only thing that's canon regarding her gender is that Smellerbee is a girl. Both Trans or Cis can be seen as headcanons at this point. I'm just offended that because she doesn't care about conforming her appearance to the binary, the "she is be Trans*" is shoved down throats as canon.

"She is be Trans*" was either going to be "She is Trans*" or "She must be Trans*" and somehow I ended up with both at once. Sorry for the grammar fail. Any other fails, idc

http://vanny-more.tumblr.com/post/120081994896/itsrevydutch-nabrix-just-went-to-things-from

seems like smellerbee is nonbinary tho

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