If you all want a trans pony character, look at Caramel.
Despite the technical reason being because it was early in the shows life when they had limited colour pallets and character models, it’s still a nice thought with that can actually be backed up that Caramel is trans and went through HRT.
It depends on whether the male is cute or not.
When Steven universe dressed in sadies clothes so she didn’t have to go on stage because she had bad anxiety, nobody yelled transmysogony. They yelled that Steven must be trans. It’s a shallow double standard and they don’t actually care for trans people, they just want to fetishize it.
Transmysoginy is not a man wearing a dress.
What transmysoginy is is people saying that a person cannot be trans unless they have the correct body shape or unless they can pass as their gender.
Saying a man simply wearing a dress is transmysoginistic is in itself transmysoginistic because it’s saying people with that bodytype, even trans women with unfortunate bodies, cannot be trans.
This episode is so sweet it’s got me tearing up. It’s hitting home for me SO HARD because of southern junk and family. It’s showing a freaking brother who is willing to dress in drag for his little sister because he wants so badly to make her happy, something not a lot of men would DREAM of doing for their families. It’s EXACTLY like Mrs. Doubtfire, which is about a man who dresses up in drag to pose as a nanny and be closer to his kids because he loves them so much and doesn’t want to lose them due to a divorce.
And all people can yell is “TRANS!”
I mean I don’t have a problem with trans people, y'all know that, but seeing the way this flimsy shit undermines the ENTIRE MORAL OF FAMILY DOING ANYTHING FOR EACH OTHER is just gross. Especially since at the end of the episode they go WAY OUT OF THEIR WAY to explain exactly why Big Mac did what he did. Seriously the fact that all people do is yell about how “Oh Big Mac wore a dress he must be trans!” or “Oh Big Mac wore a dress that’s SUPER insulting to trans people! It’s stupid bullshit.
If you look at Big Mac it’s obvious he’s not trans when he puts this on. He’s acting, going over the top with an old rich southern stereotype to get Apple Bloom that ribbon. And somehow this means he’s trans or offending trans people, which isn’t the point. By seeing only this people are missing the ENTIRE POINT of the episode, and quite possibly THE biggest development in Big Mac’s character EVER.
It’s sad what Tumblr makes shit out to be, really…
Trans woman here. Big mac in a dress is NOT offensive because he wasn’t making fun of us. Hell, the onyl reason people were acting weird around him is because they all KNEW it was him. If anything it was pro trans because despite them still being a little weird, they still let him do his thing. The only problems that came up was when he destroyed the equipment.
But that’s not even the point of the episode or something that was intentional. The whole reason for this episode was to show how much big mac feels left out. How he wants to be in the appleblooms hero sometimes.
according to tumblr*
Cute young male wearing dress to cheer up friend: TRANS CONFIRMED!! LOOK THIS CHARACTER WORE A DRESS ONE WHOLE TIME SO THEY ARE TRANS
large older male wearing dress to cheer up friend: TRANSMYSOGINISTIC. THIS CHARACTER IS CLEARLY A MALE IN A DRESS AND BECAUSE THE BODY TYPE AND IS THEREFORE MAKING FUN OF TRANS
*note: most people who say those two things aren’t even trans and refuse to listen to actual trans people
