jitterbugjive:

diverse-mlp-headcanons:

A preview for the upcoming pony episode, Brotherhooves Social, was released earlier today and I need to warn everyone: huuuuge content warning for transmisogyny.

With minimal spoilers, the episode appears to revolve around a male pony ‘pretending to be a mare’, and the footage so far shows him crossdressing in a cartoonishly offensive depiction. It does not look to be handled with anything resembling decency, tact, or awareness whatsoever.

Im extremely upset that a show so dear to me would do this and I felt this needed to be spread. I will not be watching this episode and I felt I needed to let people know about this prior to the airing.

-Mod Rarity

FOR THE LAST TIME

DRAG=/=TRANS

DO NOT MIX THEM UP.

I am sick and tired of biggoted people claiming that drag is the same exact thing as trans when it’s NOT.

Drag is an art form, it’s ACTING. Men acting as women and women acting as men has been a thing for a long time. 

The difference between drag and trans is that people in drag are playing a character, and they have EVERY right to! 

Spike’s VA is a woman, are you going to call her transphobic for voicing a boy who’s constantly getting used as the butt of a joke?

Big Mac acted as a highly intelligent, highly caring, and VERY determined woman who was looking out for her family. He was trying to project his inner voice out as a character in order to give his sister what he thought was what she really wanted the most because she was so obsessed with her sister and sisterhooves social that he wanted desperately to be a part of that.

When I was little, I used to dress up and pretend to be different people because it made me feel more confident. And I’d dress up as either gender and claim to be a cousin or a distant family member of myself. Sometimes I’d ask younger friends to pretend I was related to them as well.

I am transgender, and I am also an actor who plays characters of both genders. Sometimes, I like to wear drag and I prefer people refer to it as ‘drag’. (If I wear a dress, because I’m a transman. I wear lolita dresses for example and doll makeup for conventions)

And I know plenty of people who do drag as an art form who do not identify as anything but the gender they were assigned.

Orchard Blossom is a fine character that Big Mac invented to be Applebloom’s perfect big sister. And guess what? Sometimes people (kids especially) WILL go to that length for their family.

And the sweetest thing about all of that was if you even bothered to watch, at the very end, Applebloom asks to talk to Orchard Blossom again, and Big Mac does so for her.

Not to mention that even if Big Mac was trans, the everyone let him compete. They were a little weirded out that they were still accepting of it. The reason why he was disqualified was because he destroyed half their competition equipment.