Fic: Beautifully Wrong (5A/12)

[ilovescarves89]

Media: Fic
Title: Beautifully Wrong 
Author: Luca
Rating: NC-17 (overall and to be safe - most of it stays in PG-13 territory)
Characters: ftm!Blaine, Kurt, Blaine's parents, Cooper, Sebastian, Trent, various ND members, non-major OCs.
Spoilers: Up to 3.22 to be safe. Canon up to 3.05 and largely canon compliant beyond that (with some notable exceptions

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

This is incredibly hot and moving. Your dialogue flows so naturally.

[ilovescarves89]

Thank you! Dialogue is one thing that's very important to me to get right, so I'm glad to hear you say that. :)

[cosmicwish]

Ahhhhhhh, so gooood. But so sad about how long we must wait!

[ilovescarves89]

Thank you! :)

[ext_457556]

this is perfect. friggin perfect.

[ilovescarves89]

:)

Question

[whitesheepcbd]

Once again, great update. Still really enjoying this story and looking forward to your next post

Re: Question

[ilovescarves89]

Thank you for your question. I could probably write a small essay on this topic, but I shall try to keep it brief and not get too soapboxy.

A lot of people assume that to be trans you must be straight - i.e. be attracted only to females for ftms and to males for mtfs - which is just not true. Trans people can be just as gay/bi/asexual/what-have-you as cis (non-trans) people. Gender and sexuality are two different things; one is who you want to go to bed with, the other is who you want to go to bed as. Unfortunately some people try to mix the two together when they shouldn't (e.g. the official treatment center in my country, which means that I and many many other transpeople I know can't get help through the official channels). Same goes for gender expression. Not all transmen are butch. Not all transwomen are femme. As far as "embracing everything about their new gender" - well, I for one certainly don't. There are plenty of things about the stereotypical male that I don't embrace or identify with, but then I'm pretty sure that goes

Re: Question

[whitesheepcbd]

Thank you for answering, and now that I realize how strongly you feel about this topic, I hope I didn't come across as narrow-minded. As I said, I fully admit to being ignorant on this topic and I'm just trying to understand.

You answered my initial question, but if I can ask one more, about the terminology. When the words 'transman' or 'transwoman' are used, do 'man' and 'woman' refer to the gender they started as, or the gender they're transitioning to?

Re: Question

[ilovescarves89]

No worries, the fact that you asked the question at all proves to me that you aren't narrow-minded. You could have said "This is garbage! A person can't possibly be trans AND gay!" - now THAT would have made me frown. xD Generally as long as people are willing to learn, it's all good in my book.

I understand how it could be confusing (I myself was once rather ignorant and confused about these things) but it always always always refers to the gender a person sees themselves as. Trans people are trying to get away from their biological gender, so it would make no sense to refer to themselves in terms of that. FTMs are transmen, MTFs are transwomen.

[bellaaurora]

I love it! I especially liked Blaine decided he wouldn't let his fears be the boss of him. Such a Blaine phrasing!

[ilovescarves89]

Ha, I hadn't even consciously thought of it as a particularly Blaine-ish phrasing, but I guess you're right! Glad you're still enjoying the story. :)