Femboys are boys who dress, act, and/or look feminine.

Trans girls are girls who were assigned male at birth and identify as girls.

I hope this clears up any misconceptions on the subject.

  • @parmesan@lemmy.world
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    3614 days ago

    Ruka is probably my favorite trans character in media for the fact she tried to alter time to “become a girl”. Someone just needed to let her know about the magic of estrogen

      • @parmesan@lemmy.world
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        1214 days ago

        Maybe, it just seemed to me that she didn’t consider or know about the possibility of transitioning

        • @PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.caOP
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          714 days ago

          It’s possible I guess, maybe she also just didn’t want to wait for changes that would never be as good as if it had always been (yesterday is way faster than 2-3 years after all), and also when you change history, you change all people’s memories too.

    • djsoren19
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      13 days ago

      at the same time, I hate that so much of her motivation seems to be “I wanna date the MC and the MC is straight, so I must become a girl.”

      Steins;Gate is honestly so good I often forget it’s basically a harem VN. It’s not like I should be that surprised one of the girls is written that way, but I wish the Ruka arc focused more on how she felt about her own self and identity, rather than her infatuation with the MC.

  • knightly the Sneptaur
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    4114 days ago

    Sorry to confuse the issue, but I’m an AMAB enby that fits both and neither of these categories. =3

  • Another Catgirl
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    1914 days ago

    I’m a gender fluid trans girl except on Femboy Friday when I’m a femboy. My pronouns depend on the day of the week, but I always am okay with she/her.

  • miss phant
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    3414 days ago

    I don’t think Astolfo is a femboy cause they never refer to themselves as a boy and the japanese games use neutral pronouns. Big non-binary energy.

  • @asqapro@reddthat.com
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    813 days ago

    Top left - Astolfo (Fate/Apocrypha) (artist is pas / paxiti - https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3208688) (NSFW site)

    Bottom left - Nagisa (Assassination Classroom)

    Top right - Lily Hoshikawa (Zombieland Saga)

    Bottom right - Luka Urushibara (Steins;Gate) (artist is foge - https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1271211) (NSFW site)

    • @flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      613 days ago

      Yeah but he was a male forced to dress as a girl by his Mom (and on one occasion, the classmates). I don’t think he would want to be included as a femboy.

      • @buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, that’s why I found his inclusion odd. There are a plethora of better choices of actually femboys who dress and act like girls uncoerced.

  • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    013 days ago

    i… disagree? surely the only difference is what they identify as?
    sounds pretty shitty to only let people qualify as trans when they’ve actually transitioned…

    • 1ostA5tro6yne
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      surely the only difference is what they identify as?

      sounds like you already know the difference, where’s the disagreement? dudes can be fem without being trans gals

      • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        013 days ago

        the disagreement is that i think people don’t need to transition to be trans, they just need to identify as a different gender than they were assigned at birth.

        • @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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          113 days ago

          I think this is a misunderstanding, you and OP both agree on that point. OP just didn’t clarify that pre-transition trans people are still trans in the post lol

        • 1ostA5tro6yne
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          13 days ago

          i’m trans and i don’t disagree, i’m just confused how you’re getting “pre transition trans girls are femboys” (a statement that i agree is wrong and problematic) out of this meme. people who identify as boys but present femme aren’t trans girls either way, one layer of this meme is about them getting lost in the noise about trans women.

      • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        413 days ago

        right but then why define being trans as having transitioned? why not just say
        “femboys are boys who dress, act, and/or look feminine. Trans girls are girls who were assigned male at birth and identify as female”

        • @parmesan@lemmy.world
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          Transition can refer to a lot of different things, not just medical transition. if you start to ask others to call you by different pronouns for example that’s a form of social transition even if you’ve only chosen to come out to a few people

          edit: To clarify I’m not saying you need to have even done that step to be valid as a trans person, it’s just likely that no one would know you’re trans unless you’ve at least taken that step

  • @Goretantath@lemm.ee
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    713 days ago

    One of these is someone being forced to dress as the opposite gender because their mom is a nutcase btw.