User talk:Шизомби/Transsexual Fiction
A "cisnormative trope"?
[edit]The below quoted claims are in the minority for how they narrow the genre; most definitions don't require that genderswap feature cisgender characters. While there are certainly stories where the characters are very troubled by the transformation and never accept it, in many stories it is implied or stated that the character who is transformed had been subconsciously or consciously desirous of the change.
The transformations are also not always male-to-female or female-to-male. Very slow/gradual, or incomplete transformations may involve intersex or futanari characters; in some cases that proves to not be incomplete but rather the final state selected either by the person who caused the transformation or chosen by the person transformed. Are there any reliable sources that specifically note this fact? And while instances are relatively rare, and again sources may be hard to find for this, sometimes a cisgender person is swapped into the body of a person who is trans*, or one person is transformed into two separate people, or into fantastical beings of other genders.
“Genderswap, a genre originating in online fandom during the early 1990s, has always been the traditional and most popular type of genderfuck fan fiction, with transfic ('transgender fan fiction') not emerging as a distinct genre until almost two decades later in 2008. Like the overarching genderfuck genre, both of these sub-genres present narratives that undermine traditional notions of gender: genderswap fics feature cisgender characters whose biological sex is 'switched' during the story."[1]
“Genderswap, or genderbending is a trope in which a character, usually male, is transformed into a female body. Genderswap is a cisnormative trope. That is, it is invested in a gender binary, a system that only distinguishes between two genders, male and female. Unsurprisingly, genderswap relies on cisnormative language.”[2]
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[edit]References
[edit]- Beazley, Malory (2014). Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism (MA thesis). Concordia University.
- Koehm, Diana (December 15, 2018). Revision as Resistance: Fanfiction as an Empowering Community for Female and Queer Fans (Undergraduate Honors thesis). University of Connecticut.
Шизомби (Sz) (talk) 16:19, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Psychological Studies Regarding Specific TSF erotic literature
[edit]There could perhaps be a section on this or similar subject: Blanchard, autogynephilia, and Fictionmania; Jaimie Veale, Fictionmania, and Veale's "Attraction to Transgender Fiction Scale." However, it's essentially just those two authors and a small number of Blanchard-allied writers and Veale co-authors who've written about the matter. Additionally, summing up their psychological claims might prove difficult. Sources include: Blanchard 2010; Veale 2005; Lawrence 2008; Veale et al. 2008; Veale 2014; Violeta 2020. Шизомби (Sz) (talk) 23:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)