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Author: Badger96

Sep 28th 2017 at 10:49:42 AM

Edited a couple of redundancies (the two eithers) and fixed some punctuation.

This does need its own trope, I think, since it is both TruthInTelevision (unfortunately) and TransIsNotGay (although some of us ''are'', it's still not the same thing).

Cribbing examples from the Gayngst page (let us hope I do not explode the markup):

*Marika from ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai''  shows deep displeasure wearing the male school uniform - saying it feels like she's going to a funeral - and stays home in bed crying when her voice begins to break. [[spoiler:Luckily she comes out to her mom soon afterwards and begins living full-time as a girl.]]

* In ''Film/MaVieEnRose'', a 7-year-old trans girl with a crush on a boy is misunderstood at every turn, tries to butch it up, fails, feels miserable, and attempts suicide.

* Nomi, the lesbian trans woman from ''Series/{{Sense8}}'', is in a very happy relationship and surrounds herself with the accepting San Francisco LGBT community, and she doesn't have any internalized trans- or homophobia. (Anymore - she explains to Lito that she did try very hard to be "normal" as a child / young teenager, until [[spoiler: an incident of brutally violent bullying from the boys at her swim club made her give up trying to be like them]].) But her estranged mother completely refuses to accept her as a woman, she has [[spoiler: a very scary run-in with the medical establishment not treating her like a sane adult able to make her own decisions]], and the trans-excluding radical feminist 'friends' of her girlfriend got pretty nasty towards her during a flashback scene.

* ''Webcomic/KhaosKomix'' has Tom, a trans man is afraid of letting Murfs know, much less sleeping with him, for fear of being seen as a woman