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Serac (Troper Knight)
2021-02-16 07:49:02

It's on Tropes Needing TRS, but we've been kind of hesitant to actually go through with it considering the backlash we got from cutting Bi The Way and Badass Gay.

But yeah, "a character is trans" may or may not be People Sit on Chairs, but Trans Tribulations exists and does not have any concerns over its tropeworthiness.

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TheMountainKing Since: Jul, 2016
2021-02-16 09:10:00

Personally I'm not hesitant because of backlash, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

rjd1922 Since: May, 2013
2021-02-16 14:04:17

A thread that suggested cutting it citing Bi The Way wasn't opened due to lack of evidence. As of now, Transgender is a trope.

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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2021-02-16 14:06:47

The evidence needed, by the by, would be a wick check proving the trope is being used just as "character is Trans".

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BXM Since: Jan, 2021
2021-04-15 09:18:57

What lack of evidence? If "Character is X" isn't tropeworthy anymore then this shouldn't be an exception. It's clear it's a backlash thing.

wingedcatgirl MOD (Holding A Herring)
2021-04-15 10:04:04

Evidence that wicks to the page are, in fact, being used as simply "a character is trans", and not something that's actually tropey.

Even though "character is trans" is chairs on its own, there absolutely are various depictions of trans people that are tropes, and a wick check would help find them.

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Serac (Troper Knight)
2021-04-15 10:04:17

^^ It doesn't matter if everyone knows that it's chairs. If you want to post a TRS thread, you need to have actual evidence that it's being used as chairs, and the standard way to provide it is a wick check, but the thread didn't have one.

I'm sure a lot of examples are just "This character is trans.", or they're misplaced examples of Trans Tribulations that discuss how it affects the plot and the other characters, but you need to prove that that's how it's used on the wiki before cutting it can be discussed.

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