About
Transgender Headcanons refers to a series of fan made theories despicting fictional characters as transgenders. Mostly found on Tumblr, those theories have been criticised and mocked due the tendency of their creators to confirm the cannonity of those, often having a lack of support from the source material.
Origin
Spread
Some popular characters featured on trans headcanons include Danny Fenton from the cartoon series Danny Phantom, [9] Dipper Pines from the cartoon series Gravity Falls[8] and Link from the video game series The Legend of Zelda. [11]
Samus Is A Transgendered Woman
On September 1st, 2015, Brianna Wu and Ellen McGrody published an article titled “Metroid’s Samus Aran is a Transgender Woman. Deal With It.” on the feminist pop culture news website The Mary Sue.[1] In it, both claim that Samus Aran from the Metroid series is a male-to-female transgendered woman due to developer comments and instruction booklet excerpts.
Within 24 hours, the article had 2000+ comments and made #samus trend on Twitter. Criticism of the article focused on lack of sources and mistranslations. An anonymous user on Wikipedia, rumored to be Wu herself, started editing the Wikipedia article for Samus Aran to include references to transgenderism, and claiming those who were reverting the edits were “Gamergators” and “transmisogynists”. This used was quickly blocked and the article locked.
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External Links
[1]The Mary Sue (Archive) – Metroid’s Samus Aran is a Transgender Woman. Deal With It.
[2]/r/TumblrInAction – Tumblr users mock a transgender person for being uncomfortable with a headcanon
[3]Transcanon.tumblr – Main page
[4]Transheadcanons.tumblr – Main page
[5]Bandomtransheadcanons.tumblr – Main page
[6]Transsherlockworld.tumblr – Main page
[7]Tumblr – Search for trans headcanon
[8]Tumblr – Search for trans dipper
[9]Tumblr – Search for trans danny
[10]Tumblr – Tagged as transcanon
[11]Tumblr – Search for trans link