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What to do with Joey's gender?
10 years ago
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Hi there! I am just mulling over some things and wondering how to deal with a few steps in my discovery of my gender. I have not talked about it super openly, but some of you may have noticed that I have specified my gender as demi-male/non-binary on my profile page for a while now and joined two FA groups representing that.
Since my fursona pretty much is a representation of me, I know for a fact that in light of me slowly coming out as my gender, Joey is non-binary too. That leads me to the problem of having art now of Joey that's tagged male (not just in my gallery, but in the galleries of artists I commissioned).
The thing I am wondering about is, should I change the gender tag for all of Joey's art? Having it tagged as male is not...wrong per se, I guess, since I do partially identify as male (hence demi), but I just dunno. I have thought about changing the tags to transgender or other/non-specified. The other thing I wonder about is whether I should contact all the artists I commissioned and ask them to change the gender tags on that art accordingly.
Part of what has me confused is that Joey's refsheet is getting a little dated. It still says that his gender is male. I am planning on getting it redone soon, so maybe I should wait until then. I am just really unsure what to do and I hope somebody can advise me on this. I think in the end I really do think it is important to change the gender tags of my character's art since it's increasingly starting to feel like using just 'male' for me is misgendering...I dunno.
Halp pls
Since my fursona pretty much is a representation of me, I know for a fact that in light of me slowly coming out as my gender, Joey is non-binary too. That leads me to the problem of having art now of Joey that's tagged male (not just in my gallery, but in the galleries of artists I commissioned).
The thing I am wondering about is, should I change the gender tag for all of Joey's art? Having it tagged as male is not...wrong per se, I guess, since I do partially identify as male (hence demi), but I just dunno. I have thought about changing the tags to transgender or other/non-specified. The other thing I wonder about is whether I should contact all the artists I commissioned and ask them to change the gender tags on that art accordingly.
Part of what has me confused is that Joey's refsheet is getting a little dated. It still says that his gender is male. I am planning on getting it redone soon, so maybe I should wait until then. I am just really unsure what to do and I hope somebody can advise me on this. I think in the end I really do think it is important to change the gender tags of my character's art since it's increasingly starting to feel like using just 'male' for me is misgendering...I dunno.
Halp pls
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Knowing people, someone's bound to get upset over something like this and/or say it's unimportant, but one's gender identity is nothing to be scoffed at. What's most important is that you are happy and comfortable with yourself (and your fursona). ^^
I went and changed the gender tag on the one piece of weremeteo nomming you to "Multiple Characters" so that its left as ambiguous as possible. (It was set to male before)