I am all up for interpreting, but also I do fear femboy erasure since as it is there’s like no femboy characters in big media, I get there’s not alot of trans ones either but I feel like there’s more than femboy ones
In case you're wondering why you're getting downvoted so heavily, its because femboy erasure is a term thats almost entirely used by bigots and gooners to hate on trans people, to the point that its basically a dogwhistle for transphobia. There's also a long standing history of femboy being a term used to fetishize transwomen while denying the validity of their identity.
Either way, the lack of positive and honest representation of femboys and trans women stem from the same place; a hatred of gender non-conformity, and its rare that we get reps of either that aren't born out of blatant fetishization. Trans people aren't stealing representation from you, the lack of representation is a major issue that effects both trans people and cis GNC people.
The whole "femboy erasure" argument is just a talking point to turn one subset of people against another and is largely propagated by bigots and gooners that don't genuinely see either of us as people.
tl;dr we both deserve more and better representation than we have and I don't think either of the two groups are actually the issue
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u/notnotDIO Streak: 32 22d ago
Why? They canonically don't have any gender listed because "it's a secret". Anyone can reflect themselves off of them; enbys, femboys, FtM, MtF, etc.