trans man steve rogers though
steve meeting bucky as children and bucky really liked this little kid who wasn’t really into the same things his sisters were into, but instead wanted to hang out with bucky and do the same things bucky was doing
steve never liking wearing dresses and feminine clothes and his mother just gave him his father’s old clothes to wear because as long as he’s clothed it doesn’t matter, just gotta keep him warm
steve telling bucky when they’re teenagers that something doesn’t feel right and he doesn’t feel like he’s supposed to be a girl, he feels like he’s meant to be a guy, like bucky, and he doesn’t know why, and bucky tells him it’s no big deal, that he’s just steve, and he cuts steve’s hair like he cuts his own hair
steve trying desperately to join the war but he keeps getting turned away because he’s not right to be a soldier, bucky saying “because you’ve got nothing to prove” because steve wants everyone to see him as a man but nobody but bucky does
steve telling dr. erksine his secret and dr. erksine talks to howard stark and they figure it all out and the serum machine makes him into his own perfect man - and his body is a man’s, just like he always wanted
steve finding bucky again at that hydra base and bucky tells him he didn’t need to change his outside, his inside was all that mattered, and steve knows that, but he feels so good about himself
steve losing bucky and dr. erksine and now nobody knows his secret except howard, who swears he’ll always keep it to himself, and steve finds out that’s true when he wakes up in the future and nobody knows, not even tony stark
steve finding out that it’s okay to be who he is now, at least more okay than it was back then, more accepted in the public sphere, and he tells everyone one day because he wants to be a public figure who supports it
trans man steve rogers is my fucking lifeblood