I’m a transwoman (she/her pronouns) - My Tumblr (I post on this one way more than my “primary” tumblr)
This is my Aisaka Taiga cosplay from Toradora! at Katsucon 2013.
Oh, and I can’t decide on a cosplay for Otakon this summer, sooooooooo if anyone wants to help me decide, it would be really cool~ ^-^
I’m gendersquare, and I cosplay Dirk Strider from Homestuck.
I identified as nonbinary for nearly two years, but have recently come to terms with myself as a trans guy. My pronouns are he/him.
Recent cosplay from Anime Boston!
On Friday I was Hanamura Yosuke from Persona 4, and then on Saturday I was Kureshima Takatora from Kamen Rider Gaim.
Transmale, he/him pronouns. This weekend was the first time I’ve shaved off my goatee/mustache and sideburns since starting T in 2009. This plus the face reshaping makeup I was wearing lead to me being misgendered a few times, but I was having too much fun to let it hurt me!
Photography credits: Midnight Channel Photography, visiverse, platinum-the-trinity, and bonjourentrez.
For more pictures of these cosplays (and my other cosplays), you can check out my Cosplay Page!
Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians Photo credits to: Ailes Noir Cosplay Photography Link to my cosplay page: Z Master Cosplay Transguy, he, him, his
This is my Axel cosplay from Kingdom Hearts I’ve been cosplaying for a few years now and he is one of my favorite to cosplay I identify as male (transguy) he, him, his pronouns :) I have a few cosplays I would like to submit so expect more! :D
Tidus from Final Fantasy X Photo credits to Ailes Noir Cosplay Photography :) Check out my cosplay page: Z Master Cosplay I am a transguy and go by he, him, his pronouns :)
Tsuna Sawada from Katekyo Hitman Reborn Link to my cosplay page : Z Master Cosplay Transguy, he, him, his
I’m Max, a transguy (he/him). Recently I cosplayed the Sufferer from Homestuck. This photo was taken at ROFcon 2014, Virginia Beach, VA.
I’m an AMAB genderqueer non-binary person. My pronouns are zie/zim/zir and I love Sailor Moon. I hope to one day cosplay Sailor Uranus, the most genderfuck character of the lot, but for now, my Sailor Moon cosplay will have to do.
Hi, I’m Cory. Genderqueer-they/them/their. And this is Princess Batman! (from, you know, Batman)
This costume was inspired by this post. I tend to present as masculine, so when I wear costumes, I like wearing feminine stuff. You can see the full photoset here.
so-i-did-this-thing cosplaying as Hermann Gottlieb from the movie Pacific Rim. FTM, he/him/etc.
It’s really weird for me to not have a beard these days — I’m actually a little self-conscious clean-shaven. But I enjoy this character too much!
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Character: Killer Frost from Young Justice
This is one of my first attempts at cosplay last year. As you can see, the body makeup was starting to come off at that time. I identify as a woman (specifically as a trans woman) and use female pronouns.
Thank you for the submission! Just please submit as a picture instead of a link next time, thanks!
-Mod S
I am a trans woman (she/her) and my girlfriend is a genderqueer trans woman (any). We are cosplaying Velma and Marcy (AKA Hotdog Water) from Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated at the 2013 Comicpalooza in Houston.
I’m Ronen, non-binary transmasculine type person, and I use either neutral (any kind) or he/him/his pronouns.
Here I am as the 10th Doctor last year at last year’s Chicago Comic Con, rocking out with a GuiTARDIS!
I am MtF and prefer her/she pronouns. This is my very first cosplay ever. It's from Aniwave 2013 and I am a gijinka of Skitty from Pokemon. My boyfriend came as Wailord and we made an egg, we don't know how it got there...
My name is Mary, I'm a 26 year old MtF Transwoman AMAB, and I prefer female pronouns. This is me cosplaying Alice from Alice in Wonderland. So alice is one of my favorite characters but I've always been scared to cosplay her. I'm 5'9" and it just seems I cannot pull off cutesy characters. But I've realized that it simply doesn't matter. Do you love the character? That's all that matters. My tumblr can be found at gothic-ouji.tumblr.com I plan to wear this at Anime Boston 2014.
In response to your AB 2010 experience (I've head the story before but I didn't put two and two together that it happened to you :[ I also completely forgot you ran this! SMALL WORLD)
Same thing happened to me at AWA this year, I was misgendered in front of what was probably the largest gathering of western Touhou fans yet (by someone who has known me and my status for YEARS) and it stung, a lot :\. Worse, I tried to correct him the first time he screwed up and called me a guy and kept on going!
Granted I'm pretty open about my status online when asked about it, but I don't like advertising it and would prefer it not to be the only thing people know about me. I've been active in the online Touhou community for a very long time, but I was extremely shy and anxious about doing things in person. I didn't even start hanging out with the fandom I supposedly was a major leader until AnimeUSA 2011, despite regularly going to conventions since 2005. This year was the first year I actually started cosplaying (which coincided with the first year I presented female in public, gee), and I had a LOT of anxiety built up I was trying to shed. Add onto the fact this was literally the largest Western Touhou fan gathering ever, along with my very first time officially as press, and I was already on the edge stress wise.
To have this thrown at me almost broke me. It was EXTREMELY stressful to the point I had trouble coping with the rest of that weekend. Now a crowd of hundreds (if not thousands) got to see me introduced as a guy. It took everything I had to not break down in tears right at that moment or make a scene. There were more than a few times that weekend where I had to stop in the middle of the hallway and cry because I was just so done with everything. I try not to think about it and hope when people meet me they either weren't there, or if they were, don't remember that part :\
I've had my trans status weaponized and used against me so many times. I routinely get hate mail and death threats. It's gotten a lot easier to deal with as my confidence in myself has grown, but for a very long time I wanted to hide from the world, which is ironic considering things like anime and gaming were a major escape from an even more dangerous reality. I talk about my status not because I enjoy it (I really really don't, I'd rather not talk about it at all), but so other people won't end up having to deal with the volume of crap I had to.
I ended up writing a huge word vomit on it right after the AWA incident if anyone's interested in reading it.
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/2013/10/03/its-a-trap-gender-etiquette-in-the-fandom/ (I apologize if the title is offensive, I couldn't resist the play on words :P)
Please read through the comments as well as I went into much further detail answering questions and such.
Thank you for this! I actually tried cosplaying from Touhou once. The misgendering started almost instantly. Needless to say, I wore that costume for about 45 minutes.
-Mod S
