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I've seen many people do this. I've seen fursonas with top surgery scars or bottoms reflecting the ones the authors have. Of course, it's nice to have our own fursonas represents who we are and to make them relatable to us.

But on the flip side, I've heard some transfurs preferring to have a cis fursona based on their preferred gender instead. They felt that their fursonas represents their perfect self, which for them would be if they were cis.

There's nothing wrong with that or making your fursona trans. Your fursona is yours to decide and it doesn't have to be tied to expectations about yourself; that's the best part about having a fursona!

But, how do you feel about it? If you are trans, do you also make your own fursona transgender?

Personally, my fursona is transgender much like I am. I usually like to put a little trans pin and write her as "trans" in her ref sheet, assuming that I'd ever take the time to draw her. While being trans isn't the biggest aspect of my fursona or an imporant detail for most of her art, it is an important part of her identity.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in the situation where I want my fursona to ID as trans (you know, so I can identify with her), but it wouldn't make sense for her to do so since she's a possessed plushie. Maybe she was possessed by a formerly male spirit and decided that possessing a feminine plushie and IDing as a woman was better for her? idk.

I do have another fursona that is canonically trans. She was created in a vat as a military experiment as a male bioweapons project, but ended up transitioning really quickly using super secret government science after the project fell apart and they let her.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

she's a possessed plushie. Maybe she was possessed by a formerly male spirit and decided that possessing a feminine plushie and IDing as a woman was better for her?

Undertale lore! Or at least, it's very similar.

I do have another fursona that is canonically trans. She was created in a vat as a military experiment as a male bioweapons project, but ended up transitioning really quickly using super secret government science after the project fell apart and they let her.

Now that's a very interesting backstory. I, for some reason, imagine it like a furry version of Agent 47 wanting to transition, that'd be very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Undertale lore! Or at least, it's very similar.

Oh yeah, I see what you mean :3

I, for some reason, imagine it like a furry version of Agent 47 wanting to transition, that'd be very interesting.

I haven't actually played Hitman, so I can't confirm or deny that ...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're both nonbinary, but I like to think of my yeen as not having been assigned any type of gender. They're just a scraggly animal. They don't care what pronouns get used for them, or what terms really get used for them either. I've always been pretty androgynous and get called both male and female terms daily by strangers who are just trying to figure out how to politely address me lol

They probably are trans but being a spotted hyena their biology is very different from ours, so I assume maybe they wouldn't have bottom dysphoria like I do? Maybe they had top dysphoria whereas I never have? I couldn't say

Idk. I admitted I was nb waaaay before I admitted to myself I was a furry so I don't have any pre-transition/pre-egg-cracking sonas, although I suppose if I think hard I did kinda mess around with it a bit. I tried making a bear character, but I didn't like the feelings that came up with a character representing me that ID's as a different gender than what I thought I was (lol) so I felt stuck making it a girl. It didn't really suit me and probably delayed my furry-ness by several years in retrospect

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm the same way with my sona who is a yeen. Non-Biyeenary united!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also an (transfemme) enby with a (plush) yeen sona x3. And I know another yeen enby too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeens 🤝 enbies; it's just meant to be

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it really is!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

im between fursonas because the last goat doesn't really do a good job representing me these days. Im comissioning a new ref at some point of a different goat that will be trans. I enjoy having my fursona be in my own likeness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does your last goat match your current preferred gender, or are they based on your old/assigned gender?

Does your fursona always match your preferred gender?

Also, a goat fursona. Very interesting. I'm sure your new fursona will be the GOAT!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

id like to say the old one was androgynous but it presents male. the main thing is that I didn't really put much effort into designing, I just was a very plain brown goat. I identified as a cis-male femboy back then, as it was an easier place for me to chill while i figured myself out and worked towards being in a safer space for me to present as less cis.

gender-wise I'm non-binary and take feminizing hormones to express an in-betweenness of gender. I don't know how I'll represent that fursona-wise... probably stare at a few selfies and try to figure out what body aspects and goals i can transfer over.

Im not really the GOAT im just a goat tbh. that spot goes to Ralsei, Asriel, Yagi, or Baphomet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

that spot goes to Ralsei, Asriel, Yagi, or Baphomet

Don't forget Rauru! x3