Headcanoning real people is weird and you should be ashamed

i saw a tweet earlier that listed 'evidence' that both kurt cobain and richey edwards were trans women

and the evidence was essentially

- wore and enjoyed feminine clothing or makeup sometimes

- mentally ill (clearly entirely due to dysphoria, apparently)

- didn't come out because Society

i was gonna bookmark it to complain but i guess i forgot and now i can't find it again (i want to believe they deleted it) so here we are

liking feminine clothing means fuckall.  skirts are comfy.  the womens' section in shops is full of nicer patterns and colours the mens' section is boring.  if wearing trousers made a women a trans man there wouldn't be any women left

dysphoria severely fucks with your head but so does a lot of other things???  that's not the only reason someone could be going through things???  this makes zero sense

of all the early 90s rock musicians you pick 2 who went against everything and reason no one thinks they're trans solely because they didn't want to face society.  right.  to be fair i do kinda get this point, between realising i was trans and actually coming out i was a little bitch but also scared to come out...  so if you had actual evidence this would be kinda valid and especially 30 years ago

i loooove seeing trans representation but i don't want to force people into being my representation??  if i remember right it was a trans woman who posted this...  i can think of several very cool musicians who are Actually Trans Women

the other way around would be me pointing at literally any mentally ill woman in trousers and chanting one of us one of us

but all i see is 2 people who fucked around with gender a bit.  hell maybe they were trans.  i don't fucking know.  and i don't think it's anyone's business to decide things like that when we can't exactly ask them any more

and you don't have to look far at all to even more notorious genderfucker nicky wire, who has said in several interviews i don't feel like looking up at the moment that he's a cis man who happens to like feminine clothing and makeup.  take a brief glimpse into the world of fashion and look, men in feminine clothing.  take a brief glimpse into the world of goth and look, men in heavy makeup.  and i'm sure there's some people in either group with similar mental health issues

it's kind of regressing back to traditional gender roles either way.  you like skirts?  you have long hair?  you wear makeup?  woman.  i thought we were trying to break out of that

if you want to make someone trans that's what fictional character headcanons are for go get into a queer-dominated anime fandom or something

yap session over i'm gonna go outside now