Y'all, can I say how much I hate the trope of "Regular human who wants to join the Xmen, but can't, because they weren't born a mutant"? Really roughs up against my ideas surrounding identity and autonomy.

transmedicalism 

Like, I'm reading a lot of this fiction as a trans allegory, and the whole idea of "You can't be X if you don't experience Y" REALLY reads as "You can't be trans unless you experience dysphoria".

These kinds of stories often turn into a "Oh, this person is passionate about their identity being defined as X... HOW PATHETIC" and it's the wooooorst.

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