Transgender/intergender dolls?

I always refer to my genderfluid characters as 'They/them' there are also some new fangled Trans* pronouns out there for those who are not comfortable with traditional gendered pronouns. I can't think of them off the top of my head but I'm sure you can find them via google or on Tumblr.

 

That occurred to me too.

I have thought about a 2nd hand doll I think would make a pretty girl but actually has boy parts. My thought was to dress her up, never say anything about it and maybe find a girl body in the future. I don't think the doll would mind.

 

I think sometimes a person can take a doll through something that they themselves can't do for various reasons. It can be a form of expression for them. I also think it is good if it can bring greater understanding about being transgender or intergender. Maybe educating people about the difficulties and suffering can be expressed through their dolls story. I also noticed on this thread there are many misconceptions and the discussion here may help clear those up.

 

I don't have any trans-gender members of my crew, but I do have a pair that are supposed to be neither male nor female creatures (They're genderless air elementals... zephyrs). I just ended up using fairly non-muscular male bodies for both of them. I didn't have an interest (or the tools-) to make major sculptural mods to female bodies, so that seemed like the best compromise.

I guess having them on male bodies and giving them both male names (Galen and Ptolemaeus) lead to my usually referring to them with male pronouns, though that isn't entirely accurate for the characters as-written.

 

She's not here yet, but my character Tyler is male-to-female and canonically she's pre-op so still has a male body, I'm waiting for her to arrive and have gotten a male body for her as it is the right body for her in canon as she comes from an area where such surgeries are unheard of. I have had her character for several years and am only now getting her as a doll.

 

I have a bunch of Trans and Intersex characters, but none in doll form /yet/.
But I am tempted, if I find the right sculpt, to have my character Roman as a doll.
Roman uses male pronouns and the upperbody of a male and lower body of a female. Meaning he has a vagina not a penis but the rest of him is basically all male. I could also use my werewolf Lyall... but Roman would be more fun to clothe 'cause he's an addict and stuff...

 

I'm cis-female but I'm known as the "alpha male" or at least was until I started dating my current bf. I planned on getting a doll for a character who doesn't understand gender eventually. Since I'm new to the hobby I'm just figuring out which doll sculpts I like and which sizes for my characters. My close friend is trans and our mutual friends are having a hard time understanding. I'm hoping to create a story or character that can help educate them and others about the issues some people face. I live in a conservative area and a lot of people around me say such ignorant things that it makes me deo upset! I hope my dolls will help me be able to communicate my thoughts and feelings better than I can myself.

 

my impldoll idol Tony is a total hunk of a man, but I've never managed to find a style I like for him - he has a very gentle, sweet character and is innocent, not sexually active or aware that he's a sexy hunk - I just can't see him in plaid shirts and jeans somehow (he's naked at the moment) I was thinking this morning maybe he wants to wear white/pink/lace/frills! And yet when I bought him about a year ago, he was going to be a MAN *beats chest and bellows a war-cry* ^_^ But even when he had brown hair, the only shirt he 'wanted' to wear was one with pink flowers on - and he was mocked for this can you believe it! I just never saw any clothes that were right for him otherwise. He had a girlfriend for a while but nothing happened (see the pics on my flickr and he just looks a bit confused by it all LOL) She's left anyway - gone to live someplace else now....

I know a young 'guy' in real life though, who is gender neutral and been a lot happier since admitting it (initially 'he' thought he was trans, but decided not to swap one set of sexual stereotypes for another, so now he's just neutral - and bisexual). There is a lot more support and acceptance here in the UK though, for alternative lifestyles in general - he has a great bunch of friends (trans, bi, gay or gender neutral) who are the nicest young adults I've encountered. They have a social group several nights a week, do crafts, have 'dress-up' nights, go to bars and clubs, watch movies, do 'outdoorsy' stuff, share 'family' meals (as so many of these kids are rejected by their real families sadly).

They also perform in a drama group which tours schools educating teenagers about gender identity and prejudice, which is a fantastic idea I think. They have such a great time as a group I tell him I'm tempted to declare myself trans, just so I can join in the fun! But no - of course I couldn't join in anyway, as there is one 'ism' which will never be banished - Ageism! Meanwhile here's Richard (impldoll Tony) wondering what to wear....

impldoll Tony by Resin Rehab, on Flickr

 

My boy is more androgynous/intergender than he is anything else (I say he/him because that's the sculpt). Mostly I think he's just a-ok with the possibility of crossdressing :3c

 

I'm aware of zhe (ze).

Some individuals also opt to use Mx. as an honorific in lieu of Mr., Mrs., or Miss.

 

A lot of my dolls, actually. (I'm nb so of course I do. >u<) Alistair identifies as agender, a character who will be coming home soon is genderfluid, my Volks girl identifies as a trans girl, and Nevyrous is nonbinary (hasn't identified with a gender, but knows he's nb).

 

My incoming mnf mir Mihpares will be nonbinary and i myself am genderfluid.

sent through the forests

 

I have a DC Bella on a boy body coming in who is agender, so I'll be modding the bits off the body. The character, Threnn, is biologically female but since I won't be posting pictures of them naked, I see no reason to further modify female parts onto the doll - I think it would just complicate the issue anyway.

The funny thing about Threnn is that they came from a story I started writing on a strict deadline, and I couldn't decide if I wanted the main character to be male or female, rather using them as a window to showcase the settings and events (kind of like the Silent Protagonist from videogames). They never even had a name until near the end of the book. I figured I'd just fix it all later on.

Well...the end of the book came around, and Threnn was still simply Threnn. A flashback revealed that they were biologically female (as well as revealing their name), but by the point in time where the book took place, that had become entirely irrelevant to who they were. They had become simply the gangly, nameless Bard.

 

My Kid Dollmore Ujee, who for the moment is named Achates, is definitely genderfluid. While they are definitely on a male body, they don't identify strongly with either gender. They don't wear particularly feminine clothes, but then again, I myself don't think of jeans and long-sleeved tees as being exclusively masculine wear.

 

It's pleasing and surprising to see a number of openly trans or other-wise gendered dolls and doll owners speaking up. I have three dolls that fit into these categories currently in house. I also have a Transmale doll in the planning stages, with a sculpt (Luts Delf Nihal) picked out, but I'm aiming for next year for him.

Currently in house I have Ichigo who is Agender, but for whom I use male pronouns. Ichigo's body is not gendered, as he is a Volks Ko-Tenshi Tsubaki.


I also have Apollo (Soom Shale) who is BiGender, for whom I also use male pronouns. I had Osaka paint him up with a somewhat feminine style to reflect this.


And finally I have Robbie who has a relatively minor intersex disorder. He's barely on the spectrum with partial androgen insensitivity. Basically it translates to a slight frame for him, minimal body hair if any, and a look of being stuck halfway through puberty. Robbie is a Volks School C head on an SD10 boy body, which works very well for this look.


Honestly he shouldn't have the goatee but that part of his character didn't firm up until after his faceup so when next he is painted he'll be done without facial hair and I'll call it good.


It's always a tricky thing to have dolls with conditions you may or may not have, but I think done respectfully, with proper research it certainly isn't out of bounds. Many of us are in the LGBTetc family, which gives us a background on some of these conditions, and some of us even have the conditions ourselves, or family members or friends with these conditions, and I think as long as everything is done with due respect and research it should not be an issue.

No one particularly knows that Ichigo is Agender, that Apollo is BiGender, or that Robbie is technically intersex, because these are just aspects of the characters. Important to me, but not something that will really matter to the average viewer.

 

My Ziggy is gender fluid. I've been calling her Ziggy-F, and him Ziggy-M in my head. I currently use female pronouns since she doesn't have any male clothes yet. She's a 3,000+ year old Time-Lord royal and has regenerated as both male and female, so the line is massively blurred. She chose her name when she came to Earth specifically to be neutral, and what she wears/is referred to all depends on what she feels like that day. I just have to hunt down something to make a short rainbow-colored wig for Ziggy-M.

 

I have a gender queer (Or gender fluid?) doll planed! Their name is Tate and they are a pirate! :3

 

I have a doll coming that will be non-binary, since I'm myself I thought was time. I also have two dolls that will be fluid and I have being thinking of doing a transgender as well just didn't decided how I want to represent them yet. But if I did I would want them to be on their right body so the characters would be happy with their body, I know body disphoria and is a horrible feeling and I wouldn't want a characters suffering with it.

 

My BJD's name is Adrienne and he uses he/him pronouns. He's Androgyne and Genderfluid/non-binary. :>

 

This is quite interesting to me to read through. I have one particular character, who, depending on the story I'm writing, has changed genders. In his original story line and how I default think of him, he is a cis male. However, when I re-worked a different story line, he revealed to me that in that particular world, he is a trans male. Now I'm working on a new plotline where she's actually a cis female. I have him in one doll-form as a cis male, again, because of how I default that to him.

Lately I've been toying with the idea of getting a second doll in a different size for the same character and I can't decide which version to go with. I'm really tempted to go with a girl as I have only a few girl dolls compared to boys and I really want a girl in that particular size. Still, then I wonder if I later on decide to sometimes portray him as his trans self, is it somehow offensive for him sometimes be a trans male and sometimes a cis female? I know the doll itself has nothing to do with different stories I have, but it's easy to feel paranoid.