Hi, how is your day going? I recently got into a bad fight with one of my Beta readers. Apparently they told me that a Trans Male character should never have long hair (because my MC has long, black hair which is his trademark, and I love men with long hai

Whaaaaaaaaat. No no no, you are completely 100% correct. Hair, clothes, body shape, appearance, voice, habits, hobbies, mannerisms, etc… - absolutely noneof these things define gender, are gendered, or are limited by gender.

Setting standards for what anygender“should” do/have/look like is horribly sexist, and setting different standards for trans people from their cis counterparts is transphobic. So not only is your beta wrong, they’re wrong twice, and they’re perpetuating a really harmful st...