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.

  • FlowerTreeOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It was certainly interesting to hear the perspective from an older trans person, from an era where being trans is largely unknown and considered weird.

    I suppose it’s nice to see how times have changed now, with how many people-- but especially so furries-- are now able to express their gender and being proud and accepting of who they are, even more so for non-binary people!

    I never consciously decided on the color change, she just started having the transiest possible color scheme whenever I doodled her, which was kind of hilarious in retrospect

    In retrospect, my old fursona also had a rather interesting color. Like you, he was male before I cracked my gender. Yet, I made my fursona white and pink because I wanted him to look more feminine. I don’t even know why I wanted him to be feminine, and I wouldn’t know until later.

    The breaking point was when I made a second fursona that was femboy, by then my egg finally cracked.

    • Egypt UrnashEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      “I made him white and pink because I wanted him to look femmier” sure is one heck of a thing to look back at and wonder how on earth you managed to avoid saying “oh I’m trans!” for so long. It’s a big thing to come out with though, and has a lot of hard work following it, so it’s really surprisingly easy to avoid saying it until suddenly it is obvious.

      We tell ourselves a lot of things without realizing it.

      • FlowerTreeOPMEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        how on earth you managed to avoid saying “oh I’m trans!”

        I thought I was being contrarian, making male fursona with feminine color because I thought having normal colors would be too mainstream.

        To be fair, I made my fursona more masculine eventually… up until my egg crack when it started to turn 180°