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.
I started my transition back around 2003 and it is largely over. I seem to pass pretty well. I don’t introduce myself to the world as trans any more and neither do my fursonas. Really they never have, and neither have I. Perhaps in part because “a trans person” was not a social space that really existed as a possibility to inhabit for an extended period of time the way it does now; you were a guy, or a girl, and if you were transitioning, either you passed, or you didn’t, and in the latter case you were some kind of weirdo. People gave less of a shit about physical gender in the furry scene, which was nice.
My very first fursona was a guy, as I was at the time. I stopped playing him on Furrymuck shortly after experimenting with a female fursona around 1995. When I drew him after I’d started transition, she was a girl now too. With pink and blue fur. 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 once “my fursona is the colors of this queer identity flag” became A Thing. She’s clearly gone through a gender transition but I’ve never described her as “trans”.
The female fursona that replaced the first one has always been cisgender. Even if I draw her with a dick, or as a pan-gendered sex beast with every possible flavor of genitalia and two dozen pairs of boobs, she’s not trans. She’s just this lady dragon. A while back she started insisting on being drawn with a third eye, which maybe reflects some other stuff going on in my life.
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!
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.
“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.
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°