TheLovelyFire
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Does Gender Bender fit if the main character was a hermaphrodite, but then become just a girl?
I think it depends on how you look at it or from the characters POV which they view themselves as if that makes sense to you.Does Gender Bender fit if the main character was a hermaphrodite, but then become just a girl?
While Gender Bender meant gender swap in the beginning, over time it became an all-encompassing term for any and all gender related genres because of the increase in popularity and need for explicit distinction between categories.Does Gender Bender fit if the main character was a hermaphrodite, but then become just a girl?
it includes both willing and unwilling, intentional and accidental, magical or scifi or fantasy or supernatural.I wonder what the actual gender bender genre is supposed to be, yeah? To me, having read a fair amount of gender bender and also being trans myself, I think it's something different from a character simply being trans or going through gender transition. I think that the gender bender genre is supposed to be about a character coming to terms with being in a gender role other than the one they know, whether they adapt to or reject that new role. So a story that features a character changing gender or sex is not automatically a gender bender by any means.
Edit: Ah, sorry if that was confusing. I just meant that a character going from one sex to another is not GB, it's just a story about a character who is trans. GB means that the character didn't intend to go from one to the other, didn't want it, wasn't prepared for it, etc - the genre is built around someone pretending to be a gender they aren't, or trying to fit in to a new gender while not knowing the rules.