Welcome indeed, it's always nice to see cute & pretty art of trans gals <3
Futa tag does not implies trans, and it also works otherwise. By the power of god and anime, characters can have both in art without needing any surgical intervention, unless specified by the artist.
Futa tag does not implies trans, and it also works otherwise. By the power of god and anime, characters can have both in art without needing any surgical intervention, unless specified by the artist.
okay but my mind goes to irl references, not the fetish invention to distance girls with dicks from trans women or intersex folks.
I don't really look for that tag bc it's poorly applied bc taggers don't follow tag what you see very often regarding all the variety, as well as other reasons.
okay but my mind goes to irl references, not the fetish invention to distance girls with dicks from trans women or intersex folks.
I don't really look for that tag bc it's poorly applied bc taggers don't follow tag what you see very often regarding all the variety, as well as other reasons.
The world and term futanari existed long before trans even became a thing or was thought up by anyone.
If anything between the two of them trans would be the fetish invention not the other way around.
The world and term futanari existed long before trans even became a thing or was thought up by anyone.
If anything between the two of them trans would be the fetish invention not the other way around.
I mean transgender people have existed for a long time. If it feels like it "became a thing or got thought up" more recently, it's because a lot more of the issues relating to them have come more into prominence. Furthermore, transgenders aren't a fetish invention. The fuck.
[ふたなり] is just the Japanese word for hermaphroditism and on danbooru is simply the tag used to describe people who exhibit this. From a historical standpoint, it may very well have been the case that this word would have been used to describe people who were transgender or intersex in Japan during those times.
I mean transgender people have existed for a long time. If it feels like it "became a thing or got thought up" more recently, it's because a lot more of the issues relating to them have come more into prominence. Furthermore, transgenders aren't a fetish invention. The fuck.
[ふたなり] is just the Japanese word for hermaphroditism and on danbooru is simply the tag used to describe people who exhibit this. From a historical standpoint, it may very well have been the case that this word would have been used to describe people who were transgender or intersex in Japan during those times.
Early attested case I can find was this 12th* century Japanese picture scroll depicting a hermaphrodite person, with the text mentioning 二形 (probably not pronounced the same back then, but it's conceptually the same and the same kanji is also sometimes used to write futanari in kanji). Though, to clarify, context-wise the picture scroll is part of a series depicting... people with diseases and "congenital disorders" (e.g. someone with a cold, someone with an eye disease, someone with multiple anuses), and the futanari in question is presenting as a male merchant.
(*Could also be 13th or 14th century, some people dispute the date, I think.)
So, not quite used in the same meaning as modern "futanari" is currently used. Though definitely related and is most certainly the origin, with "futanari" originally used for hermaphrodite persons in the generic, literal "two forms" sense.
This topic isn't hard to google, but here's the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history Some notable examples worth further reading include emperor Elagabalus of Rome, Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, and Karl M. Baer, all of whom I found by skimming the site.
It shouldn't be surprising that transgender people have existed historically since being unsatisfied with one's assigned gender doesn't seem to require anything new. In particular, we should probably expect something like gender dysphoria to be as old as, say, something like depression. Obviously we've developed modern tools that help medically (eg. HRT, surgery, etc.) and we've thought a bit more about gender as a concept, but we'd expect there to be trans people prior to the term "trans" in the same way we'd expect there to be straight people prior to the term "straight".
That said, this shouldn't detract from the utility of futanari as a term. Calling this character a "trans gal" is a bit of a reach as there's nothing in the image to suggest they were assigned male at birth. Having a term for "girl with dick" is obviously useful in media where the hardware is the only detail in the text. There's maybe an argument that the term could have some unfortunate side effects in terms of trans/intersex representation (in porn?) but the fact of the matter is that in fictional cases where, say, a girl accidentally gets a dick with magic or whatever, it can be useful to distinguish fantasies from real people with civil rights concerns.
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