note to self: never go into the gwyndolin tag, not even for nice fanart its the first time in my life that its the trans headcanons that made me sick to my stomach and hugely set off my dysphoria and made me want to cry
the gender essentialism and sheer, unrelenting lack of empathy these people have while arguing that theyre the ones with the high ground is staggering and makes me fucking ill
because god forbid that i dont gel with the "yes lets call this character that hates being the gender theyre forced to be as actually factually that gender"
gee i wonder why other trans ppl might want to shy away from that and prefer to headcanon the character in a different direction away from the source of their gender misery
like its a shitty "cis person forced to live as other gender!" transphobic narrative either fucking way and we have our different reasons for wanting to headcanon it different ways but ffs the guilting over not doing it one particular way
gwyndolin was forced to live as a daughter because of sexist reasons, because he was born frail (unmanly!) and he had an affinity with the moon, which is considered feminine. and it was decided that it would just be improper to let a boy like that exist so they forced that boy to be a girl
"um but sweaty it says he behaved like a goddess why would he behave like a goddess if he wasnt a girl hmmm sweaty. why does he present feminine if he isnt a girl sweaty"
gee i dont fucking know, maybe because his dad told him to?
he literally spends his days moping by his dads tomb because he loves his dad more than his dad could ever deserve and clearly holds him in high regard