MtF Comics

If you love comics as much as I do, and are sufficiently alert to any sort of gender-bending story line, one thing you notice is that in most cartoons and comics that run long enough, there is a story in which a main male character is either briefly turned into a girl or is forced to dress up as a girl. It's happened to Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Thor, Ron Stoppable, everybody. Heck, in the case of some, like Guy Gardner, it'll last a few episodes or issues. In almost every case, the female version of the character is attractive, and not butch in the least. Guy Gardner, the super masculine asshole Green Lantern? Once he become a her, she somehow decided to start wearing the most strippertastic uniform you ever did see(If you want a much more longer, check out www.tgfa.org. It's crazy).

Now, the regular story has the recently feminized character working feverishly to turn back into a male.   Occasionally the character will decide to stay female, but that's rare.

But here's the thing, with the exception of a story in It's Walky, I can't think of a single example of a female character being turned male and trying to regain her femininity. You just don't see it. Now, that probably has a lot to do with the common fear, had by both sexes, of loosing one's masculinity, one's power in society. Frankly, there's probably a pretty strong relationship between the “Turned Into A Girl” story and the “Turned Into A Baby Or Child” story. Both are about the character taking a big step down in the world, and having to deal with her lowered position.

I guess it's not as interesting to have a female character discover how much easier her life would be with a penis and all.

For the few examples of turned female characters deciding to stay female, well, the point of those stories tends to be something like, “hey, sure it's a lower position, but because this character likes it and wants to maintain that societal position, it must be ok for it to exist that way.”

But my point, and I'm trying to get to it, is that you almost never see the female turned male, trying to get back to being female. As much as I enjoy the neat little fantasy of waking up one day magically %100 genetically, physically, and socially female, I don't find it to be a compelling story. It's too easy, it's like if Ulysses was able to get back to Ithaca the day after the thing with the horse. 

I want to write a story, or at least for there to be a story, about a broken world where there's a girl born a boy, and she, through fantastic means, becomes more and more female.

It's not much of an idea, neither the skin or the backbone, but I'm thinking about how that story could work, how I might be able to write it. I don't know how to write it right now, but, I'm thinking about it.

The problem I keep running into is that stories, especially the fantastic sort that I hope to write, tell the truth through wild metaphor, but for the life of me, just about every story I can think of seems to contain a broken, false imagine of transsexuality, one which I have no interest in talking about.

One idea I've had is  this:

A goddess decides to escape heaven by being born human, but the chief of that the tribe of gods, he discovers her plot. As she travels down to Midgard, the chief god arranges for her to be born a boy, but for her to be punished with a knowledge of her nature as a goddess. As the goddess grows in her human body, she travels, searching near and far for a way to regain her female form. 

Now, this idea for a story has a lot of what I want, but it's imperfect. It has the person with the form of a boy trying to take the form of a woman, but... well, I just can stomach the idea of calling a character based on myself a goddess. This has less to do with my fear of Christ's anger at such a claim, but more to do with the fact that I don't feel like a goddess, I don't feel like a divine being trapped in human package. For whatever it's worth, I feel pretty human.

But that's not the biggest problem with my goddess story. I think the biggest problem is that it's too unambiguous. It's too absolute, too easy. I don't feel like my body, as it can be male, is a shell or falsehood. My male body is me, but I am also more than that, separate for that, by my choice. I think the goddess story misses that.

I'm working on a story, but it's not ready yet.

 

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But that's not the biggest problem with my goddess story. I think the biggest problem is that it's too unambiguous.

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I actually write/draw a comic where the main character is a girl stuck in a male body (I've put the link in the "URL" box in this comment form) and I notice the lack of comics with this theme. Perhaps it is linked to the greater visibility of MTFs, even though the characters longing to return to their original male bodies are technically FTMs, because the character is transformed (unwillingly, mind) from male to female.

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