trans-girl-pidge:

mellenabrave:

trans-girl-pidge:

mellenabrave:

trans-girl-pidge:

honestly even flashback!Katie is soooooooo visibly trans, like. I can’t explain /why/ but like. I can’t really process how you’d look at her & *not* see a trans girl. (like, I guess people’s radars are tuned differently, & I’m kinda locked to my perspective… but still…)

but it’s def there, like to the point that I’ve got this Jo-from-Lumberjanes vibe where Pidge/Katie’s trans-girl-ness isn’t /explicit/ at this point but still just permeates the design and story of the character & is just one unambiguous address away from being flat out canon.

It’s the hair scene that sealed the deal for me… like she waited till the last second to cut her hair and was really reluctant to do it at all. Disgusing herself as a boy wasn’t something that she looked forward to at all, but she still managed to fool people easily which makes me belive this wasn’t the first time she did so.

yes yes yes yes!

you can tell she was dreading the whole thing

Either way, her ‘coming out’ moment was clearly modeled the same way a trans-person would come out to their friends/family (even the reactions were writen this way, the Voltron crew was basically saying, we were just waiting for you to come out, we don’t see you differently, you are still the same person. And Lance’s reaction literary was ‘how long was I asleep?!’ which indicates he probably thought Pidge realized it in the meantime he didn’t just asume she was a cis girl disguised as a boy he literary thought she just came out as transgender to them.) so really, that alone already is enough reason to asume that she’s indeed trans. But to be honest, I see so many people claim that there is just ‘no way!!’ Pidge could be trans and ‘how dare you over load my cis brain with the possibility that not every trans-girl is acting extremely feminine!!’ that I would hc her as a trans-girl even without this evidence, just out of spite.

gosh, the coming out is the bottom line for me. the final nail in the coffin.

the reactions like you said, and just the way Pidge moves, and the words she picks… just:

>visible discomfort

>visible /fear/

>clenches fists and takes a deep breath

>“there’s something I have to get off my chest, and you may feel differently about me because of it. I can’t man up. I’m a girl.”