Sounds interesting! I am really looking into reading it.
I'm working on a story because I enjoy creative writing from a queer perspective.
I'm working on a project right now that's very rarely put in fiction. In a same gender relationship the transmasculine character is almost always portrayed as a bottom and in romantic scenes he is the one entered PIV.
By reading this sub that kind of contact can be traumatizing so I am writing with a completely different perspective....
The trans masculine character is a top his boyfriend is a feminine gay male bottom (I'm a trans woman who is feminine so I'm using my perspective).
The story starts with them being introduced by a mutual friend. A friendship develops. I made the transgender character human not a trope. Telling the cisgender guy he's trans and using the fear that I feel, the fear of rejection. "If I tell him I'm trans will he reject me or see me as less of a man?"
The character David Williams the cisgender feminine gay male isn't transphobic and accepts the character of Jason Miller as a real man that he was just born with the wrong body parts.
They begin dating and work through transphobia including transphobia within the gay male community "how can you be in love with him when he doesn't even have a dick?" They navigate this with dignity that David stands up for his boyfriend and says it is not about anatomy it is who his boyfriend is on the inside that matters, a dominant transgender gay man.
I handled intimacy with respect. David an treating his harness as an extension of Jason not as something less. That it is Jason making love to him not a harness. Jason understands that this form of connection is David giving him unconditional trust with David giving him his most intimate vulnerability with his body and Jason treats that trust as a bond.
David is also there for Jason when Jason feels inadequate or has hormonal changes with his testosterone.
They have a few fights but never about gender identity. It's usually stupid stuff from moodiness from either character. Sometimes David can be a little clingy due to his own emotional baggage of being cheated on previously.
One thing that I do with my stories, I never write graphic erotica I focus on the emotional impact and emotional connection I do not describe genitalia or graphic sexual acts because to me it would cheapen the story. My stories are about love and trauma awareness and relationship building not as a fantasy but real world and I never use a utopian view because that's unrealistic.
I never used a transmasculine character before but I wanted to challenge myself and write something different with a healing arc using a fiction that is really never written about me.
Please I value your thoughts on how I am handling this as a writer to give dignity to the transmasculine character.
When it's completed I'll post a link.
Sounds interesting! I am really looking into reading it.