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I was digging through my digital library and I realised I can't name a single novel with a nonbinary transfem protag. I can name several that have โจ uncertain definition โจ en bees, or nonbinary transmascs, but where my fem enbees at??? If you have any cool books I could plug this gaping hole with, pls hmu and I will penicl stuff in.
What about Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl? The protagonist has a very complicated gender situation that reads as transfem genderfluid to me, like the title kind of implies. It's also a very good novel!
Define "reads as"? I have that one on THE LIST, but I sorta couldn't suss out what kinda gender was happening, so it's midway up the list.
For starters, the protagonist lives as a male for the first 20 years of their life, and in the course of the novel they have a long-term relationship with a cis lesbian, as a woman, that includes discussions of whether they truly are a woman or if they were just tricking her. At other times, they have casual sex as a man with other men, but never anything deeper. Also, throughout, the narration only ever calls the main character "Paul" and "he", so their female identities always seem more precarious than their male ones, even though they seem genuinely happy and more fulfilled in them, which is very transfem in my view.
Maybe, it sounds stranger than the blurb...