SoI Wouldnt Say I Think Rogue Is Trans, But I Think That, Prior To Us Learning Her Birth Name And Past

So…I wouldn’t say I think Rogue is trans, but I think that, prior to us learning her birth name and past in the 2000s, it would have worked really really well if she was? Like, firstly, we don’t know her birth name or her pre-Mystique circumstances for AGES. Like finding out her name was Anna Marie and her parents were Owen and Priscilla and she was raised by her Aunt Carrie and all that is very, very recent. Her history was a complete mystery for DECADES. And when Mystique finds her, she frankly looks very boyish to me?

And being a little baby trans girl in the South decades ago is a damn good reason for her to have run away and gotten so defensive. And I think that Mystique, for all her flaws, is someone who would accept her and raise her as a girl if she identified that way. I mean, for crying out loud, she’s a bisexual shapeshifter in a longterm relationship with another woman who also has to hide being a mutant. She gets it. And when Rogue first appears in the comics, she’s frankly pretty butch, while simultaneously wearing a lot of bad makeup:

but she gets progressively more “feminine” looking and fashionable, with clothing that shows the outline of her body more and more:

Til by the 90s, she was this curvy bombshell with big beauty-queen hair:

From a meta perspective, it’s just art evolution, and probably trying to make her more “evil looking” when she was a villain versus more appealing as a hero, but I also think that HRT is a pretty damn good in-universe explanation for how someone’s appearance could change so dramatically. It could also explain why, for all her angst about AH CAIN’T TOUCH YOU REMY, she never used one of the MANY power-nullifiers they came across to get intimate with him—she might have been scared of more than just her powers. So, do I think Rogue was intended as trans? Definitely not, that would take a level of communication between multiple writers across decades that just doesn’t happen in comics, and for them all to agree on something that would be controversial now, let alone then. I wouldn’t even say I headcanon her as trans, per se, I don’t really headcanon her as specifically trans or cis. But I do think that, prior to her full past reveal, it sure would have made a LOT of freaking sense. I guess the best way to put it is that I think she COULD be. I mean I guess technically anyone could be, but there’s a LOT of justification for Rogue in particular. Also, I’d like to give credit to my pal @hexiva​, who put this idea in my head in the first place. They pointed out the art shift thing and said they hc’d Rogue as trans because of it and I was like HOLY SHIT I NEVER CONSIDERED THAT and the rest just kinda fell into place in my head this morning.

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