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Rename [[otoko-no-ko]] to [[femboy]] to better disambiguate femboy and transfem characters; Merge [[tomboy]] and [[reverse trap]]; Reinstate [[transgender]] for cataloging purposes

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The current practice for tagging characters in between tranditional binary genders on danbooru is *outright confusing*, just take a look at all the tags listed on the otoko-no-ko wiki page. This is not to mention that keep tagging canon trans and non-binary characters in contradiction to their canon identity is downright disrespectful and completely unhelpful for cataloging trans and non-binary characters.

Right now, we have:
otoko-no-ko being a catch-all tag for all femme-presenting characters assigned male at birth, all tagged as 1boy regardless of their identity.
• Two tags, tomboy and reverse trap for masculine-presenting female characters when clearly one would suffice.
Transgender tag is banned and renamed to gender transitioning, which is *extremely restrictive* and does not cover canon trans characters in non transition-related scenario, which is the majority of their fanart.
• Canon non-binary and genderfluid characters, as well as a lot of androgynous characters, is swept under the rug
along with animals in 1other
Newhalf is used to inaccurately tag pre-op transfem characters when the original word in Japanese is an umbrella term for all transfeminine people regardless of their surgery status.

The current confusion seems to be stemming from the japanese terms being umbrella terms when we are operating an english speaking imageboard in English context, whose interpretation of the japanese terms does not align with what the terms originally meant.

To streamline this situation, i think these should work better:

Updated by nonamethanks

Tsumikiss said:

• Canon non-binary and genderfluid characters is swept under the rug
along with animals in 1other

I don't think we ever agreed on "other" being used for animals. IMO, it should only be used for humanoid characters, the same as the "girl" and "boy" counter tags. I think I floated the idea before, but I would be in favor of a separate counter tag for animals and the like such as 1creature, 2creatures, etc.

Gonna stop this thread immediately before it descends into an orgy of violence: you are trying to make too many controversial changes at once, for extremely popular tags that appeal to completely different groups of people. This kind of massive multi-tag change has less chance than a snowball in hell of gathering any kind of support, especially considering how much of a bloodbath the Bridget thread turned out to be. If you deeply care about any of these issues please pick one (1) category and focus on it, don't try to change the entire world at once.

EB said:

I don't think we ever agreed on "other" being used for animals. IMO, it should only be used for humanoid characters, the same as the "girl" and "boy" counter tags. I think I floated the idea before, but I would be in favor of a separate counter tag for animals and the like such as 1creature, 2creatures, etc.

I agree that it doesn't make much sense to lump together solo pics of Nanachi and some random dog animal focus pic, but this, like each category in the OP, is something that would have to be discussed in its own dedicated topic.

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