BNHA x Transmasc Reader

(C/n) Vs. (Y/n) - Author's Note

I've gotten a number of messages about this-

(C/n) stands for your chosen name. As in, the name that you picked for yourself when you realized you were trans.

Normally in "x reader" fics, it's (y/n) for your name.

And a few people have asked me if that's because I don't think t hat your chosen name is you real name or something like that, which is not the case by any means.

I have personally been reading "x reader" fics for years before I realized I was actually a boy. So my brain has an automatic filter that translates (y/n) to my birthname and I get pretty uncomfortable whenever I think of it.

So, I try to avoid that so I don't get insane amounts of dysphoria when I'm writing and any of my readers who are kinda the same in that sense don't either.

So I cut out (y/n) all together and if I use your birthname for some reason (a request in which the reader finds out they're trans and doesn't know in the beginning, for example) I just say (b/n) for birthname. Under any normal circumstance I try to avoid even that and just use (c/n) instead.

I also just figured out my identity fairly recently, so this helps me get used to being identified as a name other than my deadname as well.

If you have any more questions about this, DM me and I'll try to answer. I posted the same thing on my Haikyuu version.

And in currently writing another Hawks oneshot because I'm obsessed with him and another Kiri oneshot at the same time.