Hello Mr Gaiman, for the occasion of Trans Awareness Week, i am very curious to ask: which of the many characters you have created are either explicitly and canonically transgender, or were created or thought of from you as transgender without it being explicitly shown/said? This, of course, is not meant to take away from people’s freedom to interpret or headcanon characters as such

neil-gaiman:

Let’s see: Wanda and Hal in Sandman are both trans, Desire is Trans (and in the Big Universe there are versions of the Endless that include all genders — we got to see a female Dream in Sandman Overture). There are trans characters in Miracleman, but that’s a plot point that’s been waiting 25 years to be told, and you’ve met a trans character in Neverwhere, and although that’s not apparent in Neverwhere itself it will be if I ever finish the Seven Sisters. Kalanu in American Gods is trans, everyone pretty much in the short story “Changes”…

And I just got the call saying it’s time to go back to the house and start cooking for Thanksgiving, and I don’t know how to save these as drafts, so I will post it now, and expand further on it later.

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