pervocracy:

Sometimes I like trans headcanons better than 90% of canonical trans characters, because with a character who’s only headcanoned to be trans, you don’t have to deal with the way the story deals with them being trans.

There’s no flashbacks to their “old self,” no Trans 101 for the audience, no depictions of the misery of dysphoria, no worrying that they’re going to be confronted with transphobia inside or outside the story.  There’s no moment where the storyteller feels the need to (delicately and tastefully, of course!) address the matter of their anatomy.

You just get to see trans people being awesome and having adventures.

So for the question of “why headcanon X as trans when it doesn’t change the story at all?”, that’s why.  Because sometimes it’s nice to think of people like yourself having stories that aren’t about your gender.