one thing i've experienced as someone who's transmasc and a big fan of magical girls is i completely lost the ability to self insert once i actually transitioned. when i knew i was non binary but was still choosing to live and present as a woman it was incredibly easy for me to do, because i could always be like "okay yeah i'm chosen as a magical girl but i'm actually not a girl lol" but for some reason now if i try to imagine myself looking pre-transition it's just, not really comfortable or possible. it's weird getting excluded from a part of your hobby you used to enjoy, especially because i can and do maintain some old pre-transition self inserts and simply see them as versions of me who simply didn't go on T? but now that i've done it it's like.. i can't go back. weird.