I don’t mean to be offensive at all.  I love all sorts of variations of characters (female versions to male characters, or vice versa, or black versions to characters, all sorts of things, that’s the fun part of fanart: seeing someone else’s interpretation of a character)  I definitely do not mean to come off as being offensive to the trans community at all.  I’ve reblogged trans characters before, too, or trans interpretations (like Naoto being trans, for example, because I pretty much love Naoto no matter what and love all of the different interpretations of the character)  

I didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings though, I didn’t know it was something that could come off as offensive.  To me “genderbent” means, “Hey this character is canonly male, I’m making a female version,” and vice versa.  Not for any sort of malicious reason, just sort of an artist interpretation?  Or cosplay interpretation, like the Street Fighter video with the females doing the male characters, and the male doing the female character.  See, I thought that was cool, because usually in a group that does that, from what I’ve seen, you’d find a female Ryu faster than a male Chun-Li.  I thought it was cool that they didn’t just have the females do it, or just excluded Chun-Li because there wasn’t a guy willing to do it to match the group. 

But I could be wrong, I guess.  If it is offensive I’m sorry.  If there’s a different word for it (which I guess there’s technically “crossplay” but then I wonder about that too because for some cosplayers it’s more than “crossplay” for them) then I’ll try to remember to use it.