See transfic on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2018, Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction, unnumbered page",
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"text": "Most Sherlock transfic is not genderswap in the sense that characters do not change their canonical gender. For instance, canonically male Sherlock Holmes is portrayed much more frequently as (trans)male, i.e. a female-to-male trans person, than as a male-to-female trans person.",
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