Ah, I see. That makes perfect sense.
I haven’t filled out the pronoun section for any of my characters so far, but I might change that. Though I’m generally not a fan of overly long and bloated TRPs, the pronouns are at least immediately visible on the tooltip.
It doesn’t take very much to be a good ally – just little gestures like that. 
I always found it hard to seperate the ones who do it for kinks and the ones who do it because they genuinly want to represent something closer to themselves. You can not convince me the human female model looks any more like a non binary human than the male one does.
I’ve noticed a strange trend, even in pretty interesting profiles, where they have their first glances completely empty, or just put “…” in it. Am I supposed to infer its meaning from the portrait…? Is it unfinished? I don’t understand.
Risking being a bit unoriginal, but I’d like to contribute my own picks of these trends:
The good: I genuinely love seeing art, theme songs, voice claims / references to a character. May be because I kinda gravitate towards the most accurate representation to see with my minds eye as an artist, but it’s something that’s super fun to see.
The other thing; concise TRPs. Nothing against those who get wordsy, but short, succinct stuff is just soothing to my brain, and also more often than not leaves intrigue, which is rad!
Oh, I also adore the clever classes or spins on the name of existing in-game classes that people use.
The bad: Well, I’d like to not go off on this tangent long as everyone else put it very well before me, but I WILL say that if your titles, or your class literally does not fit the TRP window in length, it looks wonky to me. Not the only thing I frown at, but again, much has been said already and there’s no use in me harping on it longer.
To be entirely fair, I use it in this manner just to normalize its use, and find it helpful to be there to those who want to be extra careful about these things - but if someone opts to leave it out of their TRP due to finding it a bit redundant, I can’t fault that none.
Generally speaking the quick way to tell is how much they talk about gendered body parts. If they focus on how little of a chest they have, then I think generally that’s an indication that it’s somebody playing the character for a less-than-wholesome reason.
I believe … is what TRP defaults a glance to if no information has been filled in, so I think it is unfinished.
Then I think your best approach would be to assume that the player is being earnest unless really proven otherwise. Normalising it to yourself as a kink thing is a huge disservice to the people who are doing it seriously – and it makes it far less likely that actual queer people will have the courage to play their desired character.
You don’t need to be convinced. It’s more about their own comfort than anyone else’s.
That would explain it, sometimes it just looks like it’s willfull when the rest of their profile is fleshed out and the glances have icons, like it’s an aesthetic.
But then again, excessively long glances are also an unfortunate trend. So maybe it’s a better alternative.
Until Blizzard introduces way more shapeforms to the character creation, this image will always be at the forefront of my mind whenever I skim through TRP:s of that kind.
I don’t think that some particularly gross episodes of South Park merit a reference in a conversation on this topic.
A persons gender identity doesnt need to reflect their biological sex or body appearances.
This apply to characters too.
I do try to give people the benefit of the doubt, I think having an online medium to express a gender identity through a character is a wonderful thing and shouldn’t be denied to any person, queer-identifying, questioning or otherwise. Even with that in mind, I’ve seen far too many characters using he/him pronouns on a female model that then go into a weird territory with their descriptors, or sadly in some cases, linking to an F-List.
Thankfully the latter does seem to be trending downwards and the former trending upwards, but even now I often find myself sceptical of those sorts of characters because of the less savoury sorts about. I hope one day that changes.
I think as long as they don’t have a link to such websites and the descriptive features doesn’t go into detail about, that stuff, then it’s safe to assume its genuine.
For sure, sorry if at all I implied anything other than that.
No worries from me personally, I understand what you meant!
No of course not, it’s just that Blizzard’s character models are so immensely overproportioned towards either male or female that the discrepancy will sadly always be enormous until we can have more customizations (some of which could probably already be applied like the lithe Kul Tirans). So you end up with people having to use an avatar that looks like the gigachad meme while adding a paragraph in their profile that says they don’t look like a gigachad at all. It’s a little funny to me, and a little irritating to whoever wants to not look like a gigachad I imagine. I also don’t understand what’s particularily gross about that South Park episode, it’s a pretty tame take on the fact being a 
hole is not a gender specific thing.
tldr more customization options blizzard please
The fact that WoW still doesn’t have basic sliders and everything is instead fixed on one model and like 6 different options really shows how outdated it is at its very core as a game.
Even Swtor’s 4 fixed bodytypes is miles better.
‘Men pretending to be/identify as women in order to compete in women’s sports and violently dominate’ is a very common, transphobic trope that stigmatises queer people in organised sports.
Same animation table, three body types, badabing.
There was some sport thing recently in similar vein where a woman got bullied massively and forced to take a test to see if she was “an actual woman”, which was really horrible.