Random Things Turn Out Professor Snape Is Transgender (14 items)

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  (#7) Snape's Interactions With Harry Mirrors A Mother-Daughter Relationship

  Snape's undying love for Lily Potter led him to an arrangement with Dumbledore, in which he agreed to always look over and protect Harry.

  "Snape is, thematically, a stand-in for Lily (Sirius is a stand-in for James)," Fatuma said.

  Ensnapingthesenses reinforced this idea, saying, 

  "Symbolically, boys grow up to replace their fathers; the father prepares them for it, while the mother has a different role and weight in their lives, having a lot to do with managing emotions and seeing things from another perspective... Harry and Snape's relationship reminds me more of the interactions between a teenage girl and her mom, where both have anger management issues because they literally reflect it from each other."
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  (#5) Thematic Metaphors Support Snape's Trans Identity

  "Snape is a character who inhabits a fluid, ambiguous position for most of the narrative—always between two worlds, and often quite literally lurking in the shadows of a room, outside looking in. Snape reads as someone in the closet, and tragically so," Ensnapingthesenses said.

  Though it's never said outright in Mary Shelley's seminal Frankenstein, it is often believed by scholars that Dr. Frankenstein is gay based on evidence similarly unpacked by the Trans Snape theory.
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  (#1) It All Starts With The Fact That Snape Rejects Wands

  In an essay titled, "Harry Potter: Severus Snape as a Representation of Female Heroism," author Racheline Maltese cites a key moment from the text that sparked the "Trans Snape" theory. She argues that Snape's comment in the first book about there being "no foolish wand-waving" in potions class is a clue that "this character is, on some level, a rejection of masculinity, especially in light of the many moments of phallic humor wands provide us throughout the series."
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  (#6) Potions Themselves Offer A Solution

  Ensnapingthesenses argues that "[there are potions that] alter one's appearance, and others change physical attributes potentially forever, so how could this not be a very strong contender for magical HRT?"

  This is consistent with Fatuma's assertion that Snape's initial interest in the field was to find such a potion.
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  (#3) Snape Was "Coded" To Be Female

  Speaking to Broadly, Tumblr user Fatuma said, "if [Rowling] had written Snape as a cisgender woman, no part of Snape's story would be greatly affected."

  Basically, there's no way to disprove that Snape is trans based on the text, and the Trans Snape community believes that to be intentional.
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  (#11) Snape's Patronus Was A Doe

  Conventional wisdom concerning Snape's Patronus charm taking the form of a doe is that it is a manifestation of his love for Lily Potter, whose Patronus took the same shape. The Trans Snape theory, however, views this in a different light.

  A trans woman named Lilyana told Broadly, 

  "Snape's Patronus [being] the same as Lily's is something besides romantic interest… that the physical and magical embodiment or [Snape's] spirit is the same feminine representation as that of Lily's could absolutely indicate that Snape is in fact a trans woman."

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