Is it just me who finds this strange?

I am trans and I read quite a bit of Ao3 and other stuff, but I notice a lot on the internet that people turn characters who aren’t actually trans into trans people like a lot?

I don’t think it’s wrong to head canon a character or anything but I feel like it has become very common all of a sudden. I’ve also noticed that when they do so it’s very much “this character is trans and wears a binder and is ashamed of it” and then that’s it?

They also seem to make these characters very feminine, and whilst trans men can be feminine it’s in a very strange way. They’re made to be submissive and small, and it’s very often mentioned how they’re short and how their love interest is sooooo tall and masculine.

Maybe this is controversial but I do find it a bit strange, because it seems like it’s a lot of cis people who do it, and it’s quite clear that they don’t understand what the experience of being trans is actually like.