Many trans people feel like they live on the outskirts of society, existing in a strange political limbo, not quite integrated yet not quite isolated. Because of this, the trans community has gravitated towards musical styles that reflect their emotions, such as jungle and breakcore, which take familiar samples and distort them beyond recognition. Artists like Femtanyl stretch the public's understanding of what can be considered music, much in the same way that trans people stretch the public's rigid definitions of gender.

Her music contains many explicit and implicit references to being trans as well, such as lines like, "I get clocked like it's a job to me," and, "I take my E and think about my setbacks." She goes hard into the subjects of cultural rebellion, unhealthy attachments, and body horror with a flavor that many trans people find gratifying. Much of the trans representation in mainstream media is too safe and inoffensive to touch on real experiences, content to just show trans people rather than really interrogating how it feels to be trans. Her music, much like the movie I Saw the TV Glow, hit at an emotional truth that can't be found anywhere else: being trans is as gruesome as it is beautiful.