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callie-rex · 2 years
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lopsicle · 1 month
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Okay,like a couple minutes ago I learned that it is actually trans day of visibility today soo woohoo! Kind of hard to celebrate in this shithole called the UK though, so I’m going to hide on tumblr and talk about which characters I think are trans coded or just Headcanon as trans because it’s my day I can do that now heheheh-
Also, I’m just tryna do a little thing for trans visibility day, I like being opaque, I ain’t trying to start any arguments, if you see a Headcanon you disagree with, just scroll. And if you think I’m biased towards transfem characters, it’s because I am and I ain’t apologising for that, they’re underrated in terms of fandom and obvs I’m transfem so I love them and relate to them more. Transmasc characters still will be on this list though as there’s so many that I love.
Characters That I Think Are Transgender Because Fuck You
Number one: Hunter Noceda (The Owl House)
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This was probably the easiest and hardest pick for the list, for a couple reasons. Number one, I don’t think there’s a single person who agreed this pathetic wet cat is cisgender. Whether you think he’s transmasc, transfem, something else entirely, he ain’t cis. It’s clear why the fandom clung to Hunter as the resident trans character, him having a secret identity via The Golden Guard (seriously, any character with a secret identity is immediately trans, I don’t make the rules), the overconfident attitude mixed with deep insecurity and his arc about finding a way to ‘like who he is right now’ in Thanks To Them really just sealed the deal. Other little details like how his hair cuts helped him find his new identity did not help his case.
While I personally think he’s transfem, and am just using he/him because that’s his canon pronouns, Hunter is one of those characters that a lot of people can identify with which is what The Owl House is really about so I kinda had to include him on this list. The reason it was a hard decision is because holy fuck, every single character in this show is trans. Deciding between him and Amity was the hardest choice of my life because transfem Amity is heavily underrated and I love her, but you really can’t compete with Hunter, he’s had an amazing influence on the fandom and the character has probably helped a lot of people come to terms with their identity.
To summarise, Hunter is a great character, I miss him everyday, I miss The Owl House everyday, he was cool as fuck and a lotta people identified with him.
Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia)
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This is one that I feel is heavily underrated, and that’s coming from someone that took two years after the show ended to watch Amphibia. With Amphibia, pretty much all of the human characters are Headcanonned (is that a word?) as some part of the trans umbrella but Anne is the one who does not get enough attention, especially for a main character.
At least to me, Anne was very transfem-coded in the show, everything from her raggedy appearance, to her essentially assuming a new life in Amphibia to the arc about accepting who you are to THE SONG ABOUT ACCEPTING WHO YOU ARE-this was the most in your face, trans-coded rep I could ever ask for. But she is criminally underrated in terms of being viewed as trans rep even though I’ve found her story one of the most compelling in terms of trans coded storylines in nearly any piece of media I’ve ever seen. Give Anne more attention, she’s literally the best. Marcy and Sasha are cool too but Anne’s writing deserves so much more praise than it gets.
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Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)
If you haven’t realised it yet, this entire list so far is just one massive fuck you to Disney because fuck Disney. Dipper was the closest we got to having a canon trans main character in a mainstream animated show and it was taken from us, fuck Disney y’all. But still, Alex has all but confirmed Dipper’s identity as trans masculine, you can see remnants of that arc with him learning that he’s a man in his own right and masculinity being something he can define for himself, the whole thing about Dipper actually being a nickname, and him bonding with the men in his life, like Stan.
Even though I didn’t notice it when I was a kid watching the show, rewatching it now with the knowledge of Dipper’s identity makes the experience a bit more personal, I can see bits of myself in Dipper and I think that’s the whole point of his character. Watching it as a kid you can relate to him because of his sarcasm, his bluntness, his comedy but also because of how heroic, adventurous and curious he is, he’s basically the idealistic role of the viewer. But as you get older and think more critically about him, you can see more of his flaws and that makes him so much more real and so much more relatable. Obviously being trans isn’t a flaw, that was just me doing a side tangent because Dipper means the world to me and is only the standard of writing a cartoon protagonist in some ways, I just think he’s a really cool character and Disney robbed us.
Also Pacifica is transfem because TfT couples are hecking adorable
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Sallie May (Helluva Boss)
Guess who just realised that (other than Dipper technically) I haven’t put a single canon trans character on this list. Headcanons are better, I don’t make the rules, but Sallie May is amazing. No matter how critical you are of Helluva Boss, one thing it unapologetically does well is queer representation. The amount of characters that the audience can relate to makes it almost addicting to watch as you get to watch these characters live their best lives. Well, their lives are kinda fucked but you get what I mean, they just get to live as queer people, most of the time.
And Sallie May is proof that trans people will eat up absolutely anything, even if it’s a whole thirty seconds of screen time of a trans character. Being fair to her, Sallie May eats up every moment she gets on screen, her dialogue can be equivocated to just a middle child acting like a middle child and I think it is partly that, I feel like we have a lot more to learn about Sallie May and in turn her sister Millie. At least I hope we do, Millie’s writing needs to improve, their family dynamics can be so interesting because every other one of their siblings is a boy, their parents can be judgemental, I feel like even if Sallie May can be a bit taunting to her, those two are probably really close, especially since Millie is one of the people Sallie May would have to go to for girl advice.
To summarise, since I went off on a bit of a tangent, Helluva Boss brings out the worst in me, give Sallie May and Millie more screen time, they’re the best, we love healthy sibling dynamics.
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Double Trouble (She-Ra)
Jesus, they’re hot. Anyway, the first non binary entry on this list, the fabulous Double Trouble who stole the entire show from the moment they were introduced. Throughout the entirety of the last season, I can remember just waiting for the point that they’d show up again and nearly screaming when they did.
Double Trouble was one of the most charming members of the She-Ra cast and became effortlessly iconic, conning every single character, playing both sides of a war so that they’d come out on top, and they did win in the end. DT basically had zero consequences and even got to flirt with Sea Hawk when they were reintroduced so they got a win really. Double Trouble was mean, condescending and a liar and I love them so, so much, them being a shapeshifter is just absolutely perfect and fits their character so well. It was nice to see Non-binary rep in a cartoon and have it not immediately be cancelled, looking at Disney and thank God it wasn’t because She-Ra really wouldn’t be the same without this manipulated, child of a bitch
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Crowley (Good Omens)
You know the gender’s hitting when you don’t even know what the fuck the gender is. Crowley is a delight of the character from the moment they’re introduced to the end of the show, which nearly broke my heart since I watched it just recently, if anybody would like to send me tissues, that would be greatly appreciated.
From my vast research of one google search, I’ve concluded that they’re gender is up to viewer interpretation which is actually what mine is too so I can respect that. This literal demon stole the show whenever they were on screen, whether it was David Tenant’s acting, the moments we saw softer sides of him, her pinning over Aziriphale of them just being an actual demon, Crowley is a wonderful piece of representation and I hate that because it makes me sad, let them get together, please.
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KFC
Not to be confused with that one place that makes pretty good chicken, I’m talking about the protagonists of two of the best RPGs ever made, Undertale and Deltarune.
For those unaware, KFC is the trio name of Frisk, Undertale’s protagonist, Chara, Undertale’s narrator and Kris, Deltarune’s narrator. Despite them being the main characters, they’re not characterised too strongly as you are in control of them for most of the game, minus Chara who specifically says you aren’t in control of them. Due to it being canon to the games that you are playing as these characters, the Internet started a rumour that they are whatever gender you want them to be, which was just never true. Undertale is packed with trans representation, and these three are no exception. It’s the whole reason I added them to the list actually, just to get the message across if anyone was unsure; they’re all Nonbinary.
Frisk and Kris, despite only having glimmers of their true characters in the game, are still very lovable and intriguing with their actions. Even just the idea of these two being controlled, which is more of a heavy theme in Deltarune, is enough to make you interested in their characters, especially when Kris starts fighting back against you. This entire section is just gonna be a couple paragraphs of me fighting back the urge to yap about Undertale lore so you’ll have to forgive me. Chara, being the only one not under your control, has a much stronger character through the lines of dialogue from them or said about them, the latter usually being more interesting as it gives you insight to their tragic life.
Undertale is one of my favourite and given the amount of rep it’s given us, I had to pay homage to its own main characters on this list. Even though I’m hungry cause now I’m thinking about KFC.
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Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine Nine)
I think it’s been a year since I finished tumblr’s favourite sitcom and while Jake was lovable, he didn’t stand out to me too much. Still, this guy suffered from that overconfidence but riddled with insecurity personality which lead to him being inevitably headcanonned (it’s a word I decided) as trans masculine. I don’t know what the correlation is between those kinds of characters and the transmasc headcanon, maybe it’s the desire to present as being that confident, maybe it’s being that confident but still held back by struggles about your gender identity but that’s neither here nor there.
What is here and is there is that this show was amazing for trans people, even if only in small ways and Jake was no exception to that. He was funny and watching him grow through those eight seasons gives you one of the most satisfying and heart throbbing conclusions to a TV show, largely due to his presence as the main character. Even though it’s not canon that he was trans masculine, the Headcanon is so popular that I had to pay homage to him and add him to the list.
Jack Kennedy (DSAF)
Is this fandom so dead and so unpopular that I couldn’t find a good gif? Yes. Am I gonna talk about it anyway because I love these games and I want an excuse and this is my day? Yes.
Anyway, Jack Kennedy was the main protagonist of the Day Shift at Freddy’s games and if you don’t know what those are, there’s a 50% chance you had an alright childhood. DSaF is obviously a fan game of the more well known horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s and I think they are some of the best fa games ever made. They’re hilarious, they’re so low budget it’s insane, it can give you the hardest tonal whiplash of not taking itself seriously to one of the hardest stories you’ve ever went through seamlessly and I don’t even get a fuck. The story told by these games is done so well and evokes so many emotions but one important thing it’s done is actually be really great for queer rep.
Despite it being played for more of a joke in the earlier games, the two characters Jack and Dave Millie clearly have romantic chemistry and that was so important back when the games released since they became so mainstream due to being attached to a popular franchise. Many fans headcanon Jack Kennedy as being non binary, which is a label that I think really works for them, mainly because it fits for the protagonists of roleplay games to be non binary. I can’t explain why, it just makes presenting the character to the audience so much easier and makes them a lot easier to play without having to worry too much about the gender of the character.
Anyway, Jack’s a self described asshole with a noble goal, and playing as them really gives you a feel of their character and makes you understand why this little known indie franchise snuck into so many people’s hearts.
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Bridget (Guilty Gear Rising)
You know I had to end off the list with one of the most iconic, canon, transfem characters out of there. Pretty much every single transfem has heard of Brisket and not a single one has played Guilty Gear Rising, I had to look up the name of this game just before this to make sure I got the right one.
Bridget has recently become a meme on the Internet, with every other transfem having her in her pfp, Bridget became a staple in the community. As stated, I can’t talk too much about her character but seeing the Internet come together to just appreciate this one transfem character, despite their being obvious hate and pushback and claiming her being canon transfem was a ‘mistranslation’ (to my knowledge) was actually really heart warming.
I didn’t really get trans day of visibility too much, I was happy for it, thought it was cool we got a day but it didn’t really help us all that much. But the more I thought about Bridget is the more that I saw just how good it can feel when people come together. It doesn’t have to be a movement or a call to action to save trans people from another bill trying to wipe them out, which is just depressing to listen to, it can just be as simple as joking about this character that barely any of us know. That level of community made me understand what this day was actually about; finding common ground and letting at least one other person know that they’re not alone, that there’s so many people just like you out there, that went through the exact same thing as you did at some point. And to let you know, those people turned out fine, so you’ll be okay too.
Happy trans day of viability everyone, even if this list only reaches one person to let them know they’re not alone, I’ll be happy with that.
Anyway, ignore the emotional stuff there, here’s my honourable mention of
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EVERY SINGLE SPIDERMAN, SPIDERWOMAN, SPIDERPERSON, TO EVER EXIST, THEY’RE ALL TRANS, YOU CAN’T CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
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triedpklove · 5 months
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excited for arcsys to make more money off of transphobia because they realized they can just make every new woman they add to the game have the same model as bridget which in turn causes a new wave of bridget discourse on the interwebs and thus fills their pockets with money because bad press (in this case transphobes constantly talking about bridget) is still press. I'm so tired.
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chisatowo · 2 years
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Gotta love feeling intense emotions towards a game I've never even heard of before up until a few days ago just because of one character. Anyways Bridget <3333
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swiftrunnerfelidae · 2 years
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Bridget is trans.
I've given up arguing. There is no argument to be made. There is no debate to be had. One side is objectively right, and one side is objectively wrong, and trying to both-sides it is, in the end, blatant transphobia.
Bridget is trans now. She outright says "I'm a girl", her outfit has a queer symbol instead of the male symbol she used to have, her theme song is one of the most trans songs I have ever heard period, the in-house translation done by Arc System Works themselves is so faithful to the original Japanese it might as well have been written in English first, she was shit rep for effeminate men and is now good rep for trans girls, and no amount of transphobic bellyaching is going to change any of that.
Either accept she's trans, or shut the fuck up. Your best argument is based on a 20 year old plot line that is still canon, just reframed in a new context, because Bridget is trans. Transphobes stay losing.
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thegaminglazer · 2 years
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I’ve seen a couple of people say that Bridget being trans is a regression of her character, since she’s going back to what her parents forced on her, and while I can see why people would think that, I disagree. In the end, what bothered Bridget was never being raised as a girl, it was the guilt her parents felt for forcing this onto her, and the constant threat of the town’s superstitious ways. She started living as a boy not because it was what was right to her, but in order to prove the town’s superstitions wrong, so in the end it was another identity forced on her because of the town’s superstitions. It’s only now, after all the threats and expectations are gone, that Bridget has a chance to really think about what she wants for herself, rather than what’s good for others. That being said I do feel bad for all the GNC men who just lost some good rep, but also I could never think that getting really good trans rep is a bad thing
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guiltygearconfessions · 6 months
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Bridget is good trans rep but we’re forgetting that I-no exists
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mlarayoukai · 1 year
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Bridget coming out was the best thing ever not only for good trans rep but also it's easy to avoid cum brains who are in denial about a cartoon woman
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unverified-mawa · 1 month
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With Clove and Venture (from Valorant and Overwatch, respectively) being both games' first non-binary representation, I feel like we're seeing a positive shift in inclusion in the characters we get to play as in live-service games.
I feel like it can be difficult to strike a balance as queer gamers between being positive about the inclusion of characters who are like us, while also criticizing how that representation is handled.
At the same time though, queer rep is becoming commonplace enough among some of the most profitable games around that I think it is possible for us to do a fair comparison, between e.g. the characters above vs. Apex Legends' queer characters, vs League of Legends, etc.
Like, there's a very finite amount of storytelling you can do for a new "hero" in a "hero shooter" or whatever. But live service games have standardised around similar amounts of marketing materials per season, so I don't think it's unfair to compare the representation in those games to each other. Even though those characters are by necessity a lot less explored than <some indie game with a trans protagonist that focuses on their experiences>.
I'm starting to coalesce around a feeling that maybe we could start handing out letter grades to game companies for how they handle specific queer characters in their games. Like, we'd have to be pretty media literate ourselves to read all the material the developer provides with a new character release fairly, but I think we can't just treat all live-service game representation as "impossible to judge" any more.
For me, Clove and Venture, get a passing C grade in good queer rep, with Clove maybe a little higher than Venture. That's okay! My teacher's comment in red notes at the end of the test paper would be "character design is good and you've thought their identity when making their design, but in future I would like to see you work the identities of your characters into their stories more and how they present themselves."
I definitely have more thoughts on both of these characters though than just one sentence. But maybe you disagree and would rate these or other characters differently. I'm comparing these two to Bloodhound and Catalyst in Apex, and Testament and Bridget in Guilty Gear Strive.
What is some good queer representation you have seen for a character added to a live-service game and why? What would you consider to be the requirements for a "passing grade" when it comes to a new queer character?
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call-of-ishmael · 10 months
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One of the arguments back in the peak of bridget discourse i didnt get was "daisuke lied! He didnt mean for her to be trans from the start"
Okay and? Half of these people were probably jojo fans and araki is constantly changing his mind about stuff sometimes even in the span of a single chapter
This shit is par for the course, writers change their minds, and hell sometimes they are like "yeah planned all along" which is lame but who cares why would they care?
They care cause its a trans character and the current sitiuation politically makes our very existence a "debate"
Similarly i heard a lot of weird smears about how he wasnt the true designer for bridget which again do you know how multi person art projects work? The person desiging the character is not gonna write them forever creative teams shift around and people leave thats irrelevant
The whole "controversy" is emblematic of how much they simply hate trans people just existing
First bridget wasnt really trans it was a translation error
When that didnt work they said she was bad trans rep and taking away from gnc rep
When people didnt care they moved on to smear daisuke
There was never any real concern for good rep, no actual argument beyond hate, beyond hating seeing us exist
Yeah some trans girls didnt like it even at first and some still dont like bridget but ive seen so many more that came around and realized a lot of the noise was just misinfo and they came around to liking her, now bridget is a huge trans icon
As silly as it sounds it really was kinda eye opening to the kind of online enviroment there is surrounding trans people how this all played out
It was all so toxic people were deliberately fabricating things about her backstory to make it all seem monstrous
I guess main takeaway is: please be mindful of things transphobes say cause they are fully aware of how disinformation works and how to pit people against each other, even trans ppl against other trans ppl
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solradguy · 10 months
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w/ how much you post bridget I just consider her like sol's adopted child ahfjdjdnf ~pumpkin anon
She might as well be lol I'll defend Bridget to the death. She's kind of in the upper-middle of my list of favorite GG characters but dude there's good trans rep in my favorite series??? I'm ride or die for that. Bridget forever 👍
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molsno · 8 months
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im tme and im just gonna preface this before this ask, its nothing bad and its not a criticism, more of an observation! i mean none of this critically and moreso am looking for an opinion
do you think theres a reason for why a lot of media recently is going for transfem characters when they have their trans characters? tokenism usually, but generally i find when theres a trans character in a piece of media shes typically transfem. and occasionally nonbinary for the extra Blizzard Diversity Points in the eyes of Cishet People lol.
i can name plenty of trans women characters - Kiku from One Piece (though one piece also has Yamato, a trans man), Natalie in Big Mouth, Bridget in Guilty Gear (though this is a correction of the past), Unique in Glee, Denise in Twin Peaks, Lily in Zombieland, Alluka in HxH, Vivian in TTYD (though she has a tricky history due to localization cowards), Perfuma in She-ra (after production iirc), Talia in League and Gwen Stacy (heavy coding. like trans flag colors coding.)
Though I don’t know as many trans men - Yamato in One Piece, Sheldon in Glee, Barney from Paranormal Dead End Park or whatever that shows called, Bow in She-Ra, Viktor in Umbrella Academy (though due to the actor’s irl transition), and Alice Yabusame from YTTD. Obviously im missing plenty just as i am with trans women, but i think its interesting i can still name so few transmasc characters as a trans man myself
im not saying this as a bad thing, especially not as “trans women get more rep than trans men!!” because its just… weird to proclaim. especially with the history trans women have in media - for every well written, lovely portrayal of a trans women, theres a million caricatures behind her.
because most of these studios arent stocked with trans people making content for trans people, not like Maddie in Celeste, i just was curious why theres so many trans women characters. because of how radical the existence of trans women is, and how much more political transfem identities are made due to transmisogyny, is a good portrayal of a trans women deemed more diverse? Does this history of transfem characters make devs and writers think “if we do it right, we’ll win the trans crowd!”?
again, NONE of this is criticism. im so happy for trans girls who see themselves in bridget, gwen, talia, or anyone else i mentioned and anyone else i forgot. im so glad they finally get to have characters that arent vile portrayals of men in dresses or the archetypal “ambiguous twinky anime boy pretending to be a girl”. but im just interested in why its always trans women? do you think devs see it that way?
I mean realistically it's probably just because until fairly recently the average person didn't even know what a trans man even is
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doedipus · 1 hour
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Guilty gear fandom misogyny is so incredibly frustrating
Like you can pick any boy out of the roster and the entire fanbase is probably falling over themselves to hype them up; people pop off for their associated players' gameplay, they construct elaborate fan media that brings out the intricacies of the characters and shows off their best points, and won't take no for an answer if someone claims to not find them maddeningly attractive
But then with the girls, at best nobody cares about them besides the dedicated superfans, and at worst literally every other player only speaks the character's name to complain. They'll get nothing but vapid pinup fanart with no regard for character, if they're even on the radar at all. Whenever one of the female characters gets a buff or a player makes a good tournament run, everyone stops what they're doing to complain for a month, until they go back to largely ignoring them again. And then whenever a patch brings a new boy people convince themselves is cool, or gives an existing one significant buffs, half the players on a female character drop her to switch. It's like clockwork.
Also for some reason every male character has people headcanoning them as trans in both directions, regardless of anything about their actual characterization, but none of the not-canonically-transfem girls really get that kind of fan attention, which is disappointing. Except that one artist who thinks elphelt should be transmasc.
I think the only guilty gear girl to escape this is Bridget, by dint of being a little sweetie pie. But she's still like a purely auxiliary character to the canon, so there's not a ton to talk about besides decade old discourse, and she's underdeveloped at a top level, with the only notable reps being players who use her to try and scam opponents out of a few games before switching to their real mains once they drop one themselves. Like despite her popularity among casual fans there's still no daru for Bridget
And honorable mention to season 2 baiken, who attracted a lot of upper level players who were unsatisfied with their mains at the time, who then nearly unanimously dropped her for John or sin in S3 when it became apparent that it wasn't as easy to win with her as they initially thought
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transhitman · 1 year
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Had a moment of stupidity and scrolled through the comments on that Bridget post, and they're especially unhinged even for tumblr because it's a bunch of trans people like "well she's bad trans rep so she's not trans." NO ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT WEATHER SHE'S GOOD REP OR NOT...... The post just said that she's trans and that's it... Bestieees come on.........
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chaifootsteps · 1 year
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A wbcomic I've been following has been hinting at a transfem Arc for the male protag and it kinda bothers me a lot. It's rare to find male protags in xenofiction comics and one reason I love this one is bc it's mlnb (other protag is intersex Nb). It seems every other comic with a female prptag puts them in a wlw ship too. Nothing wrong with that, but I'm neither a woman or attracted to them so I just instantly don't care. I can't relate and I'm not invested.
Just tired of every media turning femboys into transwomen.
Oh yeah, that's incredibly frustrating. And the worst part is you can't complain about it without everyone piling on for a kick. We're in this place where we're getting more and more trans rep, which is a good thing, but also more trans rep that feels like it was thrown in there just because it's in vogue, not because it feels real or alive. You're allowed to not like some of it, Anon.
(It honestly reminds me of the Bridget debacle, all these poor GNC guys having the rug pulled out from under them, and people just getting super smarmy and nasty about how they should shut up and get over it because "You have lots of femboys." But they don't want other femboys, they want the character that's been around for longer than a lot of them have been alive. They want to feel like there's a place for characters like that and by extension for them, and that this isn't going to keep happening every single time they open their heart to a story.)
The fact that we've got all of this trans representation coming out means that we need GNC cis representation, male and female, now more than ever. We need that affirmation that it's not just about the clothes or the presentation.
Femboys aren't just someone's gross, disposable fetish; they're a reminder that there's no wrong way to be a guy.
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swiftrunnerfelidae · 2 years
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I wonder how many people "upset over the loss of a good GNC male character" in regards to Bridget are genuinely upset over the announcement that Bridget is a trans woman, and how many of them are angry that trans women got new rep and are looking for a woke-sounding way to disguise it.
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