Bridget came out as a trans woman and if you don't like it you're a bigot! Why would the fact he was coercively assigned female and surrounded by people from infancy telling him he was a girl be relevant? It's a complete coincidence that this character forced to live as a woman would later "realize" they were a woman all along! And if you think otherwise you're a bad person!
At that point, they’re not trans. So I’m told, being transgender means transitioning to a gender other than the one you were assigned at birth. Bridget was assigned a gender (female) at birth and stayed with it. How can a character be transgender when no genders were even transed?
Hm, I'd seen the excited posts going around and was pretty neutral on the whole thing, but I hadn't really been aware that that was the character's backstory, hadn't thought of it the way OP puts it. Seems like a fair reading of the situation?
Gosh there's a lot of pretty nasty stuff-- real life, fiction tropes, stuff that's in both categories-- that parallels, isn't there. The one most salient to me is the old "girl who rejects expected female gender roles/aesthetics ultimately ends up leaving her gender nonconformity behind and embracing the role that's been forced on her since birth, And This Is How It Should Be." Trans guy narrative parallels seem even more obvious.
I mean, there's other reads and other backgrounds that change it up, it's not Strictly Bad, people aren't bad for liking it, but the "if you don't like this then you're a bad person" angle so many people take is, as usual, not great!
Bridget was also forced to live as a girl by (checks notes) traditionalist, religious parents. And the character has a Christian theme.
This is not a good look for the pro-trans people applauding it, from either direction. It is somehow the worst of both worlds, and is somehow worse than the original backstory, which could easily be taken as a pro-trans analogy.
Of course, I’ve been informed that the term ‘trap’ is transphobic, from people who did not know and did not care how the term was actually used, which is just...very feminine boys, not trans women.
At all.
If these rumors are true, the devs possibly made the change to pander to a whiny and wrong minority of wokesters who probably weren’t even fans.
It's also really interesting when you look at what was going on around the time of his release.
There had been a solid few months straight of people calling anyone trying to indoctrinate kids into the trans ideology "groomers," which eventually got it banned as being a slur for anti LGBTQ+ hate speech. Then a few weeks later, Bridget releases, and a bunch of cultural imperialists crawl out of the woodwork to say, "no, grooming is cool and good, actually. This story about a man trying to break free of societal expectations forced upon him and finally falling back into the brainwashing in the bad ending is an inspiration to us all. Stay mad about it chuds."
Because as we all know, a man can't be a man if he steps even a little outside of his gender roles, and nobody believes that more vehemently than the "diversity and inclusion" crowd.



































