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TADC EPISODE 9 SPOILERS - Jax art

How people expect trans characters to be written, apparently.

"Its so subtle!!" "Why wasnt it explicit??" It was literally shoved in your face. Jax never said they were cis either, yet that doesnt NEED to be said for it to be believed as fact. Only queer, especially trans, characters need to explicitely verbally state their gender identity or it doesnt count. Storytelling be damned. Presenting a trans chracacter who is not yet ready to be out, be damned.

cwtx0

Jax. I know we don't get along. But estrogen could've saved you, me and Ribbit.

rainyraisin

Still insane to me that when episode 7 dropped some TADC fans would much rather jump to the conclusion that "Jax hit a little girl with his car" rather than the way less insane and out of nowhere conclusion of "Jax is transfem"

jaxisawoman

Already I'm getting so pissed and tired. You all need to accept her for what she is. The creator already spelled it out for all of you. Listen. I don't care that she said two different pronouns are fine, that doesn't hide your extremely obvious malicious intentions when you continue to deny and correct us. It also doesn't matter that her story is messy. We NEED messy rep. Being queer isn't perfect. Being trans isn't perfect. Queer people and characters cannot be perfect. Treat characters just as you would real people, and if you can't even respect a fictional character I cannot expect you to respect us.

michaelmayhem72

If you didn't realize that Jax is HEAVILY IMPLIED to be a trans woman, therefore she is a trans woman, then you honestly have no media literacy. If you refuse to acknowledge the fact that she is a trans woman even after being educated about it, you are transphobic. If you headcanon her as a trans man it's honestly misogynistic I fear. If I need to make a post explaining in detail I will just lmk ^_^

astraleliza

“you know this could be interpreted as many things. it doesn’t have to mean jax is trans”

just say you don’t like trans women its actually pretty easy just be transphobic

id respect you more if you were honest about it

chellehc

Jesus Christ no. transfem jax is not an “interpretation” and calling out people for saying it is is not “toxic fandom behaviour”. the TOXIC people are the transphobes who refuse to acknowledge an EXPLICIT TRANS STORYLINE. jax is a TRANSGENDER WOMAN. get over it.

y’all need to examine your internalised transphobia immediately because if you can’t acknowledge that JAX is a trans woman then what r we even doing bro

espyextras

trans people are allowed to be upset when people say Jax is cis. We don't get nearly any representation, and we already give cis people the characters who are heavily theorized to be trans because cis is the assumed default "normal state." and now, one of the first times a trans woman has been put front and center and made clear "this is explicitly definitely a trans woman!" and suddenly every millions of people appear eager to downplay her as "just a femboy," "cis," "fragile masculinity," or blame the writing. let us have this.

jell-o101

"We want more complicated female characters!"

Ya'll couldn't even handle HER.

blackstar5078

Important tags to include actually.

ccarmody101

Beach Day doodles

demilypyro

"if Jax is a trans woman she's still an abuser so she's bad representation so the show is transphobic" you're an idiot. you want your blorbos to be perfect ideal angels, I want my blorbos to be realistic, nuanced, flawed human beings, we are not the same. I LIKE that she's messy and fucked up and problematic, I think it's a realistic depiction of how a lot of repressed and traumatized trans women are. I think the show goes to great lengths to explore how and why she is the way she is, and to evoke sympathy for this kind of person. it doesn't excuse her actions but it does make them understandable. and I think the fact women like that deserve sympathy is an idea worth stating and worth shouting. yes she's a bully and she hurt everyone around her and that may never change. she still deserves sympathy.