I feel a small desire to expand upon this a bit-
Gender expression is incredibly fluid. So are peopleāshockerā and the way those people like to be referred to, interface with others, and exist as, are, you guessed it, also fluid.
Dana has given us someone people interpreted as trans initially, thereās no harm in it, and she even said it is cool to do that, because sheās not a sociopath. Frankie has masculine traits sure, sheās big and gruff, but then of course she is, sheās a laborer. She works on the ship hauling junk and spends all day working in a factory, you do tend to get big doing those things.
She also!!! Has feminine traits!!! Her dissociations are all cutesy little creatures. She loves cute stuff clearly, her hacker thing is an adorable frog. She keeps her hair long, too, which I am to understand is feminine.
You might be thinking, motorcadeopentop, what about those traits are masculine or feminine exactly? To which I would respond āthat is exactly the point, my discipleā.
Frankie is a woman, and she identifies that way, itās not up to you to decide her presentation isnāt enough. Itās not up to anyone to decide your gender presentation is or isnāt enough. Itās something only you can decide.
Dana apologized on BSky for being so short with her answer abt Frankie, and was clear that she is more than okay with relating to Frankie as trans, but by Jove itās a fictional character. My real life friends are having a hard time, and given the general consensus itās not myopic of me to say that a *lot* of trans people are having a hard time. We donāt need to cannibalize each other over Frank, who you can believe is trans or not, it isnāt hurting nobody.
I am open to discussion about this, itās very fascinating to me how incredibly visceral the reaction was to what I thought was a pretty innocuous comment about Danaās Character She Made Up.
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