I keep bringing it up, but I hate how people purposefully and continue to take Goose's words out of context to continue being being transphobic. Between "I'm not transphobic but..." and "Goose said we could use he/him pronouns!" it never serves to be less annoying.
Yes, she said you could use he/him to refer to Jax. It's very clear she meant that in a discussion-esque manner. When discussing Jax use either because Jax is using those pronouns for most of the show, so it's fine to refer to him as such when discussing the series.
She did not mean, "Use he/him pronouns still because Jax being a manly man's man who is still a man is a valid reading of a story about a repressed trans woman killing herself."
The lengths people go in the TADC fandom to be so underlyingly transphobic can feel so shitty because they refuse to let go of the person who hated being a man so much and was so terrified of being a woman, that she killed herself, and then they go around acting like, "Actually if you are trans you shouldn't transition because you're hotter as a boy <3" like fuck off for real. Learn to love a trans character, you'd be rightfully chewed out for depicting a character who was trans from the first scene as their assigned gender at birth, just because Jax didn't come out until the end doesn't give you a pass to continue being transphobic.
Like I do genuinely think its one thing to draw pre-finale Jax as depicted in the series, I think its an entirely different ball park to just say, "he's a man in my manly man au."
Do what you want, sure, I'll still call it transphobic because there's nothing more reductive about engaging in a piece of queer media by making an AU where all the characters are nice cishets.
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