hi!! i’m here for the trans jeff 🏳️⚧️ 🥰
i am SO sorry this took me so long to get to omg, there was a bit of a family emergency this week and it has been. well. a very long few days ^_^;; but thinking about jeff winger makes me feel better any time so thank you so much for this!!! <3
in my head jeff comes out to everyone early s4-ish? except britta, who finds out after a very long and painful conversation between jeff and his dad on thanksgiving
when jeff does come out to the rest of the study group (with brittas loud encouragement), he does it one on one, starting on abed.... or he tries to. he has a very very sweet heart-to-heart with abed that brings them closer as friends etc etc and then the rest of the study group comes tumbling out from behind the door where they were listening in on him
it goes about as well as youd expect. everyone, minus abed and britta, obsesses over it for the rest of the day before slowly realizing hes still just jeff winger (and they probably accidentally out him to the dean, but jeff was planning on telling him anyway so he figures it worked out in the end)
he struggles a lot with the fact that while he wants to be pretty and wear cute clothes, he also obsessively performs masculinity because he thinks people will stop seeing him as a "real man"
speaking of that one, he refuses to explore his own bisexuality for the same reason
slater is one of few serious relationships hes ever had, and with trans jeff that means shes one of the only girlfriends hes ever gone through the full Talk with about being trans
i dont think he ever mentions jeff goldblum movies in canon but i like to think he chose the name jeff after the actor, even if the timeline for that would be a little floaty :'] also tobias is his grandfathers name!