#as someone said in another ask

[theliterarywolf]

I'm more of a casual Guilty Gear fan, so admittedly I'm unsure if I'm correct, but wasn't Bridget's backstory that the parents forced the character to pretend to be a woman because of... something I can't remember rn and that Bridget is essentially just a GNC man who has to pretend to be a woman but otherwise asserts themselves as a man whenever they can? So why are people claiming that Bridget is a GREAT choice for being retconned into a trans woman? Isn't it literally the most transphobic thing? "Man pretends to be a woman" "if your child is nonconforming they will become trans so don't let your boys wear anything feminine lest they become those awful tr*nnies"?

Yeah, that's also the thing because even if you ignore the elephant in the room of 'just because someone is GNC doesn't automatically mean they're trans and if you insist otherwise, you're just reinforcing the gender-binary', you still end up with the 'the background of the character in question probably isn't the best ground to base a trans character on and can actually reinforce negative stereotypes'.

The last batch of asks I answer on the matter today are probably going to be the last I answer until the DLC comes out proper because for every 'hey, there's issues with this' or 'seems kind of fucky-wucky that, localizer-error or authorial cadence, this is another case of a GNC guy having to be trans' I end up getting asks of 'Um, you guys are wrong and you should feel bad'.