#caitlyn trans women

[anthony-the-chicken]

Another arcane head-Cannon I haven't seen

(but probably exists somewhere)

Trans fem caitlyn need I say more.

So there isn't much to why I think this, besides the fact I think it would be interesting to her character. I think the idea of Cait being trans brings some interesting ideas about her life.

I also think it's weird that some people say you need a reason shown in said media to head-cannon something like Transness. This specific idea, in my experience, has only been used towards people headcannoning trans women. It's always used in a hateful way, trying to discredit a head-cannon. I like headcannoning transness as a trans person myself (Demiboy he/they). (Sorry for going on a rant about non arcane related things/getting a bit controversial there. is this controversial? Idk? I would hope not.)

In the end, I wanted to share my head-cannon of caitlyn being trans cause I don't see it much, but I want to.

[jamie-elbowz]

I remember when she came out and thinking, this is it. This is who it will take to convince the sporty cis people that you can't just lock away being trans by focusing on being a good man/woman. I mean she won the Olympics Decathlon, the peak of human fitness. The athleticism Decathletes (and Heptatheletes, lest we forget that BS) possess is unreal, you need the body awareness to learn the technical events, the raw strength and agility to compete in the jumps, and incredible endurance in order to even finish the competition. If some one can reach the pinnacle of fitness for a man/woman, and it's still not enough to stop them from seeking to transition? That should have been the end of the, "Well instead of being trans have you tried..." She did, for years, became the best at it and still said, yeah fuck this noise I'm out. I genuinely thought the day Caitlin Jenner came out that she was going to help frame transness in a whole new light for some people. I guess she did, but in the completely opposite way. For that, she can fuck right off from Pride, from the community, he'll I'd snatch those big fake titties from her chest. "Girl, you wasted an incredible story and moment and chose to validate the fear mongering of the right, you'll get these back when you earn them."

[existennialmemes]

The thing about Caitlyn Jenner is, she will simply say anything for attention. She thinks her money and privilege will inoculate her against the consequences of her own words.

She's making herself a trans token for the anti trans lobby on purpose because it's the only way she can cling to an ounce of relevance.

[biggayarsonsbiggaytumble]

I very distinctly remember when Caitlyn came out. Despite everything, all of the horrible things she did and said, the trans community afforded her respect. The first thing that anyone mentions when talking about Caitlyn is to remember; "Hey. Just because you don't like somebody, doesn't mean you get to misgender them, because being recognized as YOUR gender is not a privilege you earn, it's a right you should already have." This is a sentiment I still believe and always will believe.

The thing that I have learned as a follower of that belief is that usually the people who DON'T believe in that are the exact same people who will respect you to your face and then talk shit behind your back. They are the same people that will take a loan as an friend and refuse to give it back as an enemy. They are the same people who don't want to face the consequences of saying evil things about people but still crave that evil so wholeheartedly. They are the same people who care so very little about the people around them and the people in the same fight.

Those people are the same people who will misgender YOU and call you a trender after you tell them that misgendering people you don't like means that you don't ever actually believe anyone is really the gender they say they are. Even if this person is trans themselves. They are the same people who hold the privilege of being able to transition and if you don't, you're not really serious about this whole trans thing.

Caitlyn Jenner refuses to afford another trans woman the right to be truly seen. Caitlyn was respected in this right by us and by Dylan and by everyone in the trans community and refuses to do the same for a trans woman SHE doesn't like.

Caitlyn Jenner is still a woman. But she is not THE woman. She does not get to be the deciding factor in who is and isn't trans because there is not a single soul on this Earth who can do such a thing.

Caitlyn Jenner is miserable sitting in a corner with the people who hate her but she has no other outlet than to be horrible and follow their lead so maybe one day there won't be knives pointed so closely to her neck. Maybe the cis bigots will like me too if I show them I am one of them. But if they had their way, you would be dead or detransitioned just like every single other trans person in the world. They will NEVER like you because you are what they hate. Being a bigot is not enough to cover the fact that you are a gender deviant.

They still misgender Caitlyn. We haven't. We don't like you, but we see you as a woman. The people you are trying to impress never will, AND they don't like you.

Dylan Mulvaney is a delight. She is not a pedophile, or a sellout or evil or anything, she's a person that definitely makes mistakes but is LEAGUES better in almost every single respect to Caitlyn Jenner. She is a good person and I'm tired of trying to find every little fault in whatever representation we have because we really need to understand that perfect people and perfect representation doesn't exist and it never will and it never SHOULD. I see all of you saying "dylan isn't good but..." NO BUT. SHUT THE FUCK UP. Not here. Not right now. You are killing us.

This is as black and white and unnuanced as it gets. Dylan is not in the wrong and in fact, she is so so right. Caitlyn is using her platform for evil, she is a bad person not because she is trans but because she goes out of her way to be horrible. (And she's rich.)

This rant has no real point. But remember that Caitlyn is a traitor.

Trans rights. Forever and always, radically. Trans people deserve to be here. We are who we say we are just as any cis person is. Trans people are not delusional or predatory anymore than anybody else. We are not more violent, we are not more monstrous, and we have so much more humanity than any bigot. And most importantly and most annoyingly for y'all, we aren't going fuck all anywhere.

I know a lot of tumblr isn’t on tiktok, so to anyone who wants to say anything negative about Dylan Mulvaney please know that this is the person you’re putting down.

[unicornbeck]

Keep your opinions off my body

What baffles me most is how far out of their own spheres some people are willing to crane their ugly opinions about matters that HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM and HAVE NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER ON THEIR LIVES.

The legislation of, dominance over, and interference with female bodies, whether they be trans or pregnant or lactating or obese or skinny or elderly or underage or "virgin" or unmarried or married bodies, or bodies employed in sex work, makes me need to scream and gasp and tear violently at my hair and clothes.

I'm so sick of my body not belonging exclusively to me.

[ishidee]

Click on the photo to see the article & listen to what Caitlyn Jenner has to say about this. She has excellent points to consider.

[violet-snail-sfw]

The first time I saw a trans woman was in porn. I was pretty young then, in early middle school I think. My first thoughts about trans women only existed in a sexual context, since that was the only place I saw us mentioned

The next time I saw trans people mentioned was a TV show presumably about trans people and transitioning. I didn't watch it, only saw the description because even as a kid I had already internalized the idea that it was taboo and I would get in trouble if my parents walked in and I was watching it

Eventually I saw enough TV and cop shows to see an episode with the dead trans hooker trope. It further reinforced the building idea that trans women were something else, separate from "normal" people and always on the outskirts of society

And then Caitlyn Jenner came out. At my Catholic middle school there were few kind things said about her and plenty of nasty comments, but this was the first time I saw trans people being publicly talked about

In high school my views on trans people started to fracture. On one hand, I was being pushed the idea that gender was about what's in your pants, that if you've got a dick your a man and there's nothing that can be done about it. On the other hand, early high school me had stumbled across some gender change erotica and quickly became obsessed with it. While it wasn't great representation, it was still pretty positive about transitioning. The people in those stories were always happier afterwards

I struggled to reconcile what parts of society were saying about trans people with my daydreaming about what I'd do if I woke up the next morning as a girl. Eventually I decided that it was just a fetish. I just thought it was hot, there was no way I could be trans because I was just a normal person. I wasn't weird or a spectacle for others to gawk at, I was just a person

Around that time I also met a trans person in passing for the first time. One of the trans guys at my high school was in one of the musicals that I went to because some of my friends were also in them. When I was talking to my friends about it after someone mentioned the trans guy and that he was trans. I wasn't really sure what to think so I kinda just didn't think about it. Thinking back, there were a few trans guys at my high school but I don't think there was a single out trans woman

Eventually in college I actually met some trans and nonbinary people. In some classes we introduced ourselves on the first day with names and pronouns which was my first exposure to people using pronouns other than just he/him and she/her. I had a few classes with trans and nonbinary people, including a survey of transgender studies class I took in my last semester. I had plenty of excuses for why I was taking it (I needed a few more credits to graduate. It still had room open. It fit with my other classes. It seemed interesting. I'm trying to be a good ally.)

Around this time as well I found some trans creators online like ContraPoints and Philosophy Tube (whom I had watched before she came out as trans). I was weirdly excited and interested when Odyssey Eurobeat came out as trans and I went to go listen to some of her music right after I heard. I was starting to have examples of trans people just being people. Not just porn stars or public spectacles, but people

Later I met and befriended a few trans women, one of whom was extremely open about her transness and happened to share a video which started the initial steps of my egg cracking and figuring out who I am now

If I had actually known any trans women, if the world had been kinder to trans people, if representation of trans women as people existed and was well known, I might have been able to realize who I was sooner. I would have been able to exist as myself for more than a tiny fragment of my life so far

Representation matters, both in media and in daily life. Trans people being out and open about who they are made it possible for me to realize that about myself. Please never stop being who you are

[crazyalien87]

you have a good point, but why can't you just use their chosen names? do you also refer to Katy Perry as Kathryn Hudson?

Yall notice how when Bruce Jenner transitioned he got mad publicity and won awards and shit, was basically worshipped. But then Ellen Page transitions and the response is mediocre at best? Its almost like people like to give glory to men more than they do women.

[odinsblog]

Brianna is making themselves out to be a victim of “Trans Twitter”? Lmao, that is such a reliable canard. Trans twitter, that all powerful group that controls everything, is coming after poor Brianna—who remember, didn’t do anything wrong except back up a trans/homophobic racist by calling a Black woman a man 🙄

Hoo boy 😮‍💨

Brianna Wu has officially gone the route of Caitlyn Jenner

As if Brittney Griner didn’t go through enough hell as a fucking Russian prisoner, Brianna Wu had to get that “pick me, I’m different but still terfy” dig in, to make clear whose side they’re on

BTW, the phrase everyone seems to be missing in that twitter thread is “racialized misogyny” … that’s the reason a lot of white Starbucks feminists train their fire on Black women so much. Remember how Lena Wilson tried to go after Amandla Stenberg? Same thing: “queer” white women going after Black women for clout points—and the second they get called out on their bullshit, they fall back on playing the victim of an “innocent” misunderstanding. They tried to throw a Black person under the white feminism bus to grow their own status. And they absolutely know what they are doing, and you better believe that if their dig was more well received, there wouldn’t have been any apology afterwards (half assed as it was)

And that’s all without me even getting into the fact that Brianna was tweeting from a notorious conservative racist transphobe, Lauren Chen

Anyway, remember: if you scratch a TERF, a racist bleeds

[autolenaphilia]

I’ve recently seen some The Rocky Horror Picture Show discourse. And like people are questioning if Rocky Horror is transmisogynistic. Of course it does. Dr. Frank-N-Furter is intentionally a transmisogynistic villain. That’s the point.

It’s intended as ironic of course, as deliberate camp. The musical is intended as a parody of old sci-fi and horror movies, mixed with a camp drag aesthetic inspired by the contemporary glam rock movement. The mad scientist villains in the movies being parodied were often queer-coded, and vaguely effeminate.

So to parody that, Frank-n-Furter goes far beyond the queer-coding, and is outrageously effeminate and evil. He rapes people, kills them with an axe and serves them for dinner and force-fems them to take part in his climactic stage show. He is a Frankenstein parody, who literally makes an artificial man in order to fuck him (a joke about Frankenstein I’ve seen on tumblr). And does it all while wearing stockings, a bustier and heavy make-up. He is deliberately the ultimate evil man in a dress trope, referencing Psycho and all effeminate mad scientists in media.

That Frank-N-Furter isn’t explicitly a trans woman doesn’t matter. The musical deliberately blurs the line. The line “I’m just a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual, Transylvania” is like a perfect encapsulation of how horror movies treat transfemininity. “Men in dresses” (transvestites) trans women (transsexual) and a symbol of predatory horror movie villainy (Transylvania) are all conflated, making a pun of out how they all begin with “trans”.

Of course, it’s intended to be ironic. It’s a parody of queer-coded villainy in old horror movies by turning it up to eleven, so that you can’t take it seriously. The whole movie has this drag show camp aesthetic that it celebrates, and the supposed representatives of heteronormativity, Brad and Janet are turned in the end. Frank-N-Furter becomes a symbol of a hedonistic queer liberation “Give yourself over to absolute pleasure.. Don’t dream it, be it.”

This is the clear intent of Rocky Horror, and it’s how it became a “queer classic”. Does it work? I’ll admit that I enjoy the movie version. The glam rock aesthetic is fun, the songs are catchy, and they keep coming at a quick pace. A lot of it is admittedly that I love the old horror and sci-fi movies it’s parodying, so my cultural touchstones are similar. I’m the kind of person to get a thrill out of knowing that Frank-N-Furter at one point uses the exact same prop that Peter Cushing used in the second Hammer Frankenstein movie.

That is a different question however from how well it succeeds at subverting the transmisogynistic tropes it handles. Even in the most sympathetic possible account of the musical, it’s doing the equivalent of handling live grenades. Is it the creators tropes to subvert in the first place? Is it the fans?

Let’s talk about Rocky Horror’s creator, Richard O’Brien. He is certainly a weird and contradictory person, he identifies as a third gender and “70% male and 30% female“, and is using estrogen. So arguably he is a transfem enby and thus transmisogyny-affected. But he’s also a transmisogynist who doesn’t believe trans women are “real women”.( I would like to know what exact percentage of “female” as a transfem person turns you into a bad fake trans woman.)

Of course the important thing about O’Brien is that he is rich. He is in a vastly different class position than the majority of transfems. So while he may be taking estrogen and living as a third gender, he is simultaneously isolated by his own wealth from the effects of the transmisogyny he bolsters in the media (see Caitlyn Jenner for another example of a wealthy transfem doing the same thing).

And O’Brien is rich because Rocky Horror is a huge success. The stage show has seen tons of productions, the original ran for 7 years in the West End, and the movie is a slow but certain money maker, with probably the longest theatrical run out of any movie in history. He is swimming in residuals.

This raises the more interesting question of Rocky Horror’s position in the wider culture, and it’s status as “queer media”. It’s a movie which is just not passively watched but celebrated and performed by its fandom. People show up in cosplay to showings, “shadow casts” perform while the movie plays. And of course the original stage musical is still performed.

So we have to ask ourselves, what are people performing? And who is performing it? And I’ve already answered the former question earlier. Rocky Horror is largely an ironic performance of transmisogyny. And the fact is, the majority of people doing that performance are not the main targets of transmisogyny. They are largely TME cishet, queer and trans people. It’s “ironic” transmisogyny to be sure, I think most fans of Rocky Horror who have any understanding of what it is doing view Frank-N-Furter as the true hero of the show. But is it really their thing to be ironic about? Are transmisogyny-exempt people really the people who should reclaim with irony and camp transmisogynistic tropes in horror media? I don’t think so, and that’s why there is so much resentment about Rocky Horror from transfems. And it’s creator doesn’t help, because while he’s arguably transfem, he also spreads transmisogyny in the media.

It illustrates a lot of things, for example how imprecise “queer” is as a description of people. It’s an umbrella term, and does group together people who have much in common. But it also erases the material differences within the community. Queer people aren’t all equally oppressed.

So Rocky Horror status as queer media, as a campy celebration of queerness and parody of anti-queer tropes in genre films is kinda grating. Because it enables TME queer people to perform and celebrate Rocky Horror, because they are queer and it’s about “queerness”, when there are specifically transmisogynistic tropes parodied in the musical. It isn’t really their place to do so.

It appropriates specific transmisogynistic tropes in the media by thoughtlessly subsuming it into the general anti-queerness which it is part of.

Of course there are transfems who got to explore their gender at Rocky Horror showings. But I think the reason they did that is because mtf crossdressing is accepted as part of a camp ironic performance in such a context. It makes it feel safer to perform femininity in public, because you can backtrack and say it’s purely ironic. That’s no different from the comedy crossdressing in American Halloween parties, and I think we can all agree those are often transmisogynistic.

And of course, Rocky Horror is an example of how cis men can perform femininity, and get celebrated for it in mainstream society, while escaping the effects of transmisogyny that transfems experience, and in fact often furthering that transmisogyny. It’s often a (negative) performance of transfemininity, in which actual transfems play no part and are mocked.

Tim Curry is a very good example. He made his career from playing Frank-N-Furter, and he probably couldn’t have done that if he was actually transfem, and not just crossdressing for an ironic performance on stage and screen. Like I don’t have anything against him in particular, quite the opposite, he’s one of my favourite actors, love him in everything from Clue to Muppet Treasure Island to Gabriel Knight. My objection is to the patriarchal and transmisogynistic system that favors cishet men like him.

Speaking of crossdressing on stage, the drag culture which Rocky Horror is inspired by of course has a complex history. It’s deeply rooted in both African-American and queer culture, and transfems have played major roles in drag. But Rocky Horror is if anything even an appropriation of drag culture. It represents drag’s commercialization and recuperation into the mainstream. It took drag out of the gay bars being raided by the police and onto the more respectable West End stage, making a lot of money in the process.

Rocky Horror beyond any qualities it has as a stage and film musical, due to its popularity represents a lot of complex issues. It’s important to queer culture, but it also represents the commercialization and recuperation of queer drag into the cishet mainstream. And within the queer community, it is a shining example of how TME queers can appropriate specifically transfem struggles as their own. It shows how cis men can gain wealth and fame performing transmisogynistic caricatures (even if they are ironic and don’t mean it).

I’m not saying if you enjoy the musical that you should stop enjoying it. But maybe if you are TME, Dr Frank-N-Furter is not your “problematic queer icon” to reclaim.

[lesbianralzarek]

i know bethesda didnt actually think this through, but desdemona reminds me of those cis “allies” who call caitlyn jenner “he” whenever she fucks up. like, its not about her being a good person who we all need to be super nice to, its about how you think its optional to see trans people as the gender they fucking say they are. her being a woman is a fact, and not something you can choose to either humor or ignore. either both “good” and “bad” trans women are women, or neither of them are

anyway, dez calling coursers “it”s in a dehumanizing way sucks shit and really lowers my opinion of her. synths dont need humans to “gift” personhood to them, they already have it. either see all gen 3 synths as people or hand the railroad over to someone who does

[gwen-stefanis-ankle-monitor]

Can’t forget the best part

so can we all vote to change the LGBT to the radical rainbow mafia? It honestly sounds a lot cooler. Also girl you really have no idea shit about this community and it shows. Being trans does not mean you know shit about the community and how it started. Learn our history or shut the fuck up. The information is out there and very easily accessible.

[prickly-paprikash]

Don't you just hate it when one of the biggest grifters online decides to like a piece of media you like?

Gatekeeping is wrong. Forcing someone to like something in the specific way I interact and consume a piece of media is wrong. Art is meant to be viewed through a multitude of lenses, and each individual will have their own way of interpreting that creation. And that's good. That's fine. That's human.

But when an Anti-Woke Grifter who thinks alcoholism is a really cool personality trait and decides to brand everything about themselves as that; who has historically engaged and criticized films and shows and games and books in bad faith; who has put down women and POC's and Queer representation in media; who is one of the biggest dicks in the online space decides to actually pay attention to an art that is pretty much dipped, coated, laminated, and injected with fucking GAY, ANTI-PATRIARCHAL ENERGY—that's when I get mad.

For those not in the know, Critical Drinker has posted a review for Blue Eye Samurai, saying he likes it.

You know... Blue Eye Samurai?

The show that oozes Queer Wrath? Feminine Rage? Curb-Stomping Toxic Masculinity and the Patriarchy whenever and wherever it can? That Blue Eye Samurai?

See, he's done this before with Arcane.

He says he likes it. Him and his ilk say that, "Finally, the wokies have done something actually good!" and point to Vi and Jinx as strong female characters written well!

But they also say, dang, feels like all the men in that show are idiots and that they had to be dumbed down to make room for the rainbow-haired girlies brigade. Who have all remarked that Vi and Caitlyn's relationship is forced and being shoved down our throats because god forbid women like women!

I got sick of watching his Arcane review halfway, and this was before I knew what a douche Critical Sucker was.

So I ain't watching his Blue Eye Samurai review. Why?

His Glass Onion review was done in bad faith.

I didn't like She-Hulk, but that's because that show was a byproduct of abused VFX animators, creatively bankrupt executives, and writers desperately trying to manage a convoluted shared universe that continues to buckle under its own weight. Political Stinker over here thinks that it's pandering, stupid, feminist garbage. He is one of the biggest Anti-Feminist voices in Youtube.

Him and his incel brigade have an obsession over hating Captain Marvel and Brie Larson. These basement dwelling cucks rant and rave over a mediocre duology and an actress that just lives in their tiny heads rent-free.

He says that they are removing men from leading roles and roles of great importance!

So why would I want to listen to an inebriated libertarian's opinions on a show that has become the show for lesbians, trans mascs, and other lovely brands of gay and feminism that he oh so despises? He'll most likely praise the action and violence and shit like that, then probably say that Mizu and Taigen's homoerotic rivalry isn't gay actually. Or that Mizu and Akemi's narrative foils don't scream enemies-to-sapphics. Or that Mizu, WHO'S NAME MEANS WATER AND HER ENTIRE CHARACTER REVOLVES AROUND FLUIDITY ISN'T IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM FLUID IN HER GENDER AND SEXUALITY.

Fuck. I'm sorry. I don't even care if he doesn't say that. He's made so many disgusting, disparaging remarks about any piece of media that shows an inkling of progressive themes that what else am I supposed to expect?

If anyone watches it and sees this, lemme know. Watching an Anti-Woke bullshit video with just myself is just straight up wading through the desert without proper protection. No thanks.

Anyway watch Blue Eye Samurai again. Because I know you watched it. Watch it again. And again. And when you're done, watch Arcane. Watch She-Ra. Watch Dragon Prince. Castlevania. Watch anything "woke". Consume trans-positive shows. Make all the haters and even the ones who like it but have no ounce of media literacy irrelevant. Let them dry out and die, please.

[lilliankillthisman]

While we're talking about Jessie

remember how she changed her surname to the girl form of lambsbridge? i know it's because it would be odd for them to be in a relationship with the same surname but i want to believe wildbow just thinks trans women do that. like he was caught off guard by chelsea manning not changing her surname to womanning. or thought that caitlyn jenner changed her name from jonner.

[spurgie-cousin]

Okay okay okay. I’m not trying to be a TERF but that book was written by Bruce Jenner.

Paul is so dull I’d doubt he’d even realised Bruce and Kaitlin are the same person.

Jesus Christ are you really going to make me defend Caitlyn Jenner? The Trump supporting thorn in all American trans women's sides for the last decade??

It's very late and I've been watching a series of videos about dialects that i need to finish or I'll explode, so all I have to say to you is even trans women as worm brained as Caitlyn don't consider themselves wholly different people before their transition......... Caitlyn Jenner has been very clear she has been who she is now as long as she's been conscious. Even when she went by "Bruce" she acknowledged that didn't really feel correct. The majority of trans women and men agree in that regard, that's why the term "dead name" exists.

If you don't understand that please just make an attempt to educate yourself, that sounds mean to say but I have stupid youtube videos to watch

[power-handmaiden]

Day 35: Angry Man Pounded By The Fear Of His Latent Gayness Over A Dinosaur Transitioning Into A Unicorn

I love how much contempt for its characters this tingler starts off with. We have the iconic man/woman couple who are always the subject of conservative boomer humor about relationships, the emotionally unavailable man and his overbearing shrill wife, who don't even like each other, let alone love or show any attraction to each other. It feels like a caricature but it actually makes more sense when the man turns out to not actually be attracted to women, honestly.

This tingler aged... interestingly. The protagonist's crisis of sexuality is brought on by his attraction to Bort Jenkins, a unicorn athlete and reality TV star who was born as a dinosaur and recently transitioned to a unicorn. Clearly a stand-in for Caitlyn Jenner. (If my rudimentary research is correct, Bort's resemblance to her deadname is because this was written in that specific time period where she had come out as trans, but not publicly revealed her name yet.) She's a controversial figure for many reasons that I'm not going to get into now, but this comes from a time when people were pretty much just laser-focused on the trans thing. Bort isn't really a character who does anything in this story anyway, more of a news item for characters to discuss.

Another present day context that really changes how I read this story is the conservative furry panic of the past few years. Yes, the "if people can identify as other genders, what if they start identifying as ANIMALS?" dumbfuck made-up problem is much older, but it's really having a moment now. This story was an absurd concept when it was written but now we have real elected officials in the USA freaking out over the idea of people "identifying as" different species, bringing this story a whole lot closer to realism than anyone would've expected in 2015. To me, the message of this one feels closer to the conservative furry strawman than it does to real trans issues, especially with the whole "you're gay regardless of whether you're into human, unicorn or dinosaur men" thing; we're dealing with an issue of species transition where gender is static. (Truth be told, I don't think it was the best move to make a comparison to a real-life trans woman and make this point in association because I've seen how people misinterpret such things... but I'm sure Tingler readers in particular understand the abstraction and that this isn't applicable directly to the real person) I feel like a version of this story could be written today with the message of "what if the conservative strawman version of the furry fandom was real and not just a way of targeting queer people without saying you're targeting queer people? Would it really be that bad or even different of a world to live in?"

I'm interested to see how Dr. Tingle tackles trans issues in the future. Despite a couple things that read as dated to me I see a good foundation here from someone who is still working through his own feelings about gender identity. I know that future tinglers will have explicitly trans characters and the perspective of a trans author who has explored and introspected on his own gender identity more thoroughly.

(Also there's a tingleverse connection in this one: mention of the "first human player in the UFL" refers to the events of "Pounded By The Gay Unicorn Football Squad")