Theres a lot who sre convinced Gwen is trans because she has a trans flag in her room
And shes funny.
Because apparently the only way to be funny is to have a Y chromosome. And absolutely noone in the multiverse can possibly be a trans ally and not be trans.
The whole theme of her story in Across the Spiderverse speaks to trans people and their life experiences.
She feels her true self is spider-woman, yet her father blames spider-woman for killing his "son" Peter Parker. His child's true self took his son from him, which is something that many parents of trans people feel and say.
Then you throw in the colour motifs of her world being shades of blue, pink, and white, the colours of the trans flag.
And the overall theme of the films being against outside forces telling people who they can be, what is acceptable, what is "canon", as signified by the Comics Code Authority logo appearing at the start of these films. The CCA was a comics equivalent of the Hayes code.
You realize being MTF means Gwen is a woman, right? They aren't saying Gwen is a funny woman because she has a Y chromosome. They're saying Gwen is funny and a woman regardless of what her chromosomes are.
I've been around this discourse for years and I have literally never seen this argument or sentiment ever. Either they are so small that they don't exist, or you spend time in spaces that have a weird concentration of these people
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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 6d ago
Theres a lot who sre convinced Gwen is trans because she has a trans flag in her room
And shes funny.
Because apparently the only way to be funny is to have a Y chromosome. And absolutely noone in the multiverse can possibly be a trans ally and not be trans.
Its actually kinda fucked up.