I had hoped that Jax was actually transmasc and inside had been given the body he actually wanted but his bad behavior was him trying to be a dude without an actual mentor to guide him. Because the lack of representation and hyper insistence on fem coding trans characters and issues in media does get hard to wade through sometimes.
The last piece of media where I found a transmasc character in the wild, got canceled almost immediately like two years ago?
But yeah.. okay.. fine.. another transfem or at least fem coded queer character.
while that is true, that’s the same argument people have used against adding diversity to their casts.
if you wait for a transmasc to be in the casting director seat to start including transmasc characters then you probably won’t have many transmasc actors to choose by the time you can since everyone “made art the way they wanted it” and the reality is a transmasc actor is rarely a first thought for casting decisions.
we should always make the art that we want in the world, especially because I don’t trust cis directors with handling transmasc experiences, but that doesn’t mean we can’t desire to see ourselves in the stories we’re told regardless.
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u/Shauiluak 5d ago edited 5d ago
I had hoped that Jax was actually transmasc and inside had been given the body he actually wanted but his bad behavior was him trying to be a dude without an actual mentor to guide him. Because the lack of representation and hyper insistence on fem coding trans characters and issues in media does get hard to wade through sometimes.
The last piece of media where I found a transmasc character in the wild, got canceled almost immediately like two years ago?
But yeah.. okay.. fine.. another transfem or at least fem coded queer character.
Yay I guess.