i really disagree with the idea that jax's gender is up for debate. this isn't really an attempt to be rude, but i feel like pointing out things that are potentially missable or easily misunderstood.
1. there really isn't a reason for ribbit to put their bow on jax's head before saying "your secret's safe with me." those 2 actions are distinctly connected, and if it was about jax's mother, i don't imagine she'd be blushing and starry eyed about it. besides, ribbit had already comforted jax over the possibilty of her mother dying with sound logic. she HAS to be fine because the police would have chased jax down otherwise.
2. lots of people haven't seen the finale. promo material, at least until the 19th, kinda needs to refer to jax with he/him pronouns because doing anything else is an outright spoiler
3. goose relates to jax the most and said she's an incredibly personal character to her. plus, when asked why jax reacted poorly to the maid dress, she said that it's because jax isn't ready to confront certain things about herself.
4. her room is literally the trans flag colors
5. pomni uses he/him pronouns for jax because she is the only person who knows her identity. jax may be functionally comatose, but i doubt she would really appreciate being outed, regardless of the circumstances. and she's closeted in the real world, so pomni has even more reason to be respectful of that.
6. (promise this is the last one lol) if the deep, personal thing jax confessed to her mother wasn't that she's trans, then there is genuinely no way for us to glean what the secret may have been. which i'd say is pretty bad storytelling. however, there is actual evidence in the text we can point to for the secret being that she's transfem. we can assume pretty easily based on context clues based on the reaction her mother had (berating and degrading her, then turning around and hugging her), that it had something to do with her gender expression. especially given the importance jax places upon her mother putting her down for showing weakness/vulnerability
anyway tldr jax is transfem and that really isn't subtextual. it is as explicit as it could possibly be without her simply looking into the camera and saying "i'm girl"
Good points but they can also be easily debunked but since I have already received questions and tons of comments about Jax's gender I am really in no mood to start a fight.
My point is, if you headcanon Jax is a closeted transfem girl then that's fine but please don't force your headcanon onto me and other people who won't entirely agree with your statement alright?
I'm sick of this whole transfem Jax debate and frankly I really don't care. If he turns out be a man, that's fine, a closeted transfem woman, that is okay and I won't mind but since is hasn't been confirmed it is up to the audience's interpretation since it was left ambiguous. It's alright to headcanon but when you start forcing it onto other people it becomes a problem.
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