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Caine to Pomni after his Abstraction nightmare:

I think if you understand TADC as a deeply personal and direct story centering on transness, emotional/self repression, the inner complexity of cruel people, ego, control, self-destructive tendencies, second chances, and what it means to live a meaningful life, all filtered through the core vision of one person, you'll find a raw expression of all those things, an experience being shared. You'll find a story that is consistent in its theme, subject matter, and quality throughout. Not something impossibly esoteric or flawlessly sophisticated, but a story that puts every piece it needs to into place. A story that completes itself, that says what it needs to and leaves a mark after it does.

I actually think if you're not trans, you shouldn't be starting discussions on whether or not Jax being transfem is a good or bad writing decision, or if it "makes more sense" for him to be transmasc. But that's just my opinion. Maybe cis people know more about the trans experience than trans people do. Maybe gooseworx, the transfem writer, doesn't understand the transfem experience and Jax would actually be better as a trans man or a femboy because the cis fans said so. /sarc

As a transmasc enby person in this fandom, I think all the backlash/denial of Jax being transfem is because people are mad that they got "tricked" (I don't actually mean tricked exactly, but thats the best word I can think of right now) into liking/relating to a female character, and not only that, a TRANSFEM female character, especially with the current transphobic stuff going on in the world right now. People only tend to find flawed male characters interesting but find flawed female characters "annoying" and "badly written", so by having us follow a pre transition transfem character this whole time who is flawed and then revealing she's transfem afterwards, people are trying to deny she's transfem because they don't like that they found a flawed female character relatable or likeable. It all comes back to misogyny, because people don't want to admit they like a deeply flawed, traumatized transfem character, so they'd rather deny deny deny and kill the cows so they can't ever come home.

new circus update.

It’s fucking killing me that there was an entire ten minute excerpt about Jax’s identity, probably 20 implications and metaphors, a coming out scene, using a song that is about the birth of a daughter, the voice actors saying it, goose, the trans writer, saying Jax is a self insert, and goose later making art of transitioned Jax and using she/her pronouns

"Jax being trans doesnt excuse his shitty behavior"