A fan says: Oh, um, hi, I'm Nora. I, um, my friend told me that in the show Dipper was originally supposed to be trans, but I haven't been able to find any source material on that so I wanted to ask whether or not that was true.
Alex replies: Sure! Oh, thank you so much for your question! Dipper and Mabel are inspired by me, and my twin sister Ariel. So the show is largely- comes from our lives. Um, I am not trans.
However, um, you know, I am a person who experienced the mystery of trying to figure out how to deal with gender questions growing up. I mean, I- feel like the 90s when I grew up, you watch TV and it'd be like, [in a silly voice] "Be a man! Eat SlimJim's! Kill someone!" [back to normal voice] um and it- and I was like, "Is that what it means to be a man? How do I do this right?" And I was raised in a home with a mom and a sister, and they were sort of my model for what it looks like in a house. I put my questions about "What is- How does this all work?" into Dipper, um, and people of all different parts- of all different spectrums have said like, "I relate to this character."
Um, I think, in fiction, the only thing I know how to do as a writer is, you put your personal experience into it, you be as specific as you can, and the specific can become universal. So, when somebody says to me like, "this character spoke to my life", I'm so- like, greatful that I got to be a part of somebody's childhood, and that somebody found comfort in my characters.
Um, so like, I really encourage people to- any headcanon, um, any fiction, any way they wanna dress up, you do it. Like, Dipper's yours. Like, however you wanna write him, however you wanna dress as him, however you want to invent him, please. Because it starts as my creation and I share it with all of you. So.
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