I took a look at your info doc and I'm confused. Can we not draw trans characters for this? Is it not an LGBT zine?
Your question leads way to a concern we should properly address. We firstly want to clarify that we strongly encourage trans and nonbinary inclusion. There is no doubt of that, and we feel we improperly showcased how important it is to us.
The zine is LGBT, because while our main focus is MLM and WLW relationships, we are more than happy to hear about an individuals own interpretation of each and every character. We are in no way not allowing these to be included into our zine. You want to draw or write a character wearing the bi colors? Go for it. A pan pun on a shirt being âIâm PANtastic.â We love it! A character yelling about how much they love their trans self? Absolutely.
We understand and realize that our previous examples and enthusiasm for these topics were in poor taste and improper.
Our main concern is to not portray these roles as stereotypical or offensive, but we will use our roles as moderators to make sure the content coming out is respectful to as many people as we can.
I hope this can help clarify things. We apologize to those we have upset and disappointed so far, and we hope that we can do right with our project from here on.