Perpetually falling over

no matter what the situation is, they're always bringing the social interaction to a screeching halt with these jokes. nobody ever wants to participate in this joke with them. nobody agrees with the premise. nobody ever knows what to say afterwards, it's just an awkward moment and a subject change. but they just keep doing it.

Dipper can be read either way, and the fact is that the character is written with the intention of being a relatively gender conforming cisgender boy. I encourage you to have your own queer headcanons so long as you respect the trans girls' right to have a contradictory one. There are people in the comments saying "Dipper is accidentally transfem coded" and like... I do not think that he is to the exclusion of other readings. Struggling with masculinity and worrying about being able to perform it is absolutely a thing that men (cis and trans) experience, because masculinity is a construct and real people have incredible depth and individuality.

Ralsei is a character who is being deliberately, implicitly transfem coded, but that has not been made, like, fully explicit. To take this character and go "what if tboy!" generally implies some combination of 1. poor literary analysis, and 2. a desire for this character to not be transfem. The act, in and of itself, of insisting that Ralsei is not transfem while you've played Chapter 5 is materially harmless, but it betrays a perspective on transfemininity that, frankly, i think you need to reconsider.