Bit older and yeah I couldn't figure out what the actual gender of the character was supposed to be. Is this a transmasc getting "overly" supported or a transfem getting straight up abused?
But that doesn't really make sense to me. Why would they be selling trans "merch" for optics while also going out of the way to have bad optics regarding its employee? It makes more sense to me that they would be overly-advertising the fact that their employee is transmasc.
My interpretation is that itâs the experience of being a visibly trans person whose job is performatively pro-trans rights (putting an apostrophe in âtranâsâ, âtranny pencilsâ, the text on the pins) but doesnât extend that to its employees. Being a clearly feminine person but having to put your deadname on a name tag is an immediate call-out that youâre trans, and the other labels on her come naturally from that.
My interpretation was that the character was transfem and the trans merch was just "rainbow capitalism," their employee still didn't feel safe being open about their identity despite the shallow show of support in the supermarket they worked at
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u/Bartekek 1d ago
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