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This joke got beamed into my brain last night at 3am and I had to wait till now to draw it, I canโt believe I thought June would be a girl failure when sheโs obviously a comedy mastermind how could I have been so blind
The most interesting take i see so often in response to june egbert is the idea that it would be better if june was genderfluid or nonbinary. Reading into it, the clear implication there is that a character being gender fluid or nonbinary is intrinsically more queer and diverse than a character being a trans woman. A lot of people in fandom seem to think that someone "just" being transfem is basic and boring, and that nonbinary or genderfluid identities are more advanced forms of queerness. Needless to say, this is not true. Some of you are far too comfortable with asserting yourself as superior to transfems. It's not math. Your gender isn't greater than or less than trans women's gender, regardless of how varied and fluid your identities are, and regardless of how limited and restrictive you think the identities of "binary trans people" are.
I've also seen people literally say that "the breath aspect is all about freedom and independence, so june being nonbinary would be more befitting than june being binary trans one way or another." This take does not require reading into to see the transmisogyny, it is very explicitly framing nonbinary as being more freeing than transfem. The idea that trans women are just hopping from one restrictive gender role to another is pretty vile, and you should examine your own thoughts and biases to see if you believe that on some level!
I feel like we could learn so much about transmisogyny if we put all of the june deniers in a lab and studied them