"HUGE SPOILER ALERT:“”Of course, while Yeoh is the first trans character for a..."

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HUGE SPOILER ALERT:

“”Of course, while Yeoh is the first trans character for a capes-and-tights book, she’s not strictly the first trans character in the mainstream or at DC. In the ’90s, both Lord Fanny from Grant Morrison’s “The Invisibles” and Wanda Mann from Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” are both easily identified as transgender, though their debuts didn’t garner the attention this one has due to their removal from big time movie and toy franchise characters.

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EXCEPT FOR SIR YSTIN IN DEMON KNIGHTS WHO HAS LITERALLY BEEN AN OPEN TRANSSEXUAL SINCE THE REBOOT BEGAN.

LOOK AT THIS SUAVE BADASS.

SIR YSTIN HAS BEEN SLAYING MONSTERS AND STEALING THE HEARTS OF AMAZONS SINCE ISSUE ONE.

ISSUE FUCKING ONE.

YES, YEOH’S INCLUSION AS A TRANSSEXUAL IS IMPORTANT.

WE NEED MORE INCLUSION IN COMICS.

BUT DON’T FORGET/IGNORE THE GROUNDBREAKING, TABOO-SHATTERING CHARACTERS ALREADY IN CONTINUITY JUST BECAUSE THEY AREN’T IN THE BAT-FAMILY OR WRITTEN BY GAIL SIMONE!

(No offense to Mrs. Simone, of course)

EDIT

And now it looks like DC Women Kicking Ass has conveniently forgotten about Sir Ystin, too.

I just…I need a minute….

(via filmsfoodandfandom)

Erasing other characters like this does no one any good, I agree.

In all the interviews I did, I specifically mentioned that Alysia would be the first non-fantasy-based, non-mature title trans character in a mainstream superhero book that we were aware of.

But by the time things get edited and sound-bited (bitten?), they get narrowed down to “FIRST FIRST FIRST” and that’s all, which erases previous characters. Which I am dead set against. I don’t care who is first. It’s not important.

The same thing happened when I worked on Wonder Woman, I would say I was the first long-term ongoing female writer on the book, and it INEVITABLY would say, “FIRST FEMALE WONDER WOMAN WRITER,” ignoring Mindy Newell who came first.

It’s a little frustrating.