I'm a recent convert to comics. I always loved the mythologies of comic books, but, being a gamer with a budget, I never had much extra cash to spend on comics until recently. I just finished reading Secret Six, and was wondering about Junior (yes, that

I really don’t like applying trans labels to Junior or Ragdoll. I know a bunch of trans folk have adopted one or both of them and I am delighted about that. But I don’t want to apply those labels to those two characters because Ragdoll is cartoonish and Junior is just plain evil. They were clearly intended to have some gender fluidity.  If there were lots of trans heroes and supporting characters out there, we could have gone down that road.There would have been balancing portrayals. But neither was created with that idea in mind and I would have hated for the only trans characters in mainstream superhero comics to be murdering fringe characters. I hope I am expressing this well.

I’ll ask the folks out there. Do you consider Ragdoll or Junior to be trans?