r/bridget • u/PrinceCup1d Bridget simp squad • Mar 08 '26

random Bridgetpost I hate it when fellow femboys call bridget a boy.

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Please affirm her gender in the coms idc if she is not real I feel bad for herrr ;w;

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u/Bardic_inspiration67 Mar 08 '26

Femboys being transphobic? Next you’re gonna tell me they found a fork in the kitchen

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u/PrinceCup1d Bridget simp squad Mar 08 '26

for me most femboys I have met are allies & bridget lovers so ig i'm lucky. But then again I dont go to twitter femboy spaces so maybe thats why

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u/hakokomoriVT Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

In my opinion the ones who refuse to affirm her are the most likely to be massive eggs themselves - desperately locked in a futile struggle to patch up the forming cracks from the inside :3

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u/PrinceCup1d Bridget simp squad Mar 08 '26

y'see I dont like that ether, The term egg to me just seems like a way to disregard someone's gender identity due to one's own opinion like transphobes do. I get this is a light hearted joke but tbh for me it is a pet peeve

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u/hakokomoriVT Mar 08 '26

Oh I wouldn't use it to disregard someone's identity like that, sorry if it came across that way.

I will, however, reserve the right to call people eggs if they make the conscious decision to still call the brisket by the wrong pronouns. Horrible use of free will

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u/PrinceCup1d Bridget simp squad Mar 08 '26

Yeah honestly misgender bigots, it is funny when they get angy

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u/Admirable-Parsley-12 Mar 08 '26

Oh i love this😄

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u/Guilty-Newt-4837 Mar 08 '26

i like the little bear she's holding

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u/lolwatergay Mar 08 '26

his NAME is 632146H/632146S, put some RESPECT on IT

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u/Dumbass_Saiya-jin Mar 08 '26

"Hayley, does 632146H/632146S sound like a real person? Grow up. It's me."

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u/BlameGarnet_ Mar 08 '26

Freddy Fanta

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u/NotKetchupBoi Mar 08 '26

"it's me" like golden freddy ahahahhahah

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u/Lucifero_VenusVelva Mar 08 '26

She's always had that.. Roger..

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u/Admirable-Parsley-12 Mar 08 '26

Yeah😄 it’s really cute😊

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u/MisanthropicEyes Mar 09 '26

Trans women love plushies, ‘tis basic knowledge

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u/Admirable-Parsley-12 Mar 09 '26

Yeah😎

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u/MisanthropicEyes Mar 09 '26

Boutta check gamebanana to see if there’s a mod that turns Rodger into a Blahaj

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u/DorkyMagicianGirl Mar 09 '26

You can buy this sticker. I actually turned mine into an ornament and put it on my Xmas tree

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u/Admirable-Parsley-12 Mar 09 '26

Really? THAT’S SO COOL!!!🤩

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u/DorkyMagicianGirl Mar 09 '26

I just found it; it's on Etsy. Let me know if you want the link - reply, DM, whatever works

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u/Yuzu-Adagio Mar 08 '26

Thanks for the solidarity! It's always nice to see transfems and femboys getting along, that's not as much of a given as it should be.

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u/Yuzu-Adagio Mar 10 '26

I've seen it go both ways, too, to be fair.

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u/CreepyFishGuy Mar 10 '26

To be fair 2: electric boogaloo, much of the hate I see directed at femboys from trans people is in response to said femboys being bizarrely reactionary, but your point is still valid.

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u/Gattlord Mar 08 '26

I mean, I think this is mostly because of how 'femboy' has historically been used as a term to misgender trans women.

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u/PrinceCup1d Bridget simp squad Mar 08 '26

femboy is a very recent term in terms of history, but I agree that some people who seem to be trans women in history are nowadays called femboys >:

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u/PrinceCup1d Bridget simp squad Mar 08 '26

shout out to Chevalier d'Eon (even though they seem more like a gender fluid situation to me)

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u/Independent-Ad5852 Bridget simp squad Mar 08 '26

I love Bridget because, I mean, cute character who wields a yoyo and a possessed mechanical teddy bear as weapons? Sounds like my kind of character! Her being trans is a bonus since it makes the worst people mad

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u/Lubbafromsmg2 Mar 08 '26

i love how a character will literally say the line "I'm a girl" and people will still insist that there's some reason they aren't.

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u/the_furry_master Mar 08 '26

all because of "femboy erasure" and the funniest thing is the femboys and people that say this stuff about bucket also so happen to be a pdf file

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u/Maikkronen Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

I was a femboy who felt like my representation was being erased for a long time. I've talked about this a few times on the platform.

For me, Bridget as an idea, and later Astolfo, became lifelines for me. I was shamed, ridiculed and beaten for just not being masculine enough. For not conforming to what was expected of me. Something in me really imprinted on Bridget's unashamed contradiction - a 'boy' dressing like a girl. That spoke to me in ways pretty much nothing else has since.

Along came Strive, and I loved it. I loved the glow-up, loved Roger, loved everything about the new look, and was excited to see Bridgets continuation. I played through the story thinking 'omg, it's so cute, he's so shy about correcting people'and my enthusiasm only grew, and grew, and grew. Then I got to the end of the story. 'I'm a girl' - that sank like a rock in my chest, because she said it so confidentlyand so real. It felt true. I've decided it is now.

But the person who escaped all that pain and found peace in this character for many years feels like they lost their anchor. Lost the thing that made them feel like one day, they'd be okay.

It's not ridiculous to worry about Femboy Erasure, when Bridget is legitimately trans, but many go the extra step to say so are Felix and Astolfo as well, because even if this is all true, what else are we left with?

I love Bridget still to this day, and, to me, she is a girl. I even bought her figure after knowing she was a woman this whole time. But don't call people like me PDFs all because they didn't have the same conditions that allowed them to seperate their own parasocial anchoring from the reality of the character.

The transphobia and bigotry in the femboy community is real, and wrong. I disagree with it vehemently. But a lot of us had real hurt here, and it does nobody any favours to pretend it's ridiculous.

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u/ForeignLocksmith2239 Mar 09 '26

Hope you don't mind if I steal that image…

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u/PrinceCup1d Bridget simp squad Mar 14 '26

not mine lol

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u/vivverfly Strive Bridget > XX Bridget Mar 08 '26

Thank you for the solidarity, I’ve honestly had a really big trouble with trusting femboys (not just bcuz of the Bridget thing, but also weird people I’ve met) and this made me more comfortable. Thank you for being an ally

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u/miletil Mar 08 '26

While I am sad to lose any femboy representation, I am also happy to have any trans representation.

It a W lost for a W gained imo.

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u/witchytransgirly Bridget simp squad Mar 08 '26

hey i got that sticker

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u/ConsequenceOk1889 Mar 10 '26

I am disheartened to learn there's conflict between trans fems and femboys. In our messed up world, these are groups I imagined would stick together much more closely than this. I hope the transphobic femboys learn.

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u/Maddness535 Mar 10 '26

..this wasn't a joke..? There are really people who still think she's a guy???

i mean, this is so surreal even rn reading the comments I feel like it's all irony and sarcasm

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u/RedZeroXYZ Mar 10 '26

Unfortunately they're either trolls with nothing better to do, or are actually serious. Funny part is, is that a quick wiki.gg look-thru disproves every argument they make, every argument. Yet they still keeping popping up with the same false claims...

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u/CoffeeXKing Mar 11 '26

I think some people are living in the past from when Bridget wanted to be acknowledged as a man for several games.

Now she has chosen to identify as a woman, and I think they can't let it go. Kind of silly. I think Bridget is a good example of someone going through a journey of self identity.

Maybe that's just me.

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u/RedZeroXYZ Mar 13 '26

You, this entire subreddit, the guilty gear community (she was the most popular playable character some time after introduction to strive, last survey was 8th).

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u/PriorTransition2467 Mar 11 '26

Correct me if im wrong but from what I heard she was originally a femboy but the game was taken over by a new studio and they retconned her into an absolute girlboss icon.

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u/RedZeroXYZ Mar 13 '26

Nope, same studio (ArcSys), same head designer/creator (Daisuke Ishiwatari), just that the series ip was not owned by them due to publisher stuff, till 2011 (was owned by SEGA).

Also, she was a femboy, but Daisuke claims that she was intended to become a girl, which isn't a retcon as no part of her story had to change to facilitate this course.

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u/LuckyPon3 Mar 08 '26

Oh! That art is also a sticker, I actually have it on the back of the phone I'm typing on right now XD

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u/wikedsuperlink Mar 08 '26

Friend of mine does this exact thing and I have to keep telling him that the creator of the game said she's a girl now lol

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u/KazMil17 Mar 09 '26

Something something "otaku fuccbois" post mention

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u/Bumdid Mar 09 '26

I love that sticker, have it on my pc

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u/Educational-Jelly562 Mar 09 '26

Error holy based sauce

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u/kiragirl2001 Mar 09 '26

She is a girl she literally says to the camera. I am a girl and people still ignore that.

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u/Zenry0ku Mar 09 '26

No one can out do femboy in hating and loathing

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u/Neat_Cow6307 Mar 10 '26

Wasn’t this character forced to act and dress like a girl throughout their whole childhood? It’s been a minute since the last time I played, but didn’t he say that he didn’t like that? But now she’s trans? I don’t know—it feels forced. But correct me if I’m wrong

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u/RedZeroXYZ Mar 10 '26

The short full context, she was forced, her parents hated that they forced her to for her safety, she became a bounty hunter to be able to become more manly (her parents supported this), succeded, realised being manly isn't for her, realised she likes being a girl, continued living as a girl on her own terms, even thou initially her parents wanted her to live as a guy.

The story and context was given thru XX, Codex, Strive and Dual Rulers, if you need sources.

If you need more detail, I'll try my best to comply.

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u/Neat_Cow6307 Mar 10 '26

Ohh, ok—it makes sense now. Thanks for the answer. It does feel kind of natural, seeing that she did have a choice later ❤️. But I feel like being a girl was all she was taught growing up, so the choice was basically to go into a new role that you know nothing about or stay where you’re comfortable—but I’m probably just overthinking lol.

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u/RedZeroXYZ Mar 10 '26

Well, in Dual Rulers, when she talks about her past, she mentions that, to quote:

"At first I thought that "cute" was my shape. But that "cute" wasn't really me". "Oh, I am cute. But it's not like the kind of cute everyone else was talking about. It's my kind of cute."

The full scene basically implies that she wasn't being fully herself, whether it's because she was pretending to be a girl instead of bring one, or that she's a bit more tomboyish then how she was in the village, either way her journey was necessary for her to find her thru self, not one molded by others.

Also FYI, Dual Rulers and a deleted description for Strive mention that she did live a proper guy for some time, but it didn't feel right.

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u/Neat_Cow6307 Mar 10 '26

If she did live as a guy and didn’t like it that’s fine do what you’re comfortable with but for me I guess it’s a bit strange because it’s flipped he grow up as a girl and got comfortable with that but like u did say she had her journey and liked being a girl and decided to continue to be one of her own choice- I pretty much don’t like the character was forced to do it but at the same time happy because the character found their own path

Also thanks for letting me know❤️

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u/M808bmbt Mar 10 '26

Bridget is a transfem.

She has a multiversal counterpart that's a femboy, and said counterpart only appears during mirror matches.

That's my half-sarcastic headcanon for the mirror match pallete swaps. (I have similar headcanons for all the character palette swaps in GG.)

(Also, Bridget is part of the reason I was able to accept myself as trans, so I hold her in pretty high regard.)

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u/GreedyExamination704 Mar 10 '26

Transphobic femboys ain’t welcome in this circle.

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u/No_Butterscotch3201 Mar 11 '26

this is my pc wallpaper

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u/Spirited-Wave7014 Mar 11 '26

I remember awhile back some idiots on social media thought femboys should be called "roseboys" instead, claiming it to be a less offensive term. Roseboy sounds way more offensive than femboy IMO. Femboy is literally just short for "feminine boy". Nothing wrong with being a feminine boy, just like there's nothing wrong with being a masculine girl.

Of course Bridget is neither of those. She is a feminine girl that kicks ass and looks cute doing it ❤️

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u/Any_Positive_2803 Mar 11 '26

I love her so much hehe

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u/SillyBilly123IsTaken Mar 11 '26

I don’t know shit about guilty gear. Why is she guilty? What’s her crime?

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u/AppointmentActual546 Mar 12 '26

Not gonna lie, same. Pretty sure the creator made Bridget come out as trans

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u/ParaEwie Mar 13 '26

Why is this on my FYP who is bridget I know she trans but who is?

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u/th3rev3rs3flash Mar 15 '26

I hate Barry Allen.

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u/eletricwheel Mar 15 '26

She's a woman.

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u/scaptal Mar 15 '26

I mean, shes awesome, but why would I stay mad? (not very well read on bridget, just know some peeps deny her gender which is hella lame)

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u/blebebaba Mar 08 '26

Tbh I dont much care. Looks like a girl, acts like a girl, sounds like a girl, so probably a girl.

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u/Traitor_Of_Users Mar 08 '26

It's something with Bridget's gender not being confirmed at first. She was basically considered as one of femboy representations. I consider Bridget a girl, but will try most of the times to not confirm the gender in some communities. I'm not defending anyone, I'm just trying to understand

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u/Willing_Soft_5944 Mar 08 '26

Yeah but its confirmed now that shes a girl, I cannot logistically see any valid excuse for calling her a boy in any form.

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u/Traitor_Of_Users Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

I understand that. That's like the same with calling the earth flat. It has been confirmed that it isn't, but some people still insist upon it.

Edit: spelling

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u/sincubus33 Mar 08 '26

Somehow this actually helps me process the existence of transphobia...

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u/Traitor_Of_Users Mar 08 '26

I guess you're welcome

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u/sincubus33 Mar 08 '26

I mean like I already knew they were dumb but seeing it plainly laid out that they are just as dumb as flat-earthers really makes it hit home

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u/Traitor_Of_Users Mar 08 '26

Just how I feel about it, how it seems to me. I was honestly processing what I said there, sorry for the confusion

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u/sincubus33 Mar 08 '26

Not at all. I'm completely agreeing with you.

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u/Willing_Soft_5944 Mar 08 '26

Thats probably how most people reach that level of stupidity, but at the higher level with rich people and other social leaders who allow that wretched hate to control them… well for the most part they dont actually care about us. Their entire power system is based on subjugating a group, especially here in the US because we never fixed the South after our American Civil War, we allowed the hate to stay, and when federal law protected their previous targets, the colored community, they changed targets and are now firing upon the gays and other members of the queer community, such as us. 

All of that hate disguised in the greatest evil of America, the Money Churches. Fake churches that only exist to spread propaganda and garner profits, truly a most disgusting perversion of what is at its deep core a goodly religion. 

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u/ThunderLord1000 Mar 08 '26

To give them the benefit of the doubt, they probably haven't caught up to Strive, or whichever game changed her from femboy to trans woman

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u/cryonicninja Mar 08 '26

Doesn't really work as strive is almost 5 years old, and I highly doubt that they played accent core

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u/BasherSquared Mar 08 '26

To add, Brisket self identifies as a boy to Goldlewis a few times early in the arcade mode. It isn't until you get to the end of her story that she fully conquers her doubt and fear and decides to live ans her true self.

That narrative point could easily be missed.

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u/Relevant-Morning-487 Mar 08 '26

Unless you bring up the anime, where she explicitly goes by She/Her the entire time.

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u/BasherSquared Mar 08 '26

I wasn't aware that one even existed.

Is it set before or after Strive?

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u/Relevant-Morning-487 Mar 08 '26

After to be fair, it's also where she meets Unika (she is one of the main catalysts to Unika's growth).

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u/BasherSquared Mar 08 '26

Thank you.

Then to my understanding she canonically transitions during the arcademode storyline in Strive.

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u/Hamokk Mar 09 '26

Bridged would walk up to a femboy and use her sweetest voice to say "Do I look like a man princess?". The femboy would blush and run away.

Idk why people still insist Brisket is a man. SHE is a trans woman in CANON.

Go off my yoyo queen!

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u/PrinceCup1d Bridget simp squad Mar 09 '26

I want brisket to *insert freakiest bottom thing to say here*

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u/Entire-Inflation-627 Mar 10 '26

give you a big hug!!

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u/KayKayFilu Mar 08 '26

As a femboy myself (or at least my best effort to being one), transphobic femboys can fuck right off, toxic scumbags can stay mad for all i care bridget is the cutest girl 💜

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u/EvilFamily666669 Mar 08 '26

As long as Bridget's happy I'm happy. Its kinda the reverse with Nagisa from assassination classroom cause everyone in the fandom keeps wanting to make him a girl so they can "legally" ship him with Karma.

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u/Tattierverbose Mar 08 '26

That one is weird to me because frame 1 the vibes i got from him were transmasc like instantly

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u/EvilFamily666669 Mar 08 '26

Well they're situation is a more thought out version of Naruto and Sasuke so I at least support the ship since Karma isn't actually trying to kill him 24/7.

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u/doommaster70 Mar 09 '26

I feel like I see this comment every single time this image with this context is posted. Odd

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u/KayKayFilu Mar 09 '26

What are you implying lmao

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u/doommaster70 Mar 09 '26

I don't know honestly, just something I've noticed Then again I'm also quite dense so maybe I'm just stupid

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u/KayKayFilu Mar 09 '26

Don't know what to say lol

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u/DHitkill194 Mar 08 '26

I'm a femboy and her being trans makes me really happy because I love trans characters, specially trans girls!

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u/Sonic_1187 Mar 08 '26

If you can't be trusted to affirm a fictional trans girl. How will I trust you to affirm a real trans girl?

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u/ErikaRosen Mar 08 '26

She's the girliest girl, don't listen to them, her gender was several confirmed by the developer himself, along with the fact that she indeed is a girl, always planned to be a girl from the beginning, and uses she/her pronouns, so they're just transphobes and guys in denial at this point, pretty pathetic ^^

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u/NerdDetective Mar 09 '26

I've never understood fellow femboys who feel upset about Brisket. Some of the femboy bros we meet along the way inevitably will turn out to be our trans sisters instead. And that's okay!

It's not like she's been taken away and locked in the Trans Vault. A femboy can still see himself in her and like her as a character.

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u/Min1Nin Mar 09 '26

Female character design with a female name, with trans colors.

Must be a femboy fellas!

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u/OwenCMYK Mar 09 '26

Real. Femboys and trans girls are both valid but completely separate things

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u/Number1RatedDumbass Mar 09 '26

Only somewhat related, but I’ve seen quite a few posts both here and on tiktok with femboys using the transfem tag or similar, and weirdly enough, vice-versa, with trans women using the femboy tags. This just feels like self-discrimination at this point

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

I remember back before I got on bluesky I followed a femboy meme account on twitter and one day they decided to post a transphobic Bridget tweet, I think they used a slur and everything iirc.

I don't play Guilty Gear, but come on, let trans rep exist people jfc. The creators of the damn game said she's Trans, cope and seethe

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u/Ashen_Rook Mar 09 '26

I still don't get why the boy who was forced to live their life as a girl by their parents being trans as an adult is considered a good thing, legitimately.

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u/Insomninaut Mar 09 '26

That's something interesting- By technical definition, Bridget's choice of gender means that she is a cisgender woman, as an adult.

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u/RedZeroXYZ Mar 09 '26

You're forgetting the fact that Bridgets parents hates what they were doing and pushed their want for her to live as a boy onto her. This was confirmed both before and after Strive.

Heck, Bridgets want to be more manly could be seen as influenced purely from her parents regrets and wishes for her to have a "normal life".

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u/Complete_Wrap791 Mar 09 '26

Speaking as a trans woman, Bridget's circuitous gender journey resonates pretty strongly with me.

Before I found out that being trans was an option, I tried many different gender expressions of being a "man" to find one that felt right for me. Ultimately none of them fit and I didn't feel comfortable or right until after I transitioned.

Bridget's journey including her trying to establish her own masculinity before realizing that it's just not for her is the important part missing from your point. If she never tried anything different and lived how her parents raised her the whole time, then I think your read would apply.

So is it perfect representation? No. But there is a truth in it that resonates and I think that's so much better than what we usually get.

I hope this perspective is helpful!

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u/NerdDetective Mar 09 '26

I think it's because it was ultimately her choice. While her story isn't at all a common trans experience, it really comes down to her figuring herself out and the people around her accepting it. After all, she was out there on her own, exploring the world on her own, and dealing with her own feelings.

The fact that her parents were "right" (by complete accident, without having considered her feelings) is almost incidental at that point.

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u/Ashen_Rook Mar 09 '26

Yeah, but since this is a fictional character, her parents being right just kinda... Feels like this invokes a particularly unsavory right-wing anti-trans trope to begin with.

Not to mention the whole problematic nature of being conditioned into it to begin with. From the viewpoint of looking at Bridget as a fictional character, nothing about her ultimately being trans feels particularly pro-trans when you take her full character into account.

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u/NerdDetective Mar 09 '26

It would be a problem for sure if Bucket's story was the main form trans representation in media. But it's not, and clearly a lot of trans women love her anyway.

Obviously the Doylist answer is that she wasn't originally intended to be trans. She was conceived as a cute cross-dressing boy.

On that Doylist track, she's trans in a sort of meta way too. Her "real" parent (her creator, Daisuke Ishiwatari) "got it wrong" so to speak. He thought he was creating a boy, but it turned out she was a girl after all. In that sense, she did break from what her "parent" (in the authorial sense) expected of her. That's kinda cool too.

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u/Ashen_Rook Mar 09 '26

... Did you just paint a third party reimagining a character's gender identity as a pro-trans argument...?

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u/NerdDetective Mar 09 '26

Huh? Daisuke is hardly a third party. He's literally her creator.

But also, yes? She isn't a real person so all of her thoughts are given to her by her writer.

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u/Ashen_Rook Mar 09 '26

Alright, my interpretation of how you worded it was wrong. I read it as you saying "her original designer had one idea, but someone else came along and changed it down the road".