Secondly (and that was a pretty long first point), I'd like to talk to the other trans people who might want to read this. The spelling, more than anything, gives it away - a classic TERF practice is to spell 'women' as 'womyn.' If you thought that her rant was too heavy-handed, then please, please take it up with the women that police our gender, and get them to stop. I half think that April just copied some TERF's post for one of Graywytch's rants. Why? Well, because she uses the same rhetoric and tactics as real-life TERFs. I only rarely get mad at fictional characters, and until now, I have never so desperately wanted to see one end up dead. Danielle going through it was simultaneously painful and affirming. Fighting back is a constant struggle even when we've known the truth for years. It happened to me, and I've seen it happen to three of my friends. When a trans person is closeted and then even more when they come out pretty much the entire weight of western society tries to shove them back into repressing or suppressing their identity. They might think that no one would say that things that Graywytch said. First, cis people will probably think that Danielle talked about being trans too much. I feel I should address some issues that certain groups of people might have with this story. While I haven't had *every* verbal battle with my parents as Danielle, I could repeat about 90% of them from memory while they were happening. Self-acceptance.?Īs a very queer trans lady, this story was relatable on a multitude of levels. Original cover art copyright Diversion Publishing Corp.īeating super villains? Easy. If Danny can't sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction. Dreadnought's murderer - a cyborg named Utopia - still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. Between her father's dangerous obsession with 'curing' her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he's entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she's in over her head. It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny's first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. Danny Tozer has a problem: She just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero.

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