![]() So the fact that I presumably have a Y chromosome (I’ve never undergone a chromosome testing panel, so we can’t know for sure) means I can never escape that biological fact, and according to gender essentialist logic, will always be “a man” in some sense. ![]() ![]() So: As America’s foremost trans television critic, I’ve encountered a lot of people wanting to know if, uh, Y: The Last Man would be horribly transphobic and gender essentialist.Ī quick definition: “Gender essentialism” is when we insist that the gender someone is assigned at birth on some level determines their destiny. We just sort of exist off to the side somewhere. Nonbinary people are not mentioned at all, and the comic doesn’t include any trans people as major characters. Trans men are briefly mentioned as existing in said comic, and trans women are assumed to have all died, because we bore Y chromosomes that led to our (fictional) deaths. ![]() But the main reason the show has raised so many questions is that the source comic’s premise, as it stood, left little room for trans people. ![]()
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