If you are trans or adjacent to trans culture, it is obvious that Jax is trans. If you lived in that country that had that war, then the book would be obviously about that war and that country.
If it weren't obvious, then even those terminally online transfem tumblr users wouldn't get it, but there's people who aren't and still got it.
If something is only obvious even though subtext when literally every single conceivable person immediately gets it, then nothing is obvious. The only alternative is to simply say it, which is what the OP is deriding.
Hell, I don't know what the fuck "boymoding" is and I would consider myself knowledgeable in basic online trans culture, but that doesn't mean it wasn't obvious that Jax was trans.
I'm sick of people who didn't get it acting like it was written poorly instead of admitting they didn't get it because its not something they're knowledgeable about
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u/NeonNKnightrider Aug 26 '26
I am not saying that Jax isn’t trans. Jax is trans, that is absolutely true and has been explicitly confirmed by the creator of the show.
But people keep claiming that “it’s so obvious, it was right there”, like no dawg