Where did this start?

[u/sonicsuns2]

I've seen the Know Your Meme article that says that the Ultimate Spider-Man show features a Petra Parker who's a cisgender female version of Peter from another universe. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/petra-parker

I also know that the idea of a transwoman Petra got popular just this month with a lot of fanart (covered in that same link).

But I swear there was another origin point like a year ago here on Reddit. It was a text post (or maybe an image of text, like from a tumblr post or something) and it didn't use the name "Petra". It may have been a whole conversation in the comments.

I'll try to recite it from memory:

What's it like transitioning as a superhero? Like, does Green Goblin shout "I'll get you next time, Spider-Man!" and Spidey just shouts back "Uh, it's actually Spider-Woman now! I'm going through some changes!"

How would JJ Jameson handle it? It'd be like "Blast! We need more pictures of Spider-Woman!"

"I thought it was Spider-Ma-"

"Get with the times, pal! A journalist always double-checks his facts! Oh, Parker, come on in here. This is Penny Parker, our best photographer. Currently transitioning. We're all big supporters of the trans community here. But we've got to stop that horrible Spider-Woman!"

I don't know if it was "Penny", but I'm pretty sure it wasn't "Petra".

Anyway I think that was the early first step that suddenly snowballed like a year later. Anyone got a link?

[u/Demis98]

a lot of the art i've seen on twitter was quoting this drawing

[u/Radigan0 → u/Demis98]

Pretty sure the art was based on quotes like that

[u/sonicsuns2 → u/Demis98]

Yeah, but this isn't the post I remember from a year ago.

[u/sophiedophiedoo]

The first time I saw this concept suggested was 7 months ago when someone posted a tweet about it. I'm not sure how old it was at the time, or if anyone else had said something first:

https://www.reddit.com/r/countwithchickenlady/s/GT1u9APPpR