Talk:Madeline/Controversy/@comment-25474531-20200225130552/@comment-71.193.149.239-20200301100318

trans representation is not everywhere. it's cis and heteronormativity that makes it seem more common to you than it really is. right now it is really difficult to find good representation of people different from the "societal norm." the most we generally get is a scenario like this where there is a tiny flag in one scene and we are supposed to think it's good representation. and you know the worst part? we do think it's good representation. we think it's good because that's how low the bar is. we are happy to get almost any form of representation because our expectations have been lowered so much that we are just happy that media recognises that we exist. despite nigh endless cases of lgbtq+ people in history, so much of it gets straight-washed or forgotten that we feel as though we are alone in our experiences. we are raised to think that we are broken or that some part of ourselves needs to be fixed even though there is nothing to fix and throughout history, we have lived safe, comfortable lives as ourselves in various societies that had a more fluid understanding of gender and sexuality. right now we continue to claim that humans only fit a gender binary and can only like the opposite sex even though basically everything we know about them contradicts that idea.