Wasn't troonery's first prominent portrayal within comics a character from The Sandman during the 90s or am I misremembering it?
Idunno, probably (despite my userpic -- it's Stel from Edena -- I'm not much of a comic expert). I was thinking of Sandman (which I only know from terves, secondhand) when I wrote "standard libshittery".
But here I specifically meant the troon
problem: the grossness, the fetishism, the invasion of women's spaces, women's counter-arguments. Lesbians were aware of the troon problem as early as the 70s. The Sandman troon is meant to be sympathetic. Probably, he only wears a dress, uses makeup, has a woman's name, and fucks promiscuous men who don't mind fucking a troon. IIRC he reacted with insults to another character pointing out he didn't qualify as a woman for the purpose of magic; it could've been intended as a pro-troon argument in the context of the IRL troon problem (MichFest etc) but could be standard libshittery.
Captain Estar's Jeremy is notable for being an "early"
fictional portrayal of the troon problem
explicitly,
alone (without being complicated by the supernatural or obscured by atrocities, cross-dressing killers and such -- clearly they have other issues),
negatively, and in a
larger,
non-satirical work. Clearly the male author learned it from a woman; clearly Estar in that scene is inspired by
a real female friend in "Rowntree"'s life, whom he now wants to betray.
Sometimes, in discussions of cows and especially sideshows, Kiwis doubt troons' reminiscences of their early troon past, saying troon shit didn't go mainstream until $year. While they're likely correct in their assessment of troon honesty, things had been going wrong for decades, like secretly burning wooden supports inside a renovated building.
Please put the name of the enabler in your post in plaintext so the forum search picks it up.
