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anethum wrote

do you have any actual (might be serious, might be lighthearted) hypotheses re: canon transmasc peter griffin? i would love to hear it. all i know about family guy comes from cultural osmosis though

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twovests OP wrote

I've been exposed to it only pre-2014, but apparently younger queer zoomers actually find a lot of merit in the show. I was asking about good representation of trans women in media who don't pass, and someone told me in full sincerity, "Quagmire's dad".

A very short breakdown:

  • A number of the cutaway gags have made it explicit that Peter is a trans man. (But these generally aren't canon). (That's where this post comes from.)
  • In at least two episodes (S2E8 and one way later with Ida, "Quagmire's dad"), Peter has a gender epiphany and transitions to a woman to some degree, only to transition back by the end of the episode.

I'm not an expert in Family Guy lore at all, so, big grain of salt.

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twovests OP wrote

But sifting through these I found. Uh. A lot of pretty awful transphobic jokes of varying degrees of recency. Had to cherry pick

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anethum wrote

thank you! those are interesting. cool that you were able to cherrypick stuff at all (the "#1 transgender red sox fan" i actually find a bit amusing, for some reason). but that probably just means that they wrote a ton of trans jokes in the first place, no

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