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

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.

• Peter's second family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t5AUt-XzcA
• Peter's sex change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E7bVtvgtNY
• Ida and Peter talk about being trans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4u6V3D-bpM
• Peter Griffin uses the trans restroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKl9fK-HUpw

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

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