Netflix Sabrina and Trans Character

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Anyone watched Sabrina the Witch on Netflix? Its quite good. There is a character who may be trans, Susie, who appears gender neutral and is called a boy-girl, and who is happy to be called male. Nice character, fair enough. Susie is inspired by her ancestor Dorothea who dressed masculine and was a pirate. Dorothea inspires Susie to be brave. All great.

But- I am annoyed that Dorothea could easily be a female-identifying woman, straight or lesbian, who was rejecting the restrictions on her sex at the time. Not necessarily trans.

I don't have a problem with either representation but I wish it was clear what the score is. Because it isn't, I feel that it is erasing both potential identities, either as trans or as a woman pushing back against oppression.

No...

She becomes Theo and insists she’s a boy so yeah she becomes trans

Made me cross

From the article about the young person who acts in Sabrina.

My hygiene was abysmal when I was a trans guy because I thought guys didn’t wash their faces — but I like washing my face, I like having clear skin. Is it a female thing to want to feel comfortable in your own skin? Noticing that cage I was putting myself in helped me get to the place where I am now: I'm non-binary. I don't feel like those things should affect me. I don't want to steal from myself anymore for the sake of upholding this image.

This is so sad. It's just stereotypes all the way down, and moving from one set to another. I mean, it's great that the young person in question now seems to have realized that they don't actually have to follow any of those supposed rules and can just like what they like, but why did they have to have their breasts removed and call themselves non-binary to do it? Where did the prison they'd built for themselves in their own head come from? Did none of the adults in their life growing up ever tell them that it was OK to just like whatever they happened to like?

I just felt huge sadness reading that article for that reason prodigalkittens. I self-harmed as a teen so I found it eerie reading them talking about scarring and in the next paragraph about being a Unilever self-care ambassador. It brought back those huge up and down and spinning around feelings. I hope that they have peace now but I wish no more girls would find themselves feeling they have to cut away at their bodies to feel free of stereotypes.

I stopped watching Sabrina in the second series because I think it's so very harmful for girls to mutilate themselves and to be held up as role models to gender non conforming children. I will not celebrate this.

After reading this I googled the character because I've never watched the series ..
riverdale.fandom.com/wiki/Theo_Putnam

"Theo was born as Susie Putnam in Greendale, but identified as non-binary from a young age. He would later identify as a transgender boy."

Oh poo I pressed send too early...what I meant to say was that the other search suggestions were amusing: