RE: @morningWillow

I don't think getting to see someone coming out is "saying it to the camera". Like, we do that. It's a part of being trans, and queer in general. Again, we have an explicitly trans character in the Epilogues, with Roxy. They come out, they change their appearance, people comment on it. It is a source of exploration to their relationships with other characters, like how Dirk is clearly uncomfortable with it, and what that says about his own internalize misogyny, and so on.

Jade's trans-ness, in contrast, is treated like something that needs to be talked about in a hushed tone. It was literally a secret to almost everyone, and we don't even get to see Jade explain this to her own sibling in HS^2.

Like, idk yo, I have a problem with the greatest acknowledgement of transfemininity in Homestuck being "I impregnated my married friend and kept it a secret for 15 years". I have a problem with how the only way we interact with it is through that storyline. It plays (likely unintentionally, but still) into harmful stereotypes of trans women and it does so without even saying the word "trans" outloud. It's all of the problems and none of the benefits.