God this sucks

So I’m trans. Also an avid comic book reader.

Earlier I was reading a comic (Supergirl) and Supergirl in this story is basically a fusion between a protoplasm entity and a human girl. The protoplasm (Matrix) is genderless, but before fusing with the girl (Linda) she expressed herself as a woman. After fusing, she begins to feel more comfortable in her femininity, and asks her parents (Ma and Pa Kent) to call her Linda, and she ends up going to tell the original Linda’s parents about her being Supergirl.

This is very much framed as a coming out scene. The parents think she’s pregnant, then gay, then she transforms into Supergirl to get her point across. Linda’s dad then calls her a freak and tells her to get out, and Linda ends up flying away and sobbing.

That page genuinely nearly made me cry. This was 1997 btw, this was ahead of its time by decades. Matrix/Mae/Linda was so ahead of her time, and it feels so great but also so sad to see a character who shares my struggle in a comic that came out before I was even born.

Thank you Peter David. Fly high.