Unfortunately, Jack died before getting past the “trans is like when gay but too much” understanding of things, and Daniels seems content to just take periodic whacks at us in his shitty newsletter, with the closest he's ever taken to an anti-trans tract being a couple panels about how Jesus definitely isn't genderfluid.

So I guess it's time for everyone's favourite Other Guy Who Does This Shit to step up to the plate. Ladies, gentlemen and those of you not so ascribed, it's time to welcome back to the dissection table mister Tim Todd!

Despite the relentless war that fascists and religious types have been waging against the trans community for the last 15 to 20 years, your average person is either sympathetic to (or at most ambivalent towards) the concept of people whose gender identity does not align with the sex that they were assigned at birth. However, despite not having anything against people or gender affirming care in general, two things which your average person does tend to have pretty strong opinions on are medical treatments offered to minors and who does and does not have access to single-sex public spaces such as bathrooms and lockers rooms. Despite these particular issues being relatively minor in the grand scheme of trans acceptance in wider society, right-wing bigoted chuds have spent a great deal of time and effort making them the be all and end all of their crusade against this marginalized community. They want you to think that kids as young as seven or eight years old are being physically “transed” in public schools (like the nurse is performing back-to-back vaginoplasties in between recess and lunch) and that legions of burly teenagers who dead-lifted 450 pounds and ran a six-minute mile just last week are simply putting on skirts and dominating girl's sports leagues en masse. That's what it takes to get your average John Q. Citizen to fear trans people as a group. This comic is a pretty blatant and ham-fisted attempt to do just that.

Even this comic, which is published by a right wing evangelical Christian, doesn’t simply spew hatred at trans people. It mentions that the transes make baby Jesus cry, but mostly focuses on maintaining the illusion of being rational and scientific.

Todd is trying to portray these “privacy laws” as something inherently bad… presumably because they supposedly interfere with “parental rights” to both know about, and have absolute control over, every minute aspect of their children's lives. It's a termite-riddled hobby horse that David Daniels likes to beat into a fine pulp at least once a month himself. What these people never seem to consider is that if a young person discloses to a teacher or other school personnel that they might be questioning their gender, and that person then proceeds to tell the kid's parents about it, that can potentially lead to situations where the child is punished, rendered homeless, or possibly physically harmed or even killed as a result.

Even more concerning is the possibility that perhaps they have considered this as a potential outcome and think that is perfectly fine anyway.

Anyways, as for the rest of what's going on here there's like a million straw men being rattled through all at once here but I kind of want to zero in on the teacher mentioning the notion of being “trapped in the wrong body,” a term which has had its uses and describes the experience of some trans people for sure, but is hardly universal (I hate the term. I'm not “trapped in the wrong body” or “in a man's body.” I'm in MY body) and it seems to have only stuck around specifically BECAUSE it's a super loaded term that conservatives can throw around like “o noes this is what the kids are being taught these days”

Besides, your flesh is just a relic… a mere vessel.

How much you wanna bet Timmy Todd here didn't want to name any names because he either didn't want to get his ass sued, or because he didn't want to give his readership either the idea or the resources to look up any actual, non-biased information on the trans experience?

That or Todd has literally done no research whatsoever, so his genderflipped avatar here, knowing about as much as he does on the topic, literally knows nothing about the videos her friend likes beyond “yknow…that one with the pronouns.” Makes you wonder why they're even friends to the point that the rest of this comic happens the way it does.

“Yes, you've told me before… many, many, many, many, MANY times.”

But hey since it’s haaaaaaaard to imagine why someone else might want to do something or be a certain way, easier to assume that they're craaaaaaaazy or that they've been peer pressured into it by Tiktok influencers or brainwashed by hypno porn (no seriously) or what have you.

If you think that just hearing about trans people is all that it would take for you to start looking into transitioning, then boy howdy have I got some tough news for you.

Trans influencers, and the increased visibility of trans people both online and irl, didn't turn me trans, or convince me I was trans. They gave me something I could finally relate to after years of feeling wrong. They gave me a vocabulary to finally express the turmoil I'd been feeling since I could remember.

That was heavy, so here's something a bit funnier: “I know you're going to give me bible stuff”, then why talk to her about it? Hell, why are the two of you even friends? You clearly have very different values.

Personally, I would absolutely download a truth. But that's only because you can't get all of the truths through a single service like you used to… and you need to pay an exorbitant monthly fee for each one… and they keep constantly discontinuing various truths and then replacing them with stupider ones each month…

Once again we get the old canard of “queer people are queer because of trauma and abuse”.

Also, that particular textbook is obviously meant to be Biology by Miller & Levine (2010). We sourced a copy printed for classrooms in New York and it did not discuss the subject beyond the general high school level “Here's how chromosomes influence sex development in embryos and sometimes this process experiences errors.” It's not the damning condemnation of trans identities the comic paints it out to be and just goes to reinforce how Tim (or his ghost writer) managed to learn absolutely nothing of biology beyond the ninth grade level. The listing on Amazon shows several “Customers also bought…” items which include copies of the New American Version of the Holy Bible and other similar titles such as Understanding Catholic Christianity, Our Catholic Faith - Living What We Believe, and the Four Portraits, One Jesus Workbook; all of which leads me to believe that this specific version is rather popular in Christian homeschooling circles for some unknown reason.

Also “God designed you to be female, and he has a very good plan for you.” sounds creepy as shit.

If “Paige” here were only 13, then in all likelihood they'd probably just be evaluated for puberty blockers (and no, the effects of puberty blockers are nowhere near as significant as those of cross sex hormones). Though, if their dysphoria isn't having that significant of an impact on their daily life then there may not even be that much, rather just a different name and clothes. If they're 17 or 18 then they're possibly only a couple of months away from the age of majority in America when they can do whatever in the hell they want with their bodies. Or do Todd and Co. believe that adults shouldn't be afforded any more bodily autonomy than children are? Wait… don't actually answer that.

As for the “creepy as shit” stuff, that's pretty par for the course when it comes to these Christo-fascist types. In their estimation, “Paige” here isn't worth much more beyond that of premium breeding stock. Their ability to maintain a functional, healthy reproductive system and full, nourishing breasts to use in service of their future spawn are the only matters that they should concern themself with. People on Todd's team don't care if you're seventeen or seven… they only care if you're willing and able to hop on your back and ceaselessly squirt out progeny well within the confines of holy, heterosexual matrimony.

Unsurprisingly, they aren't the first ones to lean into this idea, either.

Do you really need to wonder why trans people react so poorly to this type of questioning?

Also, smashing job drawing the trans girl to look like she's completely deranged. Way to go, you absolute pieces of shit

“Tim Todd lost his virginity to his own mother and a goat while drinking a ‘Fire and Brimstone’ in an outhouse just outside of Lynchburg, Virginia.*

Jessica was 100% correct. This is how we know that everything in the Bible is completely untrue and all publications by Revival Fires Ministries can be discarded without further consideration.”

*Parody — Not to be taken seriously.

Everyone is either XX or XY… except, y’know, all the times they aren’t (and that was just the first 7 variations I found).

One positive thing I can say about it though is that it wasn't nearly as offensive as it could have been. Imagine if Dick Hafer wrote this.

One day, the pendulum is going to swing back in the other direction and all of these monsters are going to swear they never said or even believed any of this stuff. In the meantime, hang in there, keep fighting the good fight, and keep living your best life in spite of them. It's the most effective way to not only prove them wrong, but also piss them the hell off at the same time. Happy Pride, everybody.