Yeah as an afab enby who was always more aggressive than the rest of the girls in my school who I was always immediately grouped with, I will admit I related to Grenda. HOWEVER I did not like how Grenda was portrayed as beastly and was even brown nosed by Mabel and Candy in a season two episode. The episode The Mystery of the Northwest Mansion I believe. You could say “Well Grenda got a boyfriend in the end!” But that doesn’t change the misogynistic and transphobic implications in how Grenda is portrayed.



Grenda’s canonical surname is Grendinator for God’s sake and there’s actually a history in both fandom spaces and cartoonist spaces of making jokes likes these about GNC/masculine girls. I actually personally hc her as a trans girl character. That’s not to say that all trans girls are like Grenda but I’m saying that because Grenda has the CODING of a trans girl,. Kind of like how Dipper has the CODING of a trans boy with dysphoria despite it not being intentional. I highly doubted Mr. Hirsch intended for either to be trans rep considering how transphobic he seems to be towards trans people.



The only intentionally trans coded characters in the series so far are Bill Cipher as confirmed on Mr. Hirsch’s canon Bill Cipher ask blog (Bill Cipher is implied to be agender in the ask which is what my gender is) and the Love God. Considering how abusive both characters are canonically that’s..not great. At all. Trans and GNC people in the audience shouldn’t have to be guilted by Gravity Falls staff into feeling ok with the fact that this is all they’re getting. More proof of the Gravity Falls crew being transphobic is the comment Pacifica makes about Grenda’s masculine body in Double Dipper.



Yes Pacifica is portrayed as bad for saying this and rightfully so. However that sentiment is pretty hollow when the writers are transphobic in how they interact with the fandom and the other fandoms they’re apart of. Making some characters in your story trans means nothing when you boil down our trans identities to “abusive, violent and or evil.” There’s nothing helpful about that because that just enforces transphobic stereotypes. In fact Sylvia Rivera, founder of the LGBT community, is a trans ally.



That’s why there’s a T in the acronym. She certainly never blockaded nonbinary people from being included in the community either. To do that would mean betraying enby lesbians which is transphobic AND lesbophobic. She’d be horrified if she saw how people were treating nonbinary people today, most likely. So yeah, Mr. Hirsch can take his claim that he’s pro LGBT and shove it. if this is what he thinks of trans people then he’s not pro LGBT.



He’s just pro LGB which isn’t even a little bit progressive. I felt like giving this input to show proof that yeah the Gravity Falls crew IS intentionally transphobic. They may be not self aware of it as of now, but that doesn’t make it any less intentional. Their behavior is too much of a consistent pattern to claim that it’s coincidental. Especially considering Wendy is a GNC female character yet she doesn’t get mistreated nearly as much by the crew cuz she looks enough like a conventionally attractive cis girl.