Yesterday, we ran a snippet from the new launch issue of Justice League 3001, featuring the future cloned versions of Batman and Superman discussing the fact that their friend Guy Gardner had just had his body transformed into that of a woman.

It is worth pointing out that this Superman is a but of a boorish idiot. So the conversation went as you might expect with boorish idiots, unable to see a distinction between biological gender and mental gender, even a thousand years into the future.

Some, however, were perturbed to see such opinions coming from any Superman's mouth, and made their concern vocal on Twitter, including writer MJ Feuerborn

In JL3000, clone!Guy Gardener ends up in a different body. The discussion immediately starts w/ objectifying this 1/2 pic.twitter.com/VVmALoPdu1 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

body w/ Supes declaring that w/ a "tush" like that Guy HAS to be a woman. Transgender folks' bodies are frequently 'gender-checked' by 2/3 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

ignorant cis people deeming 'parts' the determining factor in gender, declaring ownership of that person's body and identity in doing so 3/4 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

ignorant cis people deeming 'parts' the determining factor in gender, declaring ownership of that person's body and identity in doing so 3/4 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

ie 'u have a penis thus u're a man no matter what u, ur doc, etc, say', 'ur body is too sexy (thus consumable) to not be a woman's' etc. 4/4 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

OK NEXT ONE. We start out w/ some intentional misgendering & aggressive self-chosen ignorance from Supes. While 1/2 pic.twitter.com/xiXCSNGNKf — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

Bats does appear to defend Guy's identity he's doing so only for Guy ("that's Guy in there") & not addressing Supes' overall transphobic 2/3 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

bullshit & ends up giving up pretty quick. In fact it's when the topic of 'biological sex' vs gender is broached that he taps out, 3/4 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

& the convo moves on to a humor beat. Or was the whole convo intended to be humor? Bc it's not funny. These are the kinds of aggressive 4/5 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

convos transgender folks face EVERY DAY. Using 'feminine hygiene products' does not make someone a woman. That disregards every trans 5/6 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

man who does not have access to, cannot afford, or does not wish to partake in body-altering procedures. That disregards every trans 6/7 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

woman who will not need to use them, but is still a woman. This disregards transgender people entirely bc it's not about them, despite 7/8 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

being very VERY much about them. Like most cissexist language employed for laughs, it tears trans people down & adds to the persistently 8/9 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

ignorant mainstream perception of them, which in turn creates the hatred that fills your twitter timelines w/ the faces of murdered 9/10 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

transgender people or transgender folks who have hurt or killed themselves bc THIS IS THE WORLD YOU'VE CREATED FOR THEM. And you've 10/11 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

apparently done SUCH A GOOD JOB at it that far in the future our supposed heroes are still spouting the same vile bullshit. Congrats. 11/12 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

But thanks for saving me money and opening a slot in my pull list, I guess. Ugh. 12/12 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015

While artist Cindi B had similar concerns.

God dammit, @JMDeMatteis. And I've really enjoyed JL3000, which just makes this worse. https://t.co/9HNNTLZCOJ — Cyndi B (@spintheiryarns) June 24, 2015

@richjohnston @JMDeMatteis But "Superman 3001 is an entertaining asshole" is not the same as "making a trans character a joke." — Cyndi B (@spintheiryarns) June 24, 2015

At which point one of the book's writers, JM DeMatteis joined in.

@JMDeMatteis @richjohnston If that's the point, sadly you don't seem to have conveyed it /quite/ as well as intended https://t.co/lCJVivS7ip — Cyndi B (@spintheiryarns) June 24, 2015

@JMDeMatteis @richjohnston @spintheiryarns and doesn't represent 31st century attitudes either if I read the character properly. — Dave Robinson (@dcrwrites) June 24, 2015

@JMDeMatteis @richjohnston I'm not sure what you think trans men /are/, if not a man unwillingly stuck in a body that is wrong for him — Cyndi B (@spintheiryarns) June 24, 2015

@spintheiryarns @richjohnston I meant that Guy wasn't a man who spent his life believing he was a woman and then changed. — J.M. DeMatteis (@JMDeMatteis) June 24, 2015

@spintheiryarns @richjohnston But what you say is very interesting and could actually help in interpreting the character from here on. — J.M. DeMatteis (@JMDeMatteis) June 24, 2015

@JMDeMatteis @richjohnston I know. You'd be describing a trans /woman/ there, which is the exact opposite of the scenario in question — Cyndi B (@spintheiryarns) June 24, 2015

@spintheiryarns @richjohnston Forgive me (and I mean that sincerely) if I don't have the language mastered. — J.M. DeMatteis (@JMDeMatteis) June 24, 2015

@spintheiryarns @richjohnston Give it a few issues (we work ahead) and I'll try to incorporate some of these thoughts. — J.M. DeMatteis (@JMDeMatteis) June 24, 2015

@JMDeMatteis @richjohnston thank you!!! and i hope you are listening to what trans people are telling you about it as well. done now :) — Cyndi B (@spintheiryarns) June 24, 2015

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