WARNING: Major spoilers ahead!

Last night was the night we've all been waiting for. After five and a half seasons, A was finally revealed on Pretty Little Liars. And it's Cece Drake.

The big reveal happened in the first 20 minutes of the episode, so the rest of the time we learned about why and how Cece became A. Apparently, she was born male — as Charles DiLaurentis. Though the show never outright said she was transgender, it was implied, and the writers and actors confirmed the fact on Twitter after the show.

During the episode, we saw Cece (or Charlotte at the time) as a child wanting to wear dresses and be treated like a little girl. Her mom was sort-of understanding, but her father was definitely not. We also saw Cece doing things that her parents saw as "evil", like putting her sister in the bathtub, which they believed was an attempt to drown her. So, Cece is banished to a mental institution (Radley), because her parents believed she posed a threat to her siblings. But it's also probably because she's transgender. And that's just part of the problem with this episode.

There's no doubt in anyone's mind that A has major issues. PLL director Norman Buckley confirmed that he feels she's psychotic. She's tortured the Liars for years, and killed a lot of people. But her story makes you feel a bit bad for her, or at least understand why she's so angry.

But Cece being A is still not sitting well with millions of PLL fans. There are just too many plot holes, like why she feels so angry towards the Liars and not just her family. But aside from that, many, many people are disappointed that the "evil", screwed-up character is a transgender one, because that's a negative stereotype about trans people, especially kids, that we are working towards moving far away from.

Fans quickly tweeted their disappointment at the show, especially since it has handled LGBT issues so well so far. They expect more from I. Marlene King, the writers, and directors.

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The villain in Pretty Little Liars was revealed to be a trans woman amounting to what's essentially a caricature of what people think of us. — Miss Grizz-a-Lot (@Grizzlei) August 12, 2015

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#PrettyLittleLiars why did you make a trans woman the villain and display her transition in a negative way? UGHHHHHHHH — Rabbi Emet Tauber (@Rememberandhope) August 12, 2015

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All jokes aside, #PrettyLittleLiars just dug itself a deep hole by villain-izing a trans character, and associating it with mental illness. — Serena Kuo (@serenackuo) August 12, 2015

But that's not at all how the writers and the directors of the show meant for it to be interpreted — at least according to director Norman Buckley. Norman is openly gay, and has directed the incredibly powerful and positive LGBT story lines on The Fosters. He doesn't write for PLL, but he sees why the writers depicted A the way that they did. In a Twitter convo today, he defended the finale, while also admitting that it doesn't all make total sense.

While Norman doesn't think the writer meant to imply that being transgender makes you psychotic, or to contribute to that stereotype by making Cece A, that's how it was seen by many people. Even if they didn't mean for it to be interpreted that way, it's still disappointing to fans to finally see a great actress on a popular TV show portraying a transgender character, only for that character to be the villain. Some are even saying that this might have been a quick — and ultimately, tacky — decision to by the writers, to capitalize on the fact that transgender topics are so relevant and in the news so much right now.

Was it a poor decision from everyone behind PLL to make the villain trans? Or was it just one way of showing how difficult many kids have it struggling with gender identity and being rejected by their families? Either way, it's a conversation that needs to be had, and just one more way Pretty Little Liars is unlike any other show on TV right now.

Elizabeth Denton I'm Liz, the fashion and beauty girl at Seventeen.com.

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