You might be thinking of one of the main characters, Edward. Her character has a masculine name but is drawn pretty androgynous, but by all accounts she identifies as a girl. Pretty progressive for the time that it was released. There was also a scene with a posititue in drag.
I think that scene is in the Cowboy Bebop movie. Edward goes trick or treating and knocks on the door of a prostitute in drag. The prostitute then confuses Edward for being a little boy and gets mad saying when they realize Edward is a girl.
Grencia Eckener, primarily featured in the two Jupiter Jazz episodes.
Depending on exactly how you interpret their character and backstory, they’re either intersex, or trans, or both.
Sure, Edward is good, progressive representation of challenging gender norms, by Western standards, but in Japan, and a fair deal of other cultures… children, regardless of sex, are often seen as somewhere between gender-neutral / a-gender / even just basically female, untill they progress through puberty.
Grencia on the other hand, Grencia is explicitly an adult, and again, depending on how you interperet … what happened to them… they are explicitly either trans or intersex, its fundamental to their character, their story.
I would suggest you rewatch the Jupiter Jazz episodes.
It’s a very trans coded story, with the protagonist explicitly not identifying as a boy or a girl.
I’ll have to check it out sometime!
Seems we’ve come a long way from uh, Ranma 1/2, and Cowboy Bebop having one episode with a character who was… intersex, IIRC?
You might be thinking of one of the main characters, Edward. Her character has a masculine name but is drawn pretty androgynous, but by all accounts she identifies as a girl. Pretty progressive for the time that it was released. There was also a scene with a posititue in drag.
I think that scene is in the Cowboy Bebop movie. Edward goes trick or treating and knocks on the door of a prostitute in drag. The prostitute then confuses Edward for being a little boy and gets mad saying when they realize Edward is a girl.
No, I know Edward.
Edward is a goofy, prepubescent girl-genius, as far as I’m concerned.
She’s basically a very quirky tomboy.
I… guess you could say that a tomboy is… what we would now call either an agender or gender neutral person?
Kind of the opposite of a modern femboy, maybe?
I am talking about this character:
https://cowboybebop.fandom.com/wiki/Grencia_Mars_Elijah_Guo_Eckener
Grencia Eckener, primarily featured in the two Jupiter Jazz episodes.
Depending on exactly how you interpret their character and backstory, they’re either intersex, or trans, or both.
Sure, Edward is good, progressive representation of challenging gender norms, by Western standards, but in Japan, and a fair deal of other cultures… children, regardless of sex, are often seen as somewhere between gender-neutral / a-gender / even just basically female, untill they progress through puberty.
Grencia on the other hand, Grencia is explicitly an adult, and again, depending on how you interperet … what happened to them… they are explicitly either trans or intersex, its fundamental to their character, their story.
I would suggest you rewatch the Jupiter Jazz episodes.