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.
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.