but I don’t understand how link is a trans icon.

Trans and trans icon are not the same thing. Trans icons are people or characters trans people might identify or admire despite not being trans. Lady Gaga for example might be considered a trans icon even though she is she/her. In Links case, they identity with the androgyny of his character design.

Right-wing moral panickers--the og cancel culture.

“He is a trans icon to trans people but he isn’t trans at all.”

Faux has never reported news. It was literally created by Rupert Murdoch and (now thankfully dead) Robert Ailes to be a far right propaganda and disinformation tool, from day one. Because Rupert Murdoch doesn’t believe in either truth or democracy.

Faux is literally several decades behind the curve with their hateful outrage. Female Link is a phenomenon so old I don’t even know when it started (I mean, just take a look at a cosplay convention sometime), and trans Link is ancient too.

Uhm, at what point in the Zelda franchise history was Link not, well, at the very least androgynous? And more to the point, why should that be perceived as a *BAD* thing that a single character can be a role model to any child, teen, or young adult? How can anyone be so insecure in their self image that they react to…

Unless a game’s protagonist gender is explicitly defined in the game’s lore and story... its whatever the hell you want it to be. A projection of yourself an escapist version what you might want to be or simply role-playing a complete opposite of yourself.

Theyre not saying Link is officially and canonically trans. They’re saying Link isn’t a super masculine character the way mmostmale heroes are portrayed, and Link’s androgynous look lends itself to folks playing Link as a trans or differently gendered character.

I believe Miyamoto has stated that Link will never talk so the player can imagine themselves as the character. It’s no surprise trans kids are seeing themselves in him, it was kind of the goal from the start. Certainly worked on me when I was a kid.

Yeah that was my experience. I’m non-binary assigned male, but I’ve always been attracted to women, and my childhood was a deeply confusing, alienating experience of feeling left out of any kind of romantic partnership in life even though the world kept telling me I was a boy.

Oh no, somebody identifies with something I love in a way I don’t relate to and that makes me uncomfortable which I can only express in outrage because I’m too immature to deal with nuanced emotions.

I learned that I was gay just about the second puberty hit. I learned that it was not acceptable when the other kids introduced me to “queer” as a derogatory term, which would have been around oh, early 2000s or so. Thankfully that’s not as much of a problem these days, but yeah, there was no media involvement here.…

Keeping people divided, benefits the powerful.

Interestingly, I knew I was trans/ nonbinary since I was a kid, and before I even knew those such words existed.
Hiding these terms from kids isn’t gonna not make them trans/ gay/ etc, it’s just gonna make the kids that are these things feel incomplete. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

While she’s not wrong, a better plan would have been to have one each day on the various “micro aggressions” is heaped upon everyone rather than focusing on a singular group. You want to mention how being labeled a “karen” is bad.. fine.. but also illustrate HOW it game to pass, and the actions of those so-called…

Karen gets shelved for telling people “Don’t Call Me Karen”. If the name fits, darlin’, wear it.

Tesla sells a fraction of what actual car manufacturers sell and has completely squandered any lead they may have had in the EV market. SpaceX just blew up their rocket & destroyed the launch facility because man-child Musk insisted on launching on 4/20.

I think the “you’re not” part was in response to the “I feel like I’m hopelessly late to the party”

Well there it is, the thing that guarantees Nintendo won't give players this much customizability in a Zelda game ever again lol