What Cis People Say To Trans People Vs What They Mean | Buzzfeed
[id: A series of two-panel comics with one cover image panel.
Cover panel: An ad for intricate little machine labeled TRANSlator 3000. Green arrows move into a twisty sound horn at the top, and red arrows come out of an identical horn at the bottom. It has light gauges, a ball antenna, buttons like a tape recorder, and a central giant red button labeled translate. The ad says "Translates cis-sexist BS!! Amazing technology!!"
Comic one: The first panel is greyscale, set in a bar with a mustachioed bartender. A person with a gauged earring, sideburns, and a collared shirt is holding a beer and saying "Oh you're trans? But you look so good!" A person with full facial hair in a tank top with visible body hair is holding the TRANSlator and pressing the button while looking at them skeptically. The second panel is in full color; one of the bar patrons has a vest and a blue mohawk. The beer person has lighter skin and is saying "Trans people are ugly." The bearded person has brown skin and is looking at the reader with one eyebrow raised.
Comic two: The first panel is greyscale, set in a grocery store with an elderly shopper in the background. A person with slicked back hair and a grocery basket is looking away, dismissively thoughtful with hand to chin, saying "I've never met a trans person before." A Black person with a hair bun, round glasses, a scare, and a blazer is holding the TRANSlator and looking at the first person with one raised eyebrow. The second panel is in full color; the grocery basket person has tan skin and is saying "I assume I can identify any trans person." The Black person has cool-toned skin and is looking at the reader in exasperation.
Comic three: The first panel is sepia toned, set at a bus stop with someone in a trenchcoat walking by. A person in a backwards baseball cap, a hoodie, and with small sideburns is saying "I would date a trans person." A person in a headscarf with wavy hair long on one side, with a septum ring and a fur coat, is holding the TRANSlator and looking at the first person unimpressed. The second panel is in full color; the hat person has red hair and light skin, and is saying "Trans people are usually undateable so I deserve a prize." The headscarf person has warm-toned dark skin and is looking at the reader with a displeased raised eyebrow.
Comic four: The first panel is greyscale, set in a library with people reading in the background. A person with short straight hair, monolid eyes, and a wide-neck shirt is holding a book and saying "You look just like a real woman." A trans woman with long, sideswept frizzy hair, a hoop earring, a checkered button-down and a backpack slung over one shoulder is holding the TRANSlator with a ring on her thumb and looking at the first person with a frown and one raised eyebrow. The second panel is in full color; the first person has light skin and is saying "Trans women aren't really women." The trans woman has red hair and lighter skin and is looking at the reader with her other eyebrow raised and teeth showing in disgust.
Comic five: The first panel is greyscale, set in a restaurant with a mustachioed customer leaning on the counter and a frizzy-haired person in an apron behind a register. A person in a soft hat with long mostly-straight hair and a shirt with cat faces on it is holding a coffee to-go cup and saying "I'm glad you're being honest with me about being trans." A person with short hair, stubble, and a blazer over a two-tone shirt is holding a similar cup and the TRANSlator and looking at the first person with surprised eyebrows. The second panel is in full color; the first person has brown skin and is saying "Trans people who don't tell me they're trans are deceivers and liars." The second person is staring deadpan at the reader.
Comic six: The first panel is greyscale, set in a gym with people lifting weights through a window in the background. A person in a baseball cap and shirt, with a duffel bag over one shoulder, has massive hearts for eyes and is saying "I loooooove trans people!" A Black person with short cropped hair and a sweatband, a t-shirt with rolled up sleeves, tattoos of geometric shapes on one arm, and a strap over one shoulder is holding the TRANSlator and looking at the first person with a pained expression. The second panel is in full color; the hat person is white and saying "I fetishize trans people." The Black person is looking at the reader with a wince.
Comic seven: The first panel is sepia toned, set in rolling hills of autumn trees with blowing leaves and a large city in the far distance. A Black person with an afro, scarf, and a trenchcoat is saying "It's so hard to switch pronouns." A person with square-cut hair, pronounced cheekbones, a thin moustache, a dangling earring and a cuff earring, and several layers is holding the TRANSlator and looking nonplussed at the first person. The second panel is in full color; the Black person has warm-toned skin and is saying "Trans people are an inconvenience to me." The second person has pink lipstick on and is looking at the reader with one eyebrow up and one down.
Comic eight: The first panel is greyscale, set in a cafe at a table with people walking down the street outside. A person with short hair and a t-shirt is saying "I don't have a problem with trans people." A person with frizzy hair framing their face, a small hoop earring, and a U-neck shirt is holding the TRANSlator and looking at the first person with eyebrows high. The second panel is in full color; the first person has light brown skin and is saying "I have a problem with trans people." The second person has blond hair and cool-toned brown skin and is looking at the reader with a flat grimace.
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Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep | A-Trans-Comic
[id: A vertical comic in mostly black on white.
First panel: "Do not stand at my grave and weep" over a short person with a round hair bun saying a blue male symbol to a frowning woman with folded arms and wrinkles by her mouth.
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Second panel: "I am not there." The woman is walking away left, crying light blue tears and saying a pink X over the blue male symbol and then four pink female symbols, as the short person reaches after her in distress.
Third panel: "I do not sleep." The person from before is laying in bed miserable and awake with hair spread out over a pillow.
Fourth line: Two taller panels side-by-side. The left shows the person falling through clouds, with the text "I am a thousand winds that blow." The right is closer and shows them crying light blue tears with arms out trying to brace, with the text "I am the diamond glints on snow."
Fifth panel: "I am the sunlight on ripened grain." In the middle of two lines of text is a close-up of their crying face with light blue tears streaming upward and hair blowing up cut short by the edges of the panel. "I am the gentle autumn rain."
Sixth line: Two panels side-by-side. The left shows a person startling awake with a short tuft of hair atop their head. The words "When you awaken" align with the right panel's "in the morning's hush," which has them sitting up in bed with a hand to their chest.
Seventh panel: "I am the swift uplifting rush" is to the left of them pulling on a binder before the text finishes "of quiet birds in circled flight.
Eighth panel: "I am the soft stars that shine at night." In the foreground a phone is buzzing light blue vibration lines, catching the person's attention from far right.
Ninth line: Above three small panels reads "Do not stand at my grave and cry." The first panel shows a text from Mom saying "Hi pink female symbol!" The second shows the person looking sadly at the phone, and the third shows them walking determinedly away from the phone.
Tenth panel: An extra large panel shows a crowd. "I am not there" is left of the main character standing tall waving a giant trans flag, wearing a large trans flag cape, smiling big and shouting a blue male symbol over the text "I did not die."
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