

Comic Name: Robots In Disguise
Description: Today we have a guest comic contributed by the very talented, @jiggycxmrade! (links to a deleted Twitter account)
Mouseover: Gives new meaning to “Decepticons”.
Image Text: guestcomic.png
Originally Published: 5/16/2019
What The Comic Is: Optimus Prime, leader of the transforming robot beings known as the Autobot Transformers, proclaims his iconic catchphrase of “Autobots, transform!“. He then enters into a woman’s bathroom.
What StoneToss (and jiggycxmrade) Actually Think: People can just say they’re trans in order to enter women’s restrooms.
Why It’s Fucking Stupid: At face value this is just a goofy comic joking about the autobots and how they “transform”. If this were most anyone else, it could easily be seen as a harmless joke, but this is StoneToss, so as always there’s usually some space between the lines that one needs to read. I do not know who jiggycxmrade is or was, because their Twitter is deleted and Googling their online handle doesn’t bring up much information (you will find multiple links to an art piece someone made of their original character cutting a person assumed to be jiggycxmrade with a knife, so whomever this mysterious jiggycxmrade person was, they didn’t seem to be liked by many people. Wonder why…
Anyways, we can assume if jiggycumrade was making guest comics for StoneToss that they are on some level of bigotry comparable to StoneToss. Given that the nature of the comic is that Optimus Prime only says “autobots transform” and then enters a woman’s restroom, we can discern it is a joke about “men will pretend to be women so they can go into the women’s restroom”, which is a very popular boogeyman scenario amongst transphobes. Also that being trans is a matter of simply stating gender identity, as if it was something so simple it could be changed on the spot with a simple decree. That isn’t necessarily untrue, really, but there’s not many trans people who take their identity as lightly as “I say it, therefore I am it, at will”, and this is an incredible erasure of the identity crises often suffered by trans individuals, along with problems of body dysmorphia. But then this is intentional on StoneToss and his guest’s part.
The mouse over text is a reference to the Decepticons, the villionous enemies of the heroic autobots. It is likening trans people as being “decepticons”, deceiving others so they can invade a restroom.