Batgirl #19 Introduces An Openly Transgender Character to the Modern DC Universe

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Susana Polo

Published: Apr 10, 2013 12:12 pm

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I haven’t posted the reveal panel here just in case anyone would rather find out through reading, but as long promised and delayed by crossover events and other… things, Gail Simone‘s Batgirl #19 reveals/reintroduces a character as transgender this week, and as an achievement in diversifying the current DC universe, that’s nothing to slouch at.

You can read more about it at Wired (though the article includes panels of the reveal, if you’re looking to avoid that).

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.