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Over the past few years, DC Comics has been making inroads to better representation for the LGBT community on the page, and this week they're taking one more step forward at the hands of writer Gail Simone.
The company revealed today that in "Batgirl" #19, Barbara Gordon’s roommate Alysia Yeoh announces her status as a transgendered woman and bisexual. It's the former piece of the supporting character's gender and sexual identity that may make waves amongst superhero readers as being trans has long been a blind spot in superhero comic books.
"She was created as a trans character, she’s hinted at a part of her life she hadn’t yet shared with her roomie, Barbara Gordon, since issue early in the series," Simone told New Now Next.
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Gail Simone is a legend. It's so nice to see so many LGBT characters be represented in comics in the past decade or so. Progress.
new milestone