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I hate that people irl and the anime keep misgendering her. She is referred to as big sis Magne many times in the show and manga. Especially by Toga or Twice. This sucks that she keeps dealing with this. And the fact that transgender villains can't transition properly because they are criminals. No E/T shots, no binders, no nothing. QnQ

PSA to the BNHA (spoiler free)

Magne is canonly a MtF character. Her pronouns are she/her.

Kenji is her deadname. It is a masculine name.

A lot of people have been deadnaming and misgendering her. Heroes, villains outside of the league, and a lot of people in the fandom. Even her wiki page and ao3 tag has her deadname.

Stop using Kenji when referring to her. She canonly has been referred to as Ken which is a gender neutral name.

Deadnaming and misgendering someone just because you dont like them is a shitty thing to do. Respect people's names and pronouns.

Magne is a female, a woman. Her name is Ken, not Kenji.

Addition:: The confusion that Ken was a shortened nickname of Kenji is 100% valid and understandable. I justed wanted to clear that misunderstanding up. Thank you for understanding and thank you for your time.

thinking about toga's relationship with the LoV. like. these adult men who kill people took better care of toga than her own parents. that 17 yo girl was safer with them, the "villains", than with her OWN PARENTS.

as soon as they got money they got her a cute coat that she liked for winter. they kept her fed and safe. they made sure she had fun and could be herself and they trusted her with tasks and told her to live the way she wants while also telling her to come back to them, making sure she felt both free and wanted.

Toga is the only kid in the LoV. and when they lost magne she became the only girl. and they always made her feel safe and nurtured and included. RAAAAAH

part of it I think is the guys being keenly aware of how young she is. they all went through something terrible when they were kids, or in their past. but for toga it's right now. she is that kid. and they won't let her be abandoned and neglected like they were

NO ONE TOUCH ME THEY ARE HER FAMILY THEY TOOK HER IN I'M UNWELL ABOUT THEM

Can we discuss the recent uptick in dismissal of the League’s sociological issues and goals? Because I am lately seeing a lot of talk about how the League aren’t “Social Justice Warriors”, and that their societal angles are getting dropped for good in favour of their individual traumas; which is weird when society is the root cause of their traumas and, in turn, their villainous activity.

It’s not even that these readers are wrong in their assessment of them or anything; it’s not like the League are trying to change minds here, and it would be very polite indeed to call their activity “direct action”. It’s just the complete dismissal of their ambitions and the genuine good that could come from them that has to be weighed against the damage they do. Especially when the claim gets added in that the League doesn’t even actually care about this stuff anyway; that’s how they expect it’ll get dropped so easily.

Toga wants to change the world into one where she doesn’t need to fear for her life because of the way she was born. This is purely selfishly motivated, and that others like her may benefit from this change is incidental to her. But because it’s selfishly motivated in her own survival; we know Toga cares about this very much and won’t just drop it. And those people like her will benefit regardless, and will be less likely to become villains like her if she gets her way; which is why it shouldn’t just be dropped.

And pretty much all of the League are like that. Like, I’ve seen it said all all the League are doing is “pointless destruction” but that’s simply not true. Whether it be hero accountability, oppressive use of force, quirk prejudiced, general corruption in the industry, or all of the above + the promotion of the bystander effect; the League all have something they’re fighting for that’s getting dismissed here. And while this is incidental to them, they’re also fighting for a reduction in future crime & villainy too.

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