While Kylie’s stance on gender still isn’t 100% clear to us, today’s update shows that he’s on a quite different page from Rain. Whereas Rain probably would’ve kept her secret forever if she could, Kylie sees sharing the secret as being a load off his mind; as he is, he feels like he’s lying to his new friends. He never realized he passes so well. And while he likes that he does, regrettably, he seems ashamed of it too.
But… no matter how conflicted he is, it’s bloody hard to come out to people! Especially when your four new friends are all such completely well-adjusted people without gender or sexuality issues… or so Kylie thinks.
I would be lying if I said I had any clue what Kylie's gender is. Seriously. Is he FtM? MtF? GQ? I don't even know. Meh, I'll just assume he's FtM until proven wrong.
I like Ky(lie). He (you use male pronouns, so I will too) shows that gender doesn't always conform to comfortable little labels. I knew a girl who totally passed as male, if you didn't know otherwise, but used a female name and pronouns. Gender doesn't always make sense, and doesn't need to. You shouldn't need to be able to label someones gender to accept them as a person.
I knew and hung out with a neighborhood girl somewhat similar to Ky when I was in grade school. She wasn't shy at all about wanting to be a boy instead, always went around the neighborhood shirtless, had a pet racoon that she led around on a chain like a dog, and she could beat up any boy in the neighborhood. She never caught any grief for being the neighborhood tough tomboy, but poor Ruth caught endless hell for being the sissy girlie boy who sometimes played dolls with the other girls.
> "Doesn't even know what he grabbed"
> Wait a minute, this is the first time I would be gendering Ky(lie) in-comic...
> PASSIVE VOICE TO THE RESCUE!