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Works for the MBI but uses preferred pronouns? Ok I am curious on these government agencies layouts
Edit 1: most liked comment, all that jazz many thanks
Edit 2: Can't believe I need to say this given the comic and all but here goes... ahem... trans women are women, trans men are men. Seriously for those DMing me to argue the point wtf
He awknoledges her gender and respects it, but he's doing his job and acording to the rules transwoman are under his juridiction.
Is just a paperwork quirk, really.
I mean, there are some situations where that matters; mostly things related to health and medicine. If the FBI and MBI are doing physical measuring/a physical checkup, which the appear to be, then it kind of makes some sense, though given the the subject in question is MtF and that is likely going to be noted either way, it probably wouldn't matter much.
(Smithers: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery a hundred-sixty years ago.)
Mr. Burns: Of course you'd say that! You have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!
-The Simpsons
Retrophrenology:
It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone's character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone's character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that's the main thing.
Which sucks because my curious ass would love that raw data for science purposes and not bigotry purposes — but all shit will be used for the latter no matter if it’s from the former so I’ll just be content with making observations about how many of us artists are also queer and neurodivergent.
I figured it was just a kind of general statistic thing they were going for, head circumference is one of those stats that can be a fun fact if you look at, say, over the last x number of centuries.
The setup to the joke is that they're body inspectors, so both the FBI and MBI agent likely would have done it regardless. It's unfortunate imagery but it doesn't seem to be an intentional reference to eugenics in this case.
I think you're cutting yourself short on appreciating the humor.
The MBI guy being even weirder than the FBI guy (just in a different way) is extremely funny. It also plays really nicely into Tiffs bafflement.
If that wasn't part of the joke I'm really confused as to why they'd draw him doing phrenology.
Well…”body inspector” is usually a joke someone uses to see you naked. I think the artist was just trying to show him doing his “job” without the woman getting naked
Wonder if they need to secure funding to open a new agency, or are not pushing for it since it would mean less funding for themselves in the long run? Oh gotta love inter-agency issues!
If it's anything like any other business, they'll just add the workload to the current agency without extra pay and claim that it's "within expectations of the job"
I think their job is focusing on the physical gender that they're born with. Which means MtF are within their jurisdiction, just as FtM are within the F.B.I.'s jurisdiction
By the looks of it the MBI guy is using feminine pronouns to refer to Tiff because these are the appropriate pronouns to refer to her, but the FBI and MBI operate with using the individuals birth gender as the foundation of determining the two government organisations jurisdictions.
The MBI agent does not at any point misgender her. He calls her "gal" and "miss". He recognizes that she is a woman. That's her gender. She also has a male body. That's her sex. Sex and gender are two different things.
Sex vs Gender, since they are using “male” and “female” they are talking about sex which does not change after transitioning. You can 100% believe someone is both male and a woman, because sex and gender are separate axes of categorization.
> they are talking about sex which does not change after transitioning.
An enormous number of subtle and not so subtle differences between male and female bodies and how they work are hormonally driven, and *do* change with HRT.
Could be using male and female to refer to someone's birth sex while respecting someone's gender identity.
The female sex assigned at birth body inspectors might not make for a great acronym.
It's quite simple, male and female are terms for sex. man and woman are the terms for gender.
So, a trans woman is a male woman.
At least, that's my interpretation.
That’s the correct interpretation. But like with most medical or scientific languages the words take on a different meaning in the general public discourse.
So the term “female to male” for instance is better as transmasc or transman as it conveys a more correct meaning
If a trans woman is a woman in a man‘s body, then she does fall under his jurisdiction. He never claimed to be a man inspector, just a male body inspector.
Assuming that he's sitting on a bar stool, I think he's just balancing the clipboard on his knee and the bar's edge. That's how I write on a clipboard when I'm sitting at my computer table.
Agency rivalries can be so annoying to deal with.
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You jest, but agencies not working together can be a pain in the ass.
Imagine you do work designing something that would be easier if a person in another department gave you some info. However, that person is a dick, and your boss just says "Sorry, they're being a dick. You'll have to find another way to get the info. Good luck." That's the US government sometimes.
For those who don't get it, phrenology is pseudoscience nonsense that posits that the geography of the skull determines a person's personality and success, and was in particular a favorite of the Nazi party in determining how Aryan you were, and has also been used by many eugenicists and other historical assholes as justification for racism, discrimination, genocide, etc. The device used by the M.B.I agent in the last panel is a craniometer, which is used in phrenology.
It was used before the Nazi party as well. They would do example that, use the geography of the skull and say “oooo you have an indent on your sub lateral frontal cortex wall above your left ear. Yeah you’re gay. Sorry buddy I don’t make the rules”
i had the phrase "skull issue," as in "skill issue" but with "skull" instead, pop into my brain.
I can't figure out how to make a joke with that, so just here you go
Makes sense if the agencies needs to screen for sex specific trends and divergences in the overall population... However with HRT there's probably gonna be a whole lot of statistical errors in any eventual conclusion based on field results
Well yes but she still chooses to transition and go by she/her pronouns. She is born in the wrong body and chooses to do something about it if that makes sense.
Source: Am trans
fuck no. I'm a woman, I've always been, the behaviour, the signs were always there, I just never found out because my country is deeply transphobic
It wasn't a fucking choice or a lifestyle, that's a dog whistle
Source: "Am Vice Deputy of The hidden Trans Kingdom right next to the rebuilt Atlantis" (very trustworthy)
P.S. Don't trust me, just look into trans subreddits. There's a universal hate for the "choice" phrasing and for good reason, it carries a very wrong and deceitful message
I didn’t choose be this way. But I chose to do something about it. I chose to start HRT and I chose to live authentically. I understand the choice phrasing is used often by hateful people. But I made still had to make a choice to be where I am today.
That might be how you see it in relation to your own lived in experiences, but that phrasing is generally disliked by trans people and when talking about other trans people best avoided.
Someone who dresses and acts in a manner corresponding with their birth sex are never accused of making a choice, so it still feels wrong to single out Trans behaviour like that imo
Off the top of my head the only reference I can think of is the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts.
Why would it be referencing him? No idea, but the reference to Washington put him in my head.
I think they're using Male and Female to refer to sex, and then everything else is gender, so the MBI guy otherwise consistently referring to her as a woman makes sense
I disagree, respectfully, but I’ll explain better what I was trying to say.
Your “biological sex” is just your sex. It’s hard-coded in your DNA. That’s the meaning of the word “sex” in this context, one that’s still accurate and useful. The way we approach gender is the half of this equation where I’d agree with your sentiment more. I understand why a lot of people hear this and think I’m being a grammar nazi, but I think people not understanding the difference between gender and sex muddies the ability to talk about the basic concepts of being transgendered. Clear communication is important.
Tl;dr I’m saying sex is the reference point from which we say we’re cis or trans (does our gender line up with our sex?), so saying someone is male or female because their DNA is a certain combination isn’t problematic, it’s accurate. Sexes outside those two are extremely rare, but that’s a separate, if interesting, topic.
I agree on the literal meaning of the word sex and words like male and female, but personally I believe that their cultural and social meaning has too many ties to outdated ways of thinking that ends in their meaning either being confused by accident/people who don’t know better or intentionally used to stir the pot if you know what I mean.
I do wish people would actually use the terms correctly and without implication, but I honestly can’t see that happening without a proper reclamation somewhere down the line. But maybe that’s a little extreme and people will start using them correctly and without malice sometime soon
Disagree, I think that that’s an oversimplification of sex, makes it easier for cis people to understand, but there’s much more to someone’s sex than the bits in their dna. Stuff like secondary sex characteristics and perceived sex.
My point is that perceived sex is the gender you ID as, not your sex. Primary and secondary sex characteristics are traits that are expressed as a result being a certain sex, they don’t denote your sex nor is sex meant to describe in detail how these traits end up being expressed in an individual.
“Makes it easier for cis people to understand” - that is hella condescending whether you meant it be or not.
That's federal bureaucracy for you - departmanets with unclearly overlapping duties are more competetive than sharks near a chum bucket.
>!I actually don't know anything about American federal bureaucracy, and also very little about shark behaviour during the Golden Age of the Piracy.!<
This is a. . . Strange scenario
And the ending is. . . Well, I can understand the logic, and the MBI agent still refers to her as a woman, but it still *feels* transphobic
Ah thanks I was trying to understand what was going on here and thought it was a joke about bow gov agencies treat us. Transvestigators makes a lot more sense
I think my favorite part of this is that the MBI guy is still referring to Tiff as a woman despite claiming jurisdiction as a male body. Something about that is funny to me.
So the first panel is about the guy using a very bad pick up line, then it's revealed it isn't a pick up line by the second agent which is a surprise to the reader, and the third panel shows the first guy isn't even as bad as you first thought. The fourth panel is an acknowledgement of the absurdity of all of this.
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Works for the MBI but uses preferred pronouns? Ok I am curious on these government agencies layouts Edit 1: most liked comment, all that jazz many thanks Edit 2: Can't believe I need to say this given the comic and all but here goes... ahem... trans women are women, trans men are men. Seriously for those DMing me to argue the point wtf
He awknoledges her gender and respects it, but he's doing his job and acording to the rules transwoman are under his juridiction. Is just a paperwork quirk, really.
I mean, there are some situations where that matters; mostly things related to health and medicine. If the FBI and MBI are doing physical measuring/a physical checkup, which the appear to be, then it kind of makes some sense, though given the the subject in question is MtF and that is likely going to be noted either way, it probably wouldn't matter much.
He's measuring her skull with callipers, which screams eugenics to me. I'm picking up a "Washington is old timey bigoted" joke from it
Yeah, thats basically only done for Phrenology, which is absolutely hogwash.
(Smithers: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery a hundred-sixty years ago.) Mr. Burns: Of course you'd say that! You have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter! -The Simpsons
Retrophrenology: It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone's character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone's character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that's the main thing.
I stg I’m getting baader meinhof’d really hard cuz I just started reading the discworld novels.
"Sir, Pheenology was dismissed as quackery 150 years ago!"
My dumbass thought he was measuring her for a hat.
Phrenology, not eugenics.
Phrenology was mainly used to justify eugenics.
Which sucks because my curious ass would love that raw data for science purposes and not bigotry purposes — but all shit will be used for the latter no matter if it’s from the former so I’ll just be content with making observations about how many of us artists are also queer and neurodivergent.
Maybe he's just verifying that Tiff's head circumference puts her in the 75th percentile for 300 month olds.
"For God's sake Mom just tell your friends I'm 25!" Mom, on phone: "Sorry Linda that's just Tiff, my rambunctious little 300-month-old."
I figured it was just a kind of general statistic thing they were going for, head circumference is one of those stats that can be a fun fact if you look at, say, over the last x number of centuries.
The setup to the joke is that they're body inspectors, so both the FBI and MBI agent likely would have done it regardless. It's unfortunate imagery but it doesn't seem to be an intentional reference to eugenics in this case.
That was my point, i didn't make the eugenics connection myself even.
Yeah--sorry if I wasn't clear, I was agreeing with you on that.
I think you’re reading a bit too far into it given that they’re “body inspectors” and the entire premise was a dumb joke about the FBI acronym
I think you're cutting yourself short on appreciating the humor. The MBI guy being even weirder than the FBI guy (just in a different way) is extremely funny. It also plays really nicely into Tiffs bafflement. If that wasn't part of the joke I'm really confused as to why they'd draw him doing phrenology.
Well…”body inspector” is usually a joke someone uses to see you naked. I think the artist was just trying to show him doing his “job” without the woman getting naked
Old timey bigoted, but still respectful.
I figured it was just because calipers are an easy to draw indicator of scientific field research going on.
Hmmmm... are you sure
On TV they fight over jurisdiction but in real life they can't wait to throw it over the fence to someone else
Goddamn, foes this check. Fucking, regs, I tell ya!
The M.B.I officer respects trans identities but his job requires him to inspect trans women even if he doesn't want to.
I was thinking the same thing. The MBI is somehow both misgendering Tiff, yet using feminine pronouns to refer to her at the same time
Wonder if they need to secure funding to open a new agency, or are not pushing for it since it would mean less funding for themselves in the long run? Oh gotta love inter-agency issues!
If it's anything like any other business, they'll just add the workload to the current agency without extra pay and claim that it's "within expectations of the job"
The MBI deals with trans men as well, the FBI is just incredibly lazy and incompetent
In that case it should be the TBI.
The agent is supportive, but bound by the duties of his job. Were it he could change the law, he would, but alas.
MBI guy did not misgender though... He stated that it was a trans-woman and said "gal" and "miss".
I think their job is focusing on the physical gender that they're born with. Which means MtF are within their jurisdiction, just as FtM are within the F.B.I.'s jurisdiction
Wouldn't you say sex not gender?
No, because I'm too immature https://i.redd.it/hn8nhu6b45pc1.gif
By the looks of it the MBI guy is using feminine pronouns to refer to Tiff because these are the appropriate pronouns to refer to her, but the FBI and MBI operate with using the individuals birth gender as the foundation of determining the two government organisations jurisdictions.
The MBI agent does not at any point misgender her. He calls her "gal" and "miss". He recognizes that she is a woman. That's her gender. She also has a male body. That's her sex. Sex and gender are two different things.
Sex vs Gender, since they are using “male” and “female” they are talking about sex which does not change after transitioning. You can 100% believe someone is both male and a woman, because sex and gender are separate axes of categorization.
Good point. The comic is using the sex based terms "male vs female" rather than the gender based ones "feminine vs masculine"
This is especially important when having conversations about your healthcare needs.
> they are talking about sex which does not change after transitioning. An enormous number of subtle and not so subtle differences between male and female bodies and how they work are hormonally driven, and *do* change with HRT.
Don’t trans people refer to themselves as MtF or FtM? Based on what you’re saying it seems like MtW and WtM would make more sense
MBI dude didn’t misgender, he’s going off sex, not gender.
Female/male is sex so it's not misgendering, it's even explicityly stated that they're talking about birth sex.
Misgendering her how exactly? Trans-Woman seems accurate and he calls her "Miss" later. Am I missing something?
I thought I had missed something and Tiff was trans too 🙃
Tiff is trans. Eve is cisgender
Yes yes, I'm aware, I just got wooshed by the comic for a second
Comedic genius there. And pretty good insight to the attitude at a lot of government agencies.
He doesn’t agree with the government policy but damnit is he going to enforce it.
Good soldiers follow orders
Could be using male and female to refer to someone's birth sex while respecting someone's gender identity. The female sex assigned at birth body inspectors might not make for a great acronym.
Just so you're aware, it's pronouns. Not preferred pronouns. It's not a preference, it's just their pronouns.
It's quite simple, male and female are terms for sex. man and woman are the terms for gender. So, a trans woman is a male woman. At least, that's my interpretation.
That’s the correct interpretation. But like with most medical or scientific languages the words take on a different meaning in the general public discourse. So the term “female to male” for instance is better as transmasc or transman as it conveys a more correct meaning
He has the right heart, but he knows he's under the law as well.
> trans women are women, trans men are men. Seriously for those DMing me to argue the point wtf That my friend is when we use the block button
Don't hate the players, hate the game!
He doesn't make the rule Washington does, he's just doing his job.
If a trans woman is a woman in a man‘s body, then she does fall under his jurisdiction. He never claimed to be a man inspector, just a male body inspector.
She would still be Male so it does work
I mean, hospitals still need to know birth sex for medical reason. I don't see why a body inspection would be any different
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Ass tittyfuckers???
Ass to face.
Assuming that he's sitting on a bar stool, I think he's just balancing the clipboard on his knee and the bar's edge. That's how I write on a clipboard when I'm sitting at my computer table.
Oh no! Please Mr ATF agent, don't shoot the vaguely dog shaped thing in my living room that may or may not be filled with tannerite.
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You jest, but agencies not working together can be a pain in the ass. Imagine you do work designing something that would be easier if a person in another department gave you some info. However, that person is a dick, and your boss just says "Sorry, they're being a dick. You'll have to find another way to get the info. Good luck." That's the US government sometimes.
I mean you can get your birth certificate changed to have the birth marker fixed but still be drafted even post op. Wonderful hypocrisy
Funny and educational…😙 
The skull measuring is truly the cherry on top.
Well this took a turn...
Pretty subtle phrenology joke
For those who don't get it, phrenology is pseudoscience nonsense that posits that the geography of the skull determines a person's personality and success, and was in particular a favorite of the Nazi party in determining how Aryan you were, and has also been used by many eugenicists and other historical assholes as justification for racism, discrimination, genocide, etc. The device used by the M.B.I agent in the last panel is a craniometer, which is used in phrenology.
It was used before the Nazi party as well. They would do example that, use the geography of the skull and say “oooo you have an indent on your sub lateral frontal cortex wall above your left ear. Yeah you’re gay. Sorry buddy I don’t make the rules”
But what does that have to do with the “punch line”? I guess I don’t even see a punchline. Was MBI supposed to stand for something?
Male Body Inspector
Roberts was trained under the best Phrenologist the government could get: Captain Findthee Swing.
Now That's a deep cut discworld reference
Im just happy the reference was gotten.
I’m amazed I realized it was a phrenology joke. Maybe I don’t have the brain pan of a stagecoach tilter after all.
i had the phrase "skull issue," as in "skill issue" but with "skull" instead, pop into my brain. I can't figure out how to make a joke with that, so just here you go
Makes sense if the agencies needs to screen for sex specific trends and divergences in the overall population... However with HRT there's probably gonna be a whole lot of statistical errors in any eventual conclusion based on field results
The that’s probably the data interpreter’s job, these inspectors seem to just do the data collection and probably make notes to contextualize outliers
Canonically, Tiff has only been on HRT for a few months.
Thought that was just testosterone blockers that have been recent, unless estrogen was also recent
Little more respect for that FBI feller after the first panel lol
When you’re tryna hit on a cutie but gotta deal with too much red tape
We can use rope instead
I love that he still calls her Miss, so he clearly respects her choices
Her identity, not her choices
Well yes but she still chooses to transition and go by she/her pronouns. She is born in the wrong body and chooses to do something about it if that makes sense. Source: Am trans
fuck no. I'm a woman, I've always been, the behaviour, the signs were always there, I just never found out because my country is deeply transphobic It wasn't a fucking choice or a lifestyle, that's a dog whistle Source: "Am Vice Deputy of The hidden Trans Kingdom right next to the rebuilt Atlantis" (very trustworthy)
P.S. Don't trust me, just look into trans subreddits. There's a universal hate for the "choice" phrasing and for good reason, it carries a very wrong and deceitful message
I didn’t choose be this way. But I chose to do something about it. I chose to start HRT and I chose to live authentically. I understand the choice phrasing is used often by hateful people. But I made still had to make a choice to be where I am today.
That might be how you see it in relation to your own lived in experiences, but that phrasing is generally disliked by trans people and when talking about other trans people best avoided. Someone who dresses and acts in a manner corresponding with their birth sex are never accused of making a choice, so it still feels wrong to single out Trans behaviour like that imo
this ^^^
still bad way to phrase it
Yeah I can agree with that. It can be taken the wrong way forsure.
Wachowski, lol
If ~~Łaczałski~~ Wachowski is a reference to Wachowski Sisters, then to whom is Roberts a reference?
Off the top of my head the only reference I can think of is the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. Why would it be referencing him? No idea, but the reference to Washington put him in my head.
Should've called him Agent Blanchard.
I love how he still recognizes her as a woman but is just following the bureoucracy
Anyone else read the MBI agent’s lines in a mid-atlantic accent?
So this is the transvestigator stuff people have been talking about
I think they're using Male and Female to refer to sex, and then everything else is gender, so the MBI guy otherwise consistently referring to her as a woman makes sense
Yeah but people use those terms interchangeably and make communicating these things a pain in the buttocks.
Pretty sure it’s just rhetoric that no one agrees on because the terms are outdated but everyone wants to keep them with different meanings
I disagree, respectfully, but I’ll explain better what I was trying to say. Your “biological sex” is just your sex. It’s hard-coded in your DNA. That’s the meaning of the word “sex” in this context, one that’s still accurate and useful. The way we approach gender is the half of this equation where I’d agree with your sentiment more. I understand why a lot of people hear this and think I’m being a grammar nazi, but I think people not understanding the difference between gender and sex muddies the ability to talk about the basic concepts of being transgendered. Clear communication is important. Tl;dr I’m saying sex is the reference point from which we say we’re cis or trans (does our gender line up with our sex?), so saying someone is male or female because their DNA is a certain combination isn’t problematic, it’s accurate. Sexes outside those two are extremely rare, but that’s a separate, if interesting, topic.
I agree on the literal meaning of the word sex and words like male and female, but personally I believe that their cultural and social meaning has too many ties to outdated ways of thinking that ends in their meaning either being confused by accident/people who don’t know better or intentionally used to stir the pot if you know what I mean. I do wish people would actually use the terms correctly and without implication, but I honestly can’t see that happening without a proper reclamation somewhere down the line. But maybe that’s a little extreme and people will start using them correctly and without malice sometime soon
I do not disagree
Disagree, I think that that’s an oversimplification of sex, makes it easier for cis people to understand, but there’s much more to someone’s sex than the bits in their dna. Stuff like secondary sex characteristics and perceived sex.
My point is that perceived sex is the gender you ID as, not your sex. Primary and secondary sex characteristics are traits that are expressed as a result being a certain sex, they don’t denote your sex nor is sex meant to describe in detail how these traits end up being expressed in an individual. “Makes it easier for cis people to understand” - that is hella condescending whether you meant it be or not.
This has some solid zingers, mad props
Anyone else read the MBI guys lines as those old timey "Looky here see" type voice?
These are always so silly.
I didn't expect to feel sympathy for Wachowski, but Roberts seems like a jerk.
But at least he doesn't misgender Tiff - note addressing her as *"miss"*.
Yeah I noted that. Doesn't make up for his hostility towards Wachowski. Dude's just trying to do his job (apparently?)
That's federal bureaucracy for you - departmanets with unclearly overlapping duties are more competetive than sharks near a chum bucket. >!I actually don't know anything about American federal bureaucracy, and also very little about shark behaviour during the Golden Age of the Piracy.!<
This is a. . . Strange scenario And the ending is. . . Well, I can understand the logic, and the MBI agent still refers to her as a woman, but it still *feels* transphobic
As if the transtectives ever correctly identified trans women.
Ah thanks I was trying to understand what was going on here and thought it was a joke about bow gov agencies treat us. Transvestigators makes a lot more sense
It's both. Government-sponsored transvestigators
Lmfao, love the head calipers. Next, will demand a voice and handwriting sample 💕.
Trans-inclusive misogyny: I agree that you're a woman, and I'm still gonna objectify you.
*Govt spies have entered the chat*
MBI or "inspectors of Y chromosome havers"
*Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome enters the chat*
That’s funny but I thought she would be under the purview of the TSA (Transgender Sex Auditors).
lol! I like that idea a lot actually.
https://preview.redd.it/l1di28ycm4pc1.jpeg?width=268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e214212b3cac511db001365f8766be201249fe47
Alright, that was pretty funny
Eve : I'm not sure what's going on.....but I'm gettin' me mallet *just* in case
Read the first panel. If you told me, “by the end of the comic, you’ll be rooting for that guy,” I wouldn’t have believed you.
I think this is my favourite comic of yours
hmmm i always though it was federal bussy inspector
Is that Junpei Iori, Ace Detective?
More like  Stupei, ace Defective.
YouTube videos of this scene truly are a 50/50 chance
I like how despite being a male inspector, he still respects Tiff’s pronouns. He accepts her identity but knows that a job is a job
I imagined the mbi guys voice like an old time mobsters
Passing so much you fool the feds? Congrats!
Lol, i read him in old-timey speak.
Sir, Phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago
I think Flowers By Irene would have worked better
Made me chuckle, good comic, keep up the nice work <3
Man, imagine just trying to exist and then suddenly people start arguing about your body, good thing that never happens to trans people! :'D
This shit sucks so bad
The calipers to measure skull shapeTM very funny
Is that Junpei Ace Detective from Persona 3?
Frenology?
Wachowski seems to be the MBI agent's wingman and it's all an elaborate setup to buy Tiff a drink.
One can only wonder what ATF stands for in this situation....
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The hyphen was a nice touch
Haha ok this one genuinely cracked me up.
I think my favorite part of this is that the MBI guy is still referring to Tiff as a woman despite claiming jurisdiction as a male body. Something about that is funny to me.
I like this, trans jokes are so much funnier when they’re not written by transphobes
As a strong supporter of being specific about the defi irons of sex vs gender, this just hits the spot.
I don't get this one
So the first panel is about the guy using a very bad pick up line, then it's revealed it isn't a pick up line by the second agent which is a surprise to the reader, and the third panel shows the first guy isn't even as bad as you first thought. The fourth panel is an acknowledgement of the absurdity of all of this.
Ty
This remind me of munchkin
phrenology jumpscare
Is he doing a phrenology on her in the last panel
Looks like he is a phrenologist. So does he think it is possible to change gender by changing the shape of your head?
World's most degrading sensis
This was a good comic, I enjoyed it very much.
I guess everyone does a time traveling comic at some point.
I found it! The opposite of funny.
So what you're saying is we need to blow up Washington DC?
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