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https://gamecola.net/2015/01/disregard-canon-acquire-representation-samus-aran-is-a-transgirl/

Disregard Canon, Acquire Representation: Samus Aran is a Transgirl!

From the comments the author makes it clear they think that both cis women and trans women can look up to a fictional trans woman as an icon, but a fictional cis women isn't good enough for trans women. So just the usual sexism and misogyny from the trans lady community - that trans women are better women than cis (real) women. Their failure to successfully argue against the dude in the comments ends with "I am lead to believe that you’re arguing out of internalized transphobia", because "you're transphobic" is always the fallback for these creeps.

From another comment:

Calling this “Disregard Canon” is meant more for how characters are often read as straight and/or cisgender if there’s no direct statement saying they aren’t. People often claim that characters are canonically cisgender and/or until the narrative of the videogame goes out of its way to establish them as otherwise.

Characters aren't "often read" as "straight and/or cisgender", straight and "cis" (urgh) are simply the default because that's reality. People don't assume or claim a character is straight or cis because it isn't something that they think about at all, unless the text says otherwise.

If I remember the correctly, the reason Rowling saying that Dumbledore was gay was so contentious was because it was meaningless information that neither adds or subtracts from her original work. It's just a bit of virtue signalling (and I don't mean that in the negative way as it's typical used now.

I remember watching early David Tennant Dr Who, and there were often moments when, for example, a male character would mention "my husband", even though the characters sexuality wasn't relevant and never brought up again, and the husband never appeared and wasn't relevant to the story. It's just virtue signalling. "Look, we have a characters who just happens to be gay, isn't that progressive".

It's why early trans characters in games would immediately tell the player character that they were trans (and often dead-name themselves) because if they didn't do that there was no way you would know.