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"inclined to think" might have been better wording, but from Merriam-Webster:

inclined adjective

in·​clined in-ˈklīnd, sense 2 also ˈin-ˌklīnd

1: having inclination, disposition, or tendency
2a: having a leaning or slope
2b: making an angle with a line or plane

The intended meaning (1) is apparently more common than the literal one you're making it out to be (2a).

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    m.usouka said:

    https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-10-31/guilty-gear-strive-developers-bridget-was-always-meant-to-be-transgender/.191273

    Yeah, Bridget has always been a boy disguised as a girl. That doesn't mean he's trans in the western sense. I'm dead sure the translation mistook "transexual" for whatever that word for effeminate/crossdressing boy is, but it's impossible to check by myself, and I don't have the energy to reason people thinking otherwise.

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    FJH said:

    To be fair, it's only a third of the transgender mark, which only means it's been stylized by leaving the difference between that and the intersex symbol. (Also, a horizontal flip of the gender-neutral symbol.) Fictional sources do tend to do their own thing occasionally. I've met a variety of definition purists who believe that symbols, when other meaning has not been established, should be completely depicted to indicate proper representation; otherwise, it's either an inversion of the original meaning, a corruption of it, or some other imperfection. The vibe is not dissimilar to depicting the cross upside down to casually refer to something unholy (ignoring that an upside down cross actually does mean something on its own) and not unlike substituting other shapes for a swastika in WWII media.

    People are going to complain one way or another.

    Thank you for interview clarifying things.

    See but, it's not the transgender symbol, it's the androgyne symbol, it's a real, separate symbol with its own meaning. Daisuke is very passionate about these things, if he meant for it to be the transgender symbol, it would be the full transgender symbol. He obviously meant for it to represent Bridget's uncertainty about her identity until the end of Strive. But of course you can't ever trust a journalist to actually do their research and know what they're talking about these days, even when getting their info straight from the source.

    FRien said:

    Yeah, Bridget has always been a boy disguised as a girl. That doesn't mean he's trans in the western sense. I'm dead sure the translation mistook "transexual" for whatever that word for effeminate/crossdressing boy is, but it's impossible to check by myself, and I don't have the energy to reason people thinking otherwise.

    Seriously man, literally every official source, including the official GG website, says she identifies as a girl. She's not just a crossdresser. Just get over it. Daisuke wouldn't be letting people call her trans if she wasn't trans.

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    blindVigil said:

    Seriously man, literally every official source, including the official GG website, says she identifies as a girl. She's not just a crossdresser. Just get over it. Daisuke wouldn't be letting people call her trans if she wasn't trans.

    So that's the new narrative?

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    It's hard not to cry when this voice actress meant so much to us but also the amount of Joy she brought to her peers as well. She will always be remembered in our hearts and be cherished as we share the tale of Misty and Jesse throughout the ages.

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