I worry for this one. I’m not massively gender critical (I generally sit in the “you do you as long as it doesn’t effect others” bracket, which I think the majority of trans people fit in) but I do think Elphaba is cosplaying most of the time. She has an obsession with a character from a musical and it’s her happy place and that’s really all it is.
if I think back to when I was 18/19 Les Miserables was my happy place. If I could have been transported back to 1830s France I would have done. I lived and loved that musical. However it did not cause me to make Any changes to myself that couldn’t be corrected. I grew out of it and still ADORE the show but thank duck I didn’t have kids young and call them Enjolras and Grantaire because that would be well embarrassing now.
I worry that this will be the same for Elphaba, her priorities and interests will adjust as she gets older and she’ll become much more balanced. If that’s the case I hope she doesn’t to anything that can’t be reversed.