Originally Posted by
RachelGrey
I agree, Emma Frost is not a character who is an allegory for transgender people. If anything I would say she is a bisexual character, she had pretty intense feelings for those two women who were vying for White Queen with her, she actually told Kitty that she loved them and that her flippant playing along with Shaw got her two friends killed.
Lots of women get plastic surgery, having a boob job doesn't make a woman transgender.
There are lots of things you can find in Emma's back story:
- abused by her father
- abused by her sort of coworker/boyfriend Sebastian Shaw
- female body image issues
- panic/anxiety attacks (when she sees children dying around her - this one is a big one for Emma, the Helions, Onslaught, Adrienne's attack on the Gen X school, Genosha, the bus incident after decimation, the Terrigen Mist)
During Onslaught, Emma took the Gen X kids to Canada and was over-protectively hiding them so Onslaught wouldn't find them.
Emma's secondary mutation triggered when she tried to use her own body to shield the kids in her classroom in Genosha.
Emma went super crazy when the Terrigen Mist killed Scott, but also it killed a lot of children, and pretty much everyone on Muir Island.
The one thing I would take from this, Emma has an obsessive need to protect her students, and she will go to any means to protect her students.
Of course if you peel the layers of any member of the X-Men, you are going to find serious PTSD issues everywhere, the X-Men are truly prime candidates for suffering from PTSD.