No, the Jurassic Park franchise isn’t suddenly all about transness — but that’s because it’s always been all about transness.
That’s the lesson the internet had to teach a misguided user on X, after they complained about queer representation coming to the famous sci-fi franchise. The discourse stemmed from a clip from the new animated series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, which is coming to Netflix later this month. In the clip, one character refers to two women as “girlfriends,” apparently setting off the “woke” alarms for a conservative in the comments.
“This going to be some woke garbage,” they wrote. “Get ready for ‘trans’ and ‘non-binary’ characters and dinosaurs.”
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This going to be some woke garbage. Get ready for "trans" and "non-binary" characters and dinosaurs😂
— Charlie Vigon (@CharlieVigon) May 16, 2024
But even beyond the post’s homophobia, it had a glaring flaw in its logic, which the rest of the internet was quick to point out: There have been trans dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park franchise since the very first film.
A major plot point in the first Jurassic Park movie is that the scientifically created dinosaurs can change their gender after hatching, thanks to frog DNA that the scientists used to reconstruct their genomes. That’s how they’re able to reproduce, despite the scientists making them all female to prevent breeding.
Is it a one-to-one comparison for trans people? No, of course not — but it’s close enough to use to dunk on idiots on the internet.
Bro has never watched the original Jurassic Park
— The Cosmic Sauce Show (@sauce_cosmic) May 17, 2024
1. Trans people exist, get over it.
— Dr. DJ King✝️ 🐚🦖💛🤍💜🖤 (@TheDJ_King) May 16, 2024
2. It is explicitly stated in the first Jurassic Park movie that the dinosaurs have the ability to change sex due to the DNA of the frogs used to complete their genome; the dinosaurs have explicitly, canonically, been trans since 1993.
Buddy I don't know how to tell you this….
— Alioramus, That Guy 🇵🇷 (Pain.) (@AlioramusThe) May 16, 2024
wake up conservatives! THIS is the world the Woke left wants pic.twitter.com/VEMKG8dw4z
— Pareidolia Daily (@jdkale1) May 17, 2024
“they’re using frog DNA that’s turning the FRICK!N DINOSAURS TRANS”
— Sunny (@Akpochimara1) May 17, 2024
In fact, as one commenter pointed out, the “most famous quote in the entire franchise” points to the dinosaurs’ transness: When Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm says that “life finds a way,” he’s referring to the fact that though all the dinosaurs are female, they’re still finding a way to reproduce by changing their sex.
Gee I sure to wonder what the most famous quote in the entire franchise means
— gayass (@gayass225) May 17, 2024
The moral of the story? Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs have been trans as long as the franchise has existed, and they’ll keep being trans long after it ends.
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory drops on Netflix on May 24.
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