Whats the reason besides just "it felt like he was something else"? Ive already gave my Doylist reading of the scene here.
Ive given the Watsonian explanation that all of Ganderworx art is troonslop and that this is just another point on the graph. What else am I supposed to assume is the explanation when someone named "un-Clit", and the plap monster are explaining its some other specific orientation based off a feeling? If you can give me a better argument im all ears.
Real life experience, because I've known a couple cross-dressers. They acted -exactly- the way Jax did. Both when he feared being 'outed', and also when he was freer about it inside his own head.
First case was the older brother of a girlfriend of mine in high school. He used to steal his little sister's panties and bra and parade around in them whenever he was alone in the house. She realized it when her undies were coming back from the wash stretched out and sagging, and her brother acting sus when the issue was raised around the dinner table. Then I actually caught the fucker going through her drawers one day and I pinned him down.
It took hours before I got him to break down and confess, even when caught with his hand in her fucking panty drawer he alternated between bluster and attempted intimidation (I was still bigger then him even though he was 2 years older) and rediculous excuses as to why he was digging in her undies that a toddler wouldn't believe.
He was still so deeply closeted and ashamed about it he still refused to admit it to his mother and sister even when I caught him and he confessed it to me. AFAIK he went on to at least present as a regular dude, got married, had kids, I don't know for sure. The girl and I broke up a few months later.
Show me a troon who has EVER acted this way.
I'll spare the heavy details on the second case, but he was a co-worker in an office about 15 or more years ago. He was more like the 'Sassy Jax' wearing the maid outfit but still talking and acting like himself. This guy would kind of do the 'Chris-Chan tomgirl' dressing thing, wearing half manly clothes with a couple women's articles like a frilly scarf, feminine jewelry and occasionally a dress while otherwise acting normal. If asked about it he'd ignore it or make a quip, press him and he got defensive but never pissed off and/or demanding that he be accepted or else you're a bigot or making a big deal about it. It caused some issues, a fight with a guy who called him a faggot, people not wanting to work with him, (he didn't care) stuff like that. Everyone eventually just learned to ignore it, and occasionally laugh at him behind his back.
Again, show me a troon who has ever acted this way.
However, both of them in their own way acted like Jax when Froggy both wormed a confession out of him, and put the bow on his ear. And then when his 'secret' was about to be revealed with someone knocking on the door, he threw the bow away and slammed back into the closet and never came out again.
He didn't act in a feminine manner at any time, and didn't express a yearning to be female or spoke jealously of what women have, he didn't act troonlike in ANY way shape or form! The way he acted reminded me strongly of both cross-dressers that I knew. That's what I base my analysis on.
Goose has nothing to do with it other then being the creator of the show and character. Goose wrote plenty of troonslop, no arguement there but any creator of any real talent (and like it or not, he clearly does have some) is capable of writing a character that he dosen't project his own personality or hangups on. They often do, but I think he rather spread his issues out among the cast in this case. Eg. Zooble is the gender dysphoric one, and ends up in a gay relationship with Gangle.
Jax is clearly suffering a sexual-mental disorder, but it presents far closer to closeted cross-dressing then it does to Troonery.