+When [Riley expresses concern for Jaden's bruises the next morning](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p31/), Jaden [admits that "a few men kicked up a fuss at the club last night."](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p35/) Riley [assumes the troublemakers were homophobes protesting lesbianism](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p39/); Jaden says she [doesn't know what they were about](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p40/), but that they "[called themselves _trance, women_, or something. I can't really remember.](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p41/) [...] [I didn't really get it either. But hey, that's straight men for you, haha!](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p42/)"
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+Riley, who has not been living under a rock, [feels ideologically uncomfortable with Jaden's account](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p55/)—Riley feels morally obligated to be a good ally, but isn't personally zealous enough to correct Jaden's speech. Riley starts to [worry that her girlfriend Blaire will start a quarrel if transwomen come up in conversation when meeting Jaden](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch6p59/). (_Transwomen_ is spelled as one word in Riley's thoughts, but we imagine Blaire is the kind of person insists that it's two.) The meeting goes fine thanks to Jaden's continued obliviousness; [when Blaire asks Jaden what pronouns she prefers, Jaden (momentarily distracted by Riley nervously dropping a glass) mishears the question and replies, "The way you pronounced it just the was fine."](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch8p6/) Later, Blaire [asks Riley if Jaden might be trans](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p2/) [and not know it](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p4/), causing Riley to [grapple with the contradictions of the reigning ideology](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p6/) and [muse about her own "gender"](https://leasebound.com/comic/ch9p8/).
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+_Lease Bound_ is actively updating. I'm really looking forward to the brewing ideological conflict (between Blaire's doctrinal purity and Jaden's normie common sense) becoming overt.