The theory inspired viral debates and fan art on social media in early June 2023. On June 4th, Twitter user made two tweets about the theory, the first of which garnered over 2,300 retweets and 28,900 likes in three days (shown below, right). For example, on June 3rd, 2023, Twitter user tweeted "Gwen Stacy is the first trans Spider-Person in the Spiderverse □□□️⚧️," with the tweet gaining over 2,200 retweets and 20,700 likes in four days (shown below, left). In early June 2023, additional users on Twitter and other sites made similar posts sharing their belief that Gwen Stacy is a transgender woman in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The first post in the thread accumulated over 390 retweets and 2,500 likes prior to the account going private. On June 2nd, 2023, Twitter user posted a thread in which they argued that the film explicitly implies that Gwen Stacy is a transgender woman, mentioning the scene and the trans pride symbols (shown below, left and right). Additionally, the scene of her father accepting her identity as Spider-Man is highlighted with a white, blue and pink palette, which some argued can be perceived as an allegory for a father accepting his daughter's gender identity. In the film, the character Gwen Stacy has a transgender pride flag in her room while her father wears a trans flag pin on his jacket. On June 2nd, 2023, the animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse premiered in the United States.
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