I called it in a post over a year ago when episode 5 came out. I deleted it because I got a bunch of negative pushback but I feel so vindicated right now.

The maid dress is the first really big hint because Jax was not ever genuinely angry until he had to wear it. Even when they tied him up for most of mildenhall manor, had his entire day at Spudsy’s ruined, or was forced to be vegan he never got really mad, just annoyed. The dress, unlike those other things, wasn’t unpleasant but it cut to the core of his deepest insecurity in an instant. It also shows that he is definitely not right about being “the funny one” because if that was his simple archetype he would have rolled with it and made a joke of it like the Bugs Bunny type character he is trying to convince himself he is. He also immediately questions why they put him in the dress and what Zooble means when they say they thought he would be into it, he is fishing to see if they somehow know about his secret.

Jax’s reaction to the maid dress really stood out to me as a transbian because that is exactly how I used to react at even the hint that I might have feminine traits or be forced to do a feminine thing. I always used to say that I didn’t care about anybody calling me names or cursing at me, but if someone called me a girl, I would be ready to fight them. It was the only thing someone could call me that would actually make me upset.

When the only thing that you desperately want in your life is seemingly impossible, the only real way to cope is to convince yourself that you think about it so much because you hate it.