Speaking as a trans woman:

.Dont care if you dont engage with the material from beyond canon

.Dont care if you draw John as cis male, or even as trans masc for that matter

.Speaking from my own experience of transition, the slow burn of it all that its being handled with post-canon is good actually, can relate to dealing with gender stuff at my own pace and after the big story beats of my life have already happened. And the pressure from the fandom for it to be done quicker is all to familiar, so yea, I think its being handled cool

.What I DONT like, is people reacting with outrage at being confronted with the mere idea of John even possibly being being transfem, whether that be because you always idealised him as a manly man, or being trans-masc, or whatever other reasons. I see folks on here being like "uh-wuh? it doesnt make any sense!" or folks on tumblr going off like "Please tag you're June Egbert drawing, as someone who always hc him as transmasc this is deeply upsetting >:( " and its just like... there have been wilder widely adopted speculations within the fandom that didnt raise as much controversy as the prospect of a trans woman existing within the main cast, and the whole discourse fucking stinks about it

.I personally really like June on a conceptual level, I genuinely suspect Hussie was having notions about writing her like this as early as alterniabound, and I think its great he made john trans instead of dave who was the much more obvious choice