"Created by games developer and double-jumping aficionado, Maddy Thorson, the platformer sees the canonically trans character Madeline brave the great climb of Mount Celeste to confront her self-doubts and prove she can achieve greatness. While some might brazenly assume the award-winning title is an allegory for the hard, thankless work it takes to cope with mental health issues like anxiety or depression, a more scholarly, intellectual analysis suggests that it's clear-cut proof that trans women can, indeed, jump and then jump again while in midair."
"For millennia, philosophers, academics, and intellectuals have tried and failed to uncover the elusive answer to a question as old as time itself. Did Marsha P Johnson double-jump before she threw the first brick at Stonewall? Could Sophia Burset have simply leapt over the prison fence and escaped Litchfield in Orange is the New Black? And why didn't Dylan Mulvaney propel herself, as we assume all trans women can, during her Days of Girlhood TikTok series?"
The piece frames a cultural question about whether trans women can double-jump, using examples from history, television, and social media to dramatize the idea. The 2018 video game Celeste and its canonically trans protagonist Madeline serve as the central evidence, with emphasis on the game's double-jump mechanic. The game’s creator, Maddy Thorson, is identified as a double-jumping aficionado. A 2021 Reddit post by user Meylody is cited as a playful scholarly analysis that interprets Celeste as confirmation that trans women can double-jump, and a crude meme on r/gamingcirclejerk is mentioned as part of the conversation.
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