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I'm relieved we've all agreed not to get into the Harry Du Bois angle

The bottom two screenshots are a bit hard to read at this resolution, but they say

• Benoit Blanc figures out you're trans because he's a gay southern man. he knows.
• House puts you down for an orchiectomy before you even realize you're trans
• BBC Sherlock calls you a slur

Roland Deschain saves you from being harassed and mugged while you're visiting the Big Apple and couldn't get a cab after drinking with your girlfriends. With one hand missing half its features and the brutal butt of his antique looking pistol, he pummels the men to within an inch of their respective lives.

In 2011 in a movie theater, the homophobic ringleader of the men who hounded you, whose name is Geoff, goes to see Drive in theaters with his daughter and his daughters friend. They both think the lead actor is cute. That meticulous calm, that dread and serendipitous violence hidden behind the wistful eyes of the lead as portrayed by Ryan Gosling, stirs something in him. Geoff breaks down into tears remembering the girl he and his friends would've... he cast an askance glance at his daughter, reaching out to him, and the girl she brought, No, he realizes, they're in love, how did couldn't I see that?

Geoff's old shuddering limp returns, a reminder lain dormant all these years that the butt of the gun that shattered his L2 vertebra hadn't just broken him for the rest of his youth. (Psychosomatic the doctor said. Bullshit, Geoff said. My ass still hurts.) It hadn't just taken years of physical therapy. It hadn't just wiped away the group of friends (shitheels, he realizes). That mad diseased looking cowboy motherfucker had saved his soul. He had given Geoff time to become someone else.

In your present, the whirling madness continued and by the end of it, you weren't sure this interloper had even been in your life longer than that black-sounding-white guy song you heard in the bar. How did it go? Baby can you--? (But he's a righteous man!) Baby can you dig-- (Righteous man!)

He crushes hands, he kicks a knee in. You see the ringleader, whose hate you could see shining right through his eyes, collapse into a broken heap on the sidewalk pavement, unable to move. But you know he is not dead because the ungodly wail that comes ripping through him makes you almost wish this had never happened. Wished you were a worm that had died in a rotten hole in the Big Apple.

"You," the satanic cowpoke offers raggedly, "have received my aide and now I must ask of yours. I am dying and there's a quest needs doing. Many things hang in the balance, worlds upon worlds." Though he didn't seemed strained during the fighting you realize now he was deathly sick to begin with.

The longer he talks, the more words he says, the more the hellish dream land he describes as his home country reminds you of where you came from. Even when there is nothing in parallel you ken his heartbreak and his resolve and he kens yours. You are enveloped in a grand quest to find some Dark Tower. He merits that there may be "iron in you yet" and you may even have "the makings of a Gunslinger they would have sent west in shame". Your training begins as he leans on you more and more to hunt food and fend off wildlife.

As hard as it all is to bear, as alien and terrible as this world is, as cruel as he is, he is one of the only people who truly ever saw you.

He saw you very well.

Another of the Unfound Doors that let the savage dying cowpoke into your world approaches on the horizon like the black silhouette of an army marching in single file. Roland's only chance of survival may be the antibiotics found in any American pharmacy on the other side. If there is someone like you, or utterly unlike you, you pontificate, it is by the Way of the Gun and in the name of Arthur Eld and the White that you must be there for them. Like he was for you.

And will you be there with him when he blows his horn at the foot of the Tower, when your Tet has lain waste to all that opposed you and your worn through moccasins grace the roses at Can'-Ka No Rey, the red fields you've begun to dream about? A sick feeling in your gut tells you that although he has come to love you and you him, father and daughter after a fashion, you are just one more cartridge to be sent into Ka's wind. And that feels so sickeningly right.

You know that when he speaks the dozens, perhaps hundreds of names he's sworn to speak before the threshold of the Dark Tower itself, your true name, the one you gave yourself all those years ago, will be among them. The word that means you will shake the foundations of existence itself.

The csi team deduce you are trans by the fact that the bloodied corpse of the star cheerleader is making you so mad not because you wanted to be with her but because you wanted to be like her.

Frank Drebin ramraids your front door, notes that you live with no front door, figures out you're quirky because nobody leaves the door open these days.

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I wonder how matlock and monk would have done it.

Sam and Max immediately act like you're trans. There is no realization, just an off-handed quip. Sam takes one of your lightbulbs, and the world becomes notably worse less than a day later.

Jessica Jones calls you an idiot for not realising you're trans, but she does it out of earshot and then offers you some beer from the bottle she's drinking out of.

Rust Cohle sees you and has a vision about the vast emptiness of space, where he realizes that life has no meaning and time just repeats endlessly in an inescapable loop. He numbs himself every night trying to forget you, but he can’t escape the gravity of your memory. He’s pulled under the darkness, like a crashing ocean wave, and he’s drowning, over and over, in the inky blackness. He realizes you’re trans five years later, after everything he loves is dead, because he’s the only one who can.

No Miss Marple huh.... Shame

How would Jessica Fletcher and Mark Sloan solve it?

[off topic]

Mike Hammer was immensely popular for years. "My Gun Is Quick" and "I, the Jury" were full of anti-gay slurs.

Currently there are Pride Month flags flying from Mickey Spillane's bar in NYC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hammer_(character)

I'm fairly certain Sherlock Holmes would also have offered you some cocaine

since those bottom ones are hard to read: