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| | One example is where Tabby's cellphone screensaver is of Stephen Beatty. Another is where she has a picture of Chaz Bobo in her wallet. When she plays with a a female dog or male cat, husband and wife living in a little house in the garden, she discovers he has a girlfriend or a transgender boyfriend. | | One example is where Tabby's cellphone screensaver is of Stephen Beatty. Another is where she has a picture of Chaz Bobo in her wallet. When she plays with a a female dog or male cat, husband and wife living in a little house in the garden, she discovers he has a girlfriend or a transgender boyfriend. |
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| − | On other occasions, such as when Tabby (as Rags) falls in love with a female dog, Jillian, she has been shown to be [[wikipedia:Heterosexuality|straight]] as a male (but a lesbian as a female). In the commentary for ''[[RAGStory]]'', the writers describe how they were going to make Rags discover he was a gay male dog, but decided to scrap this idea in order to retain Rags' (and later Tabby) sexual ambiguity for writing purposes. Ava Zinn planned for the series' second season to end with Rags [[wikipedia:coming out|coming out of the closet]] after a near-death experience. The show's abrupt cancellation in 2012 caused Zinn to abort these plans, and the episode was actually produced, but never shown.
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| − | In "Quillsville Wasteland", Tabby (who plays the role of Ricky Thomas) threatens to "choke" the person in charge of the speed boat. It turns out this person is a muscular transman, whom Tiffani does "choke", but not by neck. The muscular transman states "I can breathe just fine...You're choking my-," and is interrupted by Tabby who replies, "I know." It is implied that Tabby is "choking" the tranmsman's "fake penis" as a means of grasping, suggesting homosexual action on his behalf.
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| − | However, in the revival series (and seventh season premiere), Rags quietly transitioned from male to female and becomes Tabitha Andrea "Tabby" Willis. Up until that point, Zinn opted to have Tabby portrayed as sexually ambiguous, as, in her eyes, the flexibility of Tabby's sexuality allows for much more freedom in terms of writing for the character.
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| − | It was revealed [[Melissa Rose (Queen of the Willis)|Melissa]] performed Tabby's sex reassignment surgery and the first such SRS on a domestic animal. Melissa performed the procedure on November 1, 2019.
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| − | As Tabby, she an Shushu are a frequent target of weight related jokes from a variety of characters in the series, in particular Brynn.
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| − | It is revealed in "[[]]" that Tabby has repressed emotions from Tom's death and her obesity and low self-esteem makes it difficult for her to find friends. In "[[]]", she seems to become friends with Dara, Lisa, Ragina and Kyla.
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| − | {{quote|"She originally began as a male diabolical villain, but then we delved into the idea of her sexuality as an openly transgendered female. We all feel certain that Rags n/k/a Tabby is gay, and she figured it out for herself. We haven't ever really locked into it because we get a lot of good jokes from both sides, but we treat her oftentimes as if we were writing a bisexual character like Angie."|Ava Zinn|"FWA LGBT", <ref name="Advocate">??</ref>}}
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| − | When asked why she made the decision "to take Tabby from homicidal maniac to transgender little song girl dog?," Zinn answered: "It was a realatively easy decision. Characters evolve in certain ways and we found that doing the take-over-the-world thing every week was getting played out and was starting to feel a little dated. It was weirdly feeling a little 2000s and believe me, if we were still doing that, there would be no ''Vote for the Girls''."<ref>??
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| − | Zinn told CBS 11 in Indianapolis in 2008 "We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Rags does come out. It had to do with the harassment he took from other pets at the kennel. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination.' But we decided it's better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he's a five-year-old. Ultimately, Rags will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why he's so hellbent on killing his owner, Ava and taking over the world: he has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his orientation."<ref name=gay>??</ref>
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