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Umbrella Academy is a sci-fi superhero comedy drama series that ran on Netflix for four seasons. Based on the comic book series of the same name, (written by Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance), it tells the story of the Hargreaves family: seven adopted siblings who were all born simultaneously all over the world of women who had shown no previous signs of pregnancy, and have superpowers; their eccentric billionaire adoptive father, who gives them numbers instead of names, and trains them, with the assistance of a super smart chimpanzee, to be a superhero team known as The Umbrella Academy; and their mother who is really a robot.

In the first season, the siblings, who have parted ways as adults, reconnect at their father’s funeral, and join forces to avert a coming apocalypse. In subsequent seasons, they continue to save the world from various universe-ending scenarios, at least one of their own making. There are aliens and multiple times lines and other super-powered people born at the same moment they were involved.

It’s a great show, full of unexpected (unless you read the comics, of course) plot twists.

One sibling is bisexual and another is pansexual, so the show is just vaguely queer. Except…

One of the siblings, Vanya, in the first two seasons, becomes Viktor in season three. The actor playing the part, Elliott Page, announced his transition from female to male after season two, leading to much speculation and curiosity about how the show would handle it.

And they handled it beautifully. One of the brothers calls him Vanya and he replies “It’s Viktor…it’s who I’ve always been…does anyone have a problem with that?” And none of them did.

It just makes sense. One of the siblings time travels, one communes with the dead, one is actually a ghost, and the one who transitioned can alter reality with a violin. Changing genders is the least interesting thing this person will ever do.