“There were some people in particular, Jill Soloway — who actually is a friend and who's now Joey Soloway — saying that Pat was derogatory towards nonbinary people and that it was really an upsetting thing as a person of indeterminate gender herself or themselves to even see Pat,” she explained.
“I felt that I carefully wrote all the jokes to be about the people's uncomfortableness with Pat, not Pat being uncomfortable with Pat's self,” she added.
And there’s a lot of trans comedy writers in LA that were inspired by Pat, that loved Pat,” she said.
“Pat is a man or woman, you just don’t know which Pat is.
When asked how she felt about Pat, despite the controversy surrounding the character now, Sweeney said she felt “very positive about it.”.
