If she doesn't like boys or romance or sex, why did she create a story about gay boys falling in love!?

I watched a couple of episodes and did the same google discovery as you. I’m not into hunting, and naturally I haven’t spent years writing action novels about hunters. These ‘ace’ young women are trying to hide behind some ‘queer experience’ of romance, when they’re just straight and awkward.

But I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it presents a totally neutered version of homosexuality where the gays are more like cutesy puppy dogs than actual human beings.

You’re correct. I don’t mind it not being innocent though, since the characters are supposed to be 15-16, but it’s so tame. Everyone has an ~identity~ that everything revolves around, everyone’s super easygoing and cheerful and supportive, except for the token bad guys. The character’s are paperthin. I expected som grit or bite since it was British, but gave up when the mtf trans character not only became besties with what turned out to be a lesbian couple at their new school, but also one of their old male mates started falling in love with their new girly self?! C’mon now.

The writer apparently wanted to create positive queer rep or whatever, but the funny thing is, I went on reddit to see if people liked it, and the ones crying about how amazing and cute it was seemed to mostly be straight girls, trans or not and some trans girls, like oh I wish my hs years were like that. But actual gay guys seemed to be more like yeah but it’s not all sunshine and roses, most gay teens don’t have a queer friend group and that’s ok, it gets better anyways. So it’s a positive queer rep fantasy by a straight woman that appeals to others like her.