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Ida Davis
Ida Davis
Ida Davis
Name Daniel Quagmire (formerly)
Ida Davis (currently)
Age 75 (debut)
Job(s) US Navy (retired)
Relatives Crystal Quagmire (ex-wife)
Glenn Quagmire (son)
Gary Quagmire (son)
Brenda Quagmire (daughter)
Kimi Quagmire (daughter-in-law)
Lucas Quagmire (grandson)
Courtney Quagmire (granddaughter)
Abby (granddaughter)
Voice Adam Carolla (Pre-Op)
Seth MacFarlane (Post-Op; Season 7 - Season 19)
Jamie Clayton (Season 20 - Onwards)

Lieutenant Commander Ida Davis (formerly Daniel "Dan" Quagmire) is the male-to-female transgender father of Glenn and Brenda Quagmire and the ex-husband of Crystal Quagmire. She is a former war veteran, who served as a lieutenant commander in Iraq. She was voiced by Adam Carolla, when she was still in her male body, but as of her surgery, she is voiced by Seth MacFarlane. Starting with Season 20, Ida's voice actor was replaced with transgender actress, Jamie Clayton.

Biography[]

Backstory[]

Ida Davis was born in a man's body, under the name of "Dan Quagmire". The assigned male, Dan Quagmire, was born to unknown parents sometime in the 1950's in the ultra-conservative town of Football, Texas. Ever since he was born, Dan was obviously very curly, playing with girl's toys, mostly being friends with girls, and acting very feminine most of the time. As you can guess, Dan was not treated with a lot of respect in such a conservative town, especially at such an early date in history.

Despite what society said about him, Dan's parents were very supportive of him being different. They assumed Dan was a homosexual and would even let him embrace his femininity, not caring what anyone else thought of him. Unfortunately, his parents were really the only ones who accepted him, as he would be bullied, harassed, and abused by everyone else in town.

When Dan was 14, he read a book on Roman history and saw an article on transgenderism, which helped him come to the epiphany that he was a woman trapped in a man's body. Unfortunately, there was no way he'd be getting any reassignment surgery at this time no matter what his parents said, so he basically decided to just put aside his dreams of becoming a woman and instead live the life of a macho, ultra hetero, manly man.

A year later, when Dan was 15, he went out with Crystal Quagglecheck and had a sex date with her, unknowingly impregnating her with a baby. Crystal went her separate ways with Dan before even knowing she was pregnant and when Glenn was born, she didn't even know who's kid he was for the first 10 years of his life.

It wasn't until Dan was 24, that Crystal came back into his life with the announcement that she was the mother of their 10-year-old baby, Glenn Quagglecheck. Dan decided to go back to Crystal and marry her so that he could raise their son. They married under the "Quagmire" family name and changed Glenn's last name to "Quagmire" too. Shortly after getting married, they also had another baby daughter named Brenda Quagmire.

Dan lived as a miserable straight man for many years, giving his wife and two kids as good of an upbringing as he knew how. Glenn also looked up to him for being such a man and thought of him as the ultra-hetero macho man who he could definitely look up to for pointers on how to be the studly, bitch-banging, manly man he is today.

Gender Reassignment[]

In "Quagmire's Dad", Dan Quagmire arrives in town to be honored at the Officer's Club for his war service. When Glenn introduces Peter and Joe to him, Dan's dance to "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" implies that Dan is a homosexual, much to his friends' chagrin. When Peter tells Glenn of his suspicion, he laughs it off and then defends his dad as a war hero. At the ball, Quagmire is soon bombarded by comments about his father's sexuality from fellow sailors. When Glenn confronts him, he reveals his feelings that he is a "woman trapped in a man's body", and came to Quahog wanting a sex change operation. Glenn was very concerned, but ultimately decided to support his father's decision.

After the operation takes place, the surgery is announced to be a success, with Dan Quagmire emerging as an "attractive" blonde woman now known as Ida Quagmire. At dinner with the Griffins that night, Ida reveals that she has no problems discussing the procedure. When her son shows his frustration at that, the two argue, leaving Ida to depart and stay at the Marriott hotel, where she meets Brian. The two bond, and end up having sex in her hotel room. When Peter and Lois find out, they are so shocked they begin to laugh. Meanwhile, Ida goes to Glenn to apologize, and when she tells him about her night, he becomes enraged that his father slept with his worst enemy. Glenn then beats Brian senseless, leaving him badly injured. Brian gets the last word, however, rubbing in Quagmire's face the fact that the intercourse did happen and slams the door shut.

Ida comes to the Griffin Home in "Thanksgiving With The Griffins" for Thanksgiving dinner. Her son is still shown to feel uncomfortable around her, and interaction with Brian has become limited and awkward. When Kevin Swanson reveals that he ran away from the army Brian stands up for Kevin's choice and says the only one who could understand and support Kevin's choice was Ida. However, Ida did not support Kevin's choice to which Brian responds that Ida is just some dumb drag queen. Ida says the fact that Kevin abandoned his fellow soldiers was what was most unforgivable.

In "Quagmire and Meg", Quagmire says that his father's full name is now "Ida Davis", meaning that for some reason, Ida changed her last name.

In "Valentine's Day in Quahog", Stewie gathers scores of Brian’s former dates including Ida to get to the bottom of why he’s unsuccessful in love. When Brian lashes back at the criticism, he notes that Ida still has bits of penis left. Ida assumed that Brian's reasons for failing so much with women, is that he's gay.

A piece of stationary from the Marriott when Brian had sex with Ida plays a key part of Brian's defense of Mayor Adam West in "12 and a Half Angry Men".

Ida helps search for Glenn after he is kidnapped by Sonja in "Quagmire's Quagmire".

Ida attends Brian's funeral in "Life of Brian".

Quagmire mentions his dad not being around much while in the military in "Quagmire's Mom". Stewie also clues in Crystal on her former husband's operation.

Ida donates her old penis to Glenn after his is bitten off by a shark in "The Unkindest Cut". Ida also reveals that she has Crohn's disease.

In "Drag Me to Hell", she becomes friends with Stewie, after he becomes a drag queen.

Appearance[]

Dan Quagmire

Ida Davis is an elderly male-female transgender woman, who, despite her age, still manages to maintain a very youthful appearance, due to plastic surgery saturating her hair color and improving her facial features. She is a Caucasian woman with long blonde hair and a still rather masculine facial physique, still maintaining the broad and chiseled features of her former self. She wears a navy blue shirt, a black skirt, black high heels, a golden necklace, dim purple eyeshadow, and pink lipstick.

Before her operation, Ida was a 75-year-old man with short gray hair and wrinkles on her forehead and crows feet. She wore a grayish browinsh jacket, a tan buttoned up undershirt, dark brown pants, a black belt with a yellow buckle, and light brown shoes.

Personality[]

Ida Davis is a flamboyant and proud transgender woman, who happily owns her new gender identity, not caring what anyone else says about it, even if people may say some insulting and offensive things to her. She figures that as long as she's comfortable in her own skin, then to hell with everybody else. Ida is strong and volatile, remaining completely unfazed by any transphobic insult that comes her way. As a child, she already dealt with enough bullying from the other kids at her school for being "curly" and "effeminate", so she's used to it at this point and really just doesn't care anymore. That being said, she is very proud, bombastic, and shameless.

Episode Appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • Ida was voiced by Adam Carolla, while she was still in her male body. After her surgery, she must have gotten surgery on her vocal chords too, as her voice was noticeably different, and she was then voiced by Seth MacFarlane.
    • Starting with Season 20, Ida's voice actor was replaced once again with transgender actress, Jamie Clayton. This was done in part of a larger call from the public to diminish the amount of non-minorities being cast in minority voice roles. While most of these changes involved issues of white people voice acting non-white characters, this change was made because Ida, a transgender woman, was being voiced by a cisgendered man, Seth Macfarlane.
  • Despite now identifying as a female, Ida still goes by, "Dad", when talking to her kids, to avoid confusion between herself and their mother.
  • The DVD commentary for "Quagmire's Quagmire" reveals that actor Paul Bettany influenced the look of the character design of Ida.
    • It's most likely that this was in reference to when he grew his hair out in to play Dustfinger from the 2008 action film, "Inkheart".
  • In "Quagmire and Meg", it was revealed that on top of changing her first name from "Dan" to "Ida", Ida also changed her last name from "Quagmire" to "Davis". Although her reasoning for doing this is unknown.
  • In "Quagmire's Mom", it's revealed that she is divorced from her ex-wife, Crystal. It is unknown if this divorce happened before or after her gender reassignment surgery.
  • In "The Unkindest Cut", she revealed that she kept her former penis in a jar as somewhat of a sentiment or a souvenir. After her son, Quagmire got his penis bitten off by a shark, she donated her former penis to him and he had it surgically attached as a replacement. So ever since that episode, Quagmire has and always will have his dad's penis every time he appears.
    • This contradicts a comment she made in a deleted scene from "Quagmire's Dad", where she said that she still had her penis. It was just inverted, so it could simulate a vagina.
  • In "The Unkindest Cut", it is revealed that Ida has Crohn's disease.
  • In "Trans-Fat", we learn a lot of information about Ida.
    • Ida grew up in Football, Texas.
    • Ida knew she was attracted to men even when marrying Crystal. The only reason she married Crystal was due to homophobic societal obligations. That, and the fact that he knocked her up when he was only 15.
    • Ida discovered she was a woman trapped in a man's body, since she was 14. After 61 years of being in the closet, she finally got her surgery, when visiting Quahog in her debut episode, making her 75 at the time of her debut.
    • When Quagmire and Brenda were young children. She never told them she was trans, because she didn't think they could handle the news at the time.
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