Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-26871067-20160928165138

Rez spb wrote: OK, I get it, let's just stop here.

You have chosen a comfortable way of thinking ('he did that 1.5 times already' despite having non-trans chraracters hundreds of times more and I don't even know the author's reason for this), that's why it really is easier for you. I keep saying simpler, not easier for a reason. I'm taking in consideration human factor and external consequences to provide simplest possible reason while your points all about keeping it complex, but internal-only or if taking it external, you base assumptions on his history of 1.5 trans characters and I can't even comment on them because I haven't read these other works. That's a dead end.

What matters is that we base different assumtions on different factors and come to different results. So there is no common ground. I don't think you understand fully what patriarchal family is or why traditionalistic social fabric matters (not to me, the author who was raised in them or even trans people), so it's simplier for you to aviod the point completely by saying that I don't understand a reasoning. Yeah, we both think that the other does not understand what it is. Another dead end.

So, putting external reasoning of the author aside, in-story situation makes no sense. Again, Alluka's age prevents her being a trans in this kind of a strict family (born as a boy, geno; raised as a boy, pheno; suddenly dressed as a girl... what?!). Uncomfortable this question is due to a psychological isses, and going all that way for an author is to forfeit a great deal of research, but keep only that small part that actually says nonsense like 'oh they unserstand they are a girl in boy's body in 5 years'. I don't want to discuss that either, saw the comments, my transgender friend would be ashamed of that reasoning, and I don't even want to show this to her for advice (maleborn, yeah, like you claim Alluka to be). You think about this too much, this situation is way simpler than people think, and I really hope the author won't go and call his own mistake 'a trans', making a simple thing a very complex one.

But I would like to stop here as I understand that you just like trans characters and I'm biased too due to real life experiences, so I don't want to think bad of the author and really prefer my 2 points from above: that would be more human (errare humanum est) and a way simpler solution (because even understanding trans people is a complex matter, let alone portraying them). Final dead end.

You can still believe her to be a trans, that's your right. I will keep my point of view on this matter unless the author proves it to be wrong. Silence and prevois works is not something solid.

I would really like to stop here due to every branch of discussion reaching a dead end, and that is the reason you feel like I'm talking the same points again and again. I hope I've explained you why we cannot find common ground to even have a decent argument. And I really don't like all this trans talk (in comments), yeah, now you even know why. So you just admitted you have a bias against trans people, while in the same breath saying "I have a trans friend (who I won't ask to speak for herself, conveniently), so shut up!"

You should be ashamed, if you have a transgender friend and are spouting this tired transphobic rhetoric. But since I actually respect my transgender friends, I am going to ask them for their opinions and I am going to ask them to look at this thread and my arguments and speak for themselves.