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aamcnamara ([personal profile] aamcnamara) wrote in [personal profile] epershand 2012-04-11 07:38 pm (UTC)

Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall--as I remember the narrator's genderless. Emma Bull's Bone Dance has a non-gender-binary character. Leah Bobet's Above (very new) has a gender-variant character. That's...all that springs to mind right at the moment.

I feel like SF/F sometimes (often?) falls into this pattern of "we will have an intersex character who is genderless/gender-variant! That just MAKES SENSE!" I am not a fan of that pattern. (Also, fantasy novels I've read have way more trans woman than trans men; FAAB people in fantasy novels who present as men are typically presenting that way because of external pressures/as a means to an end, not as an end in and of itself.) (Clearly I have FEELINGS about this topic and should probably just volunteer for the panel except imposter syndrome.)

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