Fixing an Unfortunate Implication: Non-Cis People in The Wheel of Time

[Rynjin]

Honest question: am I doing a bad job of explaining myself?

Because this


is literally my proposed fix.



Make channeling dependent on sex instead of on gender. That way people who don't identify as their birth sex can still channel without causing problems throughout the worldbuilding. Simple. Clean. Inclusive. Requires barely any changes to the source material.



So genuinely, if someone could point out to me what about my writing is making it so easy for people to miss my point, I would be extremely grateful, because I am obviously doing something wrong, and I would like to improve it.

Ultimately though this means a net...no change. This is a medieval fantasy world with pretty strict views on gender, even if it is an overall matriarchal paradigm. They're going to use gender and sex interchangeably, because that's what people did.