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

[Saph]

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

I don't think you're explaining yourself badly, it's just that the solution you're trying to explain is really counter-intuitive and confusing.

Your "solved" version of the Wheel of Time has people who are born male, with male bodies, who channel the male half of the True Source, but who are still female. So, in your version of WoT . . . what makes these characters female, exactly? The fact that they say they are? If so, then you've basically redefined the words "male" and "female" to be totally transitory and meaningless . . . while leaving the categories of "biologically male" and "biologically female" just as ironclad and important as ever. I really don't see how this helps anyone, or anything.