Quote Originally Posted by Murk View Post
There are three problems with this:

- It would be unlike the real world. WoT obviously is a fantasy world, but it's presented as if gender, anatomy, sex, and biology work the same way as in ours. The humans in Randland are normal humans, just like humans are in the real world. They are supposed to be real humans, not fantasy humans. And real humans are sometimes trans.
By saying "No trans people exist", you also say "humans in Randland are different from real humans".
Which is not necessarily wrong but it would definitely be a change to the original work - and most people in this thread seem to dislike making changes to the original work.

- Not all genderqueer people are the "born in the wrong body" kind of trans. Heck, not all genderqueer people are trans. The same interesting questions apply to intersex and non-binary people.

- It comes with all kinds of... unpleasant implications. "The creator made sure nobody is ever trans" is an easy quick fix, but this kind of "perfect" fantasy has commonly been used against trans people. If you want the story to be more suitable to modern audiences (or take some kind of societal responsibility) this is exactly not what you need to do.
If the story were going n any way ABOUT trans issues, this might be relevant. As-is I see little reason it would ever come up in the story, and if it did...simplified answers work fine.

It's exactly the same way not every story featuring a black character needs to deeply explore black social issues. No story can be about everything.