• buckykat [none/use name]
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    13 hours ago

    Read the plot synopsis for I Will Fear No Evil and tell me it was written by a cis man.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      11 hours ago

      There's also the author-insert character in Time Enough for Love having this "hmm, yes, I thought about going through a magic future sci-fi tech sex change, but ah, alas, it doesn't work at the genetic level!" reflection scene and his reaction to learning that even that "flaw" could be fixed is interest followed by dismissing it when the suggestion is genetically engineered and artificially grown clones, a mind copy, and killing the original body. Although the clone thing still happens and the female clones of the author-insert join his weird incestuous harem because this is a later Heinlein novel and they're all really fucking weird and horny like that. But overall that whole sequence is such a "no cis man sits contemplating becoming a woman and agonizing over every little flaw before rejecting it for the dumbest and most trivial of reasons" moment.

      • buckykat [none/use name]
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        7 hours ago

        Yeah, and there's also autistic trans woman Elizabeth Long in Number of the Beast, plus Mycroft/Mike/Michelle the computer in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress whose gender presentation matches that of whoever they're talking to at the moment.