Nonbinary gender in fiction: Difference between revisions
Cited several specific examples of how one of these authors publicly speaks out against trans rights in real life.
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**As described in ''Excession'', the humans are able to change sex by just thinking it, and nanomachines alter their anatomy accordingly over a period of a few days. It is described as common for couples to take turns bearing children. | **As described in ''Excession'', the humans are able to change sex by just thinking it, and nanomachines alter their anatomy accordingly over a period of a few days. It is described as common for couples to take turns bearing children. | ||
*''Bone Dance'' by Emma Bull. Character: the protagonist, Sparrow, is canonically described as "sexless" and "genderless." The exact details of their identity [http://practicalandrogyny.com/raq/bonedanc.shtml are a matter of debate (spoilers)]. | *''Bone Dance'' by Emma Bull. Character: the protagonist, Sparrow, is canonically described as "sexless" and "genderless." The exact details of their identity [http://practicalandrogyny.com/raq/bonedanc.shtml are a matter of debate (spoilers)]. | ||
*M. C. A. Hogarth's science-fiction series about the Jokka, an alien species that can randomly change sex twice at puberty, with three sexes, and three corresponding gender roles: female, male, and neuter. | *M. C. A. Hogarth's science-fiction series about the Jokka, an alien species that can randomly change sex twice at puberty, with three sexes, and three corresponding rigid gender roles: female, male, and neuter. These stories focus on individuals who don't conform to those prescribed gender roles, and some could be considered transgender. However, the author currently vehemently opposes transgender rights in real life, saying she "Will never stop fighting this trans thing. Never.";<ref>https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1511294884514308097</ref> agreeing with anti-transgender author Abigail Shrier's opposition of the informed consent model of pediatric transgender health care;<ref>https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1452699729519947791</ref> saying she liked Debrah Soh's anti-transgender book;<ref>https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1524463492266352643</ref> siding with J.K. Rowling;<ref>https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1526501664747933696</ref> loving an anti-trans podcaster;<ref>https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1547926016521162752</ref> asserting the anti-transgender claim that "cisgender is a slur";<ref>https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1520102220510937088</ref> and saying that transgender people should never transition, and should instead content themselves with "the flesh God gave" them.<ref>https://twitter.com/mcahogarth/status/1429783919889637376</ref> This is an example of how authors who write representation of gender-variant characters can't be assumed to support the human rights of gender-variant people in real life and may even actively oppose it. | ||
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness]'' by Ursula K. Le Guin is a classic science fiction novel published in 1976 featuring a race of people whose sexes become male or female only briefly for reproduction, and whose genders can be a variety of masculine, feminine, both or neither. | *''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness]'' by Ursula K. Le Guin is a classic science fiction novel published in 1976 featuring a race of people whose sexes become male or female only briefly for reproduction, and whose genders can be a variety of masculine, feminine, both or neither. | ||
*CJ Carter's science fiction novel, ''Que Será Serees'' (2011) is about a species of people with a single gender.<ref>CJ Carter, "Genderless singular pronouns." http://tib.cjcs.com/genderless-pronouns-ey-em-and-eir-2/</ref><ref>"Que Será Serees". ''CJ's Creative Studio''. http://cjcs.com/writing/fiction/que-sera-serees/</ref> | *CJ Carter's science fiction novel, ''Que Será Serees'' (2011) is about a species of people with a single gender.<ref>CJ Carter, "Genderless singular pronouns." http://tib.cjcs.com/genderless-pronouns-ey-em-and-eir-2/</ref><ref>"Que Será Serees". ''CJ's Creative Studio''. http://cjcs.com/writing/fiction/que-sera-serees/</ref> | ||