The thing is that cis people are all transphobic--we've been raised with transphobic ideas, absorbed through family or cultural attitudes. We are NOT equipped to explore this 'thought experiment'. We're going to miss something incredibly transphobic in our thinking.
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Even if you think your book is just so feminist or whatever, you're uh... still baking the mass death of trans people (usually trans women) into your core premise (and also, frequently, erasing NB people).
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When your book codes trans suffering into its themes and world, you're going to have to ask yourself why that is and what you're trying to do exactly (and what that's going to look like to other people).
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A lot of writers like to say 'the transphobic character is supposed to be an asshole!' but their books happen to be the gritty grimdark kind so the majority of characters are transphobic (or bigoted in other ways). You've chosen to populate your book with mouthpieces for bigotry.
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Which is like, a choice you consciously made. (Not even getting started on how it's hack writing to show someone's villainous by making them a bigot. It's really utterly trite.)
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Oh, the eurocentric location is not even necessary. There's an awful book written in the 80s/90s by an Argentine man where almost all men died overnight and women lose their sanity because "childbearing is their ultimate goal in life". It's...a lot of yikes.
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something that would be actually interesting would be a hideous gender plague except written by someone who actually knows things about the diversity of gender and the underlying diversity of human biology
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in april daniels' SOVEREIGN, the antagonist casts a nightmarish enchantment designed to kill all men everywhere.... and winds up (almost) killing herself because, surprise, she's an XY female something she refuses to accept even as she's killing herself
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cis people hire trans sensitivity readers challenge
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