Yikes yikes yikes have y’all read Garret Robinson’s Academy Journals series? I finished The Alchemist’s Touch because I was waiting for some apparently fantastic representation. Plus side, there was a cool wlw, and the world acknowledged that there are people other than straight people. I knew the second one had a trans woman and a bi guy in it so I was hyped to read it, but the trans woman was…………………. astoundingly offensively written.
So folks. If you want to avoid some Writing Trans People Taboos, take note of this mess of an introduction to the series’ only trans woman in The Mindmage’s Wrath:
Well, shit.
Thank you for this post. It’s incredibly, incredibly obvious now that you point it out, and something I absolutely did not think of while creating Perrin.
hey so i was consulted for the original post and just for the record this is probably the… best response to criticism i have ever seen an author take.
good on you, my guy.
Some Notes on How Not To Write Trans People
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