Talk:Maya Avant/@comment-12362019-20150429233344/@comment-65.182.242.237-20150519014057

The thing is, gender shouldn't be "controversial". She's a woman; genitals are not the same as gender, and yes she was born with genitals most of society labels as "male", but that doesn't make her not a woman. Admittedly, I didn't see the episode where this is all revealed, but the only way this would be shocking is if people (either the audience or the show itself) have the attitude of "this makes her secretly a man!" That's a horrible trope that needs to stop. She's not a man, and it doesn't make her male partners "secretly gay". It shouldn't change anything about her, other than giving people some perspective on her life, unless they're actually going for a "trans women are women, and people need to stop being jerks about it" angle. Anything else is just playing into the same ignorance-fueled BS that leads to real-life trans women getting harassed, discriminated against, and hurt/killed.