#Roz being trans is a good thing! transness is natural and this is yet another connecting point for her and the world and life she loves!
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we got another one, gamers
'we get it gar you don't have to keep posting about it' until i get a functioning computer again and can draw her in a field of blue pink and white pnw wildflowers you Will deal with my 'roz is trans'-posting.
like this isn't 'yes we get it there's coding' this is Just Straight Up Textual
#the wild robot#the wild robot books#twr#i think a Lot about this in the context of sci-fi/sci-fi adjacent stories and historical depictions of Gender therein#and how queerness (especially regarding gender) was/is often used for aliens or other nonhuman characters#almost as another thing to point at and be like 'they're so Different from us! look even their Genders are weird and inhuman. wack'#and how while in twr Roz and Ripple do fall into those 'the trans characters are all nonhuman' category (at least so far)#their transness is also explicitly depicted as a positive and natural thing and a point of Connection between them and the world as a whole#Roz being trans is a good thing! transness is natural and this is yet another connecting point for her and the world and life she loves!#I think that kicks ass actually!#(and yes I know that technically speaking the references made in this section are towards instances of hermaphroditism#rather than transness as we humans experience it. but like. considering the context of the books and my own discussion with peter.#yes this was very much an Intentional parallel. the differences between hermaphroditism and being trans aren't really like#As applicable. in a story where the hermaphroditic animals have humanlike levels of sentience. especially a story made for kids#so I'm not fussing over the details there because that's not the point. we are counting it as They Are Trans And That Is Good)#< whoops! gar got autistic in the tags again
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