#while I do enjoy true gender neutral androgynous rep

[strawbubbysugar]

just started reading bethroned and nothing against you at all, but whats the point of referring to the reader as 'they' when they're clearly written as a girl? again, nothing against you, its just disappointing to read something hoping for gender neutral terms the whole story and its very specifically gendered. !!the story and writing is fantastic!! just wish it was more gender neutral.

As the author I don’t personally believe they are written as a ‘girl’. As someone who is nonbinary themselves and presents very femininely, I don’t think the way someone chooses to dress or behave affects their gender. I don’t go into writing them imagining any specific gender, I write them imagining their personality. You could very easily exchange them out for a prince rather than a princess by just changing the word princess to prince.

Also, I’m fairly certain the only gendered term I use for them is ‘princess’, but I could be wrong