cullen rutherford is trans and it changes absolutely nothing about him. he is the exact same very capable, complete fool that bets his clothing against josephine in wicked grace and loses miserably. he signs off one of his letters to mia one day as “Commander Cullen Rutherford” with zero explanation. she only knows its him because every subsequent letter is signed exactly the same, and he writes the same way (that is: one or two vague sentences). he explains this exactly never in his life. she sees him again for the first time in probably a decade and hes six feet tall and nigh unrecognizable and still has not elaborated on this even one time, she just suddenly has another brother. also he had to help stop the world from ending, again, and he (conditionally) may have gotten married, but this is the very least of the surprises shes gotten from him lately