#my lore

i’m watching murderbot for the first time with my girlfriend, & the moment where mensah (seemingly) misgenders + then corrects her youngest kid’s they/them pronouns is SO interesting to me. for one, it’s realistic to how many loving cis parents don’t quite understand transness but still try, but also it immediately told me much more about this world’s gender system, even more than just pin-lee’s they/them pronouns. bc if transition & misgendering exist as concepts, that means the trans human characters are nonbinary like my friends & i are nonbinary, not that there’s a sci-fi reason for them to be nonbinary, & that’s 1. so wonderful to see in a mainstream story 2. such a necessary choice alongside a protagonist who IS nonbinary for sci-fi reasons. & many many shows + books would not have made that choice.