Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
I wonder if it's even an upside-down thing where activity=gender to the point that adventuring is "being male" and staying in one place is "being female" and that could lead to the idea of dressing as a man while adventuring and a woman while staying in town for a longer period, and not seeing that as an issue. (This could also explain why non-Viera people think they've only seen female Viera in the cities!)
I'm so misunderstood. I was never trying to say they would have our idea of gender, just an idea of it that doesn't fit into "male" and "female" in the strictest sense of the word. "Transgender" in that context would be a so-called "male" engaging in the activities of a so-called "female," and perhaps adopting appropriate garb (they have the waist for it!).

In modern Earth, some guevedoce choose to remain female even after puberty tries to tell them otherwise (pretty sure you posted this article before), so I find it hard to imagine a society where this condition has been the norm for thousands of years wouldn't have encountered similar cases and have some sort of established practice (magic hormone reversal, even?). The simpler answer is that those kits are simply meant to be weeded out by warder initiation, but that's just really sad to think about. (That may also be an "actually, screw-this" backstory for a lot of Viera exiles.)

It would be funny if somehow, after all this we go into character creator and the Viera labels aren't "female" and "male" but "village-dweller" and "wood-warder" just to emphasize the cultural difference. I think that might upset a lot of people who see no reason for the "pandering" and can't understand why people can't just be happy with a common binary, but it's still deeply amusing to think about.