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what are some fun trans-inclusive universes? doesn't have to be fantasy
Discworld explores gender a few times in a way that I like.
Monstrous Regiment is about a bunch of women who pretend to be men to join their military. For the most part - these aren’t trans characters, they identify as female. The funny is the characters slowly discovering that everyone else in their group is doing the same thing. One character though, explicitly identifies as male after the “reveal” and has male pronouns used for them.
Discworld as a series tends to be irreverent without punching down. Comedy is a weapon in Pratchett’s hands, but his targets are capitalism and oppressive systems.
LeGuin has a lot of interesting takes on gender. The Hainnish cycle is about a race of humans who had previously colonized a bunch of planets and did lots of experimentation on those populations - kinda Vault Tec vibes. The civilization collapses/gets better, and the POV character is usually some type of researcher/anthropologist looking at how those planets develop The Left Hand of Darkness is a sci fi classic: a planet where people stay sexless until they go into “heat” and will develop the opposite genitals of the person who they are attracted to. There’s lots of switching back and forth. It’s a big deal when the king gets pregnant, because only children the king carries can inherit the throne.
Any LeGuin is good. Earthsea is a far superior children’s series compared to Harry Potter. Nothing that really makes it explicitly trans but the process of finding your true name and accepting yourself is something that resonated very much with me. (Also props to LeGuin for being very forceful with insisting that the characters not be depicted as white. None of this pussyfooting retroactive “I never said Hermione was white!”)
Anne Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy is also more gender bending sci fi. Everyone is “she.” The first book was part of the Sad Puppies drama, because it won Hugo’s and absolutely pissed a bunch of a bunch of chuds.
Pratchett did indeed inspect gender quite a bit in the Discworld books.
It's never quite explicitly explained where Nobby Nobbs' peg fits, but it turns out he certainly prefers to wear women's clothing and is reluctant enough to change back into his male uniform at the end of Jingo that he has to be explicitly ordered to do so.
There's also Equal Rites, the very second story (and third book), which explores the notion of, "Just why can't a woman be a wizard, anyway?" (It turns out she can. And quite a powerful one, too.)
Gender is a pretty big deal to the dwarfs on the Disc, too. It's a recurring theme ever since Cheery Littlebottom is introduced in Feet of Clay.
I read her catwings when I was very young and it made me cry. the ending is so happy. i love her