I recently read the novel Brooklyn, Burning and I was inspired in the way Steven Brezenoff wrote the main characters. Never revealing their genders and allowing the reader to think for themselves. I had already came up with the idea of wanting to write a story for this fandom with a character in the Gender Queer community and after reading this novel, it's increased my want for writing this. So I'm gonna leave it up to you guys. How the main character is perceived and not assume them as the way they were originally created in the show. That's not what I'm going for.
(And if haven't heard of nor read Brooklyn, Burning; I definitely recommend checking it out. It's worth the tale.)
Prologue: Expand Your Horizons.
The fact that different individuals perceive sex and gender as two separate concepts is a sickening thought. That one could be born as a sex they weren't meant to and it stays that way until the day they leave this Earth. Even though you go through the hard and struggling process of a sex change, you're still misgendered. People don't give a damned. They can't expand their horizons from how this subject was looked upon just twenty years ago.
Several individuals are ridiculed for something they had no choice in. They didn't choose this path of fighting for what they felt was right, didn't choose the path of being murdered for practically no reason, rape wasn't an option they wanted either.
Just goes to show how close minded our world still is. How belittling them and making their lives living hell is okay. Just to be reminded; it isn't. Discrimination is not okay.