Scrapyard_Dragon

Time travelers do a lot of voluntary policing of each other, and it also turns out that reality is somewhat self-correcting.
Example of both

Looks like the Kentucky fried immortal wasn't kidding when he said plan complicated mess. I kinda want to start working on a chart of everybody involved in it.

If that's the train of thought here than we also shouldn't assume he plans to posses Magus. Yeah, he might not try, but without some exposition stating why he won't than it's pretty darn likely.

Because I think he is a piece of chicken ordure.

There's relationship risks regardless of what Ellen and Nanase do.  Any choice that doesn't involve talking to Susan risks provoking anger or disappointment via "Why didn't you tell me?"

'Not want to believe' is not the same as 'refusing to believe.' Especially not in Susan's case. If there is any character more painfully honest with herself than Susan is, I have a hard time thinking of one. I do not see denial holding her back for very long.

Yeah, i'm with hack. this is a character who came into the series with a dozen prejudices, and has since worked past them thanks to observation and logical deduction. That doesn't strike me as someone who would be unable to get past their own denial when presented with an uncomfortable truth.

It was meant to be colorful language. Again, it's kinda a weird pick to nit. Even if I said yes, I could also say we're still finding them. If we were to go by the original story, the box was empty of everything but hope once the evils were unleashed. But it doesn't mean Pandora was able to catalogue them all as they came screaming out, or encountered them all during her lifetime even. The gender box has been opened for quite a while, it's just more recently that western european culture has been willing to examine what came out.
 
Except, you can run into this in many situations. Replace terminology with other words, like policy, and you just described a lot of groups (very few groups are homogenous, even if they are "single issue" groups). Yes, it is a controversy in some trans circles (apparently not the ones I'm involved in, we must hang out with different people), but that's okay, and allowed. And yes, on some issues you can take sides and offend the other side (i.e. abortion) and not really have any way around it. When it does happen, it sucks, but I point to OldHack's approach as the best standard approach to work with. Deal with the individual, don't worry so much about how unified the group is (or isn't). 
(I meant to post this yesterday, ugh)

But H5N1 is still Influenza, which isn't new. Nor does what emerges from the box have to remain static once its out. When we talk about gender identity, it is quite an old topic (many cultures do have some language that dates back far enough to demonstrate this). Western culture being forced to acknowledge it? That's a new thing. Previously, it was just erased as mental illness if acknowledged at all. Hell, we're still seeing society defend reparative therapy in the last few months for trans people. 
And again, you take what was meant to be colorful language, and are focusing on the more literal details of the analogy. That's what I take issue with, since it isn't really relevant to the point I was trying to make. Do I expect the language to become fixed? No, but I do expect it to settle down to something manageable at some point. But that takes exploration, which takes time. And in the US anyhow, we're only now deciding to actually explore, question and learn. 

Well, Mr. Verres does have enough friends in high places to make him effectively immune to being outright fired from his job, even for something as bad as almost killing a suspect that had voluntarily surrendered. He also is likely to be rather trusted by his superiors as he's been rather open about the various abilities that the main cast has.
Also the TFG might not be outright illegal, just regulated. Authorities that are in on the masquerade have the means of confirming identity even through spells and such that would conceal it, even something like Elliot's Cheerleadra and alter-egos spell, which has clauses that can mess up other spells relating to identity, such as Nanase's fairy doll spell. I could see Edward bending things a little to get his son the licenses and such that would be needed for ownership and/or manufacture of the TFG (probably holding the actual licenses himself as Ted is/was a minor and the US government doesn't let minors hold most licenses)

Honestly, this is the ideal, IMO. It's going to take a while to sort out all the pieces that came flying out of Pandora's Box of Gender and for language to settle down on something we agree on.
 
Consider it from the other perspective for the moment (and also consider which parts of the group you are interacting with as well, no group is a monolith). If you are having problems just getting folks to recognize your identity and how you see yourself, and that's a constant day-in/day-out issue, your nerves are going to be somewhat raw. You don't have to fish for reasons when people keep giving them to you as if they are some sort of housewarming gift.

I have elected to simplify. I choose to refer to each individual as they prefer and to otherwise avoid employing offensive terms as I am best able. That is the best I can do; if this stance makes me enemies, I regret that but I do not know a better place to work from.

Clearly, a saucer-shaped craft implies that it is being propelled by a teacup.

I still don't agree. That would be the act of a man seeking to blame someone else for his own actions, fully along the lines of "The Devil made me do it", and I have a far higher opinion of Mr. Verres than that. If anyone knows the power of Mr. Verres' temper, it is Mr. Verres himself. I think he has enough self-honesty to not do that.