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I joined largely just to post this. Ever since I started following this comic, years and years ago, I always felt (knew, really) that this issue... this topic... was THE moral question of the entire webcomic series. Given the power to help millions of transgender and genderqueer and genderfluid and other non-binary people around the world, the restriction of gender-transformative magic / alien technology to so few people... so few (in this light) socially-irresponsible children... people who take for granted what they have here, is an utter travesty. Mr Verres has no excuse, certainly. Tedd has little excuse, but they and their father grew up taking for granted their situations. I have been continually amazed however that Grace has not picked up on this issue yet. She made specific targeted efforts to learn about humanity's worst hours, but seemingly has failed to realize the severity of the tragedy of what every trans person has to go through every day now? Trans people in our modern age are persecuted, suffer, and even die every day because of something they did not choose. This topic is so important to me (although I am not trans) that if EGS does not do this topic justice at this juncture, if it does not treat it with the somberness it deserves, I don't know whether I'll be able to continue reading it at all, continue to respect it at all, and especially whether I'll be able to continue recommending it to my non-cis friends.