A Different Sort of Question. (Touchy subject matter ahoy!)

I think what he's thinking is the whole, "You either got a 'piece' or you don't." Which is physical. You don't have an apple if your banana is green, so to speak.

That makes a lot more sense than how it sounds XD

Of course surgery doesn't change your gender. It changes your sex. Gender is determined by the brain. And, for reference, I'd point out that human brains have noticeable and well-understood sexual dimorphism. "Transgendered" people are, it turns out, accurately reporting the physical reality of their brains. So they are, as a matter of objective fact, correct; someone who's saying "I'm female" is saying it because she has a brain which is observably more like a female brain than a male brain. (This is slightly oversimplified, but basically right.)

I find myself somewhat bemused that a discussion which began as about neither transgender nor transsexual has become a discussion about it anyway.

(Although I do like the phrase "mixed gender". A. Place first gender into large mixing bowl. B. Sprinkle second gender over first. C. Mix gently with whisk.)

-Morgan. Under no circumstances use a blender; the pun isn't worth it.

Yes, the half-orc got to talk to the mayor. I think they even sort of accomplished something; narrative necessity won.

So, I have Yet Another New Toon. "Aunt Millie", who is "putting the aunt back in taunt aura". She spends missions complaining. "When I was a little girl, the insane people in giant robot exoskeletons had decent haircuts. This is a disgrace!" "When I was a little girl, the Malta Group had to content itself with sending Zeus class donkey carts after people who could run pretty fast." Etcetera. So at one point, we had someone in a shredded martial arts robe hoverblasting.

Aunt Millie: YOUNG MAN! Are you looking up her skirt? That is ENTIRELY inappropriate. You should be ashamed.
Hoverblaster: Oh! You're so right. Let me solve that "young man" problem.
[hoverblaster changes to a female costume]
Aunt Millie: ... Well, as long as you're comfortable with who you are.

Re-reading that, it makes no sense. There was one hoverblaster doing a pixie with a shredded martial arts robe so you could see her underpants, and ANOTHER who turned into a girl to continue looking up the first one's skirt.

Aunt Millie's intolerance of change is funny directed at NPCs, but would be less fun directed at player characters I didn't know well enough to know how they'd take it.

Aunt Millie exists entirely because of the phrase "Putting the aunt back in taunt aura". I built a little old lady, plaid skirt, polkadot bowtie, argyle sweater. I used invuln because if you set it to "FX in PvP Only" there's simply no indication that there's any particular reason for which this ordinary little old lady is not being significantly damaged. Then I went with dual blades because watching the little old lady do the jumping spinning animation made me laugh.

I sort of modeled her response on what I've seen from a few old folks who are otherwise quite conservative, who clearly had to deal with a friend transitioning. Ultimately, the immediate reality of their friend won over their preconceptions, and they're pretty cool about the whole thing.

Next up, Donnah Matrix ("Donna Matrix" was taken), a mind/emp troller whose background may or may not to be altered to state that, while she was employed in a very respectable profession*, she was bitten by just about everything, giving her all sorts of super powers.
[*] It's the oldest profession, therefore respectable by definition.

Off topic, but yes, you can do that. I have a mind/psi dominator whose character background points out that, yes, the background really IS telling you how you feel. Duh. MIND/PSI DOMINATOR.