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What’s your relationship to technology? Do you have one? “Yes. I am like those guys that dressed up like chimpanzees in the opening sequence of A Space Odyssey. People who can type, they’re like Merlin. To me, tech ultimately is a distraction from experience. And, look, information is experience. You experience things when you get information. But I’ll tend to sub-intentionally misplace my phone or my iPad or whatever multiple times a week. In the mid-’80s, I was one of the first guys carrying around that big battery with the car phone, because I was like, “Bro!” But it was all about, you know, effect.”

• they assume every character is cis by default
• 99.9% of the time nonbinary identities are ignored and the only two genders used are male and female
• they imply that in order for someone to be a certain gender, their body has to change to fit it (i.e., a character can’t go from male to female without having wider hips and breasts)
• they imply physical characteristics = gender
• all of the above are examples of cissexism, which perpetuates the marginalization and erasure of trans people
• stop arguing with trans people about whether genderbends are transphobic or not, especially if you’re cis
• the end