Tangential to any specific cis author's comments about trans people in fantasy stuff, there is something that strikes me sometimes when I'm thinking about just how *weird* and incoherent the ciscentric view of what trans people are is, around this topic.
Because while there's the viewpoint of "There couldn't be trans people in this [historical period/alternate world] because there's no HRT or The Surgery," which implies that A Trans is *created* when A Regular undergoes particular physical changes...
...there's also the viewpoint that goes "There couldn't be trans people in this [high magic fantasy] because they have permanent shapeshifting spells and so anybody who was trans would just change their body and not be trans anymore.", which is the exact opposite.
And I would be very surprised if the people who say the one aren't frequently saying the other, just so long as the constant is "there can't be trans people in this story", whatever the story may be.
But taking this away from genre literature wankery... you also see very similar arguments being used to try to debate trans existence in real life.
Like, "How can there be trans people throughout history if there was no HRT?" and "How can you be trans and happy with your body?"
Like, "How can there be trans people throughout history if there was no HRT?" and "How can you be trans and happy with your body?"
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