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ThePhilosophunculist wrote: Hublijhar wrote: ThePhilosophunculist wrote: Hublijhar wrote: Gordon Ecker wrote: Hublijhar wrote: How would introducing a male gem make it a trans? Gems use gender pronouns, they aren't male or female, but have a certain pronoun they use. Allegorically. The same way that Ruby and Sapphire are allegorically a gay couple even though they're both genderless aliens.

The way gemkind has been portrayed, it's very easy to read the genderless polymorphic sentient space rocks as "feminine by default", so if some new gem shows up who just happens to look like a guy, sound like a guy and use male pronouns, it would be very easy for someone who's already looking for trans representation to subjectively read him as a trans character. But not all gems use female pronouns. If we had a male gem, it would be a genderless polymorphic sentient rock who uses a male pronoun, not a female polymorphic sentient rock who chooses to be male, thus not having a trans character, but just having a male gem. I fail to see your logic. What gem (excluding Steven) only uses male pronouns? We don't know of any non-steven gems that use male pronouns yet. Exactly my point. Steven is the only one of his kind (half-human and male). As stated by the show all the gems are the same so it's safe to assume that there is no gem that uses male pronouns unless they arrive on Earth, encounter males, shapeshift into a male-oriented form and use male pronouns. And even then they could shapeshift into a male-oriented form and still go by female pronouns (just for the sake of convenience since it's arbitrary to them) and technically be transgenered but not really.

Gender is not an Earth specific thing. When gems form there is a 50/50 chance it could be male or female, they don't choose their gender, but can change it depending on what they will shape shift into (for example: Amethyst and the Purple Puma), but they can't just change their gender pronoun and stay the same (for example: Pearl can't change into a male version of herself).