My own gender confirmation surgeries took place between 20, so admittedly, my own transition was foremost in my mind at the time I wrote and edited this story (2007). Considering that today, in 2018, the number of transgender people being murdered globally in transphobic hate crimes having escalated dramatically since 2016, a single book that focuses on the desire of transgender people to exist in an equal, protected state of safety and for acceptance from their friends and family, is not unreasonable. I don't feel the transgender theme detracts from the story at all, and in my opinion, I think it enriches it - while also broadening the reader's knowledge about people around them. The Quantum Series is dotted with transgender characters - Cindy-Mei Winter, Danielle Grauffis, and now Dory Wintermuller and Jaymie Vallantdorf in " Loderunner". It has been noted before that the transgender theme is a dominant theme of this story - and perhaps more so than in previous stories in the series.
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