Wizards of the Coast posted a story today that featured a transgender character. I thought, and continue to think, it was a shit story. I've no experience with

Wizards of the Coast posted a story today that featured a transgender character. I thought, and continue to think, it was a shit story. I've no experience with WOTC's writing, and I don't know if shit is the norm for their fluff, but nothing about the story engaged me, and the one 'interesting' piece was heavy handed; Oh, no, a sexist orc is literally a pig to the trans character and then put in his place! For that, it seemed like everyone I know who plays videogames or card games had posted it to facebook. I don't know why I'm supposed to care. A demographic with a tiny tiny minority is getting represented? A few years back, being indistinguishable was the highest compliment you could pay a trans person. Now, it seems anything they do is 'brave' and you have to constantly praise how 'proud' you are of their transition, even if they become an utterly unlikable person with it. In my world, you try to build the best world you can by lifting everyone up, not by stacking praise where least praise is warranted out of some form of 'equality'. Maybe if WOTC had made us like the character first I'd care. Maybe if it had been a bombshell, or something quietly unacknowledged, but it took two paragraphs before it was clear where this one was going. Maybe it was just spoilers; The subset of people who had posted it and their praise told me exactly what the moral was. Maybe if it were treated as just another trait; a birthmark, a minor disability, a past struggle worked through. Maybe then I'd care.