Talk:Sweet Innocent Hypatia/@comment-5607198-20161120032810/@comment-31253381-20170207163650

I think it's spot on how they handled it.

Mindy is trans, and just is. They resisted the urge to stick a big sign saying "HEY LOOK, WE ADDED A TRANS CHARACTER GUYS!"

On the other hand, Grim Alex is supposed to shock you and gross you out. Considering the violence you see on screen that the protagonist can inflict, the writers had to take it to the next level to show how utterly despicable she is. It highlights something about the character like the Duke's orgies tell you about his degeneracy.

In Mindy's case, just being trans doesn't tell you anything more about her. Maybe if she'd been the anti-establishment figure instead of Paolo, it could have been played up as part of her motivation, and could have maybe been another divide between the Howlers and the Overseers (assuming they follow the traditional "Churchy" tropes of being anti-everything, I don't actually know)