Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27397283-20151214072846/@comment-27397283-20160216043501

Timothycrystal wrote: They have trans-species people (i.e. the Faunus) in RWBY universe. That makes a better symbol than a robotic girl. But, unless there is a reason integral to the storyline, adding LGBT issues into the mix would in and of itself be taking a political stance.

On the other hand, if it were something integral to the storyline, such as somehow Pyrrha's aura ends up inside of Jaune, and now they have to deal with that identity crisis... otherwise it is just a nontroversy to even worry about the issue in this setting... A transgender person is someone identifying with a gender other than the one that was assigned to them at birth. The Faunus have always been identified as Faunus by society, so... that comparison doesn't really make sense.