Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-25396609-20170529010049

Qrow... cannot be trans.

Let me break it down;

Okay, first  thing's first; if he was born female, he would be able to tell the difference between a skirt and a kilt. He would have worn skirts and dresses as a child before his identity began to develop.

Next; he was 17 when he moved to Vale and enrolled in Beacon. At 17 he would be almost fully developed and grown; growth plates on his bones would be fused for the most part and his facial features would be more or less permanent without surgery. Unless you're saying a bandit tribe that lives by roaming between outlying villages has access to a steady supply of HRT drugs?

If he transitioned AFTER moving to Vale; he would be trying to train as a huntsman, while undergoing HRT (which causes HUGE changes to your body and would seriously fuck up your training efforts).

He would also need to have a gender reassignment surgery at some point, which is highly invasive and takes quite a bit of time to recover from and would further interfere with training.

Now, even if he DID manage to complete his training while completely rebuilding his body from the ground up (at best improbable), he would have to do at least part of these things while working as a deep cover agent for the freaking illuminati; and he would STILL be fairly androgynous; not the highly masculine individual he is.