Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-2600:E000:2E5:BFA0:280:AEFF:FE9E:6B9E-20180219011939/@comment-4010415-20180711195958

XXMintshadeXx wrote: I'm wondering: can transgender women (mtf) receive the powers? Are transgender men (ftm) ineligible? Or is it the other way around?

Because it's based on the soul I would assume the former. I'm not sure this will ever be explored in the show, though.

(And - what about people who are genderqueer or non-binary?) I've been operating on the assumption that the Maiden powers focus on the sex, not the gender identity. If the powers paid attention to gender identity, then surely in the thousands of years that they've existed (according to Glynda), they would have settled in at least one trans woman. As such, Glynda wouldn't have said "At first, the only thing that was certain was that the powers were specifically passed on to young women." That phrasing is an absolute. If the powers also passed on to trans women, then they wouldn't have been certain, at first, that the powers only pass on to young women because they would have seen someone of the male sex possessing the powers and would've had to ask "Why does this person appear to be an exception to what we've seen?"