I'd like to think that most transgender people would want to be represented by characters that aren't shoehorned into the story, you know, like normal people, but I guess Brianna Wu is content being represented by shoehorned, bland and uninteresting trans characters.
I don't mean to sound too preachy on this but I'm getting sick of people not being able to handle character writing like adults. Obligatory minority characters are nothing short of tasteless. When writing a character, one should focus on the aspects of their personality that make the character seem human and/or relatable, not focusing on some arbitrary checklist of unique quirks. There isn't a minority character quota that needs to be filled for every work of fiction. A well-written transgender character should feel like they belong in the work and that they are a person rather than a character. Nothing Brianna has made fits that role and instead feels like a transgender sockpuppet that people are spoonfed.
There is a distinct lack of transgender characters not because people don't want to touch the subject, but rather that the subject in general is a loving minefield of drama. People like Brianna will ruthlessly criticize people for "Misrepresenting" transgender people simply because they don't know how writing works and cannot be pleased. These people are shutting out the only artists willing to represent them because of their sheer entitlement.
Brianna's vision of character representation is gratuitous and selfish, and she isn't helping her cause. When presented with a position to help those like her, she instead chose to lie, cheat and exploit to push her narrative and in the end got caught abusing wikipedia's policy to push a stuffty agenda.
forget Brianna Wu.
