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: That being said, Classic ''Who''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> of aliens with "nonstandard" genders was certainly a factor in unfolding queer readings of the series. So I do think Alpha and Eldrad could be discussed. However, due to the above concerns, you'd have to specifically establish that real-world relevance. I'm sure some of the books and essays cited across the page talk about the importance of Alpha and Eldrad as stepping stones; could some be found and cited? <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 19:40, 22 June 2022 (UTC) | : That being said, Classic ''Who''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> of aliens with "nonstandard" genders was certainly a factor in unfolding queer readings of the series. So I do think Alpha and Eldrad could be discussed. However, due to the above concerns, you'd have to specifically establish that real-world relevance. I'm sure some of the books and essays cited across the page talk about the importance of Alpha and Eldrad as stepping stones; could some be found and cited? <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 19:40, 22 June 2022 (UTC) | ||
:: Actually, really recently, Alpha Centauri was finally treated more as nonbinary (or given those connotations) in the ''Peladon'' audio story ''[[The Poison of Peladon (audio story)|The Poison of Peladon]]'', where they ask River about her pronouns and River angrily corrects another character for using "she" instead of "they". | |||
:: That said, they still fall into the queer-coded ''aliens'' camp. Given everyone in their species is described by the Third Doctor in the same way, they wouldn't be ''trans'' (in real world terms) because they wouldn't have had any gender assigned at birth. | |||
:: None of this reading would belong anywhere except this page, of course, and perhaps Alpha's BTS section, with some good sources for a trans-informed reading of this character (as [[user:Scrooge MacDuck]] details above).{{User:SOTO/sig}} 00:08, 23 June 2022 (UTC) | |||