Last week I received a comment on a Claviger that read “Cool. I had kinda wondered how Goody Finch changed genders.” This was posted on the page of Finch explaining to Chloe that the Fairies of Avalon are genderless. Gender notions are a bit of an underlying thread in Claviger and this is something I had intended to bring up earlier in the series but there was not a place to do so without it feeling forced.
The idea of a world where there is no gender aside from what the inhabits apply to themselves fascinates me. Would relationships (not necessarily romantic ones) be based much less on preconceived notions? Or would something like class or occupation become that much more important? Avalon being somewhat of utopia implies there aren’t such boundaries. Except of course a slight prejudice against Finch who had once been human.
On the page posted today Chloe learns that Finch had once been a woman. This alters her view of him, even is she would prefer it did not. Should it though? She had no problems when she had found out he had no gender. Now she must decide if a past, but lost, gender identity or assignment would change who he is in her eyes.
