Outdated by today’s understanding of identity but this '90s show banged out many subversive pro-trans messages.

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    Is it outdated, or just substantially different?
    Human ideas of identity don’t incorporate a person literally moving from one aged body to another youthful one, several times over hundreds of years.

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      The outdated part is the notion of needing to see under the covers to figure out gender. We know now that gender expression is not constrained by physical body features.

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        In humans that’s true.
        But what of alien body hopping slugs, who are half themselves and half their host? It doesn’t seem right to assume the blending of consciousness and frequent body swapping wouldn’t change that notion.

        As I said, it’s substantially different.