The idea of a non-hormone, non-op transwoman – someone who retains a physiologically normal male body but understands themselves to be a woman because that is their ‘gender identity’, and expects everyone else to agree – would have seemed nonsensical to almost everybody. (Recall that in the allegory this is the type of person represented by Kid, who wakes up from the Matrix without the aid of a red pill.) And yet, in the two decades since the film’s release, this very concept of transness has conquered medicine, law, public policy and the media.
