Talk:Luca Esposito/@comment-49.147.177.178-20190809051915/@comment-121.210.49.131-20200205141435

"You'd think in a future advanced enough to have warp travel screening for genetic issues would be standard at birth and there'd gene therapies to treat conditions like KS"

Yeah, uh, about that... there's a reason why he was born intersex, not to mention there's no guarantee that there wouldn't be more intersex/hermaphroditic people on Astra considering how they could make an intersex clone with both sets of sex characteristics despite the original being a cis man, if gene therapies were actually legal (since cloning isn't canonically). Also, a lot of intersex people would be pretty pissed at forced gene/correction therapy/surgery/etc. unless done to prevent conditions like testicular cancer (which affects some intersex folk born with testes inside the body instead of outside) and even then it's a giant gamble on gender outcome (since gender =/= sex, Luca is a good example of being a boy even as an intersex individual) and a violation of human rights to force babies to undergo unnecessary sex correction surgery or gene therapies

Also, Luca isn't a girl, he made it clear he preferred being referred to as a boy and treated as such during the trip, future Luca might be a different story when considering he mentioned having gender fluidity