Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-4839682-20131002235225

Getting back to topic: While a transgender character would be great, I personally feel it wouldn't translate well on the show. There's almost always a deep, very personal struggle in a transgendered person's life, and that kind of thing needs to handled properly, and the chance for screwing it up would be high. It would likely come off as just someone cross dressing, at least to the main stream, and I feel that's something we need to avoid.

Using Mulan feels... cliche, to me. She dressed up as a man in the legend, yes, but to save her father and her family's honor. I feel like it's a cop out to kind of, tack on making her want to be male.