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-There are a lot of obvious and striking parallels betwen these two slice-of-life webcomics about unexpected sexual-minority roommmates keeping secrets from each other—even the titles match (two words, the first alluding to the roommate-drama setting, Closet/Lease, Space/Bound). I like both of them, and I think it's sad that the natural fan demographic of each probably mostly hates the other's guts. Gender-critical lesbians aren't going look sympathetically on the protagonists of _Closetspace_, and trans women aren't going to read _Lease Bound_, which portrays them as predatory bullies. The conflict is understandable, but the magnitude of it seems ... _unnecessary_; I think a _smarter_ world would be able to compile all the relevant facts and broker some sort of Pareto-efficient compromise that gets everyone _most_ of what they want.
+There are a lot of obvious and striking parallels betwen these two slice-of-life webcomics about unexpected sexual-minority roommmates keeping secrets from each other—even the titles match (two words, with the first alluding to the roommate-drama setting, Closet/Lease, Space/Bound). I like both of them, and I think it's sad that the natural fan demographic of each probably mostly hates the other's guts. Gender-critical lesbians aren't going look sympathetically on the protagonists of _Closetspace_, and trans women aren't going to read _Lease Bound_, which portrays them as predatory bullies. The conflict is understandable, but the magnitude of it seems ... _unnecessary_; I think a _smarter_ world would be able to compile all the relevant facts and broker some sort of Pareto-efficient compromise that gets everyone _most_ of what they want.
Carrie has a compelling interest in being able to modify her body and social presentation without being socially punished for it: though humans [can't actually change sex with currently-existing technology](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/#changing-sex-is-hard), one could at least be permitted to try to approximate it.