McAvoy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:41 am
Was it an innate thing they both or one of them were thinking of when they were still figuring themselves out back in the 90's? We don't know.
Most people that are trans know it from a pretty early age, even before puberty. Them being able to DO anything about it or come out generally comes later though. For logistical reasons, most have to wait until at least after high school before they can make major changes in what they wear and how they identify, and longer still until they can *afford* to make physical changes.
This is different from figuring out your sexual attraction though. You might know you're trans at age 7, but you won't figure out if you're interested in boys or girls until you're 14. ANd figuring out what you're attracted to can also play a large role in figuring out your identity overall and that can obviously complicate things more and add a few years to figuring stuff out.
But generally you know you're trans pretty young. That's not a universal rule, but its common.
The concept of the Matrix though in the end; i can easily see how for example a male in the real world can be presented as a woman in the Matrix. In his mind as a male in the real world he is female and the Matrix translates that to female. Not that far of a reach.
That's not just a hypothetical, that was actually supposed to be the case. The character of Switch was supposed to be played by a man in the "real" world and a woman in the matrix. Hence the name. That was always the plan, even 22 years ago, so that was not a new thing or an angle they came to after the fact.
The studio balked at that though and told them no.
Similarly, the original premise was that the Matrix ran on humans because it used their brains as processors, which makes way more sense than "they used them as batteries". But the studios thought that was too intellectual, so...
