It feels discouraging to me that all the trans representation in these chinese webnovels gets fucked either by the character being fucking wierd, dying horribly, or only getting the body of the opposite gender due to external circumstances.

I bring this up because there isn't a reason for literally all 3 of these chinese webnovels that I've read to feature "trans" characters whose sex transition is relevant to the plot.

Like, the yesterday example was about this person meeting rhe protagonist after 100s of years and correcting the protagonist on their pronouns. Making him call her "junior sister" which I though was a nice way to introduce a trans character. Especially for a novel whose only mention of trans characters in the past was mentioning that the sect which prepared corpses for possession sometimes got requests from "wierd cultivators who prefered to posses bodies of the opposite sex".

But nooooo, it turns out this mf had actually fused with his twin sister's soul during birth and was being used by the villain to prepare some special magic energy. He was never trans! And correcting the pronouns was a cry for help!

It's all such a shame because writing in trans characters into these cultivations novels is really easy. There's even a "canonical" reason to do it since (yang energy => masculinisation) and (yin energy => feminisation) is already a trope. Like literally all a person has to do to get HRT in these magic systems is cultivate a set of (usually) easy/generic techniques.

Fucking ... as far as I remember even irl daoist priests did things like fellating each other to "improve their yang energy" or something (the kinds of excuses gay men had to come up with in the past lol).