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One that garnered plenty of coverage is the choice to cast Park Sung-hoon, a cis male actor, to pla a trans woman named Hyun-ju who joins the game for the chance to fund her “gender-affirming surgery,” as Netflix’s notes describe the role.

In Western medicine, hormonal conditions resulting in cis male lactation are well known, and the understanding of how both breast growth and lactation can be produced in cis men using hormones goes back at least as far as this study from 1954.

But as trans scholar Sandy Stone wrote in her famous reply to Raymond, it's not that trans women are unwilling dupes of cis male medical authority, but rather that we have to strategically perform our womanhood in certain ways to access the care and treatments we need.

In Rhoda's time, medical gatekeeping meant that she had to live "full time" as a woman and prove her suitability for gender-affirming care to a team of primarily white, cis male doctors before they would give her treatment.

Raymond argued that cis male doctors were making an army of trans women to satisfy the male gaze: promoting iterations of womanhood that reinforced sexist gender stereotypes, ultimately ushering in the displacement and eradication of the world's "biological" women.