I was thinking about making a post about the way the Fate series handles trans and trans-coded characters and some of my issues with it, but I feel like I can some it up pretty easily.
Da Vinci and D’eon are both very much trans women, but they always describe themselves as beyond as “beyond man or woman” because the writers see trans women as genderless freaks.
Enkidu is very clearly actually agender, and is usually referred to with gender neutral terms, but sometimes they are referred to with male gendered terms in some events/adaptations/etc because the writers see agender and nonbinary as just their agab.
Mordred is definitely transmasc, and they are very much not a woman, but the writers use Mordred’s anger at being seen as a woman as an exaggerated version of the “girl who is embarrassed of/insecure about her own feminity” trope because they see transmasc people as just women insecure about being women.
The writing of most other trans/trans-coded characters tends to fall along these lines, and it’s kind of frustrating.
Oh, the cognitive dissonance of “Interpeting Astolfo as anything other than a man erases feminine men” and “Mordred is comfortable wearing women’s clothing so Mordred must be a woman.”
See also “Astolfo referred to themselves as a man so they must be a man” and “Mordred saying not to call them a woman doesn’t mean they aren’t a woman.”
It’s almost like people use the concepts of gnc men and self identification as a way to ignore trans interpretations, and then conveniently forget those concepts as soon as they would support trans interpretations.