Like, Cassandra is ambiguously to probably intended to be trans, and she’s also built on the premise that people who have a lot of plastic surgery are vain, horrible people.
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Like, I really do enjoy the episode, and I doubt Davies actually thought that particular implication through, but damn.
I remember back in 2005, reading on Gallifrey Base that exact complaint from a trans person. TEOTW is still one of my favourite episodes, but RTD really dropped the ball on that one, even if he did try and make Cassandra more sympathetic later.