[@The Harbinger of Ferocity]

No, I completely agree on the topic of misappropriation of gender identity. I would never advocate [i]not[/i] incorporating your character elements in a meaningful manner one way or another, but, with the simple scale of skilled to unskilled incorporation, a lot of the time I find myself unable to discern whether someone truly intends for a character to be transgender and simply cannot play it well (or the nature of the RP never allows a good moment to work in that aspect in a believable manner--as opposed to shoehorning) or is simply abusing the concept for some ill-conceived notion of idiosyncrasy.

I tend to avoid the problem by living and letting live unless the RP is centered around a topic or approaching a scenario that could make gender identity a major issue, in which case, yes, do call those types of irreverent snowflakes out on their bullshit.

Of course, obvious extremes are obvious and I don't think anyone would disagree that being a blatant special snowflake is a terrible concept to base a character's gender around. I couldn't agree more with your sentiments.

My observation was more focused on the gray areas. My apologies for not making that clear.