I actually wasn't thinking of Jack as transgender at all, but another sex entirely, outside of male and female. And logistically, if he is, I don't know, a schlee in Boeshane, 20th century English in Cardiff doesn't exactly have word for schlee, since the Welsh in the 20th century haven't encountered Jack's ancestors yet and therefore have no concept of Jack's sex/gender status. If he appears mostly male, then it would probably also be easier to pass as such than to sit people down in 1869 and try to explain that sex is not a binary and, by the way, he's technically still engaging in heterosexual relations when he's with a man, so why don't they let him get married to a man, too?
(I can also only imagine what Victorian Torchwood would put him through if they knew he could carry a child/wasn't male or female. Considering how they tortured him, I'm imagining something like forced pregnancies and then torturing the babies after taking them from him.)
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Date: 2009-09-19 01:04 am (UTC)(I can also only imagine what Victorian Torchwood would put him through if they knew he could carry a child/wasn't male or female. Considering how they tortured him, I'm imagining something like forced pregnancies and then torturing the babies after taking them from him.)