While I basically agree with YE_GUILTY, your trans Uhura may exist, and be on the cutting room floor of The Matrix (1999).
Folklore has it that the character "Switch" in the Matrix was written with their "residual self image" when inside the Matrix being the opposite sex to the person they are introduced as in the real world, but this was dropped from the movie out of concern that audiences would be confused and not understand that they were the same person. Worrying that the audience wouldn't make the connection suggests to me an intent to not spell it out, call attention to it, or make more of a thing of it than the alias.
Some of what the Wachowskis would later say about The Matrix feels a bit 'Dumbledore is gay', but I believe their story about Switch: the name, the androgynous look with masculine touches inside the Matrix, the Wachowskis themselves transitioning, the elegance of this version of Switch, and other nice things we couldn't have for fear of confusing the audience.
I haven't seen the new matrix, perhaps they revisited the character.
For certain definitions of trans, having a trans Uhura may just require a world which shows some kind of window inside all the characters.
How does substack moderate itself?
They seem able to walk the fine line where it's a mostly respected outlet yet allowing heterodox views, and while I've heard the occasional handwringer complain, I've not noticed any serious smear campaigns against it, or it having the 10000 witch issues.
Are any writers being cancelled or quietly deboosted?
I think it's an attempt at avoiding the "backfire effect" - a recently viral idea that correcting misinformation effectively repeats it, so can end up reinforcing and spreading it, since brains may just remember they've "heard that before" rather than "heard that before and it was false" if the false part isn't as heavily hammered in. I first noticed this style of writing with Trump reporting, though backfire effect is older than that. I imagine for journalists the style has a signalling component too, for the Wikipedia article I see there was edit warring.
It was a topic in academia and clickholes as misinformation became perceived as a rising threat. Googling around suggests that one of the main original papers didn't reproduce.
I've seen a porn addict's partner eventually end up a femcel (not the involuntary sort, the toxic kind), though that relationship wasn't the only wave in her storm. No kids or permanent relationship commitments in this case, luckily.
A rich new culture of Soviet humor and Straussian reading of comments could have developed. Homophone slang rising above automoderation, perhaps culminating later with rhyming slang.
Alas it was uprooted before having the chance to blossom.
I worried the move here was premature, but am surprised by how much a breath of fresh air it is being able to read a comment which can just speak plainly and link plainly.
No "[ Removed by Reddit ]" like Exhibit B causes, no codewords for kiwifarms, or cryptic hints followed by a cryptic reply seeking some cryptic clarification, the comment even links rdrama (directly!) for book excerpts. And no wondering about whether it'll get your account banned.
Well that's embarrassing, yes... I even knew this
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