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The easiest way out would be an out-of-universe nod. Like, have the character be designed by a trans designer or voiced by a trans VA. Or a subtle in-universe nod, like a color palette or a throwaway line in the bio. Hell, fans have pattern matched Gwen Stefani or whatever the Spidergirl's name is, just because she's wearing pastels.
The trans character in Sleepless Domain is written well, but that's helped by the fact that the cast is a bunch of pre-pubescent and early-pubescent magical girls, so she passes about just as well as James II and the question of dangly bits is never raised. Plus, the fact that she is a magical girl (there are no magical boys) reinforces the whole "it's not biology that matters" idea.
I wonder how The Rapture of the Nerds would be received if it was published this year. It's a novel by Doctorow and Stross where the protagonist's sex is completely changed several times by various technologies and he/she/he doesn't really worry about it. On one hand, it's a wonderful image of the possible future for people with gender dysphoria. On the other hand, by showing only two people who undergo this procedure: one that loves flipping their sex based on their mood and the protagonist that takes it well, the authors kinda imply that gender dysphoria is not real and that people can just get used to any body they have.
This kinda leads me to the next suggestion: flip the situation. If the setting allows it, have sex change potions or nanotech that can flip someone's sex completely. This would mean that trans people are invisible other than throwaway references ("no, thanks, I've already drank one"), but there still might be people suffering from gender dysphoria: those that have changed their sex by mistake or by trickery and now cannot turn back because the cure is locally or temporally unavailable.
Yeah, having those sex change potions/nanotech/applied phlebotinum be expensive and risky and imperfect would be a pretty damn good allegory.
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