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@Never: Nate, I presume, is Nate Bumber, who holds the distinction of being both a Faction Paradox writer (and therefore authoritative about the City of the Saved) and an active user of this very Wiki whom it would be easy to contact. But the idea doesn't really hold water, if only because random offhand quotes do not a valid source make, even if Nate were somehow to temporarily acquire the license to state anything in particular about River.

@dIsOrIeNted: the whole reason we're calling the category "Non-cisgender individuals" is that it's not the same thing as being trans. Being trans is a specific identity with specific baggage in the 21st century, and if a story set in the future introduces, say, a human character who uses ze/hir pronouns, it's hard to be sure just from that evidence that this person would recognise hirself in the label "trans", whereas it's fairly clear ze wouldn't consider hirself "cis".