recreating Valerie handing off the mantle to her in a way. Evey took up the mantle by V putting her through what he did, i.e. V as we know him was passed on the legacy from V. Wasn't V supposed to be a doll like transgender hero in the early stages? That fell through due to executive meddling. At least in a meta-sense, Valerie was the original V.A much simpler explanation is that V is a man (possibly a gay one, explaining why he was put in there) who was inspired by Valerie. It's possible that V was a transman (who the government might have classified as a lesbian, if they had a relationship with a woman), but if they felt he was a lesbian because they refused to accept his gender, then they wouldn't then have referred to him as a 'he'. It's entirely reasonable that the government would have continued to refer to a transwoman as "he", but they wouldn't then have referred to her as a lesbian. The problem is that the diaries list both Valerie as a lesbian, and V as a man.The notion that V is several different people is an appealing one, but I think having V be Valerie robs at least that particular V's devotion to Rita ( if there ever was a Rita, and thus a Valerie) of its poignance. V could be Valerie and the man in Room 5, in the sense that Valerie is actually a transgender man, but it's hard enough to get well-intentioned medical professionals not to call trans* people by the wrong pronouns and gender, let alone their malevolent captors. This troper is a little perplexed by this whole debate.Considering how easily Evey disguises her feminine figure, it's pretty easy to guess that V is probably not male. Why? It was based on a different short story, by the same two people, that was meant to be this graphic novel. If you've read all the notes about it, it becomes obvious that V is some sort of transsexual.It would explain how he is able to do so much. It is possible that V is actually several people amongst whom the man from room 5, Valerie from room 4, and maybe others. However, this has led to a bunch of gay people being pressured to get SRS. Well, Iran is notoriously homophobic, and it lets people get sex changes.However, for the purposes of narrative streamlining, I'm inclined to think being a transwoman (probably pre-op, and possibly even without access to HRT - and if so, almost definitely subject to HRT reversal while a prisoner) is the most likely scenario. It's even entirely possible they were nonbinary or genderfluid. Personally, I'd say there's definitely sufficient subtext in the comics to assume V was intended to be transgender, however there isn't quite enough material to know the extent of V's transition or even which direction it went. V's genitalia have nothing to do with this identity. This is how conservative governments and individuals (particularly in Western countries) tend to deal with transgender individuals. More likely is that V was referred to as a man by the facility's staff despite identifying as a woman, perhaps in part as an aspect of conversion therapy to "fix" V's gender identity. It's unlikely that an anti-LGBT regime would provide SRS, forced or otherwise.It's entirely in-keeping with the views of the fascist government as presented that they could have forcibly reassigned Valerie's gender (or simply referred to her as a 'he' on paper) because she was a lesbian, possibly (given that it was an experimental facility) as part of some sort of twisted experiment into sexuality. However as noted above, you are incorrect to assume that just because she's a lesbian that it would indicate that she would want the surgeries. Transgender Troper here, Gender Reassignment Surgeries have existed since 1935, so they certainly were in existence during V for Vendetta.It's actually more likely that Delia might have referred to her as a "man" because someone like her would consider lesbians unfeminine. You are assuming that Lesbian = Transsexual.Not sure if that medical procedure had been invented at the time of V For Vendetta, but after all, this is an alternate history we're talking about. Who's to say V didn't also change some parts of the text so that they say "man" instead" of "woman"? That way s/he can make sure no one will know who s/he is. Surridge's diary so that the full truth about him/her is never discovered. It's explicitly stated by Finch that V has removed pages from Dr.Delia Surridge's diary consistently refers to V as the *man* in Room 5.
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