I dunno, Grimmy... that reads, given the context in which it was stated, like a pretty strong indication that Taoist Alchemists had seperate taoist techniques for straight sex, male homosexual sex and female homosexual sex...
And
that would be another example of reading your own expectations into the text. In the quoted paragraph, I was talking about how Taoism addressed homosexuality
in terms of yin and yang, which served as their rationale for dismissing it as unproductive. In fact, in this entire thread I've only referred to the assumed metaphysical basis behind the historical practices, specifically avoiding statements about what those practices might involve. The three techniques I've only ever mentioned in relation to the fictional setting of the
game.
In short: Your argument applied to shovels: A shovel doesn't necessarily have to be used to move dirt. Some are painted gold and shoved into display cases.
True, but THIS shovel in fact moves dirt.
So... If I were to say that a straight writer's fiction doesn't necessarily deal with heterosexuality's relationship to sexual minorities, would you feel obligated to point at, say, Stephen King and pronounce that
his does? Because right there you are effectively declaring victory without textual support for anything beyond a personal opinion. This theme of "transcending the flesh" and challenging gender roles which you may perceive in
Nobilis can quite as easily be found in
Unknown Armies, for instance; perhaps more so, because
Nobilis explicitly revolves around
concepts made flesh, which strikes me as the opposite of what you suggest. The Fair Folk in
Exalted? Borgstrom didn't create them, or even write the sections on their society: she contributed the rules for their Charms, shaping combat and artifact creation, just as she worked on
Sidereals,
Outcaste,
Games of Divinity, and
Sorcerer & Savant for the same line, all of which you are perfectly welcome to inspect for signs of suspicious LGBT propaganda. The alternate sexual techniques in
WotG? Logical extensions of the original alchemical theories, as said, in response to questions that
will arise if yin and yang retain their feminine and masculine qualities.
Seriously, your argument boils down to "the gender of writers might not affect their work, except when I say so", with a hint of "games ought not to deal with sexuality, so something's amiss when they do."
(EDIT: Going over your three examples, by way of postscript... "Playing a 'transgendered' Noble is presumptively easy, if not assumed to be a default possibility," you wrote. It is in fact precisely as easy as declaring that you are going to play a TG PC in any modern or science fiction game in which such a change is made possible by technology, or any fantasy game in which magic can serve the same purpose. To claim that an unmentioned but technically feasible possibility of physical transformation in itself constitutes a symptom of sexual wish fulfilment cannot help but open up any RPG to the same criticism: by the same token, the existence of the Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity in
D&D could be interpreted as a much more explicit indication of a sexual agenda, and that would sound equally far-fetched... or nearly so, since in the case of the Girdle the actual text would at least provide some support to the theory. Moving on to Exhibit B, the Fair Folk, the raksha in their natural state are nebulous energy patterns or sentient stories which have more in common with Yog-Sothoth than anything else ("indescribable congeries of passions and the elements of dream, coagulating around the five fixed positions of self that keep them from dissolution"), without any shape, human or not, androgynous or otherwise. They don't "transcend the flesh", having never been bodily beings like the inhabitants of Creation: they only wear it for a while whenever they happen to feel like it. So basically, what you are left with is that
WotG describes one man turning into a woman. If you still consider that solid evidence for any extended hypothesis, I could point you towards the body-warping Epideromancers and the avatars of the Mystic Hermaphrodite in
Unknown Armies so that you can then start investigating Stolze and Tynes. Yes, the sexuality of authors and game designers alike can affect their works, and even speculation about the topic can certainly affect the interpretations of those works, as your replies here amply demonstrate. But I'm afraid that your conclusions have little support in these three particular examples.)