I have read the trilogy, and they're excellent, and you're not wrong. As for narrative vs character, I don't know what you mean exactly, but trans themes are definitely present, far more overtly than, say, in a transformational fairy tale.
Flewelling's Darkrunner series, which is set several hundred years later in the same universe, stars a lead canonical queer couple, too. She's one of my favourite fantasy writers.
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Flewelling's Darkrunner series, which is set several hundred years later in the same universe, stars a lead canonical queer couple, too. She's one of my favourite fantasy writers.