Quick note that being attracted to Claire does nothing to alter Marten's sexuality. He's no less hetero for falling for a trans woman.
Again, I'm not up on my modern terminology, but my understanding is that trans people are by definition under the queer umbrella.
I disagree. Not that that's your understanding, only you get to say what that is, but that trans is necessarily a subset of queer, that there are no trans people who are not queer.
I mean, why are they "queer" by definition? What does "queer" mean in context?
Is a man who has had a vasectomy "queer" by definition? What about one who has been circumcised? Or *not* circumcised, if circumcision is "standard", "usual", *normal* in that society?
Something to ponder: are Guevedoces "queer" by definition?
. Science 1974 Dec 27; 186 (4170): 1213-5
In an isolated village of the southwestern Dominican Republic, 2% of the live births were in the 1970's, guevedoces ... These children appeared to be girls at birth, but at puberty these 'girls' sprout muscles, testes, and a penis. For the rest of their lives they are men in nearly all respects. Their underlying pathology was found to be a deficiency of the enzyme, 5-alpha Reductase
5ARD for short. 17BHSD is similar. 3BHSD can cause such a "natural sex change" in either direction.
Many Trans people identify as queer. Some do not. Technically, I'm Intersex (see 3BHSD above) rather than Trans, and thus biologically far more different from the normal than the usual, common or garden cis or trans person. I did transition, and psych evaluation showed no significant difference from the more usual trans women, so close enough. I don't identify as being queer myself, though acknowledge that many people would say I must be by definition. I just deny that they know what they're talking about, and ask them to logically examine their definitions, assumptions, and conclusions, why they think that.
Claire is a woman with an unusual history. I have no idea whether she identifies as "queer" or not, but there's no evidence that she does. To assert that what apparently is a fairly standard het relationship has to be queer because of her past history seems unsafe.
How do we know that, for example, Sven wasn't born mildly Intersex, and had genital reconstruction as an infant to match the medical team's best guess as to his sex? Some syndromes there's a 99% chance they're correct, others it's a coin toss. Such situations are a heck of a lot more common than Trans. Would that make him "queer", and thus any girl who had a relationship with him be in a "queer" relationship? If (as is considered best practice today) there had been no surgery without informed consent, so his anatomy would be mildly unusual , would he be "queer" then?
We don't know Sven's operative history, and inquiries about his, or Padma's, or Hanners' exact genital configuration current or past would be severely creepy, no?
TLDR: Claire is a woman. Martyn is a man.
Now let's get back to Elliot and how he doesn't deserve to be hurt. Kudos to Renee and all good hearted people like her.