I don't think you can adapt Wheel of Time without the gender essentialism. You'd need to rewrite a lot of the core ideas. I'm watching the first episode at the moment and they don't seem to be shying away from it with the taint still being there and the Red Ajah misandry, so it's odd that they are throwing in that the Dragon could be a woman, when part of the tension around the prophecy is that male channellers are inherently a massive danger but he is also meant to be a messiah.
voxpoplar wrote
I don't think you can adapt Wheel of Time without the gender essentialism. You'd need to rewrite a lot of the core ideas. I'm watching the first episode at the moment and they don't seem to be shying away from it with the taint still being there and the Red Ajah misandry, so it's odd that they are throwing in that the Dragon could be a woman, when part of the tension around the prophecy is that male channellers are inherently a massive danger but he is also meant to be a messiah.