...to avoid all the anti mutant sentiment in the MU?
Maybe they dropped some well timed sound bytes during a battle w. plenty of bystanders and/or press within earshot alluding to the supercollider accident that supercharged their cells, or the radioactive insert animal that bit them or how they’re a strange visitor from another planet or something.
As a minority myself I’m not sure how I’d feel about someone having done that, but I just wondered if that had ever been explored in any of the X books.