Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-27065544-20170304122331/@comment-26653902-20170316235023

It was removed because more people were in favor of only listing sex. You can find the discussion here: http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:268386

I was unfortunately not around to add in my two cents, but I strongly disagree with a lot of "Mutsuki is not trans" arguments, especially since the original text had Mutsuki saying "I am a 'girl'" with quotes around "girl" (which Mangastream failed to include; don't know if they added it later). Even his line "For reasons I never quite understood, I was never comfortable living as a woman. I would like to live as a man." is a very classic description of gender dysphoria.

Besides, all the times Mutsuki seemingly embraces being female were during intense psychotic breakdowns. he also has a lot of self-loathing going on since the Rushima arc, so everyone should keep in mind how this affects him psychologically. It looks a lot like a reaction formation (i.e. doing the opposite of what you really feal as a defense mechanism) to me.

But it's gonna be a long rant if I were to break down every single argument and I don't have time for that so I'll just cut to what pronouns to use: Use he/him pronouns until Mutsuki outright indicates his identity. He wishes to present as a man and be referred to as a man, so respect that until canon explicitly indicates otherwise like with Karren.

Just use he/him until canon shows otherwise because that's what he wants so far while mentally sound.