Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-2.110.227.10-20141205163818/@comment-10733658-20141210113138

I had honestly reserved my judgment on things when Chapter 4 came out, since we lacked any information on what was going on. I fully expected Mutsuki to simply be another example of a girl crossdressing as a guy. But then chapter 5 started out by putting everything out there in terms of what Mutsuki was thinking, and (should have) put things to rest.

Like I said, between Mutsuki being transgender and Mutsuki just being a crossdressing girl, the second option requires considerable speculation and several things we have been told/shown so far being false. I think the simplest answer is that Mutsuki was being honest, and people like Dr. Shiba and Sasaki are respecting his identity/wishes in treating him as a man.

I haven't ruled out the possibility that Ishida may backpedal on things later on. It is always a possibility as long as the story is still being written and pubished. However, Ishida appears to have put effort into his portrayal of Mutsuki since he presents several things accurately that are not common knowledge and would have required him to do research.

Rather disturbing but interesting is the situation with Torso. Reading up on real life Trans issues, apparently that entire scenario is rather unfortunately a common danger for Trans people. The whole being exposed against their will, and then physically and/or sexually assaulted is a very common occurance, with something like an estimated 50% of all Trans people experiencing such crimes related to their identity at some point in their life.