Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-2.110.227.10-20141205163818/@comment-10733658-20141209181753

Honestly, I doubt CCG would have paid for the surgery. From what we've seen of how they treat their wards, it doesn't seem like such an expensive procedure would be something they would care about doing. It seems like they provide the basic needs, but anything beyond that is ignored -- they didn't even provide THERAPY to Juuzou, who very clearly needed it. We also know that Shirazu is only with the Quinx because he's desperate for money. They're willing to take advantage of people, but not willing to go that extra mile for them unless there's a benefit for the organization.

As for whether Mutsuki is trans, even though that exact word has not been used, everything we have seen is pretty textbook. As the OP already pointed out, we have him wearing an accurate Binder (which shows that Ishida obviously did some researc) and pretty much textbook description of Gender Dysphoria. Since he states his reasons for wanting to "live as a man" are because he's always found living as a girl "unbearable" (I believe the original Japanese was basically expressing discomfort, disgust, or unease). We've got zero evidence that Mutsuki was lying, and zero evidence that he's just a girl crossdressing for Reasons. We have multiple pieces of evidence of a Trans identity, all of which suggest Ishida did some research into the subject because it's stuff that isn't common knowledge.