Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-189.163.162.159-20141219031622/@comment-10733658-20141219074132

Some of it is simply the nature of the internet where strong opinions brew.

There is considerable strong opinions concerning how to address or discuss someone that is Transgender. Since there's plenty of struggles for legal recognition and having to deal with misgendering so people can be very sensitive or upset about it. So it hits on a nerve, since in real life calling a Transperson their birth sex instead of their identified gender is incredibly rude and some people do it intentionally to hurt them.

I will admit, when I first saw it I was a little "....oh, geez", but it doesn't surprise me. Rather, I knew that it would trigger fresh rounds of arguments. It really isn't telling us anything we don't already know (though clears up whether CCG pulled any strings in terms of legal documents). We already knew Mutsuki was born a girl and still has those parts but lives as a dude.