Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-178.164.157.148-20141213181351/@comment-10733658-20141213210111

......wow. You seem to have incredible selective reading skills. I am supremely amazed at your ability to not only forget your own statements written above, but apparently to emit massive amounts of information from things I have stated since this whole Clusterfuck of Fandom Stupidity began.

You made two individual arguments based entirely on how YOU DON'T DO X IF SOMEONE IS A GIRL. Which....yeah....is a little bit sexist. Not the end of the world, but still a little sexist all the same. I don't believe you intended it to be so, but arguing that you aren't allowed to say certain things or sling an arm around someone's shoulder because they're a girl is kinda....well....not true at all. (Seriously, I can quote you if need be.)

And nope, not dumb at all. Your argument was that Shirazu wouldn't do it if he knew about Mutsuki's biological sex, which.....again.....not true. We see that he gets into people's personal space all the time, and Mutsuki acts relaxed around him.

Honestly, right now we have no idea how open Mutsuki is about his situation. With Sasaki, there is a good chance based on the fact he has access to the medical information of his subordinates and he is shown to actively refer to Mutsuki using male-gendered language even though Japanese is very gender-neutral. Especially in professional settings, as when he would be talking to someone like Dr. Shiba, gender-neutral language is more normal and natural. Ergo, using gendered language is a conscious decision.

We don't know whether Shirazu or anyone else knows in the group. However, if anyone did know out of the team it would be him. The reason is simply because we're being shown that the two of them are very close. Shirazu uses Mutsuki's personal name to address him, which communicates a close relationship. (HIDE never did so with Kaneki, to make a point. Being on Personal Name basis with someone in Japanese is pretty significant.)

Your melodramatics aren't necessary or appreciated. Seriously, it does absolutely nothing for the debate and merely drags things down.

When I mention that Ishida seems to have done research, I cite SPECIFIC DETAILS.

Ishida drew a completely accurate Binder, something that rarely happens in media. Even within the community of Transmen, binders are something that not everyone knows about. So speaking in a strictly artistic fashion, accurately drawing something that isn't well-known or commonly seen requires visual references. Since his drawings were true to life and accurate, that shows knowledge on his part.

Ishida wrote an extremely accurate scene in terms of a young Transgender person, and how they often talk about themselves prior to really understanding their identity. He used very specific phrasing and descriptions of feelings, which again suggests some knowledge on his part. These are again not things I would have expected the average person to be able to accurately portray.

I doubt some of the theories concerning rape or abuse, simply because those arguments are pure speculation without any supporting evidence. Furthermore, they exist solely to explain Mutsuki's feelings in a manner that contradicts what the canon material already told us. In other words, these ideas are based on contradicting Mutsuki explicitly stating he doesn't understand why  he feels the way he does.

All we know right now is this:

Mutsuki explicitly states three things:

1. He has experienced intense feelings of discomfort being a girl.

2. He does not know the cause of these feelings.

3. He wants to be a man, live as one, and be treated as man.

Ergo, these three facts support Mutsuki being a transgender character because those are explicitly what being Transgender is. Like, literally the definition of the term.