Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-31190419-20170226033102/@comment-31190419-20170226120853

It's pretty clear that Mutsuki wanted to be seen and treated as male to not be seen and treated as female. When people who are born as female want to be seen and treated as male by the rest of society, there are words for that.

The reason that you should use opposite gender pronouns to refer to fictional people like this is that it is simply respectful to set the precedent even when talking about characters in fiction to make people in real life feel like their chosen identity will also be respected, whatever it be. To not make these basic gestures just promotes anti-trans culture.

I personally prefer gender neutral pronouns myself for thse characters with non-binary gender identities, but at least "he" is not blatantly dismissive of the desire of people to not be identified as their birth gender.