Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-10733658-20141110101836/@comment-10733658-20141110111527

Ahendra,

With all respect you are wrong here. There is no ambiguity about how the character identifies. There is no ambiguity about how other characters treat Mutsuki. This is not a question of whether a character is Trans or just pretending (ala a Mulan situation).

Regardless of birth assignment or what is in someone's pants, their Identity is what matters.

Mutsuki uses male pronouns.

Sasaki calls him a male, even in the Japanese text. Japanese is a language that, unlike English, is very gender-neutral so referencing someone's gender is something you do intentionally. (IE: Sasaki is intentionally calling Mutsuki a guy.)

Mutsuki dresses, speaks, acts as a male and uses male restroom facilities.

Breasts do not invalidate all these things.

If we did not have Mutsuki explicitly stating that he identifies as male, then absolutely things would be unclear. But things are incredibly simple at this point, and Ishida should not have to use Anvil tactics to make a point. It shouldn't take a character shouting "I am TRANS" to accept that someone that states their birth sex makes them uncomfortable and they want to live as/be treated as a certain gender.

(Seriously, a friend of mine is Trans. She cannot have surgery because she had a major stroke, and doctors fear the process would put her life at risk. Regardless of her anatomy, she is a girl and treating her otherwise would be exceptionally disrespectful. So arguments like this make me a little frustrated, when it is blatantly wrong.)