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This is the most well rounded comment here, thank you for putting this here. I would have been so frustrated reading the other comments alone.
thank for leaving this well written comment it kinda made me tear up, seeing other comments below invalidating others on their on bases on gender dysphoria was disheartening but this made me cheer right up, wish others would just respect that not everyone has the same experience with the gender identity and that it be non- liner.
I enjoyed this manga. I felt that it was very accurate to trying to sort out your feelings and trying to explain yourself to others that don't understand when they're also in the queer community. I enjoyed the art and I felt closely to Yuuko who struggled with how to express herself to both the person she's dating and people she's unfamiliar with.
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In response to the other comments on here, it felt disheartening to me to read a manga, even just a one shot, that I enjoyed and felt close to my own emotions and then immediately after see comments that focused on topics reflected what so much of the trans community is trying to fight against.
A lot of trans people have gender dysphoria, it's how many of is realize we're trans in the first place, I won't deny that. But I am of the firm belief that you don't have to have dysphoria to be trans. Rather than gender dysphoria, feeling gender euphoria is something that lets you realize "oh, I feel comfortable expressing myself or being seen as this gender or not this gender." I dont think dysphoria helps anyone, but euphoria does. After all, what's the point of transitioning medically or socially if you don't want to feel good about your identity and gender?
A lot of trans people don't transition either medically or socially due to various reasons. For the ones that don't transition due to a lack of dysphoria, is there any reason to deny their identity? What purpose does it have to look at someone who has not had any surgeries, isn't on hormones, doesn't ever wear makeup or a skirt, but is happy to call herself a trans woman, and we tell her that she's a man? I feel that there's no point to attack someone for their identity or orientation. If someone you have just met tells you that they're trans, are you going to ask for proof?
I think that being bigender and agender are completely valid things. I feel that a lot of people don't realize, even in the queer community, that gender is a made up construct and you can identify as whatever gender or lack of gender that you want. Even the thing that people started quoting, "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter," came from a trans woman's science-fiction writing piece on gender but people misinterpreted and it became a meme to mock trans and gender queer people.
In regards to intersex people, you could be born intersex and never know your whole life and identify as cis or as trans. You could also learn that you're intersex at a very early age and still identify as cis, as trans, or as intersex. The intersex community and the trans community overlap heavily and I'm not comfortable with policing intersex people, or anyone for that matter, in regards to their gender just because I don't feel that it fits.
TLDR;
I don't want the comment section of a manga focusing on gender identity to have 2/3rds of the comments bashing the identities of other people.
Gender and identities are complex; if someone tells me they identify as x, y, or z, I'm going to say "okay" and refer to them as such. There's no reason to be hostile to identities that you don't understand, and gender is a social construct in the first place.