Stop that. Don't limit what people can and can't think, do or be.
The goal of gender nonconformity is to make society a more accepting place, to give people the permission to be what they want to be, without having to care about others judging or trying to force them in small boxes.
Some people...
Many men want to be Moe girls, not because they're trans, but because they think that life would be easier if they were cute. Naturally a scary looking guy who doesn't have friends and love Yuri would believe that being a girl is better than being a boy
This is an old trope, there are genderbending mangas from the 60, but this isn't that, it's a manga about a delinquent becoming a femboy, or Trap if we want to be in line with image aggregators
Some crossdresser x crossdresser and crossdresser x girl series are also tagged as a Yuri, we even have the tag "pseudo-yuri" in Japan. I believe that if the author said this isn't exactly Yuri, he's putting the work in the pseudo-yuri box, which makes sense, once that nothing in the story...
It's not that Japan doesn't recognize or understands trans people. In there authors and audiences recognize that people may want to change their gender for reasons other than gender dysphoria.
Remember, everyone, gender isn't limited to biology, it's also a social performance and construct
You guys need to differentiate between idealistic fetishism and a desire for a change of identity. Wanting to be a girl to be Moe is different from wanting to be identified and gendered as a girl.
People can feel uncomfortable in their body and gender for reasons other than gender dysphoria, a...
It would, because here the characters exist in the game world, they're their roles. Hareta doesn't need to be a player to be the protagonist, also I don't think a player would be able to interact with the world and other characters in the way Hareta does, he is clearly part of their world and...
Hareta is a character, he existed in this world for as long as every other character and he has memories of his childhood with Misaki, something that wouldn't be possible if he was a player since the game starts when the characters are already in high school.
I believe the controller in the first chapter was metaphorical, I don't think Hareta exists outside of the game world or that there's a player controlling him. Nothing in the work alludes to it and Hareta is bound by the same rules as everyone else.
As we have seen before the world they inhabit...