Legit that's just kinda how it feels sometimes. It's a process with a lot of ups and downs. I can tell the author just kinda... gets how it feels to live with trauma.
Rest in peace, may ProjMoon get their thumbs out of their asses and stop bowing down to the whiny little pissbabies that unjustly called for the removal of women in their game studio.
The reason that Hiura hasn't been explicitly made a trans character is probably because the Japanese government would take it down. Like, they have the ability to just... remove media that they deem to be a little too fruity.
It's the same reason a lot of yaoi follow the same heteronormative...
For me it's always been super gender queer coded, if not necessarily transfem at least trans non binary. Like, that kind of gender euphoria doesn't happen to people without gender identity issues.