Dex-chan lover
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I think it's a little bit more open to interpretation than just saying this is a trans guy. It's worth remembering that it was their own idle wish to be a girl that set everything in motion. Mind you, it was a VERY superficial wish made in passing based on yearning for the lower affection/interaction barriers women have with each other.By the comments, people and himself think HE is already a girl when gender it's a bit more complicated. He still thinks of himself as a man, so he's a man. Period.
Transgender man because he's in a woman's body, sure; but A MAN nonetheless. Wearing a bra (a tool for a feminine body) doesn't have to diminish his masculinity in the slightest unless he's weak-willed enough to let it happen out of the usual misconception of "biological gender = gender identity".
I think I already went through this. It's not that difficult, people.
Where this gets messy is that AMAB people have very rigid, self-abnegating social programming as part of their upbringing. It's actually very normal for trans femmes to be very hostile to their personal truth early in their egg hatching. Getting defensive, angry, insisting on their masculine identity and using very superficial masculine goals -- imposed on them from a young age -- as reasons why they are, in fact, masculine. You can actually see this play out in chapter 6.2. (tragically this phase can involve intense transphobia, which I do think accounts for a nonzero number of transphobes who compulsively read gender bender manga and go on the MD forums to loudly assert how straight and/or cisgender they are)
Given the tone of the manga and the frequent direction of TSF/gender bend manga in general (and the author's past works) I think Jun is eventually going to start having positive gender feels once all the grandstanding is out of their system.
That said I do think it's incredibly frustrating trans men don't have many stories that are intentionally written to resonate with them. Like the few times I'd seen it happen in TSF manga, they're usually deuteragonist to a TS girl protagonist and are really sleazy about it. (looking at you, "Tensei Pandemic") Would love to see more characters like Ash from "Misfile". Or even characters like Yasuda from "A Lazy Guy Woke Up as a Girl One Morning" who could absolutely be read as the world's most gender apathetic trans guy.
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