I think I learned a lesson.
Trans in transition mean a progress not a finished state, so if male fully became female then the correct word is transferred gender? Nah I didn't know it's too complicated for me.
Uh, no.
trans means “opposite“ in Latin, so that’s a good way to keep the following in mind.
”trans/transgender“ means “different gender to what people thought when one was born”.
”Transition“ in this context is the personal process one goes through to go from living as the mistaken gender to one’s actual gender.
It can be as complicated as multiple surgeries and hormone therapy to just changing one’s name and preferred pronouns. (Heck, even that’s not necessarily a thing, though I do think many people will
be confused if one has “mismatched“ pronouns, but that’s not my problem).
So, (spoilers for the next chapter)
she is where she wants to be, and considers her transition finished. She doesn’t want surgery.
when I read her thoughts on things, I said “yes! That’s me!” and did that silly little clapping thing, surprising my wife next to me, forcing me to translate panel by panel so she knew why I was so psyched and moved.
This comic came a long way from when it was a Twitter/Pixiv thing, and her nick wasn’t “Kanten Tarou” (slightly cringe, as Tarou is traditionally a male nam, but there’s backstory, so whatevs).
It was “Kamen Tarou”. “Masked Tarou” Tarou is such a generic guy name it’s like “Masked Steve” and when I and a couple other people pointed out just how cringe that is, the artist changed it.
kinda proud of that. I pointed it out to the (authorised) scanlato, they passed it on (I also commented on pixiv), the name was changed.
Learning is fun, and I’m glad the author enjoyed themselves.