I reject the notion that sexual orientation or outward feminity or masculinity have anything to do with biological sex. Iran forcibly transitions gay men because men sucking cock is a sin to them so they must be women according to them. Americans still largely operate on the same level of logic.
Ah, yes. The progressive stronghold. Iran.
Did you miss the part where America is going to strip medical centers that provide puberty blockers to trans teens of their funding? And make it a crime to provide trans medical care at all?
I'm saying the kneejerk reaction that every guy who likes to dress up for whatever reason is a woman is deeply regressive, similarly to saying everyone who likes to suck a cock here and there must be a woman.
A lot of Americans will immediately snap to calling every crossdresser gay or straight transgender, which just isn't the reality of things, that's an entirely different identity.
And yes, some men are gay, some men are feminine, some men like to cross dress and that doesn't make them trans.
But Amata isn't a gay man, or even a bi or straight man. He's a fictional character. He's a fictional character written in the context of a deeply conservative culture and that context
matters to what gender identity the mangaka can give him, the ideas the mangaka can use him to express. Not to mention that authorial intent isn't the end-all, be-all of interpretation. Maybe if we knew that Amata
could self-identify as a transgender woman if that was more accurate to the experience the author was trying to portray, we would be able to take the work at its word. But we can't trust that, because of people like you.
And if you don't understand why I'm differentiating between Real People and fictional characters, I'm afraid you're going to have to take that up with your middle school lit teacher.
