That Is The Problem I Have, Why Can't People Accept Different Takes On Yamatos Gender, You Think They

That is the problem I have, why can't people accept different takes on Yamatos gender, you think they are trans? Cool, if you feel represented even better. If not that is okay too. Sadly people don't really understand this and call everyone transphobic if you're not agreeing with them. 😩

A lot of people would put it in better words than me but here my answer :

Yamato is a man, he identify as a man, every other characters refer to him as a man, even his tyrannic monster of a father accept his true identity.

This is not something up to debate, Yamato is trans in the manga, to say otherwise and to refer to him as a woman because he doesn't look like a stereoypical man is transphobic.

Maybe you're not up to date with the manga so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Like O-kiku who is a trans woman, Yamato being a trans man is canon. You probably don't have have bad intentions but denying one of the few trans representations there is in mainstream manga/animation can be very hurtful and you need to understand that.

It is illegal to get gender affirming care in Japan without giving up on most of your human rights. A lot of trans people there have to accept their bodies as it is. So Yamato is a very good representation for them.

Him being happy with his body can be very inspiring for all the trans men who can't afford, don't have access or just don't want gender affirming surgery.

Nobody owe you masculinity to be a man.

Oda wrote an amazing trans character, the fact that he doesn't appear gender conforming doesn't change anything

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