Talk:Luka Urushibara/@comment-27107859-20190328170210/@comment-71.179.191.147-20190501191135

From what I can tell from what I've seen of the anime (I have the visual novel but haven't read it yet) Ruka has no issue with being a boy, but with how others interact with him as a boy who can easily be confused as a girl. He feels guilty for misleading people into thinking he's a girl and causing them to be attracted to him, only for them to feel like fools or disgusting for being attracted to a boy. Okabe was one of the first to come by and say that her gender couldn't matter less to him, and as such he made it clear that Ruka wouldn't have to fear about misleading him and thus he could relax around Okabe. This ability to relax and be accepted by Okabe is likely what lead to Ruka feeling his deep attraction for him, especially as he got to know him more. Ruka's decision to change genders was both so he could no longer worry about misleading men with his looks and so his feelings for Okabe could be expressed without either him or Okabe being ostracized or looked down on for doing so. In short, Ruka is not trans or gender fluid/bisexual in general preference; his attraction is for Okabe only regardless of what gender he is and unless the VN elaborates more, we'll never have enough evidence to indicate what exactly Ruka's general preference is. I'm able to suspend my disbelief at Ruka's gender conversion because it's probably the biggest strech in the story's time travel logic and biology like you pointed out because it's an interesting take on gender issues that you don't see very often. Anyone who says he's trans though is missing the whole point of his story, just like people who say P4's Kanji and Naoto are gay and trans, when the whole point of their arcs is that they're not and those interpretations are simply extreme solutions to their actual sex/gender role related social issues.