Thread:TonySansNom/@comment-30302124-20190131161952/@comment-16674955-20190131192705

Pikapika200 wrote: Trans girls aren't boys pretending to be girls or disguised as girls to fool other. if you want a boy disguised as a girl,chihiro from danganronpa. Luka is referred to as a trans girl by wikipedia,anime-planet,and the comments of science20 and even on the serious debate forum of know your meme. (but know your meme is a meme site and wikipedia outright states itself to not be a reliable source.) They are wrong. It comes from a misunderstanding of his character. And even the argument is wrong because changing what you are before you were it is not being transgender.

From the point of view of Steins;Gate, female Luka is female and male Luka is male.

Transgender is changing your sex. Key point here is "change" because you only "change" what you already are. Having a world line where Luka is born female is not him being transgender. "She" is as female as I am male today. Because in that world line, Luka was born a girl. It wasn't changed or decided by himself on that world line.

Lastly, making himself a girl is something he did because he couldn't assume his "feelings" for Okabe and by fear of what society will view of it, and above all else, what Okabe himself will believe. This is not transgender. Nowhere and "nowhen" was it stated that Luka felt female. What Luka said was "I don't like how I look (=androgynous) and believe I'll have more confidence if I were a female". What does confidence refer to? His feelings for Okabe and the desire to tell him and have him accept this love.

For all intents and purposes, Luka is not transgender. He is a male boy who is insecure and confused by his feelings for a male friend. He might be gay for all we know, he might be bi. But one thing is clear, Luka is NOT a trans.