Talk:Luka Urushibara/@comment-67.166.14.140-20190319165227

As someone who is a fan of the series but also friends with a number of trans people, it's kind of disappointing to read the comments section here. While I wouldn't say it was the most civil, there were a number of people here actively working to escalate the situation, but I do have to agree with the baseline of Pika's statements, even if they weren't exactly civil about it.

Honestly, there are points that that Pika person was correct, and a few others pointed it out, that sociologists and many psychologist generally accept that gender is a social construct (eg: what to wear, how to act), and sex is a biological construct. However, even sex doesn't fully match up as 100% binary (eg: intersex/hermaphrodite are a testament to this). Overall, while it may be acceptable to say what the author says as truth, it also completely miscontrues the overall sociological impact of what the writer did.

One could say that Luka is, by all accounts of sociological study, trans across the worldline. While it does mearly state they physicially changed due to a worldline change, Luka's character themselves states they feel they should be female. That is the feeling that a trans person would have. Regardless of how that change was made, they requested the change while male. It didn't change the personality of the character. It didn't change the look. They merely changed from one to the other.

On top of that, mental illness itself does not denote bad things, in fact it doesn't even mean that one needs to seek full reversal treatment for it. There are plenty of people out there who use their mental configuration for the good of themselves and society. ADHD, OCD, Autism, etc... many people with these sorts of "mental disorders" are simply characterized from a baseline. Technically, by that account, Okabe's "Reading Steiner" would ultimately be a mental disorder. While it does allude that everyone has this capability, his is completely out of whack and affects him to a far greater degree, similar to that of a chemical imbalance, but instead it's like the chemicals of his brain react (or, maybe actually don't as much) to worldline changes.

Ultimately, by many sociological standards Luka would be classified as trans. And that isn't really a bad thing. Luka is Luka, after all, regardless of worldlines. Same as you or I, really.

Honestly was hoping the general community was a lot better about handling the discussion of that sort of thing, maybe it's just this article's comments, but it is disappointing to say the least.