Talk:Luka Urushibara/@comment-109.182.160.185-20200224190638/@comment-29853679-20200310175325

> Anyone who thinks Ruka is not transgender is injecting their insane, cancerous worldview into this shitty anime

Which seemingly includes the creators themselves, then. Nevermind the translators, but the creators themselves. Remidner that the Steins;Gate 0 Anime added an additional reiteration that Luka is a guy (with the accompanying) "But he's a guy" joke, that wasn't present in the Visual Novel.

I have nothing against transgender individuals, in fact, the greatest sympathies for the struggle transgender people deal with.That shit isn't easy to deal with. That being said, saying that Luka is transgender goes strictly against his characterisation. I've reiterated this so many times, but his character song has the "Even if I'm me (boku, masculine-leaning), or I (watashi, mostly used by females, but mostly gender neutral), that doesn't matter at all. The moment you saved me with those words, my love began to blossom." line that really hits it home. Not to mention the fact that Luka, even after the transition to female, continued to say "boku" instead of "watashi". If we *really* want to read into it the way you have to to arrive at the conclusion that he's trans, you could argue Luka using boku in that state is a way of coping with dysphoria. Girls use boku sometimes, don't get me wrong. Tomboys and singers mainly. But Luka fits into neither category. Singers also mainly use boku when the lyrics are written by a man, as is the case with most of the Science Adventure openings.

Additionally, there is the "Cruel Sister" series of e-mails in the Visual Novel. Luka, in those emails laments the upbringing and disregard he got from his sister, and also mentioned that his father essentially raised him as a girl, and forced him to wear feminine clothes.

I'd also once again want to remind you that the VN was released in 2009, and was in development for probably at least a year before that. 2008-2009 Japan really wasn't that focused on transgender issues. It wasn't really that worldwide either, but especially not in Japan.

I'd like to use an example from the transgender community itself. The null hypothe-cis. Is there really enough evidence to claim that Luka is trans based off words that... eh. Is more or less a half truth?

For more info, see: https://ask.fm/SciADV/answers/134817454903