Talk:Luka Urushibara/@comment-99.18.18.113-20150710072106

Didn't Ruka say in the anime that he/she had always felt like they would feel more comfortable/look all-around better in a girl's body? "I want to be a girl!" and "I don't like the way I look. I think I'd feel better about myself if I could be a girl... I've always felt that way." as well as "I'm serious! I really want to be a girl!" Seems like overwhelming evidence to me. The issue here seems to be that people are confusing gender with sex. Sex is essentially the stuff you're born with, which can either be male, female, or intersex (in the case that a genetic error results in either or both of the two genetalia forming in a sort of combined state). On the other hand, gender is what you feel. It's how you choose to express yourself, how you see yourself, it's this huge spectrum that the traditional practice of assigning genders at birth has distorted, causing peoples' minds to narrow.

Now one could also say that Ruka, or Rukako (I'm going to go with Ruka since it's shorter), doesn't fit this criteria, but could you imagine what consequences would arise upon coming out with this kind of news in a country like Japan (which I have heard from others is pretty xenophobic, correct me if I'm wrong), or anywere for that matter? Probably not very good ones, and setting the societal clock back five years to 2010 wouldn't help either. With this in mind, it makes sense that Ruka would want to correct those who mistake him/her for a biological woman when he/she hasn't actually gone through that process yet. That would also explain why Ruka chooses to use he/him pronouns to describe him/herself. That's also why I'm using he/her throughout my comment, since Ruka not only uses both, but Ruka as a character appears as both biological male and female at different points in the story.

TL;DR: All in all, Ruka's lines reveal that he/she desires a feminine body to match the feelings that he/she has hidden inside. I'm not sure if Ruka's dialogue in the game is different, but if that doesn't sound trans, I don't know what even would.