Thread:Cyberweasel89/@comment-2089817-20200227050534/@comment-862718-20200305002543

DevilSlayer123 wrote: I don't think that B214 means that toward real-life transgender poeple.

(I really want to know who takes photos like that, then poost them online to sites like Imgur.)

I can understand both sides about the situation, there were other sites that did a similar thing (but it was a long time since it was a long time ago since I saw that page).

From B214's standpoint, I can understand that he didn't want to open a sensitive subject and lead into something else entirely different from what this site was meant to be and talking about the storyline of Rakudai Kishi no Eiyuutan. But, nowadays sites like this aren't as active as before.

I can understand that some people would think that all the Admins (including me before even becoming an Admin) had some kind of problem or phobias with transgender people and even calling them several names as an introduction which kinda makes people not want to listen if the first thing that you do is insult them.

For me personally, it doesn't matter whether Nagi is a male or transgender as it doesn't take anything away from his character as a whole. He's still the same child who grew up in an orphanage with his friends before all the officials started being a bunch of idealistic idiots by choosing to hire a lot of criminals to kill children, which ended up being the trigger for Nagi to join Rebellion. Causing his meeting with Shizuku, Ikki, and Stella, which also resulted in him regaining himself as a person.

I apologize if this doesn't sound like an answer. Or if it sounds like some kind of excuse. I just really don't want this to be the end of this site that has one of my all-time favorite anime (even though I kinda feel that it kinda wasn't done completely justice and it should've at least had a second season), manga, and light novel. That's just it. Regardless of whether B214 was talking about a fictional character, he was still saying things that, if applied to a transperson, is saying that they don't exist. And those ARE common things that transphobes say to transpeople to hatefully invalidate their existence and identity. He laid the groundwork for Nagi's article's transphobia. You all are continuing it, even though, with him gone, you don't have any reason to continue it that I can see.

Wikis aren't about the storyline only. They're about the series as a whole and all the characters. To list a character as the wrong gender is inaccurately portraying the lore, worldbuilding, and characterization of the series. In other words, you're betraying the purpose of a Wiki. To say that Nagi's gender isn't important to their character is to say that ANY aspect isn't important to ANY character. Would you love Stella as much if she were a man, transman, or transwoman? Would you love Ikki less if he was genderfluid? Would you love Shizuku less if she wasn't Japanese, taller, buxom, less of a respectful deconstruction of incest in anime, etc.? Your defense of Nagi's gender not mattering is contradicted by the gender of every other character mattering, and every other aspect of Nagi mattering, saying that they are more important than Nagi's gender. In fact, your very Wiki's interface implies gender DOES matter to you all: In the character droptown at the top of the screen, they are grouped by male and female, and Nagi is explicitly included with the men. If gender is not important, why go so far to group the characters by gender on this Wiki in a front-page toolbar dropdown?

By saying Nagi is male and delusional instead of trans, you're taking a big part of Nagi's character away from them: The fact that Nagi represents a demographic that is underrepresented in fictional media. For example, in Soul Eater, Kilik Rung was included because the author noticed black people are rare in anime, and since the series takes place in the USA, he wanted to include a positive portrayl of one. This gives black viewers someone they can relate with and others can see the representation and enjoy that it is progressive and inclusive. This was also why Jorge R. Gutierrez created "El Tigre" for Nickelodeon: He realized that Mexican characters were underrepresented in cartoons, and the result was many Hispanic people enjoying that they had a protagonist who represented something they were.

A buxom girl can look at Stella and relate to someone who has something she does. An underdog can look at Ikki and feel hope that they can get better. And a transperson can look at Nagi and see that an author cares that they exist, and that an author is willing to portray one in a positive way with a deep personality and history. But saying that, rather than trans, Nagi is just delusional, you're taking away something that fans might use to connect with a show and find something else they love about it. You're also implying that a character who is progressive-minded is instead mentally ill, and saying that any transperson who thought Nagi was trans but sees you say Nagi is just mentally ill, well... That is telling THEM they are not trans, just mentally ill. You're saying that these people don't deserve to enjoy the show you do because you don't want them represented in it. You're excluding, when anime fandom is built on inclusion, bonding over a shared love and engaging in discussion over it. It's anti-fandom.

And thing is: It's NOT an answer. I gave MANY counter points about how, in Japanese culture, Nagi fits all the standards for a transwoman, and saying you're purely sticking to pronouns when Japan lacks many gender-specific pronouns, the other characters address Nagi as a woman, Japanese people I've spoken to can confirm that Nagi is a transwoman, etc. is a poor reason compared to everything else. Then there's the fact that, despite the controversy sticking to your guns causes, you're digging your heels in when you have so much to gain by correcting your course.

More importantly: It's ALSO not an answer becuase, while I've brought up a lot of these things, the admins of this Wiki never actually gave valid counter-points to a lot of them like I do to them. Instead, they choose to try and dig up my history on Wikia and take two specific incidents out of context, and try and accuse me of ulterior motives when I'm just trying to do a journalism and give you guys a fair shot at explaining your side. So while I have been willing to respectfully engage with you guys and hear your side of the story, you have all chosen to ignore my counter-points and attack my character, when I've never once actually accused any of you of being transphobic or bad people. Yet you have tried to say that, due to two things out of context on two other Wikis, I am a bad person who does not warrant engaging with.

So, yes, it's not an answer. In fact, the behavior you guys have engaged in with a journalist who could get your side of the story out was... to attack her character to avoid giving legitimate counter-points? I'm not sure how that sounds like a wise thing to do when you have a chance to clear your name with a party willing to listen, understand, and portray you positively to a wider audience.

​​​​​As for who took the screenshots, as I mentioned, I heard about this from an anonymous tip, as your Wiki has become somewhat infamous among the LGBT community and otaku communities for being the only Rakudai info source that tries to say Nagi is not trans (even DigiBro said Nagi is trans in a video he did praising the series on Youtube). Naturally, for ease of sharing your Wiki's actions with others, some have taken screenshots. I have actually taken a few of my own that I intend to include in the article for the purpose of sourcing quotes and opinions, though I do plan to link to where the screenshots came from so that they may be verified by readers. Journalistic integrity is important to me, as it's a dying principle in this day and age.