Thread:Cyberweasel89/@comment-2089817-20200227050534/@comment-862718-20200305192211

DevilSlayer123 wrote: Cyberweasel89 wrote: Then why defend and stand by a decision made by a previous admin when there's some rather concerning evidence that he might have done it out of personal biases and discrimination towards a marginalized group? I'm wasn't really defending the decision that the previous admin had made. I just didn't want things to escliate further and just wanted the topic to be discussed in a more calm manner.

If I were in the same position, I would have placed Nagi as male due to all the times he was pronounced as "he" and "man" in the translated novels that I read. But, I wouldn't leave out the fact that Nagi refer to himself as a a maiden born in the body of a man during his intial meeting with Ikki and Stella within the first volume. And it was even mentioned and left in the Trivia section on Nagi's page.

But, the subject of transgender wasn't brought up in the light novel like it had been in Yawara Chatora. Since it was brought up in one of the chapters and him being transgender was left in the trivia section on his page. I wasn't trying to escalate, I was just trying to understand and interview. And I felt I was fairly calm and respectful... Or are you referring to a discussion you had with someone else?

Again, Japan doesn't have much in the way of gender-specific pronouns. In fact, you kinda have to go out of your way to use one. It's entirely possible the person who translated the novel you read didn't understand the Japanese culture around transpeople in Japan.

Acknowledging it is nice, but you're still listing a rather apparent transwoman as male in every other aspect of the character, including the categorization and Wiki interface, and the way this is referenced in Nagi's article makes it seem more like Nagi is just delusional. Jun in "Happiness" and Tiger in "My Hero Academia" are listed as their chosen gender, as well as categorized as such. So... why is this Wiki not following the same standards?

Japanese media tends to avoid bringing up or specifically naming things like disabilities and mental conditions because of a social taboo. It's actually part of why the western-made visual novel "Katawa Shoujo" wasn't well-liked there. Besides being made by gaijin, it also dealt with disabilities, which have a heavy social taboo around them. In Japanese media, it's extremely rare to see a character who is blind, deaf, or in a wheelchair, and if any appear, they won't actually go into what exact condition they have that causes their disability. The same goes with various characters in Japanese media who SEEM to have some kind of ambiguous disorder, but never have it named. For example, in Persona, a character mentions her husband having died of a disease that is CLEARLY described as Alzheimers, but due to the social taboo around it, she doesn't actually name the condition.

Jun in "Happiness" doesn't actually use the term "trans" or "transwoman" to describe herself due to the Japanese taboo, and neither does Nagi, but they do use the "woman at heart" code phrase. As for Tiger being explicitly described as a transman, this may be a sign of the changing times, since Hero Academia is a lot more recent than Happiness or Rakudai. But it may also be that, since Tiger has explicitly undergone transition surgery, there's less of a taboo around saying he is a transman in the series. "Zombieland Saga" also goes out of its way to say that Lily is a transgirl later in the series, which also might be a sign of changing times making Japan consider discussion of mental conditions less of a taboo.