a trans miyano rant / a bit of a character analysis
sometimes i think that canonically trans miyano wouldn't make sense but actually the more i think about it and relate it to my own experience being trans, it TOTALLY works.
he's insecure abt people thinking he looks feminine, though, it didn't start that way, just over time the more people told him that, the more insecure he got about it. when i first came out, i kinda didn’t care how people saw me, if they thought i looked like a girl, it didn’t bother me much in the start, but just like miyano, as time went by, it bothered me more and more.
and that insecurity started in middle school for him, so it is totally possible he started transitioning socially around that time and passed almost well enough for people to believe he was a boy, but to the point some people were still confused and thought he looked feminine.
now i thought it didn't make total sense with the fact that he does actively hide BL from his family be he's scared of what they’ll think, because he’d have no reason to be worried if they already accepted that he was trans and let him start transitioning socially, but it also doesn’t entirely specify why he hides it, it’s only vaguely implied when he tells sasaki that some people can be “weird about that sort of thing,” but he didn't really say his parents specifically were that way, it was only loosely implied, so it could just be because the material isn't exactly family friendly all the time and that's why he doesn't talk about it or read it around them.
(side note: for the sake of my own projecting, we're gonna pretend japan isn't as transphobic as it is and that it isn’t incredibly difficult to transition there, even just with basic things such as changing your name is nearly impossible without many other steps, but we can pretend that’s not the case for the sake of fiction and my headcanons, ty)
this would make his insecurities about dating sasaki make so much sense too aside from what's already given and his internalised homophobia and such
a major reason that he was reluctant was because he wasn't even sure sasaki was into guys, and so he thought that maybe he just liked him because miyano looks "feminine". that on top of the internalized homophobia.
that was the other thing that made me iffy about it, was the fact that miyano clearly does struggle with internalized homophobia, and why would he if he was trans? etc. but the more i thought about it, the more i think that it honestly can make sense even if he is trans. he could very much still kind of have the mind set that "being a guy means i have to like girls, and if i like a guy i might as well be a straight girl" and it could tie in to some internalized transphobia as well.
anyways concludes this little rant, do with it as you will!! if you disagree and don’t have anything nice or constructive to say, just leave. i hope i have recruited more trans miyano believers, that is all for now.