I just watched Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26, and Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome is actually a really realistic depiction of the transgender experience, both trans feminine, trans masculine and intersex experiences.
For many of us, we're raised with a set expectation from our parents, whether raised as the right, wrong or what they think is best for us. We have thoughts and desires but push them down because we want to make those around us happy, as well as fit into what society wants of us. Often times, when we reach puberty, the world around us shatters and we lose sight of who we are or who we're supposed to be. The way people treat us as an 'other' often makes us feel we need to fit into a societal norm based on the gender box we were forced into. Here, it's clear that the protagonist identifies as a man, but their changes in his body make him second guess his identity and fear what those he loves around him expect from him and the worry that their perspective of him will change. The bullies who used to bully him for being 'different' are now hypersexualising his new body and abusing him with the intention of further demean and abuse him. It's really common for those around us to not even treat us as human and more of a toy to use and make fun of. This later extends to his relationship with his girlfriend where he starts to worry if she even desires him anymore now that he's a 'girl', but after an argument he works up the courage to press forward in his identity regardless of what anyone else around him tries to push. It's a short, but really authentic experience of how trans individuals get treated by those around them and how it can affect their mentality and identity and how at the end of the day, people pushing them into boxes are wrong and we need to stand strong in who we are.












