Somebody donate me their patience because I always gotta fight and argue with someone if they say Togashi or Yusuke was transphobic 😃
Togashi's trans allyship in 1990 (edited because 1992 was actually for the start of the anime run but I'm referring to manga start here, which is 1990. YYH is that old 👀) was Yusuke encouraging Miyuki to get gender affirming care for her to be a girl after Miyuki says her heart/soul is that of a woman's. This of course doesn't match today's understanding of being trans, in which you don't need to get surgery or hrt to be trans as not everyone can or want to do it. But the encouragement itself was a big deal in 90s when trying to change your body was seen as either self-mutilation or blasphemy against God's will to give you a certain body type. (And in Philippines, conservative 95% Catholic Christian country without trans healthcare, this might still be the case for us. So, just being encouraged by a story or a writer to go get the body you want can be the best trans allyship you can have here.)
In 1995, Togashi created Level E where the main character and plot of the entire story is about being a trans man. I haven't seen it yet because sci-fi is not my biggest interest but this Togashi had been a trans ally since 90s in his profession and that's more than any of your current mainstream Western actors can do in 2024.
So, come on, tell me who's transphobic here. Someone who devalues Togashi's attempts at trans allyship that he bravely puts in his works and career, or internet kids nitpicking how we got to the trans representation we have now? Even some trans people today didn't know as much about our own genders back when we were younger. Remember, what you have today, you will always owe to yesterday.











