Sooo many trans dudes try to make this about them (because every trans issue is right?????) My fave is when femme trans dudes say she’s cis because “boys can wear skirts!!!"
is it so hard to take a character who's actually male and put him in a skirt? there's so much art of naegi in a skirt or dress or lingerie, fandom's essentially willing to put literally any character with a penis in a dress. there's no shortage of dudes in dresses
I don't even get why they NEED chihiro to be male anyway, can't they already see themselves in her in a way? she's already obviously confused and torn about what she's supposed to do and think and feel, and that's familiar for a huge majority of us. it kind of seems to me like they're doing the same old sexist "if I'm a BOY I can't possibly relate to a GIRL" routine