History Main / TransTribulations

* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': Downplayed. Antola Maeir is an athlete who transitioned in 2011[[note]]It should be noted that it wasn't always referred to as such; initially, the Strange Potion explanation was a HandWave from the staff after simply forgetting what gender he was. The site only started acknowledging its {{LGBT Fanbase}} in TheNewTwenties, after multiple changes of staff.[[/note]]; a relatively trivial matter in Neopia, as an item called a Strange Potion is available to change a neopet's sex in an instant. He revealed in [[https://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=986 a Neopian Times interview]] in 2023 that he ''did'' get some in-universe criticism accusing him of using the Strange Potion as a [[SuperSerum performance-enhancing drug]], but his team captain was highly supportive of him, and the officials made sure that there was not, in fact, any significant change in performance.

* ''WebVideo/OutWithDad'': Morgan, a transgender member at the PFLAG meetings, recounts having been beaten and raped by some men in the past due to being trans.
* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', the early main focus was on those characters who were gender-bent against their will -- specifically, either via the Exemplar power-set, Gross Structural Dystrophy, or something even more esoteric, and who are (for the most part) learning to adapt. As the series has progressed, it's become clear that many mutants and, of course, normal folks, are ''still'' trans and don't have the benefit of an Avatar or Exemplar powerset to help things along. Some still take the mundane route, slow as the path may be. Others are desperate enough to go so far as a DealWithTheDevil, either figuratively or ''literally'', and those never turn out well. And more esoteric (and horrific) variants exist than even that. And that's to say nothing about how they're ''treated''...

* "Manga/MuraiKunWantsToFuckMizunoKun": Murai was considered one of the hottest "girls" in school, but acted as an untouchable IceQueen who turned down every attempt to date "her". He knew that he'd stand out too much if he tried to openly live as a boy, but pretending to be a girl was exhausting, so he just kept to himself to make it easier. Physically, hje started hormones too late to prevent breast development, and hasn't had gender reassignment surgery because he's bad at saving money. And when he tries to seduce the ostensibly straight Mizuno, Mizuno ultimately begs off due to feeling it's disrespectful to Murai's gender identity to desire his still-feminine physical body rather than want to have sex with him as a man.

Common themes include being [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset forcibly outed]] to [[OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire disastrous]] [[UnsettlingGenderReveal consequences]], being referred to as the wrong pronoun (sometimes [[GenderedInsult deliberately]]), having parents who WantedAGenderConformingChild, being MistakenForGay (though some trans individuals certainly are gay, most people tend to think [[TransEqualsGay heterosexual trans individuals are confused gay people]]) or a {{crossdresser}}, and more often than not, SelfHarm, [[GayngstInducedSuicide dying of suicide]] or being [[HomophobicHateCrime murdered due to being trans]]. And on the opposite side of the spectrum, there are people who ''really'' like trans people, but [[TransChaser sexualize them to the point of dehumanization]].

* The obscure 90s manga ''Barcode Fighter'' has the main character Retsu's best friend Sakura, who is a young transgender girl. When her secret is exposed during a hot springs trip, one of their other friends, Kai (who had a crush on Sakura), freaks out, calls her a slur and continues to misgender her after Retsu leaps to her defense. After Retsu and him have a Shonen-standard VR mecha fight, Kai apologises for how he acted. Sakura's trans identity is brought up multiple times from that point onwards, including her dysphoria, her friends coming to her defense when she's bullied and Kai's continuing struggles to come to terms with him being in love with a "guy" and eventually accepting Sakura as she is, even after being met with her in the body of a cis female [[ItMakesSenseInContext princess in a video game]].

* [[spoiler: Utsuromiya]] from ''Manga/LifeIsMoney'' was bullied as a child for being a trans girl. Even though she looked feminine, her father didn't let her have a red backpack (which all the girls had), which made her stand out from the other girls while her appearance made her shunned by the boys. She is in such despair over being unable to afford surgery to change her sex characteristics that she signs up for a DeadlyGame in a last ditch effort to pay for it. [[spoiler: This trope is exploited by her killer. The participants in the game will die if they experience enough mental anguish, so her killer gives her a TraumaticHaircut while taunting her about her gender identity to cause her enough emotional pain for her to meet the threshold to die.]]

** Shūichi Nitori is a trans girl. She's always been feminine and could pass as a short-haired girl sometimes, however she didn't really start experimenting with her gender until she met Takatsuki in fifth grade. Early on, Nitori's family found it amusing when she dressed as a girl but eventually they noticed it wasn't a phase. Her sister Maho especially turned into a [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]] while her mother is confused and in denial. Nitori has to deal with the onset of puberty, puberty itself, and her wanting to be seen as a girl. At one point in middle school, she [[spoiler:went to school in a SailorFuku]] and was promptly sent back home. She ended up bullied the rest of her time at the school. Her girlfriend Anna broke up with her due to the incident, but eventually, they got back together and by the end of high school [[spoiler:Anna [[IfItsYouItsOkay mentions she's fine with being seen as a lesbian]].]] In high school, Nitori has difficulty getting a job because she doesn't like working as a boy. She temporarily worked as a cafe both as a boy and a girl, but later quit and ([[Really17YearsOld illegally]]) got a job working as a waitress at a gay bar. With Yuki's (who ''owns'' a gay bar) guidance, Nitori ultimately decides to go to college and become a writer.

* Tetsuo from ''Manga/{{Yuureitou}}'' is a trans man living in 1950s Japan. Growing up, he felt ostracized from others due to not being like the girls at his orphanage. Once he was adopted, his mother would always get into fights over him about his boyish behavior and explicit desire to be a man. It got to the point where she [[ArrangedMarriage arranged a marriage for him]], despite him not liking boys [[spoiler:[[ClosetKey at]] the time.]] Tetsuo ended up [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan killing his mom]], faking his [[MurderSuicide suicide]]]], and running off as a man. Tetsuo notes that he can't get a girlfriend because they all get upset when he comes out to them. [[spoiler:He eventually ends up the OfficialCouple with Taichi, who sees him as a man.]]

* Played for drama in the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "Wish I May...". TeenGenius Simon Siezmanski was ostracized in high school and pushed to become the EvilNerd Simon Says, but eventually develops grudging respect for the AllLovingHero [[TheCape Starbright]]. When Starbright [[spoiler:dies on a mission and is posthumously revealed to be the school's LovableJock]], Simon finally takes [[BeYourself Starbright's advice]], acknowledge his transgenderism, and begins the transition to female.
* ''ComicBook/CheerUpLoveAndPompoms'' involves Beatrice, a chearleader and trans girl. The book is more about her relationship with former friend Annie, but does include the way she faces microaggressions (even from her own friends and teammates) and outright hostility from transphobes.

* ''Fanfic/NoCheatCodesAvailable'' focus a lot on the dysphoria that Kaz/Kazue undergoes, whether related to her body, her presentation, or her worries about how people will perceive her.

* In ''Fanfic/HollyPotterAndTheWitchingWorld'' Fred Weasley has identified as a girl all her life, and has made the full transition at the age of ten. While her family is accepting and supportive, society is less so -- partially thanks to common transphobia and partially thanks to the fact that in this AU there are far more witches than wizards to begin with, so trans girls don't get a lot of understanding.
* ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'': May Marigold and Mai Natsume are both trans women and have undergone their own tribulations stemming from bigoted family members. May's family was abusive to her on multiple levels and it wasn't until she came to Mantle and joined the Happy Huntresses where she found a new family that accepted her for who she was. Mai, on the other hand, was able to have relatives that supported her in the form of her mother's side of the family: the Natsumes. Her birth father, however, was heavily abusive when he found out, going so far as to disown her. Said abuse factors heavily into her fears of coming out, not wanting to face the possibility of rejection.

* ''Film/AgnesAndHisBrothers'': The story is about a BigScrewedUpFamily in modern-day Germany, three siblings in particular. The third, Agnes, is a transgender woman, and life's a hell for her.
* ''Film/BetterThanChocolate'': Judy, a trans woman, hasn't been spoken to her family for a couple years when the film starts. She's thrilled to get a letter her parents sent, and get a house from them too. Later she sings about how she's not a drag queen, and to please call her "ma'am" not "sir". When in the women's bathroom at the club, she's harassed and assaulted by a cis women who gets outraged over her being there. She gets rescued by Maggie and Kim. Lila is later shocked to find out she's trans briefly, though she gets over it. Judy is later devastated to learn her parents got her the house not to reconcile, but to have her "go away". However, she's got close accepting friends and finds love with Frances in spite of her struggles.

* ''Film/BoysDontCry'' is about a real-life trans man, Brandon Teena, who's outed after living in Falls City, Nebraska for a while. His former friends [[spoiler: rape and murder him when they discover it]]. There's also a hard scene where Brandon has to get a medical examination from a doctor that misgenders him. After he's outed, he also gets called various slurs plus "it", with many (including of course his future murderers) expressing their disgust or hostility to him.
* ''Film/TheCryingGame'': In the famous twist, Dil is a pre-op trans woman. Fergus had no idea before she undresse. He gets pretty upset at first, even hitting Dil. However, he's soon apologized to her and still wants Dil after this.

* The Netflix documentary ''Disclosure'' is about the issues transgender people face working in Hollywood, especially if people of color. This includes typecasting trans people in roles like the DisposableSexWorker or DepravedBisexual villain, or simply a character whose only role is to be the butt of transphobic put-downs. It also includes being passed over for roles playing trans characters in favor of casting a cis person in their place, or of simply being shut out of major roles altogether.

* In ''Film/MaVieEnRose'' Ludovic, a 7-year-old trans girl, is misunderstood at every turn, tries to butch it up, fails, feels miserable, gets insulted, beaten up and attempts suicide. She begins to find resolution to her problems toward the end of the film.
* In ''Film/Normal2003'', Ruth transitions after 25 years of marriage. Few in her small-town understand or accept the transition. Her family has an especially troubling time with it, but Ruth's wife Irma decides that she loves her too much to divorce.

* ''Film/TheyThem2022'': Alexandra is only at the camp because her parents had threatened to ostracize her, forbidding her to see her little brother if she didn't. Then at the camp Sarah walks in on Alexandra showering, discovering via this that she's a trans woman, after which she gets forced to use the men's dormitory and shower, as Owen feels she deceived him for (unlike Jordan) not disclosing her status on arrival.
* ''{{Film/Transamerica}}'': Bree, a pre-op trans woman, is forced by her psychiatrist to reconnect with the son she fathered before she came out as trans if she wants to get him to sign-off on her sex-reassignment surgery. This leads her to a road trip across the country to find him.

* In the ''Literature/{{Rollerskater}}'' saga, one chapter reveals the backstory of Chelsea Rose: she suffered with gender dysphoria from a young age, and had a turbulent upbringing, transitioning to female in her mid-teens. Her trans identity is then weaponised against her by a VillainOfTheWeek, which [[BerserkButton does not end well for the offender]].
* ''Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles'': Diana Wrayburn is a trans woman, having secretly underwent sex reassignment surgery in Bangkok a few years back. She confides to Gwyn ap Nudd that the reason why she never applies to become the head of the Los Angeles Institute is because doing so will force her to hold the Mortal Sword and pronounce her birth name -- David Wrayburn -- in front of the whole Clave. She isn't too keen to be outed publicly, especially since Shadowhunter society isn't very progressive.

* Lucita from ''Literature/AgentG'' is a trans woman who took advantage of the advanced cybernetic technology in the setting to become a famous actress as well as assassin. Her father, [[CarnivalOfKillers leader of the Carnivale]], reacted poorly to it despite the fact he provides the technology to do so and they plot against each other.
* In ''Literature/TheHaremProtagonistWasTurnedIntoAGirlAndDoesntWantToChangeBack'' while protagonist Svetlana has a lot of support from most of the cast she still experiences issues with some of her romantic partners, and a lot of self doubt about her identity at first. Her fellow trans woman roomate Cartridge is implied to have far less supportive parents but this only hinted at as it seems they aren't in contact anymore.

** Noah distrusts doctors, with it implied to be a result of his parents trying to stop him transitioning. He approaches Doc nonetheless as he's now cut off from his hormone treatments for medical transition while they're being held in isolation.

* ''Series/{{Clarice}}'': Julia Lawson, a trans woman who helps Clarice, notes she has had to keep her gender secret because it could get her fired. She's also partners with another woman (that would not help, of course), and her partner's suffering from cancer, so this might endanger her too as they get health insurance from Julia's work. At the end of the episode, when her boss (who is behind the plot she had helped Clarice look into) lets slip with her deadname, thus revealing he knows of her past, she's horrified, realizing he has a hold over her. She gently chastises Clarice for never speaking out to rebut the perception Buffalo Bill was trans as well (or worse, a killer because of it), since this harms them by false association with him (and they already suffer a lot of prejudice).

** The original series also had "Ch-Ch-Changes," which was sort of a relay race of trans woman angst issues, from the victim of the week trans woman who insisted on sleeping in separate beds with her cis fiance who wasn't aware that she was trans, to the revelation of [[spoiler: an underground, ''extremely'' risky system for bottom surgery that took place in storage lockers and left at least one dead body]].

* ''Series/DeadOfSummer'': Drew had gender dysphoria from a very young age, telling his mom how he was really a boy at around six at most. His mom told him he was just being silly at first, refusing to accept his statements, including that his new name was Drew after the psychologist who they saw supported this. Drew being outed accidentally to Jessie results in her mocking, deadnaming and attempting to blackmail him. Thankfully, he has blackmail material on Jessie too. When the boy he likes, Blair, learns his secret, he rejects Drew at first. Later though both accept Drew. While it seemed his mom accepted him too, this was tragically averted as though she acknowledged he's a boy, his mom couldn't reconcile the fact he wasn't her daughter, leaving a note to say it's like she's now dead, and cutting off contact with him. At camp he also hallucinates himself as a child taunting him that Drew can't hide his true self.

* ''Series/{{Equal}}'': The hardships of trans and gender nonconforming people are shown in ''Transgender Pioneers''. So-called "masquerade" laws dictated that people couldn't wear any clothing not associated traditionally with their assigned sex. Many trans and gender nonconforming people were arrested on charges of violating them, being harassed frequently as a result, while living as their gender through things such as marrying opened them to charges as well. Trans people were in danger of transphobic hate crimes as well if discovered, with murders included. Many had to keep their gender status a secret for fear or legal or extralegal consequences. Even laws which weren't aimed at gender nonconformity specifically got used this way such as one which prohibited traveling when disguised on public roads invoked to arrest trans people wearing clothing matching their gender. A few of the brave souls who defied this though are shown, paving the way for greater rights, including in a protest/riot that predated the infamous Stonewall uprising, but is far less known.
* ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'': Jules is a trans girl who suffered from severe dysphoria that landed her in psychiatric care, and led to her mom abandoning her. She's also SoBeautifulItsACurse, attracting the drug-addicted Rue and she hooks up with men old enough to be her dad, some of which manipulate her into kinky sex, gets catfished, bullied, and stalked by a fellow student [[spoiler:because she hooked up with his dad]] who threatens to hand in her nudes, making her guilty of child pornography, unless she lies to the police and exonerates him of beating his girlfriend. [[spoiler:She does, but she also leaves town.]]

* Somewhat subverted in ''Series/{{Heartstopper}}'', where the series does allude to Elle being heavily bullied the year before when she was still a student at an all boys school, but doesn't portray her recieving any transphobic abuse in the present, as while a loner, she is welcomed at her new school, and eventually does make friends with a lesbian couple.
* ''Series/LAsFinest'': One case involves the murder of a trans woman, which detectives investigating feel may have been motivated by transphobia. [[spoiler:It turns out to be different though.]] Trans people who the victim knew in a support group mention just how common this is, and some have suffered lesser hate crimes.

* ''Series/PartyOfFive2020'': [[spoiler:Matthew]]'s parents reject his identity and want him to de-transition. As a result, he's left home and won't [[spoiler:apply for DACA]] because it would require using his birth certificate that lists him as female.
* ''Series/{{Pose}}''. The trans characters face challenges relating to being trans in inverse relation with their ability to "pass" as female. Somewhat subverted by Elektra [[spoiler: who loses her "sugar daddy" after completing her gender confirmation surgery]]. Also averted by the fact that none of the trans characters were subjected to sexual or other violence.

* ''Series/SexEducation'': Cal is a non-binary transmasculine person, and most of their story deals with issues around changing rooms, the schools new strict uniform policy, and in the final season, overwhelming dysphoria that drives them near suicidal.

* ''VideoGame/{{Absinthia}}'': [[spoiler:Freya]] was rejected by her parents for transitioning, but found her place in Halonia as a knight. She ended up in a relationship with [[spoiler:Ruthea]], but the latter outed her, leading to her fellow knights ostracizing her.

** Sage is a trans man that resented femininity growing up due to the pressure his parents put on him to perform the gender role. Once he transitioned, he found he could enjoy feminine things as his own choice, but this in turn made his parents dismissive about his transition.

* ''VideoGame/AnOutcry'': The game stars a nonbinary protagonist, the Unnamed, who is repeatedly bullied and berated by two of their neighbors, and another has moments of being InnocentlyInsensitive. They also were [[spoiler:harassed by an ex of theirs, resulting in lingering trauma and at one point being DrivenToSuicide]], along with having intrustive thoughts in the present. They go through a character arc of becoming more outgoing and confident about who they are, for better or worse.

* Andy Kang in ''VisualNovel/ItLivesInTheWoods'' is excluded on his basketball team and told he's there to look good in photos as a PR move, not to actually play. One of his childhood friends, Lucas, accidentally misgenders him early in the book, and despite Lucas' apologies, Andy's reaction implies that it happens often. An exclusive scene reveals that when he first cut his hair short, "that morning at school was hell. The kids called [him] names, and the grown-ups kept giving [him] dirty looks."

** Tom is a trans man who afraid of letting Murfs know, much less sleeping with him, for fear of being seen as a woman.

* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': The character 82 White Chain Returns from Emptiness to Subdue Evil is an angel, a species that has NoBiologicalSex and all refer to each other by male pronouns and 'brother'; their appearances vary but they run the gambit from humanoid to AngelicAbomination to the outright demonic-looking. White Chain presents as androgynous in their armour, their true form in the VoidBetweenTheWorlds looks like a human woman with wings and they claim to feel 'a little feminine' at times, something that the other angels (especially her extremely old and traditional master, 2 Michael) treat the way an intolerant family treats a transperson. [[spoiler:It takes four books for White Chain to truly accept herself for who she truly is, and she spends a lot of time fighting both her brothers' prejudice and her own internalised idea of what an angel is supposed to be to get to that point.]]

* Okura's short comic ''My Childhood Friend Is Really...'' (the title itself riffing on the common romance cliche of reuniting with a close friend of the opposite sex [[SheIsAllGrownUp after they've gracefully hit puberty]]) plays with this. The protagonist has a friend, Yuuki, whom he knew for all of their childhood. When he reunites with Yuuki as a teenager, he listens to their voice and surmises that Yuuki is an androgynous girl, much to Yuuki's shock and sadness. He's only half right--Yuuki is actually a budding trans man and was trying to pass as best as possible, even getting a more masculine school uniform. They drift apart after a while, and years later, the protagonist once again runs into Yuuki on the street, this time not recognizing him at all. In the years since, Yuuki has fully transitioned, started a family, and doesn't look anything like the PrettyBoy he was as a pre-op teenager.

* ''Webcomic/{{Rain|2010}}'' is a SliceOfLife {{Dramedy}} all about the eponymous protagonist's transition from male to female. Rain is a very neurotic trans girl, always afraid someone will discover her secret or that she'll accidentally out herself. As the story progresses she gets a circle of SecretKeeper friends and she becomes more confident, but there still are difficulties. Her older brother Aiken was a huge dick when she came out to him, but he quickly made up for it by researching the subject, realizing she was happy that way, and apologizing. A much nastier event was [[spoiler:Rain's older sister being even more transphobic than Aiken ever was when confronted with the news, and cutting Rain's hair in her sleep when she spent a weekend at her place, in an attempt to "fix" her. Rain didn't take it kindly and disowned her]].

** In [[https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/self-self-self/ "Self, Self, Self"]], Xan realises how much she relies on validation from strangers due her poor self-image and that due to having to wear a face mask during the pandemic, she'll be misgendered a lot more.

--> '''Rain:''' Ugh.. for years I thought of myself as a woman... Now I don't know what that even means to me... I'm tired of being sexualized and dehumanized... Frankly I'm tired of being perceived at all.

* WebVideo/Dimension20 ''The Unsleeping City'': Before the events of the series, Pete Conlan-a trans man-ran away from home due to his transphobic family. When his father manages to track him down with the help of a private investigator in the first episode, he begins to say Pete's deadname before his son unintentionally uses magic to force bubbles to erupt from his mouth and sends him to the dream realm. Later in the series, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses Robert Moses]] references this moment and establishes that he knows about Pete's identities as both transgender and the Vox Phantasma by saying he "wouldn't want to say your ''real'' name or bubbles would come out of my mouth."

* An ''Series/AllMyChildren'' storyline had the lesbian Bianca falling in love with transgender woman Zarf. The storyline was poorly received by those who felt that the writers were trying to avoid writing an actual same-sex romance for Bianca, as Zarf had yet to have reassignment surgery and was still technically a man who was currently in the "living and dressing as a woman" stage of her transition. Indeed, most of the conflict stemmed from Zarf's struggle and desire to be recognized as a woman by everyone, including her would-be lover.

* ''WebVideo/Kontrola'': Anu doesn't celebrate Christmas with his family as they won't recognize him as a man. He also isn't able to legally marry Wera later as his gender is still female on paper.

Common themes include being [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset forcibly outed]] to [[OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire disastrous]] [[UnsettlingGenderReveal consequences]], being referred to as the wrong pronoun (sometimes [[GenderedInsult deliberately]]), having parents who WantedAGenderConformingChild, being MistakenForGay (though some trans individuals certainly are gay, most people tend to think [[TransEqualsGay heterosexual trans individuals are confused gay people]]) or a {{crossdresser}}, and more often than not, SelfHarm, [[GayngstInducedSuicide dying of suicide]] or being [[HomophobicHateCrime murdered due to being trans]]. And on the opposite side of the spectrum, there are people who ''really'' like trans people, but [[TransgenderFetishization sexualize them to the point of dehumanization]].

* ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' has a rather complicated situation with Natani, who -- putting a long and fantastical story short -- was born female, [[SoulFragment had his soul fragmented]] before it was merged with his brother, Zen, resulting in an unbalanced MentalFusion of the two where Zen's perceptions overlap Natani's own. Natani's [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity gender identity has been the subject of intense debate over the years]] (the result of a mixture of [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness potentially unreliable early narrative]] and evolving nuance towards gender identity among author and audience alike), but Natani can presently be described as being trans man suffering from dysphoria that was in part enabled from being mentally fused with a cisgender man, alongside still featuring female anatomy and [[ArmouredClosetGay a frustrating attraction to Keith]]. Presently following some extensive CharacterDevelopment and RelationshipUpgrade with Keith, Natani has since found himself closer to peace with his fluid gender identity.

* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga:'' [[spoiler: Lily Hoshikawa]] is a young transgender girl which caused her to experience gender dysphoria when she started growing body hair. Her father tried to calm her down by telling her it was natural and she had to accept she was growing up. Unfortunately, this only made her more frustrated because she was afraid she would grow up to look like her rather {{Gonk}}ish father. [[spoiler: This is, in fact, the cause of her early death; Lily was so horrified when she grew her first facial hair that, due to already being overworked and having to deal with a father/manager who seemed to care more for her as an actress than as a daughter, she experienced a fatal heart attack. As a zombie, she's happy that she doesn't have to worry about such things anymore.]]

* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': In the non-English versions, Vivian gets bullied by her sisters for being transgender. The English version excludes references to her being trans and has her sisters mock her appearance instead.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' introduces Rose Noble in "The Star Beast", Donna's trans daughter who's deadnamed by a group of teenage boys and confesses that she often doesn't feel like she lives on the same planet as everyone else because she's so different to the rest of her family.

** Shūichi Nitori is a trans girl. She's always been feminine and could pass as a short-haired girl sometimes, however she didn't really start experimenting with her gender until she met Takatsuki in fifth grade. Early on, Nitori's family found it amusing when she dressed as a girl but eventually they noticed it wasn't a phase. Her sister Maho especially turned into a [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]] while her mother is confused and in denial. Nitori has to deal with the onset of puberty, puberty itself, and her wanting to be seen as a girl. At one point in middle school, she [[spoiler:went to school in a SailorFuku]] and was promptly sent back home. She ended up bullied the rest of her time at the school. Her girlfriend Anna broke up with her due to the incident, but eventually, they got back together and by the end of high school [[spoiler:Anna [[IfItsYouItsOkay mentions she's fine with being seen as a lesbian]].]] In high school, Nitori has difficulty getting a job because she doesn't like working as a boy. She temporarily worked as a cafe both as a boy and a girl, but later quit and ([[ReallySeventeenYearsOld illegally]]) got a job working as a waitress at a gay bar. With Yuki's (who ''owns'' a gay bar) guidance, Nitori ultimately decides to go to college and become a writer.