Anime & Manga
Ryuunosuke Mogumo: I never said I want to be a girl... and... I really am not a boy.
Mei Tatebayashi: What are you saying!? That makes no sense! Do you think you're completely a girl now!?
Mogumo: Why are you deciding... that I have to be a girl if I'm not a boy? You guys shouldn't be making up your mind about my gender. I'm not a boy or a girl!
Mei Tatebayashi: What are you saying!? That makes no sense! Do you think you're completely a girl now!?
Mogumo: Why are you deciding... that I have to be a girl if I'm not a boy? You guys shouldn't be making up your mind about my gender. I'm not a boy or a girl!
"He said it didn't feel like his gender was right when he was young. In middle school, he said wearing the girls' uniform was brutal for him, but realized no one else felt like that. Still, he felt afraid of talking about it with his parents. Thinking he was betraying their expectations... Thinking it would make them sad... It agonized him. His own existence made him feel uneasy... and alone. He said he was so afraid of the future, he couldn't bear it. But after graduating school and moving out on his own, he started living as a man. And once he did, the unease he always felt vanished and the pain he felt in his heart became a lot more bearable."
—Maki Katsuragi, Stars Align
Fan Works
"There are days when she feels good about the breeze in her hair, the smoothness of her torso, her casual, masculine gait. Then she catches sight of herself in a shop window, and the warm wisp of confidence evaporates away. She sees a tall, gawky girl with short hair sweating under too many clothes, and pretending to be something she's not."
Video Games
I've been patiеnt, but it was bearable
I've had a gray haze for a long time, though
I never found out, what it was, I-
Tastes like vegetables I don't like.
I've had a gray haze for a long time, though
I never found out, what it was, I-
Tastes like vegetables I don't like.
—The Town Inside Me, Guilty Gear -STRIVE-
Visual Novels
"Everywhere I go, I feel like I'm being turned away. I can't go to women's spaces because I'm not legally a woman. But I can't go to men's spaces because I obviously don't belong there either. It just makes me too anxious to even — to even go on a spa trip with my friends, because society keeps telling me that I'm not... that I'm not really a woman. But then what the hell am I supposed to be?"
—Haru, one night, hot springs
