不可解なぼくのすべてを・FukaBoku Vol. 3 ♀♂

[Aislin]

I remember @Ditto20 mentioning something like this:

@Ditto20

Other than that, one more general miscellaneous thing I noticed is that it gradually starts using the proper terms for stuff more as the series progresses(I read an interview with the author and apparently that’s partially because they got permission from the publisher to be more explicit about things after the series did pretty well overall and the publisher became convinced it’d still sell well. The author commented on how there were some things that they did research on and interviewed people about that they originally thought they wouldn’t actually get to use in the story but that did get to show up eventually).

So, according to the above, author did research&interviews.

I’m thinking it is possible Japan is still a little behind on this, similarly to how it is in Poland. I still see the phrases about people “trapped in the wrong body” in Polish media all the time. Of course, it depends on the person - Polish people who also use English (social) media will be up-to-date with recent trends, but when a Polish mainstream news website tries to talk about a trans celebrity, it’s usually a little clumsy (even if the intentions are good), and consequently, people who only rely on that type of source of information, wouldn’t even know that anything changed in that regard.
But I’m not an expert with terminology anyway. And that’s still guesses based on Poland situation, not really an info about Japan situation.

Hm. @Naphthalene lives in Japan. Do you maybe know anything about this topic?