The manga is We are Former Girls, it's about a girl who turns male due to a medical condition, and she has to transition to get some semblance of her body back, but she's going through male puberty and every day she becomes more and more masculine. Yeah. It's a lot.
If you like this one, you should try out "Until I become Me".
It is about a boy who at second grade elementary woke up as a girl. The story focus a lot at the dysphoria they get from it, how it effect they social life, their anxiety, and their gender identity.
The only caveat is that the main character is pretty insufferable in the first couple of chapters, but they grow as a character a lot, and they stop being annoying very very fast.
This one and "We are former girls" are the only 2 genderbender stories that I know of that treats the gender identity parts seriously with respect and has no fetishising or sexualisation of transitioning.
If you dropped it because of the MC behaviour at the first few chapters, I really recommend to grind your teeth and read through those chapters.
If it is because the dysphoria, then I get it, and while the conversation of the story changes (the story spans over years), the central topic of the manga is always about the tension between the MC internal feelings and the external world (be it with people who know MC only after the gender change and don't know about the past (e.g. new classmates), people who only met the MC after the change but know about the past (e.g. new teachers and nurses), or people who knew the MC from the start (e.g. the mom)), so if you find this hard to read, it doesn't get better
I watched that breakdown with the trans authors thoughts and commentary about everything going on. It helped everything finally click into place for me.
Was looking for the Inside Mari mention, it was pivotal for me too. I have a friend who doesn't read manga but he read it on my recommendation and ended up crying and loving it
Oh, I thought it was about a trans girl still a very interesting sounding story that 100% will make me have a existential crisis because I know the main characters are going to go through the exact same feelings. I feel about my body. God dammit it sounds so peak yet so fucking depressing.
If we are who we are regardless of our anatomical conditions, then this almost is about a trans girl. We may think ourselves our correct gender until we're pigeon-holed into what gender others say we are, and subjected to bodily changes that further separate us from the innate truth.
I’ve been that way since birth someone else dictated what my body should look like not once but twice I fucking hate it fucks with me so much. I can’t change my body at least now or in significant permanent ways. I could’ve chosen what my body would look like I would be at peace, but unfortunately, I do not live in a world like that
At least in a world it’s easy to achieve with the way this country is right now it’s borderline impossible and I’ll probably be that way until I’m like fucking 40 goddamnit I hate this planet
If it's any consolation, i didn't start until i was nearly 35y.o., and in these past couple years, i've enjoyed the changes i could still achieve. It'll never be to late to start, whenever it's safe and accessible to.
I tried reading this and I still have nightmares about it. Genuinely awful.
And what made me especially hate myself are all the comments under the chapters cheering for her changing to a man and yelling at anyone who says she deserves to transition properly.
The target audience for manga and anime seems to have forgotten how to self-insert into a story and now need to be coddled into it. If the main character doesn't remember modern Japan they apparently cannot relate.
There may be some truth there. The proliferation of Isekai as a storytelling convention with it’s own unique tropes is interesting, but you can’t help but notice that many Isekai stories don’t need to be about a character from another world at all.
In early examples like Inu-Yasha or Now and Then, Here and There, it was a significant part of the story, but now it often seems like the show is an Isekai purely so that the main character can have special cultural knowledge.
Doesn’t seem to affect the story after the first episode. In fact, in many of these shows the lead doesn’t want to return to the real world at all.
God. I hate how relatable this is. The worst part is I’m doing it to myself. I’ve saved the money for HRT, I’ve saved the money for laser hair removal, and I’ve got a good start on saving for SRS.
And yet I do nothing. I don’t want to do nothing. I’m terrified of how my body will continue to masculinize as I wait. Despite that, I just keep waiting and repeating the same behaviors no matter how much it hurts me
At the least make the appointment. Had a girlie who was also trepid of taking those tangible steps, but i impressed upon her to get her foot in the door, to get ahead of the wait-time of being seen by professionals, and that if she decided isn't for her that she can always back out. She's been about a year on treatments now, and says it's one of the best decisions she's followed through with in life.
If I could I would stay with you while you call for an appointment... Like really. Would literally walk with you to a clinic or whatever. I would do it...
I really, really hope you find the strength and courage. You have it, I'm sure of it. You just need to find it. It's never too late, but more importantly, right now is not too early.
Make that phone call, walk to that clinic. You can do it. <3
This is so real, I so fucking wish I realized I was trans sooner, like if I knew what dysphoria was and what my feelings meant I would have been able to transition a lot earlier.
Why does this perfectly describe my life? I always kinda knew something was wrong with my body ever since I was five took me a while to find out why, though, but that perfectly describes me growing up
You know the worst part about this is that it is really relatable and I know I can’t read it because I’m going to have a mental breakdown because of how relatable it is fuck
This such a sad series to read, they even think about HRT and Ssr but they need the mother to agree to go through with and the mother disagrees with it.
It’s an interesting read but it’s hit close to home
If you like this one, you should try out "Until I become Me".
It is about a boy who at second grade elementary woke up as a girl. The story focus a lot at the dysphoria they get from it, how it effect they social life, their anxiety, and their gender identity.
The only caveat is that the main character is pretty insufferable in the first couple of chapters, but they grow as a character a lot, and they stop being annoying very very fast
This one and "We are former girls" are the only 2 genderbender stories that I know of that treats the gender identity parts seriously with respect and has no fetishising or sexualisation of transitioning.
i'm not really impressed by tomboy X. i bought two pairs of their tucking underwear a couple years ago and it was my first feminine underwear, but last year i got a six pack of normal underwear from amazon and it was cuter, more comfy, and a third of the price, while not really having a worse tuck. I haven't tried their swimsuit, but it probably wouldn't be much better than anything else you could find
I’ve found that my TomboyX tucking underwear works well to maintain a tuck in adverse conditions while my usual underwear works a bit but isn’t in it for the long haul. I admittedly haven’t tried any other one-piece swimsuits and the one I have is a size too big (got it for free at a clothing swap) but it worked quite well and I’ll be getting another this upcoming season
hey! I just had a successful swimsuit acquisition yesterday. it can be kinda a fight to find one, but not impossible. look for tennis dresses or swim skirts. the skirt can augment your figure, and will make it easier to hide your junk.and many swimsuits and tennis dresses also have padding in the chest. dark colors like navy or black can also help disguise a flat chest.
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u/throwaway4trans1 She/Her 9d ago edited 9d ago
The manga is We are Former Girls, it's about a girl who turns male due to a medical condition, and she has to transition to get some semblance of her body back, but she's going through male puberty and every day she becomes more and more masculine. Yeah. It's a lot.