Would you believe, in The Australian Financial Review of all places, there is a full-page article about a manga comic called Wandering Son, which tells the story of two teenage kids....Shuichi, "a boy who wants to be a girl" and Yoshino, "a girl who wants to be a boy".
The article says that the story was originally published in a magazine called Comic Beam, ran from 2002 to 2013 and was adapted into a TV series in 2011, which was apparently very popular. They claim over a million readers and viewers.
Perhaps some of you aficionados have heard of this or maybe even read or watched the story. It would seem that at least a segment of Japanese society is more sympathetic to people like us than most Western ones, at least in comic books.
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But it has not been not too long ago that a Post-op TS was featured prominently as finally being able to work a regular job and people were actually surprised at how average she was. There is a split between the fantasy and the real one there.
Oh and Japanese seem pretty strict about cultural norms
Some Ex-American became a Japanese citizen. The rigors he had to go through was incredible. The most difficult part was the random inspections of his home where it was essentially evaluated as to whether it was 'Japanese enough.' He had to be totally fluent in the language and behave totally within expected cultural norms too.
Cultural norms are pretty heavily enforced there and manga provides an outlet I guess.