Yohei from 'Welcome Back, Alice' strikes me as a more authentic trans character (as a teenage boy who doens't transition nor really have gender thoughts) than Kei who is living as a teenage girl, due to how little any of the realities of being a trans girl and the social situations of that and transmisogyny and dysphoria affect her. Like Yo is anxious as shit all the time, he's got fixations on women both sexual and yearning and it's just interesting. Kei is also like incredibly forward sexually which is possible but it comes off in an okama way.
Like I know Shuuzo Oshimi is probably a trans woman just from the ways he writes about longing to be a woman. However, he has clearly not internalised any actual lived experience of what it means to be a trans woman or girl and how people treat trans woman and girls, especially in Japanese high schools with relentless bullying. I don't know, it really feels like he's just basing everything off manga he's read instead of like actually trying to work out what a trans woman is like as a person
