I get your view, but can't he be a Bisexual Man who wants a sex change. He is bi because in the Jack the Ripper Arc, Grell said he fell for Madam Red the first time he saw her kill. That shows he has some love for women but only emotionally not sexually. Grell also falls in love with guys like William and Sebastian, both emotionally and sexually. Grell is a man because in the manga it states:"he wishes to have a child but cant because he is a guy."Proving he is a man. Message me4more nospaceleft
This blog really is mostly concerned with the controversy surrounding Grell’s gender, so I’m going to direct you over to this post, which discusses conflicting canon concerning it.
But I’m also happy to talk about Grell’s sexual orientation. From a reply to an ask I received which mentioned this topic in the context of bisexual erasure:
As for Grell’s relationship with Madame Red, that’s also unclear. Was their relationship sexual, romantic, platonic? Though the word “love” is used in the English translation, I believe this translates from the original Japanese more closely to “fondness”. Personally, though, I do see Grell as bisexual, and the dismissal of the fact that some relationship did exist between them is a problem this fandom has.
Honestly, I don’t have much to add to that. Though Grell certainly shows a preference for men, both through [their] behavior and with statements like “Between man and woman, love is a kind of warfare! No, love is man and man in a tragic dream play!” in The Tale of Will the Reaper OVA, it’s absolutely plausible, arguably probable, that Grell is bisexual and/or biromantic based on [their] relationship with Madame Red. You, seeing Grell as having been romantically, but not sexually, attracted to her, would define [them] not as bisexual, but as biromantic and homosexual. That’s a perfectly valid interpretation.
Moving on to your “proof” that Grell is a man, you’re plucking one statement out of canon and ignoring the rest. More than that, however, I think the real issue is that you’re conflating sex and gender. They are not the same. Grell’s physical sex is male. Grell’s gender identity is indeterminate. There are many ways to interpret Grell’s gender given what the author and character have said and taking cultural (and possibly historical) influences into consideration, but if you believe that Grell legitimately wants a sex change (since you did bring this up), then a cisgender (in alignment with [their] physical sex, male) interpretation is disrespectful.
I linked my post earlier because I feel like you should be familiar with the rest of canon (and the materials outside of it) before you argue Grell is one gender or the other (or another entirely).
