Panels like this make me really confused why people read Tsubaki as cisgender. Because whilst I understand she is confirmed to be such by the author of the manga, her identity and presentation and how she views what she has been through is so interwined with the trans experience.

Whilst I understand realising you are feminine as a man might be very much a major occurance, Tsubaki actively views the person she was before as different in some way- her past self. That sort of division really speaks to me as pre transition, the person she was before she became herself today.

"Becoming the person I want to be" feels a lot deeper than presentation, and I respect everyone's headcanons and understand that some people do find comfort in her as a cis feminine man, but god it is so relatable to the trans experience

Like look!!! Shes talking about her past self and how that was a point of suffering!!! There is an active dislike to her masculine and male presenting past which is so easy to read as dysphoria

Hiragi: Name one thing.

Sakura :French toast.

Umemiya:French fries.

TSUBAKINO FROM WINDBREAKER DOODLESSSS