horrors beyond reading comprehension

let's dive in, shall we?

I'm actually fascinated by the idea that both being born a girl but realizing he's a boy at some point, AND becoming old enough to be considered the only 'qualified' warrior fit to lead the South Pole village in chief Hakoda's absence — and by extension of this, becoming so vehemently for the idea of establishing gender roles between himself and Katara as siblings, especially gender roles he would have shed from himself in realizing he's a boy, and placed on Katara's shoulders instead — would have tied into his at first misogynistic personality.

the idea of him being transmasc and coming to terms with embracing his own identity could work in tandem with him learning to overcome the misogyny he might have at some point let himself come to believe was actually vital to his role in following his father's footsteps and leading/protecting the village while Hakoda and the other men were off to the war.

with the idea that he was born a girl but is actually a boy, thank you, and he's been placed with the burden of being the only 'proper' warrior left who's fit to protect the village with Hakoda gone, we could definitely, very easily, have it so that he would think: why should girls be allowed to fight if they don't have to? if it's not the duty and the responsibility they've been given? (even if that is a very narrowed and (at first) limited worldly experience mindset)

then Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors come along, and prove him wrong. and that opens his mindset to not only accepting the notion of girls being warriors, too — the notion of girls having been given the duty and responsibility to protect their own, all the same as he has — but also to him embracing his own identity even further; only this time, to embrace the latter without the internalized misogyny.