This is a gender bender and nobody in it is actually trans, but Shun is the most relatable character I've had from like a trans pov. He's a boy whose body was made afab by an incurable disease, and his reaction screams gender dysphoria. This manga has a lot of graphic details. They mention transitioning, but there is no real rep here. This is my list and I make the rules : )
Alrighty, here's another genderbender egg cracker. Nobody in this is trans in a conventional sense, but they get to chose which sex they manifest as during puberty. The mc is 18 and still sexless and genderless. The central conflict of the manga is people trying to make them chose a gender, which I interpret as them being nonbinary and being pigeonholed into a binary gender. This is my list, and you guys can't even complain since comments are still down : )
This is a short story collection, and the first story is about a trans man who is a hunter. Butchering meat if used for (what I consider to be) an allegory for gender dysphoria.
This is more of a pure gender bender not real trans rep (pls note that searching for trans rep is like scraping the bottom of the barrel). The mc, Minoru/Minori, is described as not quite a woman or a man but is canonically a cross dressing man. This is one of my faves from my teen years, but we pretend half the characters aren't fictionalized versions of real people. This has the same artist as Rent-a-Girlfriend, and the art (particularly near the end) is stunning and dynamic.
This is listed as BL, but the love interest contextly seems nonbinary. The couple and story are very cute, but there are scenes with CSA. It's a lot of gay (redundant) theater kid stuff
This is an ecchi manga where both partners switch sexes and don't have a set gender identity (nonbinary to me). They have somewhat interdimensional levels of gay. I don't really like this manga, but maybe some of you will
I found this recommended as transmasc rep, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's just a oneshot and has nothing really to differentiate it between a classic tomboy gender bender and transmasc rep. It's almost like gender is fake and made up or something
One of the characters is a trans woman and practically all the others are crossdressers.
This is a pixiv manga about a person whose future self comes back in time to get them to transition younger. MC is MTF
Another gender bender oneshot shared as trans rep. Mc lives as a woman but confesses to all the ppl they date that they're male. I don't see much in this manga, but maybe others do (again finding trans rep in manga is like scraping the bottom of the barrel and horrifically difficult)
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Is is about intersex people, which could qualify as trans.
also homunculus is a great book overall but it felt like the two main characters were secretly in a shounen ai and then it went into body dysmorphia and closeting to meet expectations and then they seem transition and is accepted. its was honestly such a cool surprise to find canonical trans rep that was handled well in a surreal horror-ish manga.
danganronpa has a trans character that wasn’t handled as well as i wanted it to be, but better than initially expected. there’s tons of djs but im pretty sure there’s an official adaptation.