Genuinely think that the author wanted to originally write the story with a transfem MC but realized that the stigma would fuck it over from being taken in by the big names and instead just made it a yaoi. Like I can't tell me the MC doesn't look transfem (or just the most fem twink you've ever seen)
This all comes from a trans woman btw...
Honestly I relate sooo much to the author in wanting to write(in their case draw) sci-fi alien pay gorn but then getting in over my head with the scale of it all. God(im atheist) willing when I have the money and time, my dream is to publish
I know a character saying something transphobic doesnt immediately or necessarily implicate the author as sharing those views, but that doesn't mean I can't be fucking peeved. "So you'll do it with someone whose not a real woman but not quite a man" FUCK OFF OMG. I READ HORNY YAOI TO ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD, NOT TO READ GAY MEN CONTINUE TO BE HYPOCRITICAL TRANSPHOBES. ONCE A FLAVOR OF F*G, ALWAYS A F*G TO BE GENOCIDED