Well idk, it could be legitimate - but them being a girl char opened them up to it being "more normal", a bit of mental confidence perhaps - who knows.
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I mean, it takes a lot longer than "recently" to phase into a different gender right? You need to go through HRT's and stuff so it seems a bit made up to me
(Although I don't really know anything about it so forgive my ignorance, I have a friend who's transgender but I've never really went into the details about it with her)