How Trans Character Yamato Fractured the One Piece Fandom

It seems like several times a week now, Twitter likes to show me that “Yamato” is trending, and I’ve finally learned not to click on the link, because all I’ll see are the same arguments rehashed, over and over, never to be resolved. Every so often a particular character or event in a series will become a lightning rod of controversy among fans, but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a situation as unusually contentious as that surrounding Yamato, a fairly new character in the pirate-themed action/adventure manga

raku 🥁 on X: @26th_Primarch @5truggIer @tr4nsluna One Piece was hella transphobic some time ago but the last arc introduced both Yamato and Okiku, a trans man and a trans girl in

How Trans Character Yamato Fractured the One Piece Fandom

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