itsybitsyjoltik:

i’m always a little hesitant to post things like this directly in the tags, but i am really tired of people acting like alluka’s gender is confusing or hard to understand, or developing convoluted theories to justify calling her a boy

alluka is heavily implied to be a trans girl; that is, an individual who was designated male at birth who identifies as female. (please note: using masculine language to refer to someone who identifies as female regardless of her stage of transition is known as misgendering and it’s transphobic. please don’t do this.) this is the simplest explanation for her gender, it’s consistent with canon, and it’s consistent with togashi’s previous works. yu yu hakusho featured a minor female trans character named miyuki, and level e feaured a subplot about a transgender man who clearly identified himself as male. (whether togashi was always good at depicting trans characters is another story, and miyuki was really poorly handled. that’s not the point, though.)

now, technically, alluka never explicitly refers to herself as a girl. however, killua does, on multiple occasions. emphatically. the election arc makes it very clear that killua knows alluka (and nanika) better than anyone else. the rest of the family, the ones who refer to alluka as male, are proven over and over throughout the arc to not know alluka as well as killua does, to be wrong about alluka. and how would they know better? they’re the ones who keep her locked away, dehumanize her, consider her not to be part of the family.

(incidentally a lot of their treatment of alluka is consistent with some of the abuse trans kids face in real life hmm)

if anyone wold know how alluka identifies, it’s killua.