Talk:Okamaitachi/@comment-3014359-20160928214332/@comment-3459576-20170110231821

It's not even about "being PC".

Okama is a gay man. Period. He's not trans. He's not "female" at all.

He's an okama.

You can sorta think of okama as a sort of "fulltime drag queen". Though that's not really right. There just simply is not a real equivalent thing in western culture.

But what IS right is that okama is a type of gay man.

While the term can be used derogatorily for a MtF transgendered woman.... there isn't anything offensive when you call an actual okama an okama. Much in a similar way that calling a transgendered woman a drag queen is transphobic, but it's not offensive to call a drag queen a drag queen.

If anything, not having Okamaitachi being listed as a man is homophobic. You're using western ideas of transgender to silence a long established type of asian homosexual representation. All in the name of "being PC".

If anything, the politically correct thing to do would be to list him as a man and have an explanation of what an Okama is in the trivia section.