I dropped steins gate a few weeks ago because of how transphobic it was. I was so mad I st...

It really depends on the mangaka and their audience. Also, if you think about Sailor Moon having a lesbian couple, that in the West was turned into cousins, we also can't really blame Japanese.

I've watched a lot of anime and read many mangas so I noticed that fetishising women and queers is a common troop and I'm not ok with it. However like there is an exception for every rule, there is respectful content out there. Which is why I make sure to select what is agreeable with me and drop whatever makes me uncomfortable. I'm not blaming anyone, I'm being realistic.

I understand your point. But you mention about how Japanese "are maybe more knowledgeable in these matters" when each culture has their own shortcomings and most west modern cultures are the ones that are against the acknowledgement of fluid gender and sexuality.
Your very first sentence can easily be applied to most modern western media actually.
I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything. I hope this doesn't sound hostile. It's just that we tend to judge other cultures when ours could use some work. Specially when western culture is hegemonic and at least we could use that to make some changes.

Why do you insist on comparing Japanese culture to its western counterpart? Not only that but phrasing it so it sounds as if I AM the one doing so? Do you think I'm western? Do you think I'm being subjective? Well you're wrong. I'm neither of the two. I'm talking solely about the anime industry and how it usually fails my expectations in creating good representation of the LGBT community. There is no culture that is superior to another so stop implying that I'm saying so. One can't expect perfection from a man-made construct when humans themselves are as imperfect as could be.

I keep comparing it because western culture and Japanese culture has many differences. If I were to compare it to Korean culture, I know I can find way more similitudes. There's also the point that "thanks" to modern western culture being hegemonic and invasive, it tends to try to erase certain things. For example, many native people were welcoming of different gender and sexualities until the arrival of Europeans. It happened too in Asia. The arrival of western culture was detrimental to certain aspects of native cultures.
I should also mention it was not because I think you are western, after all we are in the internet, I have no right to assume from where the other party is from. I do blame my wording though. I KNOW and what's worst, I knew back when I was writing the other comments I wasn't using the correct wording. I do apologize for that. I should have googled for another term to express myself.
My point, which got lost in translation, was that you point out that maybe Japanese are more knowledgeable. I was just trying to point out that many mangas and anime have a somewhat educated portrayal of LGBTQ+ people, as you already know. With this I was trying to offer a counterpoint to your comment saying that maybe Japanese people are more knowledgeable about it that you thought, when a "culture" (really not sure about that term) regarded as the epitome of inclusion such a modern western culture(I know it is not, I'm just saying how it is regarded as) has not been very welcoming of diverse representation when Japanese have been doing it way before it was "mainstream" in western media. That's why I referred to Sailor Moon.

Well you touching on subjects such as globalization, colonization and cultural whitewashing shows just how off topic you are. So while what you said is more or less historically correct, there is no point in bringing it up. I am not Japanese so I'm not in the right position to talk about how affected and/or changed their culture was because of western influence. I can say however that the Japanese can be pretty conservative and protective of their culture, refusing thus to adapt to new ideals and this was actually stated by Japanese youth themselves. So as I've said before while there is good LGBT representation in anime, there are more bad ones used as clickbait or else known as queer baiting. I want you bring new points to the table instead of rephrasing the same ones repeatedly or we'll only end up going in circles.

I remember Steins Gate being the anime that got me into anime? What was transphobic about it (it's been a while since I watched it)

There was this character named shiina Mayuri, a trans girl. Everyone knew about that but they kept using he/him pronouns to address her and generally seen her as a guy. Later on, shiina said that she wished she was born in a female body. So the team was like you know what we will send a message back in time when your mother was still pregnant with you and tell her to eat a lot of veggies. Because veggies=baby girl and meat=baby boy. Let's not even talk about how sexist that is but how come that supposedly "geniuses" believed shit like that???!! Moving on. Time changes, a new alternative universe is created where shiina is born as a cis female. Only after that did they start treating her as a girl. Do you know just how invalidating that is of trans people? That was the point where I decided fuck this anime and dropped that shit. It's a miracle that it actually encouraged you to watch more anime. The characters were cliche and cringey beyond measure and the plot was so predictable, I was dying of boredom. Had steins gate been my first anime, I would've made my last as well.

They actually did bring new points to the table even went all into breaking it down for you as to why the Japanese may be the way that they are now. But of course, you probably didn't like their comment and thought they were just repeating themselves when they weren't. If anything the one who is mostly repeating themselves without bringing much to the table themselves is you. But I digress....