Ruka Urishibara

Ruka Urishibara (漆原 るか Urishibara Ruka) is a character from Steins;Gate. She is a transgender woman who lives as a shrine maiden with her father. Her character arc involves using a time machine created by the protagonist Okabe Rintaro to change the past so she would have been born female. She then professes her love for Okabe, and there are a few emotional scenes where she worries that people wouldn't understand her love for him if she was a boy, but she agrees to change the past back and reverse the change in order to save her friend Shiina Mayuri.

Controversy surrounds Ruka, centered around whether she is a transgender woman or a homosexual man. While she is referred to as a boy and the characters in the show as well as several official websites generally use male pronouns for her, she does mention several times that she wishes to have been "born a girl", that she is serious about it, and that she wishes "the things you can see would match the things you, well, can't." While she does not correct the other characters about referring to herself as a boy, this could be explained by her notable shyness and difficulty asserting herself.