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Date: 2025-05-02 05:59 pm (UTC)You've already been recommended three of the four great cross-dressing dramas of the mid to late 2000s, the fourth and IMO queerest one is Painter of the Wind. There's what comes extremely close to a f/f romance (may even be one) in the first half, and the protagonist's gender identity is readable in multiple directions throughout.
There's also the most (accidentally?) queer Taiwanese drama I've ever seen, Bromance (2015). The reveal comes very late: the male lead has his pansexual awakening AND a whole coming-out with his family before it hits. And IMO the protagonist is readable as non-binary/bigender throughout (the Doylist reason, I suspect, is that the actress looks super hot as a boy, but that doesn't detract).