Ryan Anderson wrote:

No, you are right.  I just got that graphic novel.
So far as I can tell, Tsubasa has simply always been
a transvestite.  There is no complicated explanation.
Sending him to an all-boy's school was probably a
manuever by his parents to get him to cut it out.
I'd surmise that Tsubasa became a master of disguise
simply to escape all the boys who wanted to abuse
him for his effeminacy, and fell in love with Ukyou
when she saved him from some persecution back then,
and he noticed that like him, she was also a
crossdresser.

hmm... your right, I think in the Manga that's how it was, but I could
swear that in the anime there's a line about where Ukyo showed Tsubasa a
picture of onna-Ranma to convince the hentai to leave her alone.. maybe
that happens later in the series.... <I'm not insane!I'm not!>

The timing simply doesn't work.  Even in the series, there is no 
way that Ukyou could have known about Ranma's problem before she
arrived at Furinkan high.  She DOES show Tsubasa a picture of Ranma
claiming girl-Ranma as her fiance, but that happens after.  
Tsubasa is not cross-dressing to win Ukyou's love.  He's hoping that
as a cross dresser herself, she won't hold his cross-dressing against
him.  

but, since this is supposed to be based on the manga, It looks like I
screwed up. <sigh> Gomen.

Great... <sigh> well, at least I didn't post it to RAAC yet, so I still
have time to fix it. I'll revise it and repost it.

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