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I'm kind of a Yuri expert in the sense that I was part of one of the big scanlation teams that helped got Yuri popular in the west in the 00s and used to do a lot of panels at anime conventions. First of all, westerners always try to put their western perspective on manga and anime. They don't understand that Japan has a completely different culture. Yuri isn't even really a lesbian thing. It is more now with modern Yuri but before it was meant as a pure romance thing. Whereas if you have a hetero relationship it couldn't be pure but one between women was seen that way. It was seen as a way for young girls to discover romance before meeting their husband in university. It was seen as a niche romance genre and usually the mangakas were men or straight women. Even though I'm a lesbian, I was never bothered by the fact that half my panels were men because to me Yuri isn't an exclusively lesbian thing. It is not meant to be representative of lesbian relationships.

In the 90-00s there was the start of a shift towards it being more representative of authentic same sex relationships. Bi and lesbian mangakas would be hired by magazines and Yuri got better and more popular. It was also around that time that trans people would get mentioned in Yuri but not in the way these people think. Transmen are in some Yuri because in Japan transmen stick with lesbians and transwomen with gay men. There is also a distinction between transvestites (crossdressers) and transexuals (takes hormones and lives full time as the other sex). Although it's old now, the best realistic example of this in Yuri is the manga Honey & Honey. You could also go into any gay bar in Japan and see what I mean.

Futa is a type of hentei and is completely unrelated to Yuri. I don't like hentei and have limited knowledge on this but it's very much a different thing. There is the beginning of an LGBT influence in manga though so it might change in the future.

Another example of this sort of cultural misunderstanding is how westerners think the character in Bloom into you is asexual.