If you ask episode they will say it needs to focus on coming out and sh*t like that. Which is totally fine and cool especially when someone is finding themselves and want to learn more about identity but some people in the community just want to read a story in that genre where it is normal. If it relevant enough I guess. Like you can’t just make your cast part of the community just to put it in the genre, if you really want to write one focusing on identities so you can learn more about identity. But if it is basically not at all got anything to do with them but something else.
The whole fact it is a genre in the first place is stupid. It is not clear to anyone what “fits” in the genre not even episode themselves seeing as they keep a story rewritten into a new story that has a female LI. I am not slagging off the author at all but as far as I know she is not part of the community and people who are got their stories kicked off the genre. Totally should be a tag since so many were/are using it as a booster for their story.
So if the identities are important to the plot and you have really researched them then it could fit in the genre but if it is brought up and then forgot about then leave it.