I feel weird about this because I don't mind Haruka-is-nonbinary headcanons in the slightest, but I am curious as to where the "confirmed-by-creator" myth came from. There's an often very badly translated line from the manga (and now Crystal) that some people choose to interpret as suggesting she is nb (or more accurately, bigender) which should read like this this, but as far as the creator's concerned she's said very much the opposite.

"All of the Sailor Scouts are girls." "Haruka is a girl."

"...in this case it is (a love) between two girls." "Haruka is a tomboy"

As there seemed to be quite a few people active in the thread yesterday, I'm very curious where you heard that Naoko Takeuchi had said this. Is this new?