When we first met Ten'ou Haruka in the S season, we assumed that she was a boy. She wore boyish clothing, had her hair cut short, talked like a boy, and even was into things we classifly as boyish. She was especially into racing, being one of the highest ranked racers in Japan. We weren't the only ones convinced, either; the inner senshi were infatuated with her, and often got very starry eyed when they were around her (very funny..but not as funny as the faces they made when they found out she was a girl!!)

Haruka is involved with another member of the senshi, Kaiou Michiru/Sailor Neptune. This relationship is one of the reasons that the English dubbing of Sailor Moon stopped at the end of the R season for a number of years. Several rumors surround the reason behind their relationship, several of which are excuses as to why they would choose to have a homosexual relationship. The most popular of those seem to revolve around the idea that Sailor Uranus was a boy in a past life, but was reincarnated as a girl.