I think it's not yuri. IRL, I'd assume someone who felt that crossdressing "suited" them who preferred to socialize when others saw them as the opposite gender, was not cishet, but this is manga, so... it's whatever the author is thinking (unless you're pro-death of the author, then there's no definitive answer).
I'm more a "Death Of The Author"-guy myself, but even so the characters make it pretty clear that it's "just" a cishet couple with him crossdressing. I think "crossdressing suited me" refers to it befitting his physique and appearance, as specified in the next sentence, less so internal his self-image.
Either way, cute little story.
Death of the Author isn't really something you can be pro or against, it's just a simple fact (established in the 1960s) that the reader makes the meaning out of the story, not the author. For proof, read any comments section here, particularly one with an exasperated Blaastar, and you will see readers make up any story they want. The idea is that it is more productive to read the text closely to draw your interpretation because it is largely fruitless to divine authorial intent through the lens of fiction as if the author was confiding in us, and so that readers can discuss a story and try to convince each other of their interpretation with a concrete point of reference. I guess my point is that whatever the author is thinking is always irrelevant because we only have the text.
And a clarification as it does not mean that characters are like real people or that a story world should be treated as if it were the real world because we don't have or don't care about and author's explanation. I still think you have a valid criticism that the author's phrasing seems suspicious and even misleading in the reasons for crossdressing and time will tell if they're conflating crossdressing and being trans
For the record, that's a paraphrase of Barthes, not my ideas. Don't @me for plagiarism.
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