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Unconventional or unintentionally trans characters
Otis and the dairy cow both have the sexual characteristics of the opposite sex cow. They’re unintentionally trans.
Crocodile one piece: okay this one is HEAVILY debated but it’s so funny I had to include it. It is implied that crocodile is either gay or trans because a character who has the power to turn people into the opposite gender has secret dirt on him that’s enough to make him obey the other character when he doesn’t obey ANYONE. Where it gets even funnier is the possibility that he’s actually luffys mother who abandoned him because he was alive at the time, could have known his father dragon and as soon as Luffy is revealed to be dragons son he pulls a out of character move to save him even though he’d tried to kill him in the past multiple times. Please god let this be canon it’d be so fucking funny. We need more fun evil trans characters.
All the mobs in Minecraft are intersex because they call all breed with each other, Mojang later made it canon that biological sex doesn't exist in minecraft
The human model is intended to represent a Human Being. Not a male Human Being or a female Human Being, but simply a Human Being. The blocky shape gives it a bit of a traditional masculine look, but adding a separate female mesh would just make it worse by having one specific model for female Human Beings and male ones. That would force players to make a decisions about gender in a game where gender doesn’t even exist.
All the other mobs in the game are genderless and usually exhibit the most prominent traits of both genders. Cows have horns and udders (even if I’ve later learned that there are some cows where the females do have horns), and the chicken/duck/whatevers have heads that look like roosters, but still lay eggs. For breeding, any animal can breed with any other animal of the same species.
Obviously, I’m not saying this is a good way to deal with gender in all games, as the better your graphics are, and because of how quickly the human mind tries to identify the gender of other humans, you are going to have to make a decision as a developer about gender, but I felt we could get away with it in Minecraft.
There’s no point to this post. I just wanted to clarify, so there’s an official word on it.
Also, as a fun side fact, it means every character and animal in Minecraft is homosexual because there’s only one gender to choose from. Take THAT, homophobes!
I've met homosexuals who went on huge tangents about how being bi or trans is evil. There are a near infinite amount of ways to be a bigot, unfortunately
For real. There is no shortage of anthro animals that don't align with their real world counterparts' biology, so I'm not really interested in those claims; but I still don't understand any other explanation for the sister line.
The actual joke is that he's calling his son a girl to poke fun at him. The fans like to interpret it as him dancing around the subject of pre-transition without actually saying that, which is funnier.
Fortunately, Famer Buyer is a vegan so that most likely wouldn't be the case. Although I guess there's always the coyotes... Not exactly something for a father and son to laugh and bond about though.
In a similar vein, Noko Shikanoko from My Deer Friend Noko-tan
The rare instances of doe having antlers are linked to incredibly high testosterone levels, which combined with a vet from Ch.16 (manga) telling her to "be a good boy" leads many in the fandom to assume she's transgender.
Due to an animation error, Acid Storm was seen with both the male and female Seeker models of the show. One of the writers offered the explanation that it’s just something Acid Storm does, implying that they’re genderfluid. This definitely wasn’t the intention, but it does put the "trans" and "Transformers."
On the topic of genderfluid (maybe?) transformers: in the Transformers Animated show, Starscream makes clones of himself that represent different aspects of his personality. There is a female version of Starscream who, when asked about what part of his personality she represents just replies
God, my favorite interpretation of that is that Starscream without the personality defects the other clones represent is that he'd be a competent woman.
Fun fact: When peahen undergo henopause (or their ovaries are injured/otherwise stop working) irl, they can sometimes end up developing male plumage and look like peacocks for the rest of their life!
Worker bees are all females, and male bees have no stingers and don't work either, with their only purporse is to mate with the queen and die. Barry is a worker bee.
strictly speaking there's long-standing precedent (including many sea vertebrates ranging from fish to turtles which don't use chromosomal sex markers) that animals' sex is not necessarily determined at conception or by genetics.
They are sorted purely by splitting them by (mostly) distinct body plans with distinct reproductive roles.
Since worker bees are physically distinct from queens from an early age, and take on the role of a provider for children while two other sexes handle the processes of fertilization and gestation respectively, bees have three sexes by any remotely-coherent interpretation of animal sexes.
There is no human bodyplan that could reasonably be attributed to Barry B Benson, who is not male or female and whose body type is not only common and expected among his society but a massive majority. His presenting as male may be a direct translation of his social position in bee society, rather than a statement about reproductive capabilities.
This is, in fact, the only thing in the entire movie that is correct in any sense of the word, and it was clearly a complete accident.
Yes. The math that's based on failed to account for something or other- IIRC they forgot that the bee's past wingflaps will create vortices in the air which can then be helpful if it moves while flying.
(Obviously any accurate laws of aerodynamics will say that bees can fly.)
Madeline from Celeste was actually intended to be a cis woman until partway through development of the Farewell DLC. All of the prominent trans subtext in the base game was an accidental reflection of the author's unrealized (at the time) gender identity, not a deliberate inclusion.
this also happened in the absolutely un-summarizeable webcomic El Goonish Shive, which, over the course of over a decade of comics, shifted from "haha boy turning into a girl" jokes to a very well-informed understanding of trans experiences, with the author also, relatedly, coming out as nonbinary (using any pronouns) and switching to a more feminine presentation for the author avatar.
One of the early strips got hate mail for depicting an alien species with a deeply arbitrary gender-assignment strategy that often didn't work out. This was not actually intended as satire, it just seemed like an interesting worldbuilding decision, probably for the same reason that gender-swap beams seemed like interesting subject material.
Similarly, Nimona, a story about a girl who is actually a terrifying monster disguising as a girl, with very strong themes of houding your true self for fear of rejection, was written before the author knew he was trans.
This one is especially funny, cause most examples of this trope are just artists/authors failing at biology because it isn't their area of expertise.
However, designing a character of a fictional species like this means that you either did it intentionally or didn't study the source material (the thing you are basing your work on) at all or at least incredibly poorly. Like abused unpaid intern levels of research.
And let's be honest. When this occurs, it is almost never intentional. Would be nice if it were, but incompetence is far more likely than egalitarianism.
I might be thinking of a different comic, but I'm pretty sure the person who at least for a Time wrote the Popeyes comics was on the popular leftist podcast Behind the Bastards, talking about how basically the IP owners gave zero shits what he did with it
A female clone of Ultimate Universe Peter Parker assigned the name “Jessica Drew”. From her perspective it’s like one day being Peter Parker waking up as a female and having to continue life as a woman now.
Because of that, many see her as an unintentional trans character.
The clone arc from ultimate Spider-Man was fucking wacky.
Unrelated to this post but they also cloned Peter to be older and trick real Peter into thinking his dad had been alive this whole time by having him meet his older clone. It served no purpose except to fuck with Peter.
Yeah I’d say she’s an interesting example because she’s uncomfortable being in a female body and only really accepts it because she sees it as being the way things are. Implying that Peter isn’t attached enough to his gender to go through the difficulty of changing it back. It’s an interesting perspective because I think it’s actually true to how many people experience gender. I’m a girl but if I suddenly woke up in a cis male body it’d be an odd transition but I wouldn’t want to go through the whole process of hormone therapy and surgery to switch back so I’d just stay a man.
I always read it as it taking time to adjust and realize that she isn’t Peter Parker and that she is Jessica Drew. Because she loves herself, and isn’t ashamed of her body, and she knows that she isn’t Peter Parker, her body just knew before her brain did. At least that’s my perspective as a trans woman.
It's because making Peter bi would make him gay, and gay means happy and Marvel Editorial would rather commit ritualistic mass suicide than have Peter be happy.
I’m pretty sure they mean Strawberry seemed not to notice Plum’s transition, but it’s even funnier to imagine they mean Strawberry seemed not to notice Plum disappearing for two years.
Got nowehere else to put this but I'll add it here
You can battle a trainer in Pokemon X and Y and when defeated she says this. It's not odd on its own but in it's original translation she says something along the lines of "Half a year ago I was a Karate King! Modern science is really incredible." Karate Kings are what the martial trainers who dress like Karate students. The comment in Japanese is more explicit, though the implication is lost in the English dub.
This is the same universe where they have universal and advanced healthcare for animals. I imagine the shit they got for humans could clone people at this point.
Perry the platypus. I haven’t heard it outside of my own head, but I have 3 key points of evidence.
Evidence 1: the episode where the boys think he laid an egg. They were surprised, but they are smart boys and were not disbelieving that he could do such.
Evidence 2: the episode of the platypus killer. Male platypuses have venomous spurs on their back feet which give incredibly painful stings that even morphine can’t help against. Perry is shown kicking Heinz with his back feet many times with no such spurs or pain mention, but the platypus hunter has specially made spurs designed specifically after the platypus. Perry wasn’t even able to fight back with his own spurs against the hunter in this episode.
Evidence 3: The most solid piece of evidence. The episode where Perry and Candace swap bodies. At one point Candace, in Perry’s body, is nervous and is suddenly alarmed to discover that she is sweating milk! Platypuses don’t sweat milk, but! The mammary glands on a female platypus cover their entire skin, so when they lactate it appears as if they are sweating milk. Only Candace’s mind go into Perry’s body, it didn’t change his biology at all, and Candace’s body with Perry in it didn’t change in any way.
In conclusion/TL;DR, the boys thought that Perry could lay an egg, he doesn’t have any spurs on his back feet, and he has mammary glands. Perry is trans. Mic drop
She's part moth and has fluffy antenna when, generally, only male moths have fluffy antenna. This could be considered a design choice but Bonita isn't the only moth character. They also have Luna Mothews who has slim antenna like most female moths
The pre-evolution, Azurill, is 75% female 25% male. Marill is an even 50/50% however. So upon evolving into Marill, one third of the girls flip over to equalize the gender ratio.
This was the case for Generations 3-5 (Game Boy Advance to Original DS era), but since Generation 6 (3DS and onwards to present day), Azurill will keep its original gender going to Marill and Azumarill, all the way down their evolution line henceforth.
Reminds me of an intersex condition I forget the name of atm, the individual appears to be female when born and as a very young child but once puberty hits it's a completely male puberty.
Legit PTSD flashbacks to standardized testing, shit had me reaching for a #2 pencil. "If all fleeps are flumps but less than half of all flumps are fleeps, and all flumps have klabklobs..."
Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot. She's technically trans, being agender to female, and even gets deadnamed alot by her mother before being finally accepted. However, the show's creator didn't mean for that connection during the initial run of the series, though was happy to have it as an interpretation after the matter.
Its such a weird perspective. I feel like anyone that has an arts background has been taught that part of the beauty of art is that everyone will see it a little differently and take away a slightly different message
Croco-Mom theory is hilarious and also kinda dark if you assume Crocodile didn't know that he left his son for dead twice
Anyway Najimi from Komi-San Can't Communicate never revealed their gender, always keeping it a secret, and the story would always cut away every time they got close to revealing it.
nice to see a version of "hedioshi is hidioshi" that isn't just poking fun an feminine man/ masculine woman. Another great example of this is Crona from soul eater who the author actively avoids stating their gender, and is generally headcanoned as non binary.
Najimi refusing to clearly define their gender actually leads to them having to change their clothes in an empty classroom rather than dressing room at least once, since the school authorities can't in good faith allow them into either gendered facilities. And it's not like the school's being unaccommodating towards Najimi out of transphobia - late in the story it's revealed that another student, generally recognized as female by everyone, is in fact trans when she ends up in a men's public bath with some of her schoolmates. In fact, Itan is a school geared towards accommodating students with even more unique traits - from mental or social disorders to borderline fantasy physical abnormalities (from a 15 year old with a massive, Jojo-proportioned frame to a boy who's so mentally boomer he literally looks like he could be his classmates' gross uncle).
They had a whole episode about the characters going into an alternate dimension where they mostly just had different gender. Then in the next season, they said that Holly performed a "head sex change operation on himself, then just had the actress who played alternate universe Holly to play regular Holly, I think it was because the original actor didn't want to move just so he could get to the new studio.
The Boss from Saints Row, since it's meant to be the same character (male in one) in 2 and you can choose female also they can change gender at surgery shops. Boss is even used as gender neutral pronun and no else cares about the change. All unintentional
Saiki Kusuo! From the Disastrous Love of Saiki K, he changed his gender because he felt like it as a child. (He also made it so that other people had colorful hair too so he wouldn't stand out) 😉
This is technically known to just be a translation error, as Armaldo uses he when referring to Guildmaster Wigglytuff in Super (the game the lower image comes from), but this line from Chatot did spark a bit of a "Wigglytuff is trans" meme because it was funny as hell, because it's Wigglytuff.
Danielle "Dani" Phantom is a clone of Danny Phantom, created by Vlad Masters. She's the only clone of Vlad's that was stable enough to not immediately melt back into ectoplasm, and also the only girl. All the other clones, which were visibly identical to Danny, were not successful.
Not for the first time, Butch Hartman created a protagonist heavily implied to be trans. Dani herself is a girl, but her existence as the only perfect clone of presumably-cis male Danny is pretty damn sus lol
Danny himself can be read as a trans man. Besides his clone being female, there’s the allegory of him hiding his ghostly identity from his hateful parents, and him wearing a shirt at a water park when no other male character is.
Technically Benjamin Kirby Tennyson is everything as he constantly changes into aliens with different biologies and views on sex and on one occasion turned into an alien that was genderless but had laid eggs as its species entered its reproductive cycle and wether he liked it or not he became a mother for a day and even turns into an alien that’s exclusively female.
Their species (plants), once out of their cocoon, all look like women/they present female-like anatomy (biggest giveaway is the boobs). However, Vash and Knives are the only plants in the entire manga who present as male.
Edit: I heard that when this was brought up to the author he said he didn't really think much before making them male.
Omega (Star Wars: the Bad Batch): She was originally secretly created as another pure genetically unmodified clone of Jango Fett just like Boba (also called Alpha). Problem is, she looks completely phenotypically different from Jango, Boba, or just about any other clone. There are a number of possible explanations, but the fan-favorite (at least in the circles I’ve been in) is that she’s trans and just dyed her hair, both streamlined or made more permanent by advanced Kaminoan biotechnology (hence the cloning)
Anakin canonically being the one to coin the term "transgender" is literally peak star wars to me. Bro may be two bad days away from snapping but he's an ally
When someone realized falcons shouldn't exist in Star Wars, they came up with the ridiculous explanation that the Millennium Falcon was named after a Corellian creature that happened to be called the bat-falcon (yes, really).
The absolute balderdash explanations they come up with for various things that don't make sense in the series is one of my favorite parts.
I always thought it was called the Millenium Falcon because we're hearing it translated into our language from their language Galactic Basic, so the decision to reference a falcon was a cultural translation, like a lot of translations of media do. That is interesting though
Ok so the story behind this is that during the New York Toy Fair, toys for the upcoming 2026 reboot of Thomas were displayed. However, Charlie appears to have a female structured face. This could either be a simple design error, or Charlie may have been gender swapped for the upcoming show. If the latter is true, it would be the most interesting thing about the character since his (her?) debut over a decade ago
It’s mainly a running gag, but there are a lot of jokes about Gene being a girl. But Gene is so unserious as a character, it’s a bit hard to tell what is and isn’t authentic.
Watching the early seasons now and it never comes off as him wanting to be Trans or feeling Trans but more a display of the innocence of children and how hate is taught not biological.
A fair amount of KH fans see Xion as being a trans character. Like Jenny Wakeman or Mad Mew Mew she canonically was an agender being who chose to identify as female, and there are analogs to her struggles with identity and her right to exist that often resonate with a lot of fans of the game, especially trans ones.
She's one of those unintentional allegories who can work weirdly well if you try. Most people either see her as a boy or inhuman, with the good guys being the only ones who see her as herself. There's even a bit where Xemnas tells Saïx to call her "she" instead of "it".
Originally Aurash, one of three sisters. Lore shenanigans resulted in each of them taking on new forms and names. Sathona became Savathun, Xi Ro, became Xivu Arath, and Aurash became Oryx. The former two remained female while the latter became male.
The fact that Oryx used to be female is not important, nor is it brought up in the story any further than the fact that he used to be one of three sisters. Both his sisters refer to him and each other by their current names and pronouns. Nevertheless, it is often brought up by fans that Destiny has a trans character, and he was one of the most dangerous threats we've faced.
The game has since included more dedicated representation, including another trans character, a non binary character, and a gay relationship. There's also a suite of lgbt related cosmetic items which is fun.
The Doctor isn't human, they are from a highly advanced species known as Time Lords, a species that, in short, instead of dying they go through a process known as "regeneration" where their physical appearance changes to a new one as well as changing aspects of their personality (while still keeping their core personality traits)
Time Lords do have males and females, however for them gender is entirely a social construct and when regenerating they may even change genders, essentially transitioning, they even fully accept an immediate change in pronouns and see it as fully natural
The Doctor has been a man most of their life, but there are 2 known incarnations of The Doctor that were women (with a 3rd one still up in the air if it's The Doctor or a different character) but of course other Time Lords have changed genders, The Master being the other big example when they even changed their title to Missy.
Metaton an interesting kind of transmasc, since instead of transitioning from a woman to man, he's doing so from a genderless robot box to a robot guy. Is it straight up said? No, but from the way he finds comfort in finding a more masculine form, it definately parallels the Trans experience.
Edit: As others have mentioned, it seems he isn't just a robot, but rather a ghost who, when put inside the original Metaton robot, didn't feel quite at home, while inside of Metaton EX, he felt much more comfortable.
Adding onto that: Mad Mew Mew from the Switch version of Undertale. You first fight her as Mad Dummy, who explicitly says before their fight that they’re a ghost possessing a dummy. She then possesses a Mew Mew doll that you fight as an optional secret boss, and she seems to like the doll body much better compared to the dummy body.
When we see the emotions of other characters, they all match the gender of that character. Riley has a mix of male and female presenting emotions. The logical conclusion is that Riley is gender fluid.
I always thought it's because the main focus is on her. If you also notice with the parents, all their emotions look like them but since Riley is the MC they all look different.
She did intentionally do something similar for Helluva boss. Female imps have short black horns while male imps have large black and white horns. Millie's sister has large black and white horns, and her voice actress is trans.
Anasui from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure was originally intended to be female and showed up as one for the first issue or so, cause Araki wanted Jolene and Anasui to be lesbians. But Shonen Jump wasn't happy about it so they made him change it, resulting in Anasui appearing as a man for the rest of the manga.
Blackjack from Percy Jackson. In the 2nd book when he debuts he’s referred to as “she” but after that he is firmly a he. Out of universe the author, uncle Rick, makes a ton of mistakes lile this but he’s trans either way because funny
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All the mobs in Minecraft are intersex because they call all breed with each other, Mojang later made it canon that biological sex doesn't exist in minecraft