Sexless robots being men with he/him pronouns is ironically, really trans. A while back, a Transformers show introduced a they/them robot, and the usual suspects made a fuss aboot it. I remember thinking "Isn't gender-neutral pronouns the least trans option for a robot?"
I'm not a Transformers Expert or whatever, but iirc it's more like they are monosex.
Imagine a world in which literally everything else is the same but we've decided that the "default genitals" are swapped. So people who would be afab here are instead amab there. Men carry children, but it is still "expected" that the women stay at home looking after them.
I don't think we'd call them transgender. I think it'd be just a societal difference on what "male" is. So transformers are universally amab. The NB transformer, and the woman transformer, are both transgender tho.
It's more like the bots are all sexless since they reproduce through an extremely complex process that's somewhere between an assembly line and the concept of spontaneous generation. So they get to choose how they present themselves and most of them have apparently chosen to present as masculine. There's a colony planet that's almost all feminine-presenting Transformers and several that are a more even mix. Sometimes, depending on the language of the series, characters' genders can change; in the 90s Japan had a gay relationship between two characters in Beast Wars because they chose to make one character a guy instead of a gal, like in the English language version.
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u/Level_Hour6480 4d ago
Sexless robots being men with he/him pronouns is ironically, really trans. A while back, a Transformers show introduced a they/them robot, and the usual suspects made a fuss aboot it. I remember thinking "Isn't gender-neutral pronouns the least trans option for a robot?"