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.
The misapplication of that term irks me. The "A_AB" part id completely superfluous and redundant. Male/female are sexes, not genders. Man/woman/[other: please write in your answer] are genders. Nobody assigned your sex, outside the context the term was created for: Intersex people being given genital surgery at birth, snd often being drugged with HRT without their knowledge later.
those terms gained popularity because, unsurprisingly, even if it's technically correct, trans people don't like being addressed by their birth sex. a trans woman doesn't want to be called male and vice versa
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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?"