If we ARE allowing Cybertronian women then I want to throw my hat in the ring for the Duo of Anode and Lug from the MTMTE-Lost Light era. Romantic adventurer archaeologists who are also canonically completely genuine transwomen. That is transwomen in they were sparked male but after moving of Cybertron and seeing all the different genders of the galaxy both came to realise that they were female.
Interestingly although Anode has reformated herself to have a more conventional female coded body shape, Lug still keeps her old male-coded body even though she is definitely a she; which shows a greater knowledge and acceptance of the spectrum that transpeople in the real world often represent at. Genuinely well done IDW, and certainly handles the trans representation better than their first attempt with Arcee.
I love Arcee as the asskicking warrior, but they screwed up her origin story the first time around there. Big shout out to Windblade, Nautica, Elita-1, Moonracer; and even Nightbird the first female robot in the Transformers franchise, even if she was a little bit of a false start.
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Interestingly although Anode has reformated herself to have a more conventional female coded body shape, Lug still keeps her old male-coded body even though she is definitely a she; which shows a greater knowledge and acceptance of the spectrum that transpeople in the real world often represent at. Genuinely well done IDW, and certainly handles the trans representation better than their first attempt with Arcee.
I love Arcee as the asskicking warrior, but they screwed up her origin story the first time around there. Big shout out to Windblade, Nautica, Elita-1, Moonracer; and even Nightbird the first female robot in the Transformers franchise, even if she was a little bit of a false start.
Okay, I admit it, I love my female robot idols.