via Lost Light #8, a conversation between Cybertronians Anode (she/her) and Wipe-Out (he/him):
“Lug’s a she now. Me too.”
“Why?
“It’s just a better fit. The further you get from Cybertron—the more people you meet—the more you realize that as a race we’ve been limiting ourselves unnecessarily. You know before the war, when the Primal Vanguard used to come home between campaigns? There’d always be a few who had reclassified themselves—a few ‘she’s’ amongst the ‘he’s’. They tended to stick together. He to she. I didn’t understand the significance. What difference did it make? But after we left Cybertron and started to meet so many other races… yeah. Then it made sense. It made perfect sense.”
“Is that why you changed your look?”
“Yep. New shape, new me.”
This is great, because it does several important things:
Canonically transgender Transformers who changed pronouns and got their bodies reshaped.
It shows why, on the day of the issue’s release, author James Roberts tweeted his thanks to a user who describes herself as a “gay trans woman”
It explains how two characters with female pronouns could originate on Cyberton when previous canon had established that Cybertron was a single-gender society only familiar with he/him pronouns (or the translated equivalent) for millennia.
An explanation for all the female/feminine-looking background characters in flashbacks to that period, previously best identified as cute easter eggs.
Establishing that some of the most ancient and badass Transformers, members of the pre-war Primal Vanguard alongside Grimlock, Ultra Magnus, and Hound, were trans women.
Which means that these two ancient Cybertronians based on the IDW versions of Jem characters (and canon WLW) Kimber and Stormer were transgender and were very likely butt-kicking veteran warriors:
Which means there’s not one, but two canon couples of trans WLW Transformers.
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