Gender in Transformers

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Transformers are pansexual and asexual at the same time. Reason being Cybertronians have no genitals to reproduce therefore they have no genders.

The term “gender" to them has no clear meaning and has only been introduced to them after encountering organic alien species that reproduce sexually.

Gender almost really doesn't matter.

Nautica (IDW)

The way they call the terms “males" and “females" are “Cybertronian" for male and “Camian" for female. However they're all still Cybertronian by nature. Generally, they're all called Transformers nonetheless.

(Fact) Female Cybertronians come from the planet Caminus. They originated from past Cybertronians colonizing the planet, which overtime formed itself its own culture. Often called Camians rather Cybertronians, but nonetheless they all share the same origin and qualities of a Transformer. (Source: IDW comics)

Transformers look the opposite gender from their real one and it's normal. Females can look masculine and males can look feminine. Examples are: IDW Overlord has pronounced lips yet he's a male, and the Seekers in Cyberverse all have the same body type (masculine) but the females are only defined by their lips.

Changing genders, names, appearance, and sometimes alt modes, is normal. Change is normal for the Transformers because its part of their culture and especially because of Transforming. Prime example: Anode from IDW.

The term “Transgender” is rarely used and almost nonexistent.

Their “genders” are often defined by their appearance (females mostly have pronounced lips and have slimmer bodies), pronouns, voice, and most importantly, culture.

(Fact) The Cybertronains are a male dominant species, while the Camians are female dominant. (Source: IDW, Cyberverse)

(Fact) Caminus and Cybertron are connected prior to the war. (Source: Cyberverse) Unlike IDW.

Camians and Cybertronians live in harmony.

Romance in Transformers

(Fact) Conjux Endura is their form of marriage. Amica Endura is their form of long term bestest friends. Both are formal and exist on both Cybertronians and Camians. (Source: IDW comics)

Falling in love is completely normal. Because if the war is fueled by pure hate, then they can feel other emotions too such as love.

Gender has nothing to do with love. Reminder that in my head canon, all Transformers are pansexual and asexual at the same time.

The Great War

(Fact) The Great War lived on for over 4 million years.

(Fact) Megatron started as a miner turned gladiator turned warlord. (source: IDW, and most continuities)

Transformer aging

Transformers age by maturity, experience, and wisdom, but also sometimes defined by their personality.
Best example is Bumblebee. He is often said to be the youngest or younger than most bots yet he's old friends with Optimus Prime (an old bot), and has already lived before the war (approx. 4 million years). This is because, as others have stated, he needs more experience (TF: G1, TF: Prime). In this case, experience that comes with learning your mistakes, and with that, he gets more matured.
Hence how Optimus matured faster as being Prime alongside his learned wisdom.
Another example is Rodimus Prime, he is almost the same as Bumblebee with the addition that his personality is child-like.
I head canon both Bumblebee and Rodimus as immature adults that need more experience, but that moreso depends on the continuity.

(Fact) Transformers do not die from aging.

Although these head canons could suggest that all Transformers are adults upon being born (example: Getaway from IDW), in my head canon, a new born Transformer is still considered young because they still have much to learn.
This head canon is applied to my OC Pentakill, she was made during the war and deemed as a young bot.

Transformer body types

Transformers with weird body types (like a wheel for legs) is uncommon but normal.

Optimus Prime and Megatron are around 35ft tall (10.7m) and are considered large sized bots, ranging 27ft-38ft+. Medium sizes are around 18-28ft. Small sizes are 8ft-17ft.

Other things

(Fact) There's strictly no fighting allowed in Maccadam's Old Oil House. (Source: Cyberverse)
Fun fact, I thought of this to be 100% true when I joined a Transformers Roblox military roleplay game: Transformers Trilogy. The Maccadam's bar there was a neutral hang out place between factions and fighting was strictly not allowed. Had many good conversations with Autobots there, shout out to everyone I interacted with! lol

Megatron is the main character in the IDW comics.
Because bro without him the whole story wouldn't be there to begin with, PLUS the world would be total chaos like the alternative universe in Lost Light.

The Transformers language that we normally see in media are them speaking in Cybertronian but only translated to English for us to watch. (I heard this is a fact but I'm not too sure)

In addition to that, the regular Cybertronian time unit (examples: vorns, astro-seconds), are translated to English for us to understand (like years, months, seconds). This is because most of the time units used doesn't make sense and sometimes hard to calculate.

The Dead Universe is a connection between all alternative universes of Transformers. This includes different continuities as well. (Idea based on: Cyberverse)