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** Cloud is sometimes headcanoned as some form of trans (either nonbinary, a trans man or a closeted trans woman), partially because of the infamous DisguisedInDrag arc of the story, but also because of elements such as his struggled with identity and wanting to be different from the other boys in his village.

* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' has Lake, who has an "object name" and a very alternative fashion sense. She also has themes of not being accepted, and declaring herself as her own person, and not who she's "meant to be" (which in her case, is a reflection). This leads a pretty fair portion of fans to believe she's trans, or at least an allegory. Due to her she/her pronouns in canon, and her more androgynous buzz cut, most people in this theory's camp say she's non-binary.

* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' has Lake, who has an "object name" and a very alternative fashion sense. She also has themes of not being accepted, and declaring herself as her own person, and not who she's "meant to be" (which in her case, is a reflection). This leads a pretty fair portion of fans to believe she's trans, or at least an allegory. Due to her she/her pronouns in canon, and her more androgynous buzz cut, most people in this theory's camp say she's non-binary.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': Some people believe the reason Natsuki's dad disapproves of her childish girly tastes is because she's a trans girl, which is another reason why being part of an all-female club is so important for her. It also helps explain why she has the smallest bust size of all the girls. Creator/DanSalvato confirmed he wrote all the girls as cis women, but has no issue with people headcanoning any of them as trans.

* Trans fans of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic tend to relate to the titular character due to a one-off joke in the "Nickcoms" review where he says he "wasn't raised as a girl... for long," implying he was RaisedAsTheOppositeGender. The episodes revolving around gender pandering, especially TestosteronePoisoning, [[IWantToBeARealMan gain new subtext]] under this interpretation.

* Before the Gems were established to [[OneGenderRace all be nonbinary women]], it was a common headcanon that Amethyst was genderfluid due to how she enjoyed shapeshifting into men, such as her wrestler persona Purple Puma.

** Steven himself is presented in a way which could be interpreted as trans subtext. Many Homeworld gems mistake Steven for his mother, calling him Rose and using 'she' pronouns to refer to him. He is noticeably uncomfortable with this. [[spoiler:After it is revealed that Steven's mother Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond, this is even more prominent: the other diamonds actively try to force him to fill the role of Pink Diamond, dressing as she did and performing her duties]]. Steven ends up strongly rejecting this.

** Lars is interpreted as a trans man by a significant chunk of the fanbase due to certain details in the show. In the episode "Island Adventure", he is stranded on a desert island for a significant period of time but does not grow any facial hair. In "Fright Club", he is shown in a flashback with shoulder length hair, and is anxious about the prospect of anyone seeing the way he looks a photo. He is significantly distressed by this flashback. In "The New Lars", his mother calls him [[spoiler:Laramie]] and immediately corrects herself the way a trans person's parent might if they accidentally deadnamed their child.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' has Anasui, who is commonly interpreted as a trans man or genderfluid: in his first appearance, he is drawn with a visibly female body. However, the next time we see him, he's been RetConned into a man, and stays that way for the rest of the story. Considering how his [[FightingSpirit Stand]] has the ability to manipulate peoples' bodies from the inside, it's easy to imagine that he used his powers to transition into a more masculine body in between his first two appearances. WordOfGod says that Anasui was always envisioned as a character who [[https://twitter.com/jojo_wiki/status/1195888073273303041?lang=en "went beyond the standard definitions of gender"]], which helps support this theory.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Hand-Me-Downer", Lynn wore a jockstrap. This, combined with her unisex name, caused some viewers to speculate that she was actually a trans girl.

* Dipper from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is commonly seen as being a trans guy. Evidence for this includes him taking "Dipper" as a nickname due to disliking his birth name and being insecure about his perceived lack of masculinity to the point where there was [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E6DipperVsManliness an entire episode]] focusing on it. The {{Defictionalized}} version of Journal 3 would later reveal Dipper's birth name to be [[spoiler:Mason]], seemingly [[{{Jossed}} Jossing]] the theory, though it remains a popular interpretation of Dipper's gender identity.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': A very common theory is that Marco is a trans girl, largely due to the arc where the "Princess Marco" identity he originally used to sneak into St. Olga's School for Wayward Princesses becomes a figure of the princesses' revolution, and Marco becomes attached to the outfit, even keeping it on during family game night. [[https://marcodiazisatransgirl.tumblr.com/tagged/evidence/chrono Many other scenes]] seem to indicate gender dysphoria in Marco, including disdain seeing himself in a suit, saying that he'd "love to be queen," many scenes where Marco confidently wears feminine clothing or is referred to with feminine terms, and Glossaryck mistaking Marco for a girl in their first meeting and, in one comic, misnaming him as "Margo" (which has become a fanon-accepted name for post-transition Marco). The theory of Marco being canonically trans in the show was eventually {{jossed}}, but some members of the Star Vs crew have reacted positively to the headcanon.
** Even when leaving the shower in a towel, he wears it with his chest covered rather than wrapped around just his waist.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': In the Nintendo Switch version of the game, if the player makes enough progress, they can find a secret room inside Sans's and Papyrus's house that contains a Mew Mew Kissy Cutie doll. Upon interacting with the doll, it reveals itself to be possessed by the ghost inhabiting the Mad Dummy from earlier, who is trying to unsuccessfully fuse with it, and initiates a battle with the player. Throughout the battle with Mad Mew Mew, they talk about how they knew the body was for them as soon as they saw it, and how they feel that fusing with it would ensure a "brand new life" for them. If the player ultimately spares Mad Mew Mew, the pronouns referring to her change from neutral to feminine, and she explains that she hopes to successfully fuse with her new body soon. This leads many fans to see Mad Mew Mew as trans.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': A very common theory is that Marco is a trans girl, largely due to the arc where the "Princess Marco" identity he originally used to sneak into St. Olga's School for Wayward Princesses becomes a figure of the princesses' revolution, and Marco becomes attached to the outfit, even keeping it on during family game night. [[https://marcodiazisatransgirl.tumblr.com/tagged/evidence/chrono Many other scenes]] seem to indicate gender dysphoria in Marco, including disdain seeing himself in a suit, saying that he'd "love to be queen," many scenes where Marco confidently wears feminine clothing or is referred to with feminine terms, and Glossaryc mistaking Marco for a girl in their first meeting and, in one comic, misnaming him as "Margo" (which has become a fanon-accepted name for post-transition Marco). The theory of Marco being canonically trans in the show was eventually {{jossed}}, but some members of the Star Vs crew have reacted positively to the headcanon.

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Francis the ladybug is interpreted by some fans as a transman due to possessing feminine TertiarySexualCharacteristics despite identifying as male, and objecting to being referred as female.

** Pokemon with a masculine appearance that can be female like Machamp, Samurott, and Emboar, and Pokemon with a feminine appearance that can be male?Gardevoir, Gothitelle, Sylveon, and many more are commonly interpreted as trans. Sylveon is also often considered a transgender icon, as its color palette matches that of the transgender flag and it has the most feminine appearance of the Eevee evolutions, despite its gender ratio being skewed towards male.

** Lars is interpreted as a trans man by a significant chunk of the fanbase due to many details in the show. In the episode "Island Adventure", he is stranded on a desert island for a significant period of time but does not grow any facial hair. In "Fright Club", he is shown in a flashback with shoulder length hair, and is anxious about the prospect of anyone seeing the way he looks a photo. He is significantly distressed by this flashback. In "The New Lars", his mother calls him [[spoiler:Laramie]] and immediately corrects herself the way a trans person's parent might if they accidentally deadnamed their child.

* ''Franchise/{{FateSeries}}'': Famed Renaissance artist/inventor/[[RenaissanceMan everything else]] Leonardo da Vinci appears as a beautiful woman, despite being a man in life. They themselves explain that they appear as the Mona Lisa because she is the ideal of beauty. Needless to say, trans fans raised some eyebrows.

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* Riley in ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' is the only character in the film whose five emotions are shown to be of different genders, two male and three female. Every other character has emotions coresponding to their gender, which has caused fans to view Riley as genderfluid or non-binary, and just hasn't discovered that about herself yet. The name "Riley" being rather androgynous helps a fair bit.
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': Pleakley, an alien treated as male in-universe, has a tendency to dress as a human woman while in disguise, even admiring their own appearance in a mirror. Many fans see Pleakley as trans because of this. It goes further in the TV series where Pleakley actively attempts to flirt with human men while dressed up, and even succeeds in one episode in charming a guy who it turns out is genuinely interested in Pleakley and not under a LovePotion as initially assumed.

** Link is often interpreted as being somewhere on the nonbinary spectrum. WordOfGod states that he was designed as androgynous, so players could project themselves onto him, and his name is rather genderneutral (although not said in-game until ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'').
** Gerudo Town in ''Breath of the Wild'' added a lot of fuel to the fire for various trans interpretations. To enter Gerudo Town, Link (and a bearded traveller) have to crossdress, which Link shows no hesitation to. The guards also mention letting a Goron (a race of rockmen who're usually referred to by masculine pronouns) in, since he wasn't really either.

** Pokemon with a masculine appearance that can be female like Machamp, Samurott, and Emboar, and Pokemon with a feminine appearance that can be male?Gardevoir, Gothitelle, Sylveon, and many more?are commonly interpreted as trans. Sylveon is also often considered a transgender icon, as its color palette matches that of the transgender flag and it has the most feminine appearance of the Eevee evolutions, despite its gender ratio being skewed towards male.

* Trans fans of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic tend to relate to the titular character due to a one-off joke in the "Nickcoms" review where he says he "wasn't raised as a girl...for long," implying he was RaisedAsTheOppositeGender. The episodes revolving around gender pandering, especially TestosteronePoisoning, [[IWantToBeARealMan gain new subtext]] under this interpretation.

** One of Heinz Doofenshmirtz' {{Freudian Excuse}}s mentions that he was forced to wear dresses to school as a child (although he explains that his parents expected a daughter when his brother Roger was born). He also has other freudian excuses consisting of him feeling emasculated (and intending to fix this by demasculating everyone else even more), such as being unable to grow a beard, or having a high and squeaky voice. Thus, many fans see him as a trans man.
** Perry the Platypus is clearly referred to as being male, yet no one in the family seems surprised that he would lay an egg. In another episode, he sweats milk, which only female platypi do. In another, a professional platypus hunter hired by Doofenshmirtz references male platypi having poisonous stingers, which Doofenshmirtz is confused by since Perry has never used anything like that. Finally, the [[WordOfGod creators of the show]] simply said "[[MathematiciansAnswer Yes]]" when asked about Perry's gender.

** Wendy is sometimes interpreted as genderfluid due to her male "Wendyl" persona in "The Cissy." While it's implied to be a ruse to get into Cartman to share his trans-only bathroom and Wendy goes back to her old self in the following episodes, her casual attitude crossdressing, especially compared to Cartman's false "Erica" persona, made many fans assume Wendy might really want to transition.

** Steven himself is presented in a way which could be interpreted as trans subtext. Many Homeworld gems mistake Steven for his mother, calling him Rose and using 'she' pronouns to refer to him. He is noticably uncomfortable with this. [[spoiler:After it is revealed that Steven's mother Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond, this is even more prominent: the other diamonds actively try to force him to fill the role of Pink Diamond, dressing as she did and performing her duties]]. Steven ends up strongly rejecting this.

* Timmy from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' is popularly headcanoned as trans. In one episode depicting past events, Timmy's parents act with absolute certainty that their child will be a girl, Cosmo even noting that this explains all the pictures of Timmy in a dress. Another episode has Timmy [[ItsAWonderfulPlot wishing he never was born]], and in the ensuing alternate timeline, Timmy's parents have a daughter who seem to be Timmy's exact age and of a similar apparence.

* Smellerbee in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is frequently headcannoned as a trans girl, in particular due to one scene in the episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSerpentsPass "The Serpent's Pass"]]. She is offended and storms off after Iroh assumes she's a boy (for which he apologizes, he is ''[[CoolOldGuy Iroh]]'' after all). Longshot follwos her off and gives her a look that convinces her that "it doesn't matter what others think, as long as [she] knows [that she's a girl]." This overlaps with DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.

''Film/{{Inception}}'': Mr. Eames is unique among Cobb's crew as a Forger, able to alter his appearance and identity in the dreamworld. One of his multiple faces is that of an attractive blond woman who seems to have no issue flirting with or seducing male targets, raising the interpretation that Eames himself is genderfluid.

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* ''Film/{{Inception}}'': Mr. Eames is unique among Cobb's crew as a Forger, able to alter his appearance and identity in the dreamworld. One of his multiple faces is that of an attractive blond woman who seems to have no issue flirting with or seducing male targets, raising the interpretation that Eames himself is genderfluid.

** Gerudo Town in ''Breath of the Wild'' added a lot of fuel to the fire for various trans interpretations. To enter Gerudo Town, Link (and a bearded traveller) have to crossdress, which Link shows no hesitation to. The guards also mention letting a Goron (a race of rockmen who're usually referred to by masculin pronouns) in, since he wasn't really either.

* ''VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM'': Saki Mizushima is often viewed as a trans girl through this lens. He was inspired by Ryo Akizuki's gender reveal in ''VideoGame/TheIdolmasterDearlyStars'' to openly start wearing femme clothes, takes on primarily feminine roles while at 315 Production, and is noted to keep his work secret from people he knows. As 315 Pro is shown to accomodate the itdols under their care, their attitudes also extend to respecting Saki's identity and choice of style. This, along with the fact that the game never once shows Saki out of costume, leads to the interpretation that Saki is still closeted but on the road to transition.

* ''VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM'' Saki Mizushima is often viewed as a trans girl through this lens. He was inspired by Ryo Akizuki's gender reveal in ''VideoGame/TheIdolmasterDearlyStars'' to openly start wearing femme clothes, takes on primarily feminine roles while at 315 Production, and is noted to keep his work secret from people he knows. This, along with the fact that the game never once shows Saki out of costume, leads to the interpretation that Saki is still closeted but on the road to transition.