[snake5289]

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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

Simon Furman was the writer both times.

Over under Marvel, she was written as a male bot but had a female looking form for ease of ambassador relations to humans.

Over in IDW, Furman wrote her as a male bot that was experimented on by Jhiaxus and forcefully turned into a fembot against her will.

Dreamwave and G1 toon she was a fembot with none of those story devices.

Wow am I behind on my Transformers.

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Originally Posted by Zend

Wow, really....? The Marvel one sorta makes sense because technically none of them have genders to begin with and the perception that they do comes from their voices and body chassis, but the IDW one is weird. Don't understand why she couldn't have just stayed a she from the start like she was supposed to be.

I have to agree. I was perfectly happy thinking that there were just male and female Cybertronians. Not Cybertronians that were forced to undergo some weird sciencey sex-change.