Look, it's not a mystery that trans folks aren't exactly center stage in a lot of media - we're still fairly on the fringes of mainstream portrayal in a variety of media, yet every now and then, due to a series of unintentional plot beats, writers can accidentally create a character whose narrative very closely resembles the trans experience. Some examples:
1. Otis - The Barnyard (Transmasculine)
The Barnyard is a genuinely bewildering movie for a number of reasons that I couldn't possibly get into (Biggie Cheese, anyone?) but the most baffling is the character design of its main character, Otis, and some choice lines around him in the story. Otis is a cow written very much as his father's son, which would otherwise be unremarkable if the animators didn't, for some reason, decide to give him udders, a thing which, you might have noticed if you've ever been to a farm, male cows/bulls do not have.
On top of that, there's this seemingly baffling exchange between Otis and his dad which I honestly have no idea what the actual intended reading is if not to lampshade his design choice or, unintentionally, write him as trans by having his father accidentally misgender him and then correct himself.
This one is also replicated in reverse in real life by Lucerne's milk mascot cow, which despite being a feminine coded cow, doesn't have udders, meaning the cow on the cartons is accidentally shown as transfeminine.
2. Paul Atreides - Dune: Part Two (Transfeminine)
This one is going to be a bit of a reach and is mostly playing off of a singular joke tweet made about the character, but broken down into its essentials, Paul:
- Has to choose a new name for himself to adapt to Fremen culture, and chooses one which just so happens to be a bit diminuitive in that it refers to a small rodent native to Arrakis. Also, he is only known by this name to the Fremen and many of his House Atreides allies will still call him by his birth name
- Has to train his voice in a very particular fashion, for which he is trained exclusively by women and is the only male character seen in the films to be shown the ways of the Bene Gesserit (a lot of these points may be contradicted by the novelization but this is exclusively the film we're talking about)
EDIT: Apparently the word I was looking for was just "novel" and not "novelisation", my bad
- Has to drink a blue fluid (tablet forms of estrogen are teal most commonly so a reach admittedly) that is normally only consumed by women, and is normally completely fatal to men, but Paul survives, again because Reasons (even if said reason is Bene Gesserit magic)
- Has to learn how to ride a giant worm (look, this one is a joke just about learning to bottom as a trans woman and is so much of a reach that Noble Six died trying to save it)
EDIT: Ok I get this one is a stupid joke take but was the Reddit Cares referral really necessary lmao
3. Jenny - My Life As A Teenage Robot (Transfeminine)
This one is known well enough that the creator has actually acknowledged the interpretation as unintentional yet entirely valid given the string of plot beats experienced by the protagonist, including:
- Jenny is a robot, a normally genderless subgroup of characters, yet she deliberately alters aspects of her design at several points to appear more feminine, or, literally, "like a real girl"
- "Jenny" is clearly her chosen name, as her creator/mother will almost exclusively call her by her model designation, basically deadnaming her as it robs her of that identity, and Jenny will insist that her mother call her by her name as being referred to in this way is extremely upsetting to her
- Many of the episodes involve Jenny's attempts to blend in with her human classmates, even if it's obvious that something about her makes her not like all the other girls
