Talk:Mettaton/@comment-25815789-20160124095230/@comment-26123021-20160124103654

Oh, there's just a lot of people who like to claim that a character is canonically of a certain gender or sexuality. They're usually no harm, but they can be bullies if they want to push their headcanon very far- like with the one who accused you of transphobia when you probably didn't do much than say that Mettaton isn't canonically trans.

The facts are that we have no direct evidence for it. There is no point in the game where it's directly stated or implied heavily enough (for example, I don't think it was ever directly stated that Mettaton is a ghost, but we still have mountains of evidence to the point of it being canon).

However, some people feel that either Mettaton's story of ghost to robot is a metaphor for transgender, or that Mettaton is implied to be literally trans. It's just their headcanon, though.