Talk:Mettaton/@comment-29250672-20160820200852/@comment-29633527-20160827213048

Mettaton is no transgender. True, as a ghost, he experienced dysphoria, but it wasn't gender-related. Body disphoria is not necessarily related to gender, let me explain. Some have compared Disney Princess Ariel's condition to Hapstablook's. They both wanted to have a different body - Ariel wanted legs, Hapstablook wanted to become corporeal. Now, is Ariel trans? Of course not. People who say Mettaton is a transmen imply that he was a 'girl' when he was a ghost, which is only a misconception born from the fact he happened to like pink and write diaries (something that he still does even as a robot). So tbh, it's not a coincidence that people who think he's literally trans are trans themselves. They only want representation. I've yet to see a cis person thinking Mettaton is trans. The only thing that's canon is that the whole trans thing is an allegory, but some may have taken that just...too literally.