Agatha, since your Transformers are, for the most part, genderless, does that mean there’s a decent chance some of them would do the “What’s In Your Pants” thing?

agatharights:

Honestly? Most of them wouldn’t even register it. In TF: Matrix particularly, they literally don’t have sexual organs in any way we’re recognize them, and vice versa. Gender and sex are functionally meaningless to a transformer who hasn’t been living on earth among humans extensively for some time, and they wouldn’t recognize any physical features by function. Not to mention, humans are like…always wearing pants. You wouldn’t ask a truck if they have five connection ports or three, would you? That’s rude af! It’s tucked away under your armor for a reason!

Not to mention that if you were to point at a Cybertronian’s crotch and be like “Okay, but what have you got there?” in most cases it’d be their T-cog (most frametypes have the T-cog stored in the pelvic cradle, where it’s heavily armored and at the base of the spinal chain. They probably assume humans have similarly vital organs in their own skeletal pelvis that need to be protected.

That is, assuming these cybertronians know enough about humans to realize that they’re wearing pants as opposed to just have naturally denium-clad legs.

Most cybertronians default to they/them when talking to humans because gender just isn’t a thing for them. Alternately, they may ask what a human’s pronouns are or if they’re feeling confident- they’ll make a guess based off what they know of social signals. It’s not a perfect science, but they can pick it up fairly quick- even though they often make the initial mistake of assuming that gendered pronouns are linked to profession rather than anything else (IE “All military individuals are He/Him” or “All caretakers of offspring are She/Her” to the chagrin of female soldiers and dads everywhere)

It’s worth noting that, as well, cybertronians interacting with humans will generally just adopt whatever pronouns humans first start using for them, save for a few rare instances- Starscream is initially referred to as “she” by Unit E before realizing that there’s a stigma to being seen as “female” by these particular humans, and only then do they insist that humans refer to them as male, versus Arcee who self-identifies as female in human terms, effectively adopting gender to include her, when otherwise she may be seen as genderless by others.

So, yeah. Cybertronians likely wouldn’t ask unless they were being polite, but 90% of the time they just straight up wouldn’t care or understand, or they’d just ask what to refer to you as. I mean, Cybertronian pronouns are a lot easier, you just gotta be like “yeah, the Red Truck over there.”