List of fictional transgender characters
This is a list of transgender characters in fiction, i.e. characters that either self-identify as transgender or have been identified by outside parties to be trans. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters. This page does not include trans characters in film or television.
For more information about fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community, see the lists of lesbian, bisexual, gay, non-binary, pansexual, aromantic, asexual, and intersex characters.
The names are organized alphabetically by surname, or by single name, if the character does not have a surname. If more than two characters are in one entry, the last name of the first character is used.
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| Characters | Show title | Gender identity | Character debut date | Notes | Country |
| Alice | Superjail! | Trans woman | A hulking and muscular head prison guard of Superjail. She is a trans woman who regularly engages in sadomasochistic rituals with the prisoners, and rebuffs The Warden's constant advances as shown in episodes like "Jailbot 2.0". She may have dated women before, and has sex with The Mistress, a series antagonist who is proprietor of Ultraprison, an all female prison as shown in the episode "Stingstress". | United States | |
| Ai Asato | KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops | Trans woman | December 4, 1990 | A patrol officer from the Transport Department of the Katsushika Police Headquarters. Maria is known for the fact that she was once a male character. In the manga, she transitioned to a female through a magical wish. In the anime however, she does not utilize any magical element. Maria is most notorious for their unyielding displays of affection for the main character Ryotsu. | Japan |
| Megumi Amatsuka | Cheeky Angel | Trans woman | Megumi is a physically attractive trans woman who retains her masculine mannerisms and fighting abilities, which she uses very often, attracting the 'Megu-chan Protection Club', a group of misfit admirers. Nobody else knows she used to be a boy but was transformed into a girl. Initially, only Megumi's best friend, Miki, knew her secret, however the protection club quickly finds out. | Japan | |
| Karnatia Anabald | So I'm a Spider, So What? | Trans woman | Karnatia "Katia" Anabald is the best friend of the series' side-story protagonist Shun Analeit. Before the start of the series she was a boy who was the classmate of the series protagonists and was heavily implied to be gay throughout the flashback chapters, as well as to suffer from gender dysphoria. After being reincarnated following the destruction of her classroom, when she and her classmates were reborn into the magical world of the series, Katia was reborn into a female body. | Japan | |
| Makoto Ariga | Wandering Son | Trans woman | Makoto, known as Mako for short, was assigned male at birth like Shuichi, expressing a desire to be a straight trans woman primarily due to her love of men and crossdressing like Shuichi. She dreams of entering into a relationship with a cool adult man. | Japan | |
| Kintarou Arisugawa | Maria-sama ga Miteru | Trans woman | Also known as Alice, she is enrolled in Hanadera Academy, and her inner female identity is at odds with her male appearance. As such, she is overjoyed at the decision by Sachiko to swap the genders of those students playing in a school play. She later runs for a secretary position on the Student Council of Lillian Girls' Academy, as noted in the light novel. | - | |
| Nagi "Alice" Arisuin | Chivalry of a Failed Knight | Trans woman | Alice is a first year student and Shizuku's roommate. She is a transgender woman. She has the ability to control shadows with her device, the Darkness Hermit. Her Noble Arts include Shadow Bind, Shadow Walk and Shadow Spot. Alice is a very nice person, though she does sometimes tease others. | Japan | |
| Anita Bidet | The Oblongs | Trans woman | Anita Bidet is the owner of the bar Rusty Bucket and Pickles Oblong's friend. She is a pre-op transgender woman who is saving up money for gender reassignment surgery. The series creator called her a "drag queen". | United States | |
| Rachel Bighead | Rocko's Modern Life | Trans woman | In the Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling special, Rachel is revealed to be a transgender woman when Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt find her. | United States | |
| Brooklyn | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Trans woman | Brooklyn is one of Lunella's classmates. In the first episode "Moon Girl Landing", Brooklyn's water bottle has a trans pride sticker that says "Trans is beautiful". Brooklyn is voiced by trans and non-binary actor Indya Moore. In November 2024, it was reported that the second-season episode "The Gatekeeper", about Brooklyn facing discrimination for being a transgender girl, was shelved by Disney before it aired. | United States | |
| Cagliostro | Symphogear AXZ | Trans woman | She used to be a man who was a swindler known for his endless lies, before being granted a perfect body by Saint-Germain, becoming a trans woman, as noted in the episode "Last Resort". Cagliostro has since sworn to never lie about her feelings. | Japan | |
| Candy Hector Caramella | Space Goofs | Trans woman | Candy is the uptight homosexual neat freak. They get in touch with their feminine side by sometimes disguising themselves as a woman as shown in episodes like "Heavy Metal Madness" and "Back to School Blues". In many situations, Candy is the first to worry, as shown in the episode "Snoutra". Candy flirts with men and is implied to be transgender. This implication is confirmed by the game, "Stupid Invaders" with Candy planning a gender reassignment surgery with the best specialist in the universe. | France | |
| Professor Caraway | High Guardian Spice | Trans man | Professor Caraway is a professor at the High Guardian Academy. In the third episode "Transformations", he is revealed to be a transgender man. Caraway is voiced by series creator Raye Rodriguez, who is also a trans man. | United States | |
| Cliff Cay | Infinite Ryvius | Trans woman | Criff Cay is a member of the group Team Blue. She is indicated to be transgender when her sister Michelle refers to her as "Big Brother". The character profile lists her sex as male. | Japan | |
| Cha-Cha | Bob's Burgers | Trans woman | Cha-Cha is a transgender sex worker who appears in the episode, "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?". | United States | |
| Raúl Cocolotl | Wendell & Wild | Trans man | September 11, 2022 | Raúl is a transgender male artist at an all girl's Catholic school who helps his friend Kat save the town from demons. | United States |
| Ida Davis | Family Guy | Trans woman | The "father" of Glenn and Brenda Quagmire and the ex-"husband" of Crystal Quagmire. Ida was a war hero in the Vietnam War and was thought to be a homosexual by Peter. When Glenn asked his "father" if this was true, Ida claimed that she was a woman trapped in a man's body and came to Quahog for a sex reassignment surgery, taking the name Ida Davis afterward as noted in the episode "Quagmire's Dad". From Season 17 onward, she became a recurring character, and some criticized her role in the show, stating that her character was previously the "butt of many transmisogynistic and transphobic "jokes,"" and that the show does not promote inclusivity. | United States | |
| Dana Dufresne | The Loud House | Trans woman | She first appeared as the host of a beauty pageant in "Toads and Tiaras" and reappeared in the episode "Gown and Out" in August 2018. Maddie Taylor, who does voice over for the character, revealed in August 2019 that the character had transitioned from a man to a trans woman, like herself, and said that the character would return in another episode within season 4. However, Season 4 concluded on July 23, 2020, although Dana would later reappear in the Season 6 episode "Prize Fighter" and further episodes. | United States | |
| Desirée | Too Loud | Trans woman | Desirée is a volunteer librarian who works with her sister Sara, at the local library. In the episode "Slumber Party Sneak-In", she plots with her sister, Sara, to dress up as a girl in order to go to a slumber party. The rest of the girls find this out, they console her, accepting, and deciding they like her no matter whether she is a trans girl named Desirée or as a closeted boy. In September 2019, series creator Nico Colaleo described the episode as important, arguing it was his favorite episode of the show's second season, and a "pro-transgender episode". It was later revealed the episode was supposed to be the final episode of the series, but DreamWorks posted it too soon. | United States | |
| Aoi Futaba | You're Under Arrest | Trans woman | Aoi Futaba was initially male but once had to go undercover as a woman in a sting operation to catch some male molesters targeting women. However, she went "native" and has since considered herself and has been treated by her colleagues as a trans woman. Though her romantic preferences are made unclear, she seems to prefer men, as shown in episodes like "Aoi-chan has a White Rose". | Japan | |
| Herbert Garrison | South Park | Trans woman | Originally presented as a closeted homosexual, the storylines have featured Garrison coming out as a gay man, then having a gender reassignment surgery to become female, becoming a lesbian, and then changing back to a man and becoming President of the United States. It is shown he still has feelings for his ex-boyfriend, Mr. Slave, as shown in the episode "Follow That Egg!" | United States | |
| Glitter | Bob's Burgers | Trans woman | Glitter is a transgender sex worker who is said to be going under gender reassignment because she mentions the town being full of "Doctors who refuse to cut off your penis," who appears in the episode "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?". | United States | |
| Barney Guttman | Dead End: Paranormal Park | Trans man | In an interview on August 17, 2020, series creator Hamish Steele explained how the show changed from its original iteration on Cartoon Hangover in 2014, and the graphic novels that followed it, stating that he is grateful for showrunners who fought for LGBTQ characters in their shows, adding that there was "absolutely no pushback from Netflix about representation," while describing Barney as a trans male character. He also hoped that the show will help out "more trans creators getting their chance to tell their stories" while hinting at other LGBTQ characters in the show apart from Barney. Barney is in a same-sex relationship with Logs, a health and safety worker at Dead End. Barney is voiced by trans actor Zach Barack. Steele also said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that any possible future episodes would further explore the sexualities of Norma and Barney. In the second season, it is revealed Logs' mother is unaware that he is gay. | United Kingdom | |
| Hermaphrobot | Futurama | Trans woman | Hermaphrobot is a manbot-to-fembot transgender Robot, who often engages Bender in a subversive manner, saying she is "more lady" than Bender could handle. Some critics have criticized her "intersex slur-referencing name," and her character being defined by her physical attributes, while playing into stereotypes. | United States | |
| Lily Hoshikawa | Zombie Land Saga | Trans woman | Lily is a prodigious transgender child actress. She died from a heart attack caused by occupational stress and mental shock upon growing facial hair. Lily does not seemed displeased at the idea of being a zombie, because to her it means that she can be a child forever, preventing her from further experiencing the anxiety and gender dysphoria, as a trans girl, that previously ended her life. | Japan | |
| Kano Ienega | Golden Kamuy | Trans woman | Originally named Chikanobu Ienaga, she is a trans woman and former doctor who feeds on the flesh of her victims to become youthful and beautiful. She debuts in Episode 11 of the anime and is part of "The Abashiri Convicts". Her character has been criticized for being an "evil beauty-obsessed trans woman", the series only trans character, with one reviewer stating that her villainy "revolves around her obsession with enhancing her own body," meaning that there are "transphobic overtones to Kano's motivation". | Japan | |
| Jewelstar | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | Trans man | Jewelstar is a trans man who is voiced by a trans male actor, Alex Blue Davis. His character was designed by Rae Geiger. | United States | |
| Kikunojo "Kiku" | One Piece | Trans woman | In both the manga and anime, Kiku is revealed to be a trans woman. Before being transported to the future, Kiku dressed in more masculine clothing typical of a samurai. After arriving in the future, Kiku began showing a significantly more feminine side, such as wearing red lipstick and dressing more in feminine clothing, and has described herself as a "a woman at heart," while she was assigned male at birth. Some described Kiku as a "breath of fresh air in terms of her strength and characterization" and noted that her gender identity is never ridiculed. | Japan | |
| Natalie el-Khoury | Big Mouth | Trans woman | In the first episode of the show's fourth season, Natalie, a Lebanese-American trans female teenager is introduced. The episode she debuts in highlights "various, popular transphobic arguments", while giving her a supportive friend named Jessi, and another named Seth, who rejects her identity, who she rejects. She also appears in Human Resources. | United States | |
| Seiko Kotobuki | Love Com | Trans woman | Seiko was assigned male at birth, but is actually a girl and even develops a crush on Atsushi Ōtani and Kazuki Kohori. | Japan | |
| Kaoru Kurita | Wonder Egg Priority | Trans man | Kaoru is a trans boy hatched from Momoe's egg. His jacket is designed with colors replicant of the transgender flag. Having been assigned female at birth and struggling with his gender identity, Kaoru went to his kendo club advisor for advice. However, the teacher forced him down, beat him, and raped him, resulting in him becoming pregnant. This is presumably the reason that made Kaoru commit suicide. It is implied that Kaoru is bisexual as although he likes Momoe as a "boy" upon learning that she was a girl, he also makes it clear that he is still attracted to Momoe as female. | Japan | |
| Marbles | Bob's Burgers | Trans woman | Marbles is a trans female sex worker who appears in the episode "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?" and describes pursuing sex reassignment surgery. | United States | |
| Mariandale | Ixion Saga DT | Trans woman | A transsexual maid who wields pistols akimbo and protects the princess. She admits being jealous of the princess getting married. Occasionally, she will revert to her male voice. Near the end of the series, she offers up her "testicles" to Eren as a way to make herself feel more female. | Japan | |
| May Marigold | RWBY | Trans woman | May is a trans woman, which was confirmed by her voice actress, Kdin Jenzen, who is also transgender. She is a member of a rebellion faction and was inspired by the Robin Hood character Maid Marian. Her transgender identity was later confirmed on screen during the Volume 8 episode "War". May has a power that reflects elements of her personality, with hers being invisibility, which could be a manifestation of her dysphoria and will not to be seen. | United States | |
| Marshmallow | Bob's Burgers | Trans woman | Marshmallow is a trans female sex worker. In June 2020, the show's creator committed to having Marshallow voiced by a Black LGBTQ actor rather than David Herman. Since "Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral", Marshamllow has been voiced by Jari Jones | United States | |
| Sallie May | Helluva Boss | Trans woman | Millie's sister, from episode 5: "The Harvest Moon Festival" and Helluva Shorts 1: "Hell's Belles". She is confirmed to be a trans woman by her voice actress, Morgana Ignis, who is also a trans woman. | United States | |
| Morley | One Piece | Trans woman | A giant and as well as the commander of the West Army in the Revolutionary Army. | Japan | |
| Nao | Skip and Loafer | Trans woman | Nao, the main character's aunt, is a trans woman, which is mentioned in the story. For example, in one episode, Mitsumi mentions that her aunt was assigned male at birth, and in another, she has to protect Nao from transphobic comments on the train. | Japan | |
| Shuichi Nitori | Wandering Son | Trans woman | Shuichi Nitori, otherwise known by Shu and Nitorin, is a lesbian transgender woman and often dresses to assume the role of the female gender, and is often described as cute, able to appear as a girl while cross-dressing, which is encouraged by their friends Yoshino Takatsuki and Saori Chiba. Later on, they exhibit signs of gender dysphoria and displays an outward attraction to two characters in the series—Yoshino, a transgender man, and their female classmate, Anna Suehiro. The latter date for a short time, until the relationship is broken off, and later resumed. | Japan | |
| Ollie de Ooievaar | Alfred J. Kwak | Trans man | Ollie is one of the protagonist's close friends. At the start of the series he is referred to with female pronouns, but after a timeskip he starts using male pronouns. This is never directly addressed during the series. In a Dutch interview from 2013 Ollie was confirmed to be a trans man. | Netherlands | |
| Hazumu Osaragi | Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl | Trans woman | The series protagonist, Hazumu Osaragi begins the series as a boy. After being rejected by a schoolgirl named Yasuna Kamiizumi, they are inadvertently killed due to an alien spacecraft crash-landing on them, with the alien, Hitoshi Sora, resurrecting Hazumu, but changes their physical sex to female. For the rest of the series, the agender Hazumu adopts to life as a girl, is attracted to two of her childhood friends: Yasuna, and Tomari Kurusu. | Japan | |
| Hibari Ōzora | Stop!! Hibari-kun! | Trans woman | Assigned male at birth, Hibari looks and behaves as a girl, expresses interest in having breasts, and has become more feminine after Kōsaku starts living at her household. She has demonstrated romantic interest in Kōsaku and is implied to have zero interest in women. | Japan | |
| Cherry Pie | The Nutshack | Trans woman | A friendly, flirtatious Vietnamese woman who is a virgin and runs a salon. She is said to dominate "the Vietnamese Cross dressing scene". | United States/Philippines | |
| Brunella Pommelhorst | The Simpsons | Trans man | Mrs. Pommelhorst is the gym teacher who announced his intention to take time off and return as "Mr. Pommelhorst, the shop teacher" in the episode "My Fair Laddy", although he later returned as the same. | - | |
| Prelati | Symphogear AXZ | Trans woman | Like Cagliostro, she used to be a man who indulged in luxury and pleasure, before being granted a perfect female body by Saint-Germain, becoming a trans woman, following his defeat at her hands in the episode "Last Resort". Prelati has since sworn to become an earnest researcher, but sometimes lets her preference for fun get in the way of her work. | Japan | |
| Selma Reesedale | Gotham Girls | Trans woman | Selma Reesedale works for the Gotham PD. She is revealed to be a transgender woman, which Batgirl discovers, and she later helps Batgirl. Batgirl is one of the only characters who knows Selma's secret. She is possibly the first trans sci-fi character to appear in any "superhero production". | United States | |
| Rosa | Young Justice | Trans woman | Rosa, also known as Fury, is a member of Lex Luthor's Infinity Inc. She is based on the Erik Storn incarnation of the character. In June 2022, series developer Greg Weisman confirmed that Rosa is transgender when he retweeted from a fan. Rosa is voiced by transgender actress Quei Tann. | United States | |
| Snapdragon | High Guardian Spice | Trans woman | Snapdragon is a snarky student, and friend of Amaryllis, with red hair who goes to the same academy. Throughout the series, Snap figures out who they are and Caraway helps them move toward gender transition. The voice actress for Snap, Julia Kaye, confirmed that Snap is a trans woman and that Rodriguez based aspects of the character on her. Rodriguez further confirmed that Snap is a trans woman. | United States | |
| Stephanie | Sorcerous Stabber Orphen | Trans woman | Stephanie, also known as Steph, was Orphen's old partner and initially a man but was severely injured and while using the rest of his magic to cast a healing spell, made some "modifications", and became the trans woman Stephanie, as shown in the episode "Snake in the Temple". She falls in love with and marries her boyfriend the florist Tim but continues to help Orphen and his friends, although she later becomes their foe. | Japan | |
| Hinata Tachibana | Life with an Ordinary Guy who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout | Trans woman | A frustrated and lonely man, save for his friend Jinguji Tsukasa, Hinata drunkenly expresses his wish to become a woman, saying "I want to become a woman so beautiful that I couldn't possibly exist in this world". The wish is granted by a goddess who transports the two of them to a fantasy world and transforms Hinata into a woman. Despite her protests and claims not to have made such a wish, her "game stats" list her gender as female, heavily indicating that she is in fact trans, as supported by her prior despair-induced outburst. | Japan | |
| Terrestrius | The Dragon Prince | Trans man | Terry, whose full name is Terrestrius, is an Earthblood elf who was born into a female body and faced discrimination as a result of this. As a result, he is very empathetic and has a desire to embrace and be embraced by others. According to his voice actor, Terry is mid-transition. He is also Claudia's Earthblood elf boyfriend. | United States / Canada | |
| Isabella Yamamoto | Paradise Kiss | Trans woman | Isabella was assigned male at birth, but lives as a trans woman as revealed in the episode "Rose". Robin Brenner calls the character "one of the most realistic and accepting portrayals of a transgender character in anime," with the same applying to the manga. She acts as a mother figure to the members of ParaKiss and inspired George to make several dresses for Isabella since childhood. | Japan | |
| Raine Whispers | The Owl House | Transmasculine | Raine is the head witch of the Bard Coven who uses they/them pronouns. Raine is Disney TVA's first non-binary character, having been confirmed as non-binary by Avi Roque, who voices the character. Roque later made the additional statement that Raine is transgender and transmasculine. In a similar vein, art by series storyboarder King Pecora depicted the character with apparent top surgery scars. Raine's teenage self is voiced by non-binary actor Blu del Barrio. | United States | |
| Yamato | One Piece | Trans man | He idolized Kozuki Oden as a child, emulating everything about the samurai warrior, and his pronouns are respected by Kozuki. He has also been described as a "rebellious son of a pirate emperor," and noted as a fan-favorite character. | Japan | |
| Airi Yamamoto / Kentaro Yamamoto | Back Street Girls | Trans woman | Kentaro, Ryo and Kazuhiko are forced by their boss, Inugane, to go to Thailand to undergo sex reassignment surgery, and train to become idols. They debut as Airi, Mari and Chika, the Gokudols. | Japan | |
| Hiroyuki Yoshida | Wandering Son | Trans woman | Hiroyuki, known as "Yuki" for short, is a tall and attractive straight trans woman who lives with her boyfriend Shiina and runs a gay bar. She takes an early interest in Yoshino, whom she remains on good terms with after learning of their assigned sex, even giving Yoshino and Shuichi helpful advice when troubled. Due to her transition, she has not been on good terms with her parents, who run a uniform store as shown in the episode "Cool Girlfriend ~Green eye~". | Japan | |
| Zadie | Danger & Eggs | Trans woman | In the final episode of the series, Zadie, who sings about acceptance at a Pride festival, helps the series' protagonists understand the meaning of a chosen family. She is voiced by Jazz Jennings, a pansexual and transgender LGBT rights activist. | United States | |
| Zagan | Dead End: Paranormal Park | Trans woman | Series creator Hamish Steele confirmed on Twitter that Zagan is trans. Zagan is voiced by transgender actress and singer Michaela Jaé Rodriguez. | United Kingdom |