Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26174543-20181006151501/@comment-2600:1702:3EC0:4B80:A4A9:64C:F769:5FE5-20181006182853

Octo is not saying "this is fantasy so trans people don't have to exist", Octo is saying "this is a situation that is never going to apply to a real life scenario of someone being trans, so we can't apply real life trans experience to it in order to label the character as trans".

The wiki's policy has been not to assume information that isn't said. That's supposed to be applied to everything. You could make the argument that Michael becoming Michaela is a trans analogue, and perhaps that could go in trivia, but you can't say that Michael, Michaela's previous identity, is a trans woman because nothing has said it and as Octo has said Michaela is the only example we have of this. Held was a man, Lich was a man, Gumillia was a woman, etc.

I think it's fine to play it safe and just assume each character is as is stated to be rather than making assumptions (also, for the record, Lich referring to Michaela as a male is treated more in the narrative as stupid stubbornness than an extremely negative behavior).