thinking about how until the colonists reappeared the only she/hers your average cybertronian (the ones that hadn’t left and met organics, or at least not to talk to) was aware of were in the primal vanguard and, I have to assume, most famously arcee. basically what I am trying to say is I think for a while your average cybertronian thought she/her were just the pronouns you use for someone you’re afraid of
Which ofc means Megatron (who does know what gender is but has considered it a bourgeois organic affectation for political reasons and therefore pointedly Does Not Think About It) gets she/her’d a lot too and has complicated feelings about this
Rodimus does not and also has some feelings about that