wHY?!?!?

Because SHIPPING AND BABBIES

BECAUSE I'M A BIT FUNNY LIKE THAT.

I wonder how a transgendered pony would be received, actually - in-universe, that is, since obviously Hasbro would never touch the issue. Zecora's reception shows that ponies aren't universally loving, but I wonder how much of that was that she mostly appeared different. The ponies don't usually wear clothes, as Applejack pointed out, and I don't think there are any coat or mane colors that are exclusively reserved for male or female ponies (again, from an in-universe perspective); the best a transsexual pony could do in everyday life would be to change his or her mane and tail style, I think, and there's the difference - Zecora is a zebra, so I wonder how an outsider pony would be received.

Zecora didn't just appear different, she acted and spoke in a manner that was strange to them.

And she wore a creepy cloak! You know, the kind that covers your face in shadow?

^I was gonna mention that, yeah, but I didn't know how to phrase it without saying something along the lines of 'Yeah, but of course they were afraid of her, she looks different'.

Anyway, my point is that a transsexual pony wouldn't be immediately identifiable as 'other' barring mane styling and such, and thus might not get as badly ostracized as poor Zecora did.

That was the conclusion I came to, as well. Just re-style your tail/mane and, I guess, undergo voice training and you're done.

But then I started wondering if they would actually need voice training, or if they could just have a unicorn magically give them a different voice.

^Maybe there's a unicorn who specializes in physical alterations. Twilight's transformation magic only lasted as long as she was concentrating on it, right? That'd be rather disastrous if it were someone's larynx that had been transformed.

I want to argue the point but honestly I thought Vinyl Scratch was male until I saw a fanart without the shades.

I thought she was male until I got familiar with the show.

Her muzzle's round and filly-looking, though.

Also: eyelashes.

That's the thing, I thought the eyelashes were part of the shades' frame. I thought she was just an effeminate male, like Caramel but moreso.

edited 19th Aug '11 10:04:39 PM by TurnwaysFlip

Trans Pony would probably just get changed into there proper gender

Little Lesbian baby

I've heard different theories on it. In one fic they simply crossdressed, but in another they, uh...Gelded, though that wasn't strictly trans-ponies who did it.

Basically, most theories purport that surgery of the sort does not exist in equestria. It's likely for the sake of writing, since they're clever enough to realize how little they know about the process and steer clear, but there's a decent in universe explanation:it's hard to perform complex surgeries like organ transplants without hands. There are unicorns, admittedly, to take care of that, but there's also plenty of other reasons. Cost, possible social stigmas, donors, the issue of whether or not such treatments would even exist - keep in mind, the first gender reassignment surgery was performed in 1930 - a time period which the ponies have not quite reached even to judge from the most advanced iterations of their technology.

That's a fair point, and an interesting one. Surgery in general has to exist, but reassignment surgery's on a rather more complex level.

Yeah, I thought about this at length a few weeks ago and I sorta reached the same stumbling block. I figured that SRS is too complex to be done without, y'know, hands, but I started wondering how they handle other types of surgery. I mean, they must have some form of medical treatment, right? We've seen they have nurses, at least.

I was thinking the surgeons would have to be unicorns or something. Certainly not handling tools with their mouths.

edited 19th Aug '11 11:36:01 PM by AnonymousUser

^^Surgery definitely exists. Fluttershy has a suite of tools in her house, after all, and not every injury can be fixed with a bandage and a lollipop. Actually, the theory I advanced in my fic 'Second Chance' is that Fluttershy takes home bodies (animal bodies!) she comes across in the Everfree Forest and studies them, Vesalius-style. I don't imagine anyone taught her what she knows, after all, and she wouldn't risk trial and error on a living creature.

^Practicality aside, it'd be unsanitary as all hell. Maybe some enterprising pony invented a sort of hoof brace that can mount several surgical tools?

edited 19th Aug '11 11:42:13 PM by RedSavant

Now you have me thinking about how they would use equivalents of tools that would require hands without magic.

There's the possibility of adhering the tools to the hooves somehow, but the still lose out on a lot of manual dexterity without fingers. It may simply be that surgeon is a race-specific career, like weather control.

More recolors.

OH FUCK IT'S RAINBOW FLASH!

HASBRO IS WATCHING US YOU GUYS!

Also, come one! It's bad enough that Cheerilee is just a recolour of Dash, but they didn't even get her cutie mark right!

It's like they made 5 molds (Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, Twilight, Rainbow) and then decided they never needed to make another one again. Fluttershy didn't even get her own.

Also I don't get the "glitter" ones. Even the 8-year-old girl in me doesn't want those.

edited 20th Aug '11 12:35:48 AM by CentralAvenue

The fact that this name is not assigned to a colt wearing a suit with a top hat and monocle disappoints me.

Even though I know it's Hasbro and they're never going to release a male in toy form.