mostly all cis women until more recently when games started offering transfemme options

if there's any game mechanical option to make them trans i absolutely will. even if it's just a DIY background text block

No. Almost always make them cisfemale. I will go offscript though and make them male if it fits the personality of the character I'm aiming for. Like I'm about to put together a Barbarian/Warlock for a game my partner is running and I'm thinking male Tiefling for it for story reasons. Only downside to my rampant voice training is that my male voice sounds fake af now and it'll be super hard to roleplay it.

To bring this all around though, I'm waiting for the perfect idea before I make a character trans. I just can't quite get to a character where it would make a very interesting story where it didn't feel pointlessly inserted just because. I'm certainly going to try. If there's one thing I love doing with TTRPGs, it's that I love creating story-driven characters that the DM can work a lot with.

I generally prefer playing trans characters if the setting makes transition accessible enough for them, and i particularly like it when the details of transitioning work slightly different and lead to a different lived experience i can explore while still playing a transfem character. When that isn't an option and i would realistically have to play a character that just gets stuck in a shitty pre transition dysphoria death loop forever, i prefer to go with cis women who work as trans allegories instead. Most of these cis characters are from early on in my transition, in a few cases before i was out to anybody, and the oldest ones are very eggy, but i still love them dearly. It's fun to take a character i originally made to try out feminine gender roles in my questioning phase and play her now that i actually know what kind of woman i am, it's a nice contrast to see how she has developed and how different i act when roleplaying her now.

With my next character, i'm going with "normal contemporary trans goth GF" except that she has her own transbian kinkster blood cult because she happens to be a Tremere witch in a game of V:tM. I just wanna lean fully into the queervillain and Anarch thing (we're playing V5, so eating the city's Prince and taking everything over is a fairly realistic option when we play hard). Really looking forward to that, witches are always fun for me, it's such a nice archetype when you're going for "unapologetically queer power fantasy".

i recently started doing an rpg for the first time ever and im playing a very large bulky masc man despite being a waifish girltwink in reality

all my characters are canonically trans

I decide plenty of my female characters are trans but it never comes up. When I was cracking by baby trans egg, I played a changeling who spent most of her life passing as a human man and then basically just decides she'd rather pass as a human woman.

i tend to either play as cis women or trans men (im afab bi gender), but i play trans men waaay more often than cis women (and basically all the times in games since i came to terms with gender). i personally don't identify with wanting an amab body, so that's probably why. if you want to completely medically transition or wish you were born the opposite of sex it would make sense to be part of the power fantasy? though i also don't really like playing power fantasies i usually make my characters pretty awful people.

though ig at the moment im playing a cis man and a ??? i have no idea ig they're omnigender, but that's the trend for me :p

last time i made a character she was based on a headcanon i saw about sorawo from otherside picnic, which is that she has this deeply traumatic backstory, raised by a cult, managed to get out, and at some point in there she transitioned through some magic bullshit. she doesn't remember it, and her memory is bad enough she just kind of assumes her memories of being a boy are her misremembering things

Once I internally came to terms with my gender identity, I started playing cis women characters over cis men on average within D&D 5e. Occasionally I’ll play changelings as well.

For Baldur’s Gate 3, I’ve made a mix of trans and cis female characters. I think it’s because it’s the trans ones were more self-insert and the cis ones were “wanna have a pretty and/or badass character”.

No. Almost always when I make a character it's either some type I'm trying to explore(playing as a coward is always fun) or I make an idealised version of myself that I could've been without male puberty and the assorted mental issues that followed that.

I mostly make my characters cis women but their backstory will usually have some kind of trans allegory in it. I feel like it's a safer way to interact with my feelings about being trans without necessarily having to explicitly deal with the types of things that can be overwhelming / traumatic IRL.

Feels sort of weird to me to be straight up trans in a dnd like setting, but i've done it once. Mostly i just try a bunch of different gender expressions for fun (and potentially testing purposes ^^).
I've really played across the whole spectrum now. I think my favorite character was an agender asexual bard (that was honestly a lot of fun)!

I tend to pick depending on the type of character I'm going for. As such I got a roughly 50/50 split fem/masc for characters. I haven't actually played an explicitly trans character since I very rarely get to be a player in RPGs. Literally the last time (ignoring oneshots) was 4 years ago now, and I only realised I was trans near the end of that campaign. I've had a character made ever since then that I intend to play eventually who was basically my attempt to work through those feelings at the time. But she was cis and I was doing it through allegory, and kinda loosely at that. (And at this rate I'm probably never going to be able to play her besides)

If we count my NPCs that I run when GMing, I play basically everything by necessity. Though I tend to enjoy playing fem NPCs more, cis or trans.