More of Carmel/Toffee being a girl!!

@TheMultiBrony21  
Not a trans person, but I’ve gotten to know a few and taught myself quite a bit, so I feel I can explain it in more or less a nutshell.
 
Someone is transgender when their gender identity - how masculine, feminine, some combination of both, or neither someone feels and whether or not that changes over time - is different from the sex they were assigned based on their genitalia at birth. For most people the two will line up, but for others, for reasons which aren’t yet well understood, they will diverge from one another.
 
Despite what many might say to the contrary, gender identity and sex are not the same thing, and truth be told, neither of them are black and white binaries. Gender identity can be masculine or feminine, and that’s the case for most, but you can also have people who identify with both or neither, whom are usually termed as genderqueer or nonbinary. Sex has been traditionally determined by genitalia, which is a satisfactory indicator for most, but there are so many more factors that go into it, such as hormones, genes, and other anatomical characteristics, and sex represents all the possible multitudes of combinations of these, not just the typical XX with a vulva and XY with a penis.

@fuckingtonbear  
It’s kind of a hard topic to explain…
 
What exactly is a transgender? I’ve always heard that it’s just people that are gender confused and think they’re the opposite gender of their birth gender.

Fun fact: In that same episode a stallion was shown as a mare, or vice-versa, for one shot before turning back to normal. These are likely animation errors do to the fact in all future appeances, Caramel is a stallion.

I like to think they’re actually very close triplets who don’t talk to each other as often as before and aren’t as close as they were younger.  
Just how I see it though.

I really want this to be canon. Trans representation in kids’ shows is virtually nonexistent, and to have even one minor background character in just one show would be great. There needs to be a way to show trans kids that there’s nothing wrong with how they feel.
 
Sure as hell would have helped me when I was a kid.
 
Instead I grew up with no good representations of people like me. Every time a trans person was featured on any show, they were either psychotic or murdered — and that was adult shows. There wasn’t anyone like me on kids’ shows, at least not the ones I watched. I didn’t even learn what being transgender meant until I was 16… and by then, I was so deep in denial that it took me another five years, and two suicide attempts, before I realized that I was trans.
 
If someone had explained it all to me when I was 6, I would have known I was a girl before I turned 7.
 
Transgender youth need representation. They need someone to tell them that their feelings are valid, their gender is valid, that they’re not a “freak” for being trans. If there were even the slightest bit of fair representation in children’s media, I assure you the suicide rate for trans people would drop well below the current mark of 41%. Think about that for a second — two out of five transgender people have attempted suicide at some point in their lives.
 
All because we’ve been told from birth that we’re wrong just for being ourselves.
 
(Sorry for ranting; this is just a topic that means a whole lot to me, if you couldn’t tell.)

@Eleventh Doctor Whooves  
wouldn’t they be less accepting in the country though?

Hey, good for Caramel that she found out what she wanted to be. If moving to Appleoosa was necessary for her to avoid discrimination, I feel for her all the more.

in my head canon: Caramel is trans, as is Babs Seed

I always assumed Caramel had a bunch of twin siblings.
 
Who all have the same cutie mark.

Hes getting more feminine… lol.

Are they warped clones? Changelings? The pony who folded himself?

Was once a proud pony, had severe depression, then solved sadness by becoming a mare…  
Seems about right…

In my headcanon Braeburn became a saint.

In my headcanon, they’re all just siblings.

oh hey saintbraeburn, how’s the fridge? nice and stocked i hope!

I’m thinking Caramel could have siblings that have the same Cutie Mark; like Aloe and Lotus.

I was just thinking how we haven’t seen you in a while, Saint, and lo and behold, here you are. You must be some sort of long-distance psychic.

he is getting more and more girly…HE IS A TRANSEXURAL!! o-o

Caramel is a Changeling.

@Saint
 
Oh, let me play you a sad song on the world’s smallest violin
 
 

Braeburn throughout the Season 2:
 

Magical sex changes are powerful stuff.