that said, i feel like a lot of dragons would have weird thoughts on the terms cis/trans and how they apply in dragon societies

bronze dragons would… probably have something to say about the idea that Gender Should Be A Fixed Value From Birth and would definitely think cis people are the weird ones. gender SHOULD change over time because that’s what everything does and okay maybe some mortals live short enough never to sense any shifts in their gender but it’s still weird. why would you assign a baby a gender and still expect it to be the same gender by the time it’s old and grey.

green dragons would recognise from the nature they guard that gender assigned based on biological sex is weird and confusing, there are so many animal species with more than two genders even if they usually only have two sexes, why would you conflate gender with what your body’s capable of doing (and i feel like ysera would probably have feelings about that too, given her body used to betray her will a lot before she was empowered, okay yeah headcanon where the ra gender is generally reserved for ppl who are strong and capable of defending young, and lots of ppl argued that ysera - weak in body - wasn’t eligible to take it) and that’s not even to mention the plants with more than two sexes or individual plants with more than one sex, i imagine they spend a long time talking to various trees about what gender those trees feel they are and those conversations are probably among the most wonderful things in the world to be able to understand

blue dragons have so many genders that you can’t even start to comprehend without an extensive and in-depth knowledge of the arcane and the idea that any of them could be truly discovered without years of research and study is absurd. why would you assign a baby a gender at birth, and more importantly, how

red dragons would probably be among the most essentialist (most strasz gender dragons produce sperm, most strasza gender dragons produce eggs) but they still acknowledge that change and growth is a part of life and are confused when mortals punish each other for changing and growing

black dragons were better before the corruption and lots of their genders are borrowed from/in common with other flights for some reason? (they share a gender with every flight save the red one.) maybe this is something to do with why neltharion (the -ion gender is shared with the bronze flight) was able to convince the other aspects that he was the best candidate for using the charged dragon soul? who knows. they probably got as unpredictably violent about gender after the corruption as they did about everything else but the point is that i feel like there’s some interesting backstory that could be explored there

wrathion considers himself transgender, and it’s because he’s aware that, in the mortal society he was born into + raised into + continues to exist primarily in, his body would make him considered trans. because he uses “he” pronouns, and produces eggs/has a vagina. he doesn’t think being trans is a bad thing, so he’s happy to use the label that seems appropriate given the people he interacts with on a daily basis.

chromie probably has a similar outlook - she knows that most mortals would consider her “birth” gender (ormu) to give her a “male” name (because the most well-known member of that gender, Nozdormu, goes by “he” pronouns) and equally that they would consider her using “she” pronouns and having testes an indication of her being Not Cis, and she spends an awful lot of time around mortals and enjoys their perspectives and values their comfort, so she refers to herself as transgender (even though the ormu gender, which she… decided for herself when she named herself… contains aspects of both masculinity and femininity, and room for change on that axes and many others beyond most mortals’ comprehension).

but it’s completely possible there are other dragons whose bodies would make them considered trans by mortals, who nonetheless do not ID as trans. because they were never assigned… the wrong gender… at birth. nobody ever told them who their gender was except them because, uh, dragon. i like to think most dragonflights have a system where they choose their own name, and therefore gender, at a certain age. most genders come with a set of gender roles (e.g. anyone named -strasz is automatically expected to become a warrior who defends Life) but not all.

no dragon’s gender can simply be encompassed by “male” or “female”. every dragon’s gender is either male-and-something-else, female-and-something-else, female-and-male, female-and-male-and-something-else, or just plain ol something-else, or maybe twelve different flavours of something else blended all up together.

they simplify their genders for mortal comfort, mostly choose a “he” or “she” pronoun, or sometimes “they”, for mortals to use instead of their native draconic pronouns which are as varied as the genders themselves. their genders are not simple at their cores, they are not binary (even within flights, every flight has more than 2 genders regularly occurring in name suffixes)

and i probably wouldn’t call any of them cis, even if not all of them are trans