I most often play Pathfinder, with a mostly-canon Golarion setting. I almost always play a woman - sometimes I make her trans, and sometimes I don't. Her trans status is usually based on the rest of their characteristics, and whether I feel it "makes sense" for my character to realize she's trans.
When I played a brash, independent sorceror, or a young noblewoman with resources and connections and a supportive family, it made sense to make my characters trans because they were in a position to figure that out and had the ability to do something about it. In my current Pathfinder game, my character was raised in a militaristic cult that isn't a good environment for deep introspection, so I made her cis.
When I made my character for Baldur's Gate 3, she was a self-insert alongside my BF's self-insert, so she was transfemme and it was an easy decision. I'll generally prefer to make trans characters, but only if I can make up a good justification to do so.
I recently spoke to a friend who primarily makes cis woman characters as part of the whole "power fantasy" that comes with roleplaying, and her experience was a little different than mine, so I thought I'd ask here. Trans Hexbears, are your RPG characters trans?
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