Source: https://tfviews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1667
Also, some background:
So, Simon Furman is a writer of Transformers comics who has some obvious issues when it comes to women and gender. He has publicly stated that Transformers shouldn't have a gender (despite almost all of them having male voices and pronouns), and had previously explained the origin of Arcee (a girl Autobot) as she was created by the Autobots to appease angry feminists, which is absolutely bizarre. After this, in the 2000s someone had the bright idea to let this guy write a whole story centered around her, and what he came up with then was even worse. According to what he wrote, she was kidnapped and had a forced gender reassignment against her will, which made her go insane and turn violent. So, he basically replaced a misogynistic origin story with one that is both misogynistic and transphobic. Mairghread Scott, a later Transformers comic writer, made a good attempt at salvaging that dumpster fire while trying to maintain some level of continuity. She made a post about it not even calling this guy out directly, and of course he takes it personally and freaks out, which is what that forum discussion is about.
Yeah yeah, this is all extremely nerdy and there are probably much more important things I could be doing with my time, but I just thought this... uh... Transformers redpill sort-of-eugenics rant was amusing and wanted to share.
First of all, it's alien engineering. It already doesn't mesh well with our limited mastery of machinery, they can literally change between humanoid forms and tool/vehicle forms. That secondary form is also generally much smaller, so their bodies can't be dense enough to humour this "need to be bigger to be robust" argument. Soundwave turns into a casette recorder and has casettes that are actually half-sized deceptions. Either these poor bastards should fly away at the softest breeze or it's alien tech and doesn't share a basis with human biology.
Second, small frames absolutely have a place in combat. A man and a woman of average builds getting into a pistol fight, there's no real physical advantage there. Even if transformers were constantly getting into hand-to-hand combat, that's ignoring the first point.
Finally, women give birth. There's fuckall more robust than that. I had car crash debris removed from my leg without anasthetics, and the perspective that gave me is thank fucking god I don't have to give birth.