I want a transgender Asari charcter.

i kind of like this idea but only if they do it for multiple groups and species, maybe in one section of a bar or something..

the mass effect equivalent of furries or whatever, humans who want to be turians and dress up with mandibles and stilts, and an asari who wants to be a human male, or a batarian male even (if it were a human male i would think it would be a younger asari since humans are relatively new to interstellar civilization), human and turian and other women dressing up as asari would be a common cosplay in mass effect universe i would think.

ton of fanservice potential, would be funny to see krogan cosplayer trying to hit on them to no avail, for instance.


Edit: after thinking more, I thought my answer might have gone against what you were really hoping for: the reason I said that an asari who wants to be male would have to choose between being a human male, or batarian male, or krogan male, etc, as opposed to being a true "asari transgender" asari male, is for exactly the same reasons that you state, you don't want to go against lore of asari being monogendered, and, more importantly, that it only comes from the interaction with another species that this feeling becomes known to the asari, as you said only "after years of interaction with humans and quarians, no asari has thought 'I don't feel right in my body.' [...] sees another race, another gender so alien to them, and feels it's where, how they truly belong, and they make steps to reach that internal and external union of identity."

so no I dont think a pure transgender asari is very lore friendly... but I could be wrong, "based on how different and unique an individual most of humanity finds itself being, it'd be foolish to think that" it would be impossible for an infinite individual to feel any given way (That just sounds like something better left to fanfic, imo).


edit2: still thinking about this lol, the asari use feminine pronouns to address each other she/her, and refer to their deities as goddesses, etc., presumably all the races speak their own languages, or even multiple languages per species as humans speak so many different languages, and it is only through the universal translators that individuals are really able to communicate, which is why i find the accents helarious in that context personally, ao the universal translator would use feminine pronouns when translating for humans because humans recognize asari as feminine. if the asari made contact with a plant species or another really alien species that did not recognize them as female the translator may not refer to them as such. and any transgender asari, if possible, would probably have to mod their comms system and link to others translators.

...but yeah i think asari are just monogendered, and really they might even have a hard time understanding how another species can be split... i.e. in my cosplay example, which is not necessarily as 'serious' as being fully trans/identifying as another species, it could be possible that an asari cosplays as what appears to be a primarily human male but incidentally wears a human females' necklace and human females' earings, not realizing that this is typically a human female thing to wear, the cosplayer who is not serious only knows that they are human and being asari didnt realize the distinction between male/female really mattered that much. 

Well technically some Asari already exhibit more masculine traits, but since their bodies also are similar to humans I don't really see a reason why they couldn't go through the same gender transformation that humans go through.

In game they say they are monogendered, which means one gender, and the one they comply to is what is comparable to female based on their shared traits with females of other species. If they had no gender they would be called agendered. 

Besides, I remember Liara explaining asari culture to Shepard in ME; she explicitly said that in their own language there isn't any gender distinction. So, yes: they consider themselves agendered. Only two-gendered people like humans consider them females.

Sorry, but female is kind of wrong - mono-gendered? Yes, but they just look "female" in fact the Asari are by nature transgender (more or less, they find themselves somewhere on that spectrum, they don't identify as male or female (they as a race don't really have that concept and they don't need it either!))

greetings LAX
ps: More gender-politics in games? I hope not, I wouldn't have a problem with transgender characters if they were done right (not transgender to be transgender but an interesting character that just happens to be transgender!)

There are people in real life who identity as "non-binary", "dual-spririt" and other stuff that doesn't exist biologically, so I don't see why the Asari not having multiple genders would stop them.

If that were the case gender dysphoria wouldn't exist. The fact that some people identify as the opposite gender because of intrinsic brain structure or chemistry, regardless of sex and cultural input, implies that gender identity is at least partly biological as well. 

If our gender identity is something we are born with, how can it not be biological? You could argue that we aren't born with it, but that discredits the many transgender people who claim that they were 'born as' or 'meant to be' the opposite sex. 

You are not born with a gender identity you acquire it, and some don't, myself for example, I don't have a gender identity. Brain structure varies from individual to individual not from sex to sex, even if some things are more common in one sex than the other. 

Allegory:

I wasn't born liking video games. Me liking video games is legit. There is no reason for people that don't like video games to look down on me. I don't think you can do anything at this point when it comes to make me stop liking video games aka cure me. 

Laws don't exist in nature too yet we abide by them. Just because gender is a social construct doesn't mean that it's not a thing. You have to abolish gender instead of counseling kids, because so long as it exists such problems will arise. 

You can't abolish gender because it's baked into the core of our being. 

Social behaviors are just as evolved as biological traits. Humanity's predisposition to monogamy, family units, sexual attraction to certain appearances and behaviors, sexuality and gender... It's all linked. You can't "abolish" gender without removing biological sex and sexuality along with it, because as long as those exist, so will genders. 

Monogender species can't be transgender. They have only one gender, geez. There's nothing in their genetics to be another gender too.