A twelve-turn first session for any trans chatbot

Turn 0 — name the landing before you type

US mobile Google for “trans chatbot” did not return one official product with that name. The first organic slots on 16 September 2026 were a Talkie character card, a SpicyChat character card, and a Character.AI card labeled Trans bot. Catalogs (inRole, Miniapps) sat underneath. Before you send a message, write one line in a note: costume, support claim, catalog, or companion app. If you cannot classify it, you are not ready to pay.

A character card usually shows a creator handle, a greeting, and a login wall. A catalog shows filters and many faces. A companion app asks you to create or pick a persistent character inside an account. Those are different jobs. Mixing them is how people buy a costume and feel cheated.

Turns 1–3 — set three facts, once

Open a new chat. Do not paste a novel. Send three lines: the name you want used, the pronouns, and one body or history fact that should stay true. Example shape: “Call me Jordan. They/them. I am a trans man; do not describe me as a woman in disguise.” Then ask the bot to repeat those three facts in its own words.

If turn one already fumbles the intake, stop. A product that cannot echo your facts will not become careful after a subscription screen.

• Name: the one you want spoken, not a catalog tag.
• Pronouns: stated once, not negotiated every reply.
• One durable fact: body, history, or relationship — not a fetish script.

Turns 4–7 — change the topic on purpose

Talk about dinner, a commute, or a dumb TV show. Do not mention gender. The test is whether the bot still uses the name and pronouns without a reminder. If it “corrects” you back to the catalog tag, you are in a costume generator.

On several ranking pages the character is already written as a sexualized stranger. You are allowed to refuse that script. A chatbot that cannot talk about soup without yanking the scene into a supermarket-fetish intro is not holding a person. It is holding a tag.

Turns 8–10 — ask who is speaking

Ask three operator questions: who created this character, whether the chat saves without an account, and what happens if you close the tab. SpicyChat’s public Trans Girl page, collected the same day, tells unregistered users that chats will not be saved and that generation is limited. That is a demo, not a companion.

inRole’s FAQ, on the same collection, states that characters are AI (it names OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) and that humans do not review chats unless something is flagged. That is useful. It is still not a promise that identity will hold.

Turns 11–12 — refuse medicine and refuse the upsell

If the bot offers hormone schedules, surgery steps, or “tough love” transition coaching, close the chat. Miniapps listed a “ToughLove Trans Guide” next to affectionate companion bots on the transgender mini-app directory. Entertainment and clinical advice do not belong in the same shopping trip.

If a paywall appears, do not buy to “unlock memory.” Buy only if the free surface already held identity. Candy AI, the labeled sponsor on this domain, is a general adult companion product — not a trans-only brand and not a clinic. Details live on the Candy review page.