lil cheese’s real gender: yes (i hope people get this reference)

And then the show gave her a model and made her a girl.

@neo4812  
You can only argue that if she was a hermaphrodite or something, and even then they pretty often lean toward one sex or the other in terms of physical traits. On top of that, this was not the kind of show to go “This kid has both boy and girl parts!”

Wait.. are there people really annoyed by this? >3>

why not both? I mean it is pinkies kid maybe they can be both.

I swear, just to make fun of you guys, I’m going to draw an aged-up Li’l Cheese as a full-on visually androgynous hermaphrodite, grinning back at the camera with the dialogue “Since you all can’t decide…“

Ohhhh, this is going to be soooo good!

G E N D E R R E V E A L P A R T Y

For me she will be always a filly, I can’t buy Jim’s nonsense.

@Krek
 
I agree.
 
Honestly, I rarely think Twitter reveals are 100% reliable.
 

 
@DocMadfox
 
Makes me wonder if the stress is catching up with the crew. Maybe the end of the show is a good thing if it allows everybody (fans and crew) to sort their minds and chill on the meantime, specially because some circles got full of drama after the finale.
 

 
Who knows, maybe is one of those things that honestly are better off if we let people have their personal headcanons instead of letting people get wild for something like this.

Yeah I figured. Reiterating, while I would have liked to have this been a nod to trans people within the community, it was likely a communications fuck up.

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
Yep. Colts weren’t very noticed in this series.

@Krek  
For me, I’ll have Li’l Cheese as a colt, considering that, outside of Shining Armor, Big Mac and Sugar Belle’s kid, Pound Cake, Dawn Droplet and any others I’m missing, there aren’t that many colts that are shown to have families.
 
Edit: Oh yeah, and Fluttershy’s brother too.

@Krek  
I went against my usual take because I had faith in Jim, but he is the great Deciever! The wretched hive of Twitter knows no honesty or truth! Forgive me, o Canon, for I forgot that all outside of the Main Material is Heresy!
 
(Seriously though I agree.)

@Background Pony #A522  
All Breezies have lashes. It doesn’t mean anything.

@Krek  
Since G4 is almost over, we probably won’t have confirmation on that. We have to trust the folks who worked in the series! It may not seem so, but they know what they do.

Personally, I think Li’l Cheese is female. Big Mac already has a son, anyway.
 
I’m of the opinion that anything outside of the official source in terms of canonization is questionable at best, and non-existent at worst. Like with calling Sunset bi; unless it was clearly spelled-out in the actual series or whatever, I’m gonna take it being canon with a grain of salt.
 
Especially if it’s coming from Twitter of all places, where people will change a character’s orientation or relationship status on a dime to appease a demographic.

@CatsTuxedo  

 
@GaruuSpike  
Probably because some colts in the show have had round muzzles too like Rumble.

@GaruuSpike  
I’m looking… And I think having a standard model for foals of different genders wasn’t a very good idea. But anyway, going back to the topic, people need to calm down about it.

@Background Pony #0B13
 
But he doesn’t have eyelashes.
 
Whole picture, folks. Look at the whole picture. Not just one item!

@GaruuSpike  
Rumble has the muzzle and body shape of a filly. But again, I think the folks in charge of designing characters for Hurricane Fluttershy probably weren’t aware of his gender.

Which direeeeectly contradicts what Jim said.
 
Hmmm.
 
@Background Pony #0B13
 
Idk why everyone keeps focusing on the eyelashes. The muzzle and body shape are important, too. Unless you’re just strawmanning.

@Silverwisp19  
Holy crap, you’re right. We have a character to make fanon for the first time in a long time (unless the comics say otherwise)

@Background Pony #0B13  
Not in Pony, there ain’t.