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Where is the trans element? I'm aware that the directors are but I cannot recall anything obvious in the film.
originally Switch was supposed to be trans but, you know, 1999 and it was too early for that as the Wachowski sisters stated. The red pill in the movie was literally modelled after the perscribed estrogen people that trans women took in the 90s (which makes the whole "red pill" thing today really funny). Theres' also the whole "dead name" thing but that's up for debate.
I think someone that didn't make it into the movie cannot be cannon. The red pill thing is there but its really really subtle. Enough to be debatable. I'm not aware of what you mean by "dead name" in the context of the movie. It's not shocking that a movie made in 99 didn't really touch on that issue.
as far as dead name goes, and again this is debatable, it's in reference to the characters no longer using their "Matrix names" in the "real world" i.e. Neo no longer goes by Thomas Anderson. People will reference the fact that Agent Smith constantly refers to Neo as "Mr. Anderson" thus constanly using his "dead name" in reference to Trans people being called their "dead names" after they transition.
As far as the character goes the Wachowski Sisters have said that originally Switch was supposed to be a woman in the real world and a man within the Matrix but it got nixed by Warner Brothers as being too controversial for the time.