I think that the real essence of a 'trans' story isn't actually about gender at all, so much as it's about going through a transition from one state where you're miserable and unhappy and wish for death or feel like you're already dead to another radically different state where...you're content. You're just content. You had something chronically wrong with you, like a painful screeching that just becomes the background noise of your existence and then...it's gone. You are, in some ineffable cosmic sense, where you belong.
Consider, a universe in which Jim Gordon is assigned the Wayne murder case, but in this universe, all 3 of them were killed, and his best suspect is a dirty cop. A very well-protected dirty cop. Essentially shuttered out of the legal methods, Gordon turns to vigilantism and fear tactics to get justice.
That meshes pretty well with what I understand to be his current backstory, where he stumbled upon a bunch of corrupt cops who threatened Barbara to keep him from turning them in, and then overheard the Crime Alley gunshots as he departed.
Could also have it so that Bruce still survives, but being a child Gordon still beats him to the whole vigilante thing. Gordon's beta costume/identity isn't necessarily bat-related, but has a passing resemblance, and after stepping in to save Bruce from a different crime sometime further down the line the young Bruce describes his savior as a "bat monster." (Bonus points if he got a clear look at Gordon's face and is half-inventing the bat monster thing to cover for him). In any world where Bruce survives and Gordon becomes Batman, I think Bruce would, if not eventually take up the Robin mantle, at least become Gordon's backer and maybe mission control. His Alfred, in a way.
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okay americans i gotta ask because as an European i grew up with lots of american shows and cartoons and in a lot of them there was an episode where they give the protags a doll or an egg or a bag of flour or whatever and told them pretend to be its parents or something