Damolisher, canon also states that the use of the matrix, and Vector Sigma, in fact the use of factory built protoforms at all, is not the only method of creating new Tranformer life. In other words, they do have the capability to create new life without building them in a factory, and without imbuing said protoforms with a spark. That too is stated in canon. Now, in the Marvel continuity, that other method was asexual; specifically, budding. There were not females at all in the Marvel continuity. In the cartoon and every other continuity, there are females and males. There are genders, romance, courtship, marriage, families, children. That points to the "other potental methods" of creating new transformer life being some form of sexual reproduction.
Now, apart from once again not admitting he's wrong, because he's ignored the fact he said nothing in canon shows that Transformers don't have sex, (The part about how they're robots would be pretty good evidence, which Tramp likes to ignore, because he likes to pretend machines have sex without concrete evidence, or without a statement.) Tramp has once again given nothing but hearsay. Because something MAY be there doesn't mean it is. We're told in not only the G1 Cartoon, but in the Marvel G1 comic Transformers are made by Matrix or Vector Sigma. As he's been told on both sites he's been banned fro, Dreamwave's MTMTE only applies to Dreamwave's continuity, not cartoon or comic continuites. Sadly, Tramp doesn't like this fact, and tries to ignore everything from other continuites unless it helps him. He likes to cherry pick.
Only a fool would believe robots have sex to reproduce, especially when we've seen how they're created in the first place. Everyone of Tramps' so-called arguments is, and has been easily refuted, so if anyone who actually believes his ridiculous one-legged-man-in-arse-kicking-contest evidence, feel free to add fresh ideas which haven't been debunked by every man and his dog. I mean, Tramp lieks to thumb his 7 criterium for life at eveything, and say Transformers couldn't be called lifeforms without it, but hey, Fire and clouds meet all 7 criteria and AREN'T classed as alive. Transformers are artificial lifeforms, and they don't breathe, either, so they only meet FIVE of the criterium. Unless Tramp wants to tell us they magically breathe, as well.