[Even without his powers to help him tell people's emotion, the shakiness in her voice is telling enough that it is a heavy topic.]

Simply because they were different? Was that it?

[Assumption but... It's not too different from what he's experience during pre-war Cybertron, albeit in his case Cybertronians with abilities or extra powers were considered a problem in society.]

Seems that even in other worlds people are persecuted based on how they were born.