No, they were synthesized. Alien race called the Creators. It's canon. There was nothing natural about them at all.
But more to the point, if you could play with the toys, watch the cartoons, watch the movie, have the lunch box, sleep in the pyjamas, and collect the magazines, why can't you draw inspiration from the Transformers to find an allegorisation within it for the identity issues you might be noticing in yourself?