a few. please bear in mind that we mostly like stories about brainweird people having a bad time ;p
Abraxa, Sash, Lilith - A/S/L, Jeanne Thornton (Jeanne is just ludicrously good at character work)
Gala, Diane - Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton (an interesting interplay here; everything we know about Diane is filtered through Gala, so both get characterised at once)
Annie, Amy - Persona, Aoife Josie Clements (each so beautifully fucked up in different ways)
Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair - Castration Movie, Louise Weard (most other characters in this series are also memorable, but Traps is truly a creation, perhaps the most cursed character on this whole list lmao)
Kate 'Coagula' Godwin - Doom Patrol, Rachel Pollack's run (kind of a flat character tbh, like she's mostly a vehicle for Rachel to talk about trans shit, but historically significant)
Annie-O, Temporary Agency, Rachel Pollack (a very minor character but she completely steals the scenes she's in)
Katherine - Ranked Competitive Breast Growth, Beth Leigh-Ann & Talia Bhatt (another book full of distinctive characters but this is the standout)
Vikki - What Happens Next, Max Graves (a few other solid trans girl characters in this one, but Vikki is the most prominent and interesting)
Paige - The Silt Verses, Jon Ware and Muna Hussen, played by Lucille Valentine (excellent character, though her transness is kind of incidental; for such a dystopian setting it's amusingly trans-positive)
White Chain - Kill Six Billion Demons, Tom Bloom (we daren't speculate what's going on with tom, but it's delightful how gleefully trans this character's storyline turned out after everyone thought it wouldn't go there)
Vellus, Isidol - Psycho Nymph Exile, Porpentine Charity Heartscape (both kind of trauma-vessel characters; the book gets you into their heads like few things can, so they are quite sticky in memory.)
Hana, Tokyo Godfathers, Satoshi Kon (this one's borderline viewed in light of trans depictions, Kon writes Hana a lot closer to the ways he writes men than the ways he writes women, but she's a fun character and on balance the movie works)
Aealacreatrananda - Jennifer Diane Reitz (she doesn't actually appear in any of Jenn's works to my knowledge, but honestly. what an icon)
trans women are the most likely people to write compelling trans women, of course, but i certainly don't want to make out like we're just too inscrutable to write if you aren't in the game already. in fact, you should try! maybe you'll discover something :p