The 1988 anime series 'Starship Troopers' does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on military life, training, and combat, without addressing queer identities or experiences.

The 1988 anime OVA 'Starship Troopers' primarily focuses on military conflict and themes of citizenship in a futuristic setting. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the film's narrative or character arcs. Therefore, the film does not offer any portrayal, positive, negative, or neutral, of transsexual individuals or experiences.

In the Starship Troopers anime OVA, female characters like Carmen Ibanez and Dizzy Flores participate in combat. However, their engagements are primarily with firearms against alien Arachnids or through piloting spacecraft. There are no instances of female characters defeating human male opponents in close-quarters physical combat.

The 1988 anime adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's novel "Starship Troopers" (Uchû no Senshi) maintains the established genders of its main characters from the source material. No significant character gender changes are present.

The 1988 anime adaptation of "Starship Troopers" does not feature characters whose race was canonically or widely established in the source novel as a different race from their portrayal in the anime. The novel's characters' races were not explicitly defined in a way that would constitute a race swap.