Bryan Bedford

- and you can’t write a female character if you’re male. You can’t write about time travel either cause you haven’t experienced it, or magic for that matter. Guess you can’t make an inventor character either if you haven’t invented anything. See how this just goes on into the -

- nonsensical? Let people write what they want, regardless of who they are. Just mature already because it’s clear you haven’t.

It sounds like you're "slippery-slope"-ing. Haven't seen the trailer yet, but it sounds like they're complaining that there's currently no sign of gender/sexuality explored in the story. May not have phrased it that way, but you seem to be the only person to not interpreted that.

The game is nowhere near release. How can anyone possible say there is no gender exploration?

My reason for feeling dismayed by it already is right on the character customization screen. There is no way to be nonbinary. That already greatly limits the game's ability to explore gender in a futuristic way.

I dig this discussion and I have an honest question: does that not make it somewhat more true to a trans experience? We're assigned a biological sex at birth (character creation) and then we get to define whatever gender or non-gendered role we outwardly prefer/exhibit?

Granted I doubt the system will actually extend that far, but I think the exploration of gender in a cyberpunk setting is fascinating. Would the current setup be more satisfying for NB if you could choose either "body" and then gender just chosen as "non-binary" or similar?

I can't speak for NB people since I'm actually pretty binary, but one issue I have is mainly that they are adults and they already have a backstory. If they were actually NB in this world of body mods there is a good chance that they would have already transitioned by that age.