>Thankfully, your character’s gender is not tied to your choice of genitals. You can create a dude with a vagina or a lady with a penis, that’s no problem. But because of everything else about how the game handles trans identity, this hardly feels like the progressive step it should be. Rather than just letting you pick your pronouns independently of all your other character creation choices, your pronouns are assigned based on your selection of voice: Pick the “feminine” voice and your pronouns are she/her, and vice versa. (There are no nonbinary pronoun options.) As a trans woman with a voice that many would not describe as “feminine,” this direct linking of gender identity to having a voice that sounds “masculine” or “feminine” feels weirdly essentializing.
>Ubiquitous throughout Night City are ads for a beverage called Chromanticure that feature a female-coded model with a penis visible through her skintight clothing, making it clear that in Cyberpunk 2077, trans bodies are objectified and commodified. Some cis bodies are, too, of course, but the crucial difference is that, as V, we constantly meet, interact with, and form relationships with cis characters who have far more dimension than the surface of any sexualized image on a billboard. The same can’t be said of trans characters. Even if you opt to play as a trans V, she’s not particularly well-defined. The game is about what you see through her eyes and what she goes through, not about who she is as a person.
>In my 40-plus hours in Night City, I never met a single character of any significance whom the game made clear was trans, and one of the only queer-coded characters I encountered was an extremely unsavory cybernetic surgeon who does extremely unsavory things. I did spot a trans flag on one character’s vehicle, though that hardly counts as positive trans representation and doesn’t even necessarily mean the character is trans. It felt more like a way for Cyberpunk 2077’s creators to say they had included positive trans representation without actually putting thought into it or making trans people a visible part of the makeup of Night City.
They were mad cause a cis girl cosplayed as the ad transgirl and cyberpunk twitter retweeted that
Dylan James
>For elements like the inescapable dehumanization of trans people on imagery throughout the city to function as any kind of critique of transphobia, the game itself would need to create tension around those images by showing us humanized trans people navigating that world. But it doesn’t. The result is a game in which transphobic players (of which there will be many) can just laugh at us by using the character creator to generate models they consider worthy of mockery and derision and by gagging at the Chromanticure ads they see everywhere, or perhaps by fetishizing the model while continuing to see trans people as objects of desire but not as full human beings. Meanwhile, we trans players are left wanting in its world for depictions that humanize us.
>In fact, the game’s entire worldview feels like the product of someone who’s about 30 years behind the times, who may have been rebellious and liberated once but who nowadays doesn’t understand why it’s messed up to call sex workers “whores,” as Johnny routinely does.
if even these "people" aren't happy with having their bullshit shoved down their own throats in the game, why do we do it at all
Leo Garcia
>Polygon releases yet another retarded article by someone who can't think their way out of a paper bag >we're surprised
Tranny seething or no, the game is still generic, boring, messy trash.
Kayden Wood
Woah it's almost like a cyberpunk setting is intentionally designed to be confusing, assaulting and unrelentingly hostile to everyone; where no merits outside of force or money are accounted at face value, much less societal "good boy points" for being a part of a social class revolving around your genitals or something?
>you can create a trans person >there aren't arrows pointing to another trans people in the game >it must be obvious if an npc is trans but the game doesn't mark a halo around trans people >the plot is irrelevant >trans people What is his major malfunction?
>I never met a single character of any significance whom the game made clear was trans I mean, what cues other than outright proclamation they're trans do you need? A fat dude with beard stubble in a dress? A thin chick with a buzzcut? Isn't that just sterotypically offensive?
Brayden Moore
>me me me me me LOOK AT ME PRAISE ME this fucking faggot belongs on a cross
Lucas Morgan
looks like greta
Xavier Barnes
51 now
Hunter Young
yeah i thought that was photoshop of Greta when i enter the thread
Anthony Hernandez
presumably the issue is whore is derogatory, not incorrect.
Nathan Rodriguez
Never make your game trans inclusive. You will never satisfy them and their constant bitching about every little thing that doesn't make them feel 100 percent safe.
Ryan Edwards
These “people” disgust me to the core of my stomach seriously I can’t even look at them for long it’s like looking at gore
Benjamin Brooks
>waaaaaa I can't self insert into a game >waaaaaa I can't appreciate something that has nothing to do with me
Jack Cook
>The game is about what you see through her eyes and what she goes through, not about who she is as a person. JFC has the bitch never heard of self-insertion? You shape the character in the choices you make
Julian Robinson
(OP) >As a trans woman with a voice that many would not describe as “feminine,”
well that presumption is retarded. You should be ashamed of being a sex worker. The derogatory connotation to it is part of the point of you working in such a dishonorable profession.
John Baker
I don't have anything trans people but this person is just... sad.
Imagine transitioning and STILL not being confident enough in who you are, to the point where you demand literally everything around you to approve or ackowledge your existence and choice.
Any semblance of common sense is gone in favour of this massively narcissistic endeavour.
What's wrong the the game being like this? Couldn't you argue that the story writers and developers of the game just happen to think that the world will be not-as-inclusive to transsexuals as the author likes? It's like if I wrote an alt-history book that the Nazis won and Jews had to go into hiding. I AM NOT anti-semetic, but I may be claiming that the future Nazi-won world could be anti-semetic.
Lincoln Collins
I know I havent
Wyatt Rodriguez
Trans flag? Saved me money thanks bro
Brody Edwards
this, in the future why would it be something that gets praised for being so brave like it does today? it’s a reality check for trans people, there’s nothing special or unique about them
Tyler Flores
Ok that's cool and all but the real question is can you be addicted to drugs?
>make your game appeal to trannies >50% of your intended player base kills themselves before the game even comes out >the other 50% complains, whines and dilates about the game because you didn't include enough pro tranny stuff and a couple morally ambiguous characters say too many no no words literally can't win
