An online game 'allowing' players to create transgender characters - discuss?

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CrystalSingerFan · 06/10/2025 17:11

OK. First post on FWR.

Here's something from an Observer Sensemaker email. "It’s in the game:

A consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has agreed to acquire video game maker Electronic Arts for $55 billion. It is the biggest ever leveraged buyout...

Concerns. Some gamers worry that Saudi Arabia’s new part-ownership of EA will lead to the censorship of games featuring LGBTQ content. These include ...

Dragon Age, which allows players to create transgender characters..."

I know absolutely nothing about gaming but I'm interested in the idea of folks wanting to be transgender characters. Unless I'm missing something, if you're transgender you're just, magically, the opposite biological sex? Which you would choose to play as? Assuming Dragon Age permits two sexes to play?

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Yawhat · 06/10/2025 17:21

It's been a while since I played Veilguard but in the DA character creator, you can design a woman with a penis or a man with breasts. You can give a woman the male voice actor's dialogue and vice-versa. And iirc you could add mastectomy scars and pronouns.

That's to say nothing of the content of the game, which is as righteously dull as you'd expect.

Snorlaxo · 06/10/2025 17:18

I sometimes use a male avatar or unisex nickname when gaming because a female avatar can attract trolls and negative attention.

I am not trans.

Ime many people use avatars that don’t look like them irl and it’s not a sign of gender identity.

Greyskybluesky · 06/10/2025 17:17

OP, I assume you've read around FWR a bit and your sentence "Unless I'm missing something, if you're transgender you're just, magically, the opposite biological sex?" is just badly phrased?

spannasaurus · 06/10/2025 17:16

Are you wanting to know which sex a trans player would choose?

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