I missed the Cybertranny 2077 event thingie and anything about it but apparently it was received without much fanfare on polack web - as evidenced by CDPRIDF article on PPE that's trying to dismiss concerns point by point :cirnoThink:
@roka Is it true the main character will have no gender? This would mean the player controls an individual from some alien species, since humans have sexual dimorphism.
@deadheat @roka you can customize genitals and all that stuff I think

@orekix @deadheat @roka huh, I guess in the future the enbies win. :blobderpshrug:

So long as it’s like @Galena and not like Marxist college kids.

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@shebang @orekix @deadheat @roka That's the fun thing about cyberpunk settings, nobody wins. The megacorps are unbeatable, so everyone just tries to get by, and everyone wants to be the specialest snowflake of all. Stuff like HRT, SRS, prosthetics, cosmetic surgery, etc, tend to be advanced to straight up scifi levels, so manipulating any part of your appearance, even transitioning, is easy if you can afford it. It's like something out of a transhumanist dystopia, where the body is just a toy to be played with, more about rampant consumerism than actual expression - it's just another thing to take peoples minds off the corrupt corporate-ruled neo-feudalist gang-infested hellscape the world has become.
CP2077 got a lot of flak at one point, for having an in-game advertisement sexualizing a woman with a dick - was she a trans woman who kept her dick, or a cis woman who got a dick implanted? The world may never know. Either way, it was showing off how life in these settings tend to be. We already have month long Pride advertising campaigns, we already have highly sexualized ads to sell unrelated products, it isn't a stretch to imagine that once such things become socially accepted enough, and the demographic becomes large enough, corps will start pumping out ads highly sexualizing LGBT individuals too. Where there's a buck to be made, there's going to be corps fighting to sell you a product.

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