First, Ana Valens' Daily Dot piece, shared here earlier, is really excellent. It's the #1 thing to read about this, that I've found so far.
Also found myself nodding along to her tweet here (couldn't make it embed correctly so I took a screencap) and the embedded snippet from her article:
To quote @jaffameister: “Ultimately, the lesson here is that in order for trans representation to be done right, trans people need to be involved in the decision-making process.” Want to talk about us? Put us in the room. We know how to talk about gender in a meaningful way.
Nice to see another trans person comin' away thinkin' the CDPR artist doesn't know the first thing about real-life trans people. It really feels that way. It's like she's talking about theoretical gender aliens or something. And let's note what kind of depiction that resulted in.
what part of "there's a bunch of trans people on staff" is being allowed to be ignored by this Valens cult when nobody else gets to do that? it's attacking DEVELOPERS, LAZY DEV RHETORIC and horseshit you know it all already what am i even bothering right?
Yeah.
I'm actually really curious if any of the numerous people who said "Oh, this seems reasonable." on the first page have changed their minds since some trans voices chimed in.
YES, like, I'm not someone's futuristic fucking social experiment.
I'm a human being and I'd like to see someone in a video game who's even a little bit like me without a huge pink arrow calling attention to a body part that A) it's clearly nobody's business to ask about, and B) DOES NOT DEFINE ME OR ANY OTHER TRANS PERSON
these fucking people good god why am i trying to figure them out
when did five year olds push over all the subtly and careful construction at the gas station? literally nothing this djgolfclap (lol) says has anything to do with anything resembling reality? how does literally everyone all seem to see it one specific way and it's all the same and ANA VALENS decoded it through that gibberish that was worse than even what I post? and it all happens to be exactly what they want it to be in the first place? why is their only personality a single thing and it's their self-sexual-perception? why do i have so many questions that i already know the answers to?
who will be our tim heidecker of gaming? no answers