Ouroboros:
The debate hold in this forum to change from Transvestite to Gender Nonconforming was something to frame and put on a museum on how to improve a game by realizing how some people were extremely uncomfortable with things as written only twenty years ago, and taking and active effort to be as inclusive and respectful as possible
Found the thread. Thanks for pointing it out.
I'm reopening this thread briefly to post our decision.
First, I'd like to thank Colleen for raising the issue, and everyone else for discussing it in a largely constructive way.
We are going to replace Transvestite with a very slightly rewritten version of the Gender Nonconforming Flaw that I proposed, as below.
Gender Nonconforming
Personality, Major or Minor
You do not conform to the expected behaviour for a person of the gender that your society would assign to you in the absence of soc…
I think the thread does support calling it a change in perspective. The flaw apparently was introduced by a trans game developer, but that was in the 1990s and sensitivities even within the trans community have changed.
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