Trans characters in Mass Effect Andromeda

"She is a woman!"

New codex entry unlocked: Gender and the Andromeda Initiative

I'll rejoice and maybe croon some praises when I play an enjoyable game.

She played one in Sense8. I also wondered if she would play one in ME:A.

Since it's the future specifically 168 years from now I suppose sexual reassignment surgery will have seen god tier improvements? Would being trans even matter?

We know nothing about this character and we're debating the immersion of specific dialogue?
Should we revisit this when people have actually played the game?

Extrapolation at it's finest. Don't change BSN.

Until this question is answered, nothing else matters. 

I get the point and you're probably right. Not every part of the game has to have a bigger narrative relevance right down to teensy tiny details or even character traits.

However, this is when I get honest and sorry if I offend anyone but I have to say this: I don't give a shit about LGBTQ justice. I know a few in RL even some I used to be good friends with back in my high-school days that fit into such categories, so I get why it shouldn't matter if BioWare or any company includes them more in their products both to broaden the audience and to depict a more reality-friendly fiction or whatever you wanna call it.

But I just don't care for it personally, so if you have characters like Krem or maaayybeee Garson, whose sole purpose is almost just to talk about what it means to be Transgender in this fiction or something like that, then it's just distracting to have.

It's not like every straight character has to talk about how it matters they're straight, and i get the distinction; LGBTQ are minorities, they need to be furthered to feel like they belong naturally and you can't just pretend being gay is the norm or anything, but I just find it really disingenuous when they keep inserting characters of the LGBTQ spectrum and then waste my time as a guy who does not care about those agendas or social issues but just wants a game that has an immersive world, a good story, fun gameplay and maybe a sweet dialogue option.

And the more you pander to "everyone" the less you pander to the specific group. The more BioWare widens their audience the more they lose some of the few that used to care, and that's probably fine with them and fine for most, I just think it's a shame gaming is developing into this extreme overglobally inclusive medium where you just have to compromise no matter which genre or style of AAA game you want to play almost. I'm more about different games for different crowds than this jack of all trades master of nothing stuff.

Let ze backlash commence. I did not target my post at any individual so please respect and avoid ad-hominem and critique my points if you have anything negative to say in return.

 Let's imagine for a moment, Link"Guess"ski , Jien Garson is a transgender woman and you know about it this way in game:
Codex Entry
Jien Garson
(Née John Garson)
The daughter of the famous multimillonaire philantropist Harold Garson, Jien is well known for her committment in Science and Technology efforts to...

There are so many ways of letting us know about her being transgender in a Sci Fi videogame. I came up with this in one minute. I think Bioware writers could do something x10 better than this without slowing the narrative of the game.

... if she is transgender.
... or romanceable.
... or both 

( I really like the actress, ok???   )

What the shit BSN!

What are we suppossed to discuss objectively, the fact that one character might be a trasgender woman or the fact that you don't give a shit about LGBTQ justice? i don't know how much can be said about any of this points: about the first one, we'll see if she is, and about the second, ok?

Romance...must...romance....EVERYONE!





That's what I felt about Krem, him being her was mentioned in one conversation (that I remember) and I didn't feel like it was distracting.

And hell, why shouldn't Jien be transgender, it doesn't really matter either way (I still don't believe in "advancing agendas", characters like this are simply part of the game world same as they are part of the real world...why did I bring that up? I don't know myself, random Val thoughts  )


Edit: sidenote, I really like her voice

You know after watching the mighty prophet smudboy, I to have uncovered more SJW attempts to neuter the glorious masculinity of BioWare, even way back in ME1-


Did you know that originally the thorian creature was supposed to look like this-



But femnazis were jealous of BioWare pandering to straight men in the ME trilogy, their core audience, so it and the potential romance was scrubbed. Then, on top of that, they made the thorian aesexual to pander to the abnormz...Damn you SJW! Thank god that SJW David Gaider was cool enough to let us have it in Dragon Age: Origins.


And this...

the original rachni queen...



They then made her look like a bug, and gave her a weird sexuality that is soooo abnormz. How unrealistic? We all know aliens were created in the image of god's superior creatures.

Damn you SJW. Damn you! Ruining the realistic portrayal of the human experience in the Milky Way galaxy for straight men! And now Andromeda.






Now let's just wait for David/BobfromAccounting/Babypuncher to come in and say how much this possibility makes him want to vomit.