Gender in the Sims Series

"DaniRose2143;c-18199994" wrote:
The way that is supposed to work there would be more than just male or female. You could still have a sim be male or female but you would have the option to choose some degree of both male and female at the same time or choose to have no gender identity at all. The way the both option could work is the sim doesn't have a specified gender but leans towards one. Or a sim could be female but leans towards male but doesn't want to be labeled male. I that's how I understand it. It allows for that sim to represent a broad spectrum of gender expression instead of just the rigid either or, male or female definition.

But that's exactly the problem. "Removing binary entirely" definitely sounds like you could not have the game recognize a sim as simply male or female. Which would cause a lot of things that would need to be re-imagined. Mostly the attraction system. There would definitely need to be some way to set a sim's preferences to stop them from autonomously flirting with sims they aren't supposed to. (Say we want to play the Heckings. Say we don't mind one of them having an affair, but we do mind him flirting with a female-framed sim because we think he would not. But how do we tell the autonomy that?)
Also, of course, the random townies. I don't think they need an extra dose of random... you know? ;D