New Update Jan 31

"LSM36;c-18224263" wrote:

"Melisendre;c-18224253" wrote:

"SelinaKyles;c-18224193" wrote:

"Melisendre;c-18224158" wrote:
I'm not sure what to think about top scars. Why are they for masculine Sims? In my language it is translated with mastectomy and this reminds me of breast cancer and not gender transformation. Breast cancer usually affects women.

It’s meant to be for sims who are transitioning

I know what it is meant but there are much more women with a mastectomy caused by breast cancer than women who where transformed into a man. We always talk about inclusion and the medical wearables are the right way. When we talk about mastectomy scars we should also talk about women with breast cancer.
That's the reason why I probably never will use the mastectomy scars.

I don't think that's the right way to think about this. I do think they messed up with how they unveiled this. It should have been available for all sims Teen and up, regardless or sex, or frame, etc.

You seem to be talking about it as if:
1. The only inclusion we should have is inclusion of disability rep, or overcoming illness rep, not Queer rep. As a Queer Chronically Ill Disabled Minority, in a country that doesn't really care about any of that, I don't particularly appreciate seeing one aspect held higher as an excuse to belittle another.
2. Mastectomy is a form of top surgery or breast surgery rather. It's just that 1 is used to battle invaders in the body, and the other is used when the invader is your body. This is not me downplaying cancer either or any of the issues that cause people to have to get a Mastectomy. There are several surgeries, including reductions that go on in this area, and they are all undergone with the understanding that it is a big deal and everyone has their reasons behind it.
3. But by the sims team limiting this to Male sims, not only did they show a lack of understanding of the communities they are trying to represent, they were also alienating those they weren't thinking of. As you said, Cancer survivors, but also non-binary people who don't want to have breasts, cis-women who don't want breats at all and didn't want a reduction (maybe for medical reasons maybe for their personal reasons), and trans-people who may not have gone through all the surgeries possible because this is the only one they needed to feel comfortable. Or maybe the only one they could currently afford and maybe they were hoping to make a simself or just a similar sim.

But these are surgery scars of what should be the broad category. Not just one or the other, and that's why, I feel it should be for both. Not bc there are "so many more women with cancer than people who have had gender confirming surgeries to remove their breasts."

Well said.

In general, put me down for more inclusion, more representation, more options. In this particular case, I could see what they were going for, but it would be even better if they would just expand it a bit more to give us the option of telling even more stories.