Sims 4 made my gay Sims straight
In Sims 3, if you made gay Sims, they pretty much always stayed gay - even if you stopped playing them for a while. You could move on to another house, play for a while, and when you came back, your S...
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For one thing, this is definitely more of a autonomy issue than a jab at the LGBTQ+ community. Once you've played a sim, the game shouldn't be destroying what you've created, even if you stop touching the sim. More so - the sim shouldn't be getting into romantic relationships, making enemies, ending relationships - without the player doing so.
Transgender sims are an entirely different issue, as the only real way to incorporate that into the game is a way that's kind-of offensive to trans people. Someone who is trans has *always* been the gender they identify as - regardless of their body and what they were living as - and if you incorporate a way for sims to "change gender" it's a little unsettling and could offend people pretty easily. A better concern would be more open-ended and neutral options in CAS - the body types should be editable in a non-gendered way - female sims should be offered options of less curves, flat chests (not even just a trans issue - plenty of cisgender women don't have "feminine" breasts!) and a more boxy, straight figure, and vice-versa - men should be offered options of more curves, and a chest without pecs. It's more of an issue of sims subconsciously being pushed towards traditional options because the non-traditional options are poorly implemented (aka, no torso curves on a female sim and torso curves on a male sim all make their stomachs look weird and make the clothing fit illy).
Transgender sims are an entirely different issue, as the only real way to incorporate that into the game is a way that's kind-of offensive to trans people. Someone who is trans has *always* been the gender they identify as - regardless of their body and what they were living as - and if you incorporate a way for sims to "change gender" it's a little unsettling and could offend people pretty easily. A better concern would be more open-ended and neutral options in CAS - the body types should be editable in a non-gendered way - female sims should be offered options of less curves, flat chests (not even just a trans issue - plenty of cisgender women don't have "feminine" breasts!) and a more boxy, straight figure, and vice-versa - men should be offered options of more curves, and a chest without pecs. It's more of an issue of sims subconsciously being pushed towards traditional options because the non-traditional options are poorly implemented (aka, no torso curves on a female sim and torso curves on a male sim all make their stomachs look weird and make the clothing fit illy).
