Why LGBT Representation Is Important In Gaming.

If we're going to talk LGBT, I know for a fact that games still have issue with trans rights and some franchises are still stuck in the 2000's regarding it. For example, the UK translations for Super Mario Party and Mario Tennis Aces (relatively recent games, mind you) gleefully misgenders Birdo as a "he" and it's JUST the UK localization that does this, every other localization refers to her as the appropriate gender. Also, I'm going to remind people that the trans "joke" in Pillars of Eternity is still only 7 years ago and that that type of humor is even considered acceptable in the first place is alarming.

Call of Duty only recently gave out an "unclassified" gender to refer to the player character, and while that should be seen as a nonissue, perhaps even supportive that NB's get representation in the first place, there still has been an alarming amount of pushback and mocking such an option in Gamer(TM) feeds. NB is practically still invisible in gaming, even in The Sims to an extent (genderfluids could mess around in CAS even if it's extremely inconvenient for them because their gender identity is more fluid than typical transgenders while bigenders would be very pleased at the amount of options CAS has to create the perfect bigender Sim).