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to preface: as much as the title sounds like a critique, it's not. it's just a realization i had while thinking about baldur's gate 3, and it's good they provided the options they did, for me to have this realization in the first place

i'm a transgender man, and i've been on hrt for several years, i haven't had bottom surgery, and i'm intimately familiar with the effects testosterone has on a vulva. i've also been in trans femme circles long enough to know how estrogen affects a penis (if you are unfamiliar, you can read about each at https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/second-puberty-masc#genital-changes and https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/second-puberty-fem#genital-changes)

and it's really weird to realize that most people cannot visualize what i have going on in my pants. a cis woman's vulva is fundamentally not accurate (which is basically what's presented as your option). for me, obviously; for some trans masc people, it is accurate

i don't know how trans femme people feel, but i could see the argument for them going either way. i'd like to hear what you think, if you feel represented by feminine body shapes with a penis selected as your genitals

and also, it would be interesting to see bottom surgery options represented. even if that's just the same models but with the "is this from surgery" option ticked or something

finally. my concluding thoughts are that i'd really like to see how big a half-orc's tdick gets (presuming that half-orcs are subject to the same sex hormones humans are and/or that they can substitute their hormones similarly. i mean that's it's own can of worms there)

i know i'm not ending off on any kind of a question but i wanted to share my feelings about this with people and hear how this made others feel, as well

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[โ€“] sludge@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

like how much variety in body shapes does the game have? like coming from a transfem perspective i find the all too common "coventionally attractive cis woman" bodytype with penis stapled on to be pretty boring. otherwise i think it seems neat ^_^

[โ€“] ram@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have a pretty good selection considering, including both strong and not-strong varients of many races for both masc and femme bodies. They however have no finer customization of your body shape; i.e. there's no sliders in the way of hips/waist/head/chest size, level of muscularity, etc, so you're just selecting a preset body shape to "paint" onto.