i was going to say this in a reply to someone elses post but i need to stop bothering randos in the tags. i still want to say it because it is my bigggest gripe about this game so i will say it here

starfield's take on futureworld gender is lame.

i think again this is MOSTLY attributable to a clumsy gameplay-storytelling interfacing issue where they want to have their character creator respec at will menu lored in and it just doesnt work. there is one npc called dani garcia who is implied to be transfem and has not taken the magic cis-passing bodyswap machine route at enhance, and i want the game to have more characters like her just populating the world. especially in places like neon or the well where its clear not everyone can afford the 500 credits at enhance (despite this game's broken ass get rich quick economy again the gameplay and storytelling do not mesh)

they had a really good opportunity with hadrian sanon to be textually if not visibly trans but they fucked it and implied she's a cis genderswap clone which hugely reduces her thematic potential imo. like her whole thing is growing away from this identity she was shackled to. she was expected to fill the role of a man who exemplifies all the uc's worst and she chooses to walk away from that. i think this is literally only enhanced if she is transgender but bethesda are cowards and let you be like umm youre a clone? of a MAN? and you're a GIRL? and shes like oh no no dont worry i was assigned female at birth somehow. like oh my god so lame remove that exchange just have her be trans it is literally a better story that way