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I fully support trans-rights and regularly do everything I can to help, because they have a ton of hardships people like myself can only barely understand. I'm just a boring white-straight guy, but I'm actually involved in quite a few LGBTQ groups in my area and my wife is bi, so I'm not completely out of the loop or anything.
Oddly enough there's actually placeholder code for "gay/bi" villagers. Trans is a bit complicated though, because I may just add a gender-change spell someday anyway, making "being trans" a slightly obsolete concept if you can just auto-magically change genders/sex anyway.
A slight off-topic tangent about why I have not finished that code:
Having said that though, RtR also has an issue with how the mechanics work, there's no LGBTQ+ representation because nearly any combination of gay/trans/etc will be seen as a "nerf" because they likely can't breed (ie; 2 gay villagers can't have children as they can't get each other pregnant). I have to be careful, because if something like "gay villagers" existed, they would instantly be less valuable than the straight ones because breeding is an important mechanic, and I don't want to encourage people to "cull" the non-straight villagers or be upset that they have them. That would send an awful message that non-CIS people are below or less useful to society, and we both know that's not the case what so ever in reality.
I highly respect it's a sensitive issue, but I don't think this particular tooltip is really "anti-trans" or offensive, I'm sorry, but it feels like you're grasping at straws a bit.
The tooltip in question, that pops up when a villager is pregnant and you hover over the blue rattle icon on their UI, for those wondering:
I'm open for discussion on it, but I really honestly don't see much of an issue here. Also, if I do add a way to get male villagers pregnant, I may change it to "usually female", it's a bit more concise anyway, it's just not currently true. :)
However, representation isn't what I'm posting about, but instead just changing two words to help stop promoting cisnormative discourse.
Why would the villager be 'hopefully female'?
Why is a male villager becoming pregnant a satirical situation?
Why would there even be a need to clarify that the villager should be 'hopefully' female or would be 'usually' female?
You understand it's a sensitive issue, so why joke about it? Why even mention it at all?
I'm not saying this is super offensive or insulting or that you're a transphobe or any of that. I'm just saying that it pushes forward harmful discourse towards the trans community. I, as a trans person, think that, and so does my partner who is also trans.
In any case thanks for being open about this! It's incredible to see the developer himself answering this and opening a discussion instead of just dismissing it or ignoring it.
I'm absolutely thrilled to see that you've already been thinking about LGBTQ+ representation in a way that won't cause players to be upset about it :) I can't wait to see where you go with it.
I have to ask tho, why not remove it? What's so essential about it?
Also, again, why is it goofy that men can get pregnant?
I know considering this stuff can be annoying, specially if you're a solo developer (which i understand you are? sorry, not sure) and it's not your focus.
Also thanks back_buffer for the support! I agree that seeing how your think about actual representation is interesting and I can't wait to see how you may some day go with it. Speaking of which, if you really don't mind small goofy mechanics, you can fix your balancing issue with adding gay relationship by just...making them get pregnant anyways. Just a thought though, not my main point here.