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Anonymous1: Honestly, I'm genuinely unsure how I feel about Bridget being made an actual transgirl now. I mean, I'm fully supportive of trans rights, but I got the impression Bridget was always meant to just be an incredibly feminine boy- a boy who had been raised as and dressed as a girl and was prettier than the entire female cast of the game, but a boy all the same, entirely sure of his own gender. I can't help wondering whether the recognition of trans rights has made Arc Systems just think that making Bridget a transgirl is the easier, "safer" option than keeping them as an extremely girly transvestite- like "boys can't be pretty and girly and wear women's clothes- she can only be a transgirl". Which raises its own new set of issues (keeping in mind that Bridget is a fictional character so the question of what gender or sexuality she/he is is ENTIRELY the decision of the story writers rather than a choice they make themselves).
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Anonymous2: On the other hand, maybe they always intended for Bridget to be a transgirl all along, but didn't feel they could get away with it back in the more transphobic times of the early 2000s, so they went with the "he's a boy who was raised to dress as a girl" as a cop-out? Who can say, really (aside from the developers, if you could force them to be honest)?
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Anonymous3: Japanese Crossdressers have been using female pronouns since... forever. No one cared. Ever. So yeah. Nothing unusual to see here - until the west lost their collective activist minds over it, that is...
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Anonymous4: @Anonymous: Japanese doesn't HAVE gendered pronouns (he, she etc). There are ways of saying "I" that are considered masculine ("ore") or feminine ("atashi"), but they've never indicated gender IDENTITY, just attitude/personality.